For clarification, go to Program Goals for Materials Engineering. Recognition of mapping strategies for design using deformation mechanism maps. Ability to describe effec ts of processing and mic rostructure on deformation mechanisms. Lectures strongly dependent on graphical displays and relation of math concepts to materials science. Four of five homeworks are given on computational issues.
Midterm exam is focused on foundations and nomenclature in addition to concepts.
A critique of a research paper or a project serve as a technical writing assignment. The written essays on homeworks and the mid-term exam are used to determine if fundamental concepts need to be reinforced. Evaluation Exam questions generally have multiple parts. The goal of this approach is to assess the cognitive domain attained by the student on a given topic. What they write and how they incorporate class content provides direct information on how the students apply what they have learned in a new context.