Student Learning Outcomes

• Describe and explain how the macroscopic properties of different glasses (ceramics), polymers, composites, soft/hard magnetic materials and superconductors relate to their submicroscopic/atomic structure.
• Draw, label and explain different phase diagrams.
• Explain the mechanism of crack propagation for ductile and brittle modes of fracture.
• Describe dislocation and strengthening mechanisms.
• Interpret and draw stress-strain diagrams.
• Describe the mechanism of diffusion and calculate diffusion coefficients for some given materials at specified conditions.
• Describe both vacancies and interstitial crystalline defects.
• Compute the densities for metals having face-centered cubic and body-centered cubic crystal structures given their unit cell dimensions.
• Compare and contrast the atomic and molecular structure in crystalline and noncrystalline materials.
• Students will be able to identify regions and lines on a Eutectic Phase Diagram.
• Students will be able to use of various formulas for computing the solidification time of a simple casting.