MATERIALS SCIENCE-TRANSFORMATION OF SOLIDS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: M S & E 350 , 351 , or member of Engineering Guest Students Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the basic factors that determine phase equilibria, structural and transformation characteristics of solids Audience: Undergraduate 2. Apply principles of thermodynamics and kinetics to phase transformations and microstructure evolution Audience: Undergraduate 3. Express nucleation and growth processes in precipitation, recrystallization, solidification, oxidation, martensitic, ordering and spinodal reactions Audience: Undergraduate 4. Extend to transformation behavior in polymers, biomaterials and nanomaterials Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the basic factors that determine phase equilibria, structural and transformation characteristics of solids Audience: Undergraduate 2. Apply principles of thermodynamics and kinetics to phase transformations and microstructure evolution Audience: Undergraduate 3. Express nucleation and growth processes in precipitation, recrystallization, solidification, oxidation, martensitic, ordering and spinodal reactions Audience: Undergraduate 4. Extend to transformation behavior in polymers, biomaterials and nanomaterials Audience: Undergraduate