Topics include social, professional, and ethical issues, Tech's engineering curriculum, contemporary issues, engineering design, teamwork, and a description of engineering skills. An introduction to the field of bioengineering, including the application of engineering principles and methods to problems in biology and medicine, the integration of engineering with biology, and emerging industrial opportunities. Crosslisted with AE, CHE, ECE, and ME 1750.
Materials selection is treated as a part of engineering design.
Principles and applications of thermodynamics to materials science and engineering. Phase equilibria and the concepts necessary to interpret phase diagrams. Principles that govern the important structural transformations that occur in engineering materials. The correlation of monotonic and time-dependent mechanical properties with fundamental concepts of atomic bonding, crystalline state, microstructure, and michromechanics of materials. Crystallography and Diffraction Analysis of Materials.