Teaching

CHE 494/594: Applied Materials Engineering/Applied Materials Processing

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2024

The critical goal of this course is to understand the language of the current trending materials and provide an overview of the underlying chemistry and processing that help us design these materials. Through this course, we will understand how the current state-of-art engineering materials are designed and how essential processing steps dictate their applications in different areas of manufacturing. We will make use of our understanding in chemical engineering thermodynamics and materials science to dive a bit deeper into:

• Methodology of Materials Selection and the key properties of materials

• Current engineering materials

• Processing techniques to design alloys, ceramics, polymer blends, and composites. (includes surface engineering and nanotechnology)

CHE 294: Nature and Properties of Materials

Semester: Fall

Offered: 2024

Introductory course to Materials Science and Engineering. The content of the course includes an introduction to the fundamental nature and properties of materials, including bonding, composition, and phase diagrams. Composite materials and aspects of materials processing, including diffusion, nucleation, and transformation diagrams associated with materials

CHE 295: Nature and Properties of Materials Laboratory

Semester: Fall

Offered: 2024

Experiments include characterizing material structures and testing mechanical properties. Emphasis on numerical and statistical analysis of the data. Written reports are required, and elements of materials design are presented.