NEW COURSE OFFERING
SPRING 2004
MAE 593E
Intermediate
Materials Science I – Modern Physical
Metallurgy
This will be an
intermediate course in materials science & engineering (MSE) offered at the
senior undergraduate and beginning graduate level. The course will elucidate
the microstructure, transformation and properties of metallic materials by
means of physics and thermodynamics. Experimental methods of physical
metallurgy are also covered. The lab sections of the course will cover sample
preparation, Optical Microscopy (OM), and Scanning Electronic Microscopy (SEM).
Some most recent developments of physical metallurgy and materials science will
be covered in the course, for example, the permeation of hydrogen in metals,
which is one of the most critical issues in “Hydrogen Economy CALPHAD-method,
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) etc. The
associated course “Intermediate Materials Science II -Mechanical Metallurgy”,
which focuses on the mechanical behaviors of materials, will be offered at
2005.
Course Content
• Microstructure and phase, grain and phase boundaries
• Thermodynamics of alloys and phase diagram
• Diffusion
• Solidification and precipitation
• Recover and recrystallization
• Recent Development on Microscopy
• And More
Pre-Requisites
Math 155 (Calculus)
MAE 320
(Thermodynamics)
Date TR 15:30-17:00
Instructor: Dr. Xingbo Liu
515 ESB
293-3111 x.
2324