Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and respond appropriately to real-life engineering ethics cases relevant to co-op work
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Synthesize and apply appropriate technical education to real world technical work
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Communicate effectively in writing and speaking with a range of audiences in the workplace, including those without disciplinary expertise
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Develop professional and transferable habits like time management skills, collaborative problem-solving skills, and research skills for learning new information
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Classify types of modern materials and their properties
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Describe the relationship between materials properties and atomic to microscopic scales
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Explore case studies of modern and historic applications
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Explain the role of materials in current and future applications
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Acquire introductory competency in materials science and engineering principles.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Describe the broad impact of materials science and engineering on society.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Learn the basics of materials design, synthesis, processing, properties, and function in a hand-on laboratory setting.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Develop communication skills including laboratory notebook organization, oral presentation, and technical reporting.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Obtain professional skills pertaining to team-based problem solving, project management, multicriteria optimization, and engineering ethics.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply the basic principles of the thermodynamics to important processes in materials such as diffusion, phase transformations, and chemical reactions
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Predict the stable chemical and physical state of materials under different thermal, mechanical, and chemical conditions
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Evaluate the mutual conversion between the chemical energy of a material and other forms of energy such as thermal, mechanical, electrical
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Communicate the solutions to technical problems through written assignments and group activities
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Connect materials thermodynamics to societal problems in energy and human health
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply mathematics, chemistry, physics, and materials science and engineering principles to quantitatively describe fluid flow, heat transport, mass transport, and their interplay during materials processing and production
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify materials transport related problems and formulate plans to solve such problems pertaining to the synthesis, fabrication, and purification of materials
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Analyze transport phenomena and processes using both analytical and computational (finite element) methods
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Develop the mathematical and scientific principles to be able to design materials and the processes needed to produce them to meet desired needs within realistic constraints
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Broadly apply transport principles to understand the impact of materials science and engineering production in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe how macroscopic-scale materials are produced from ores, including ironmaking, steelmaking, electrolysis of aluminum, and electrolysis of magnesium
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Describe how macroscopic-scale materials are manufactured, including casting and welding of metals; molding of plastics; preparation of composites; growth of bulk single crystals of semiconductors and oxides; preparation of materials very complicated in shape (additive manufacturing)
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Design the processes for the production of macroscopic-scale materials
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Recognize the impact of the production of macroscopic-scale materials on the environment
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain basic semiconductor physics, and apply these same physics to approximate device carrier densities, mobility, switching behavior, and other electronically related quantities
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Design process flows based on the physical processes required for desired outcomes in target semiconductor device structures
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Describe how lithography processes are executed and be able to weigh the benefits of each lithography technique against each other
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Analyze device characteristics and connect this analysis with designed process flows
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe some of the ways a range of materials, including ceramics, metals, and polymers, have economic, societal, and political ramifications, both on the present and in history
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Explain how the structure inside a material can be manipulated across a wide range of length scales (0.1nm – 1mm) to control its properties
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Analyze the interrelationships among structure, processing, properties, and performance in material
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Justify the use of a material based on the material properties, the engineering constraints of project, functionality, and human and environmental interaction
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Demonstrate a quantitative understanding of material properties and structure
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Interpret commonplace representations of data and concepts in materials (e.g. Arrhenius relationship, TTT diagram, Larson-Miller Plot, Ashby Map)
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Communicate with peers to analyze problems in materials selection and design and develop skills for working in collaborative environments
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe atomic-scale structure of crystalline materials and their defects using standard materials science and engineering methods
Audience: Undergraduate

2. List major mechanical and electrical properties of materials and the stimuli and responses they connect
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Describe relationships among elements of materials structure and materials properties at an introductory level and use them to predict materials behavior at an introductory level
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Exhibit skills required for successful completion of the MS&E undergraduate curriculum
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the basic factors that determine phase equilibria, structural and transformation characteristics of solids
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Apply principles of thermodynamics and kinetics to phase transformations and microstructure evolution
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Express nucleation and growth processes in precipitation, recrystallization, solidification, oxidation, martensitic, ordering and spinodal reactions
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Extend to transformation behavior in polymers, biomaterials and nanomaterials
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Characterize the structure and properties of materials using imaging and diffraction methods
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Perform experiments to explore the connections among composition, structure, and properties
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Perform data analysis including linear curve fitting and uncertainty analysis
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Produce professional reports including bibliography
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Perform experiments measuring structure, properties, kinetics, and thermodynamics
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Explore correlations among structure, processing/synthesis, and properties, and relate these to the underlying thermodynamics and the kinetic processes upon which processing/synthesis relies
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Build upon experimental methods to design new experiments
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Perform data analysis to include, for instance, non-linear curve-fitting, error propagation, assessment of systematic error, and computer simulation of experimental data
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Function effectively in groups to carry out joint projects
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Produce professional reports including discussion of experimental hypotheses, presentation of data, and conclusion
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Perform experiments exploring interrelationships across the full materials tetrahedron: synthesis, structure, properties, and performance
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Employ computers to control experiments and take measurements
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Work effectively in collaborative and inclusive teams to design and carry out experiments that seek optimization of materials performance for engineering applications
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Communicate effectively with a range of audiences using oral presentation, interdepartmental technical memos, and scientific posters
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and describe key theories, concepts, and methods in Materials Science and Engineering
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Apply key theories, concepts, and methods in Materials Science and Engineering, using appropriate tools, processes, and/or software
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Apply, analyze, or evaluate advanced theories, concepts, or methods in Materials Science and Engineering
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Classify, identify, and write the structure of different types of common polymers
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Characterize the molecular weights of polymers, their microstructure, and morphology
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Describe the common methods for the synthesis of polymers
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Demonstrate quantitative understanding of the kinetics of polymerization
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Characterize the principle thermal transitions that occur in polymers
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Analyze the interrelationships among structure, properties, processing and applications of polymers
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply elementary mechanics and tensor analysis (including Mohr's Circle) to solve problems involving force, displacement, stress, strain, and Hooke's law
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Apply theories of plasticity and viscoelasticity to solve engineering problems in uniform stress/strain
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Predict the mechanical response of a material (including deformation, failure, and microscopic mechanisms) under an arbitrary state of uniform stress or in the presence of stress concentrations and cracks, and across a wide range of temperatures and time-scale
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Choose materials and microstructures to optimize performance for engineering applications
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe how atoms and ions combine to form 3D crystals and glasses
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Relate phase equilibria to the driving forces for the formation of particular ceramic phases
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Recognize properties of ceramics and identify processing technologies of ceramics
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Analyze the nature of defects in ceramics and the migration of matter and charge in ceramics
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Predict the electronic, optical, and magnetic properties of a material based on knowledge of the type (chemistry) and arrangement (micro- and macrostructure) of its constituent atoms
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Design materials and device properties by engineering the type and arrangement of atoms
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Analyze experimental transport, optical, and magnetic properties measurements and connect the outcomes of these measurements to electronic band structure
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recall and utilize basic principles of how computers can aid in materials science and engineering.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Assess and utilize literature and software tools related to computational materials science and engineering.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Communicate effectively about technical work in oral and written presentation.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the specific types of fusion and solid-state processes for welding specific metals/alloys of specific geometries and joints
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Relate principles of heat transfer, fluid flow, mass transfer, chemical reactions, and phase transformations during welding to the development of microstructure, properties, and defects of welds
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Identify the causes and remedies of various defects in welds, such as gas porosity, loss of strength, loss of toughness, cracking, and corrosion
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Identify processes for welding dissimilar materials, such as aluminum alloys to steels, aluminum alloys to copper
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Transition from materials science and engineering theory and concepts to real-world applications
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Conduct literature research including industry engineering standards, tools and techniques on a capstone project topic
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Develop a project’s statement of work with a timeline of milestones, tasks, dates, and assignments
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Work effectively with a client (project sponsor) in a team environment, while practicing critical thinking, written and oral communication skills, problem solving and design
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Conduct design of experiments (materials selection or failure modes effects analysis), critically analyze and solve a client sponsored capstone project
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Execute a project’s statement of work with a timeline of milestones, tasks, dates, and assignments
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Apply industry engineering standards, tools and techniques while conducting design of experiments and research in a capstone project
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Work effectively with a client (project sponsor) in a team environment, while practicing critical thinking, written and oral communication skills, problem solving and design
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Demonstrate skill at project management including navigating the relationships among scheduling, planning, and prioritization of milestones and tasks
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Practice hands-on knowledge in areas that range from experimental design and project management to interpretation and presentation of results
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Apply modern laboratory techniques, skills, and engineering tools appropriate to materials science research and current engineering practices
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Measure basic index properties for rock mass classification
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Describe stress and strain in continuums
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Describe the factors which control the mechanical behavior of rocks
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Apply basic concepts of rock mechanics and rock physics to analyze basic geomechanical engineering problems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Prepare rock samples for mechanical testing, conduct experiment, and analyze experimental data to obtain rock strength properties
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Describe analytically time-dependent rock behaviors
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze and contrast self-assembly across length-scales in natural and synthetic polymers
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Relate self-assembled structure and function with the chemistry of the components
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Apply the fundamentals of polymer science and concepts of self-assembly, in conjunction with current literature to design functional materials
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Analyze problems in materials selection and design
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Communicate design concepts to your peers
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Demonstrate awareness of the latest advances using the scientific literature, lectures, and independent reading in the field
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe relationships between heat, work, and entropy and its implications for heat engines
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Describe the connection between microscopic states and thermodynamic variables and how to calculate the latter from the former using partition functions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Describe how mixing alters the free energy of the unmixed components in terms of ideal and non-ideal contributions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Describe the role of thermodynamic potentials and their implications for materials properties
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Describe how Gibbs energy, chemical potential, and activity are related and their role in chemical equilibrium
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Read and interpret different types of phase diagrams
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Analyze a scientific or engineering problem to obtain selected insights enabled by thermodynamic analysis and communicate them at a basic level
Audience: Undergraduate

8. Analyze a scientific or engineering problem to obtain the major insights enabled by thermodynamic analysis and communicate them at a semi-professional level
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Prepare to succeed in graduate level courses offered by the Materials Science and Engineering department
Audience: Graduate

2. Analyze scholarly publications in their field of research at the level expected of an entry-level researcher
Audience: Graduate

3. Analyze technical challenges in terms of structure-properties-processing-performance relationships
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the atomic-scale structure of materials using multiple methods including one or more not typically required for B.S. degree in materials science and engineering
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Articulate the role of crystal symmetry in expression and anisotropy of properties at a level not typically required for a B.S. degree in materials science and engineering
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Describe the characteristics of crystal defects at a more advanced level than typically required for a B.S. degree in materials science and engineering
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Complete the structures section of the qualifying exam successfully if enrolled in the Ph.D. program
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Comprehend the scope and advances of nanomaterials and nanotechnology
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Explain the fundamental physical and chemical knowledges involved in nanoscience
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Relate the physical and chemical property of nanomaterials with their performance in different applications
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Analyze the synthesis and fabrication of nanomaterials and their devices
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Propose research projects that involve the use of nanomaterials/nanotechnology for certain applications
Audience: Graduate

6. Evaluate a research proposal from fundamental nanomaterials point of view
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain how and why the surface and electronic properties of solid surfaces and interfaces differ from the bulk
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Design and interpret experiments to measure surface properties
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Evaluate the efficiency of various experimental techniques in measuring surface composition, surface structure, and electronic properties
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Implement surface/interface phenomena in the design of devices
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the principles of x-ray scattering, spectroscopy, and diffraction
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Apply quantitative x-ray analysis methods to characterization of important materials systems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Communicate the solutions to technical and scientific problems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Connect x-ray scattering to societal problems in energy and human health
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Articulate the role of advanced x-ray characterization methods in materials research
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Apply x-ray scattering methods to specific problems in their own graduate-level scientific research
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply the theory of irreversible dynamics to analyze many important kinetic processes of materials such as transport, phase transitions, and chemical reactions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Computationally model exemplary mesoscale problems in materials research
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Analyze results from a computational model and extract useful understanding from it
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Solve several representative types of partial differential equations using both analytical methods and numerical algorithms
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Apply these analytical methods and numerical algorithms to students’ own research
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and respond appropriately to real-life engineering ethics cases relevant to co-op work
Audience: Graduate

2. Synthesize and apply appropriate technical education to real world technical work
Audience: Graduate

3. Communicate effectively in writing and speaking with a range of audiences in the workplace, including those without disciplinary expertise
Audience: Graduate

4. Develop professional and transferable habits like time management skills, collaborative problem-solving skills, and research skills for learning new information
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Use ray optics and Fourier optics to explain the operating modes and major subsystems of a transmission electron microscope (TEM)
Audience: Graduate

2. Apply electron diffraction theory and electron scattering theory to predict or simulate the results of the interaction of a high energy electron beam with a material, depending on the material’s crystal structure, microstructure, composition, and bonding
Audience: Graduate

3. Predict the outcome of TEM experiments including imaging, diffraction, and spectroscopy, given appropriate data about the material’s composition, crystal structure, microstructure, and interatomic bonding and information about the TEM experimental conditions
Audience: Graduate

4. Analyze experimental TEM data, including images, diffraction patterns, and spectra, to determine the material’s crystal structure, microstructure, composition, or bonding, and the TEM experimental conditions, as appropriate
Audience: Graduate

5. Identify common artifacts in TEM data including images, diffraction patterns, and spectra and explain their origins
Audience: Graduate

6. Design a TEM experimental plan to address a research problem in structure of materials
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply mechanics and tensor analysis to solve problems in non-uniform strain related to stress-defect and defect-defect interactions
Audience: Graduate

2. Apply theories of plasticity and viscoelasticity to solve 3 dimensional problems in stress and strain
Audience: Graduate

3. Construct models of the strength of materials based on underlying microscopic mechanisms
Audience: Graduate

4. Construct maps of mechanical response (deformation, failure, and microscopic mechanisms) under arbitrary state of stress and in the presence of stress concentrations, cracks, and across a wide range of temperatures, time-scale, and length-scale
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Examine the physical and electronic structure relationships of advanced electronic materials
Audience: Graduate

2. Analytically deduce how the physical structure and composition of a material affect its electronic structure and properties employing concepts pertaining to quantum mechanics, bonding, crystal structure, spin, symmetry, and dimensionality
Audience: Graduate

3. Utilize concepts and tools including: experimental measurements, scientific literature, and models/calculations of energy and band structure, dielectric spectra, and transport phenomena
Audience: Graduate

4. Analyze conventional bulk zinc-blende and wurtzite semiconductors; oxides; Heuslers; carbon and 2D nanomaterials; polycrystalline and disordered materials; organic semiconducting molecules and crystals; and up-and-coming and next-generation electronic materials
Audience: Graduate

5. Connect fundamental principles to motivations from device applications (field effect transistors; light emitting devices; and photovoltaics)
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Operate a transmission electron microscope safely for the operator and the instrument
Audience: Graduate

2. Obtain publication quality experimental TEM imaging and diffraction data
Audience: Graduate

3. Obtain publication quality experimental TEM data in one or more additional modalities related to the student’s research interests
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Choose and use the appropriate molecular simulations to obtain properties of materials
Audience: Graduate

2. Apply ab initio methods to model materials properties
Audience: Graduate

3. Apply molecular dynamics methods to model materials properties
Audience: Graduate

4. Use results of molecular simulations in scientific literature to obtain properties of materials
Audience: Graduate

5. Use molecular simulations to analyze scientific or engineering problems to obtain selected insights and communicate them at a semi-professional level
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate an ability to formulate and analyze advanced materials science and engineering problems
Audience: Graduate

2. Communicate research results in writing and seminars
Audience: Graduate

3. Work independently and collaboratively, as appropriate, on solutions for materials science and engineering problems
Audience: Graduate

4. Prepare for academic requirements such as the masters thesis document, masters thesis defense, or graduate preliminary exam
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and describe key theories, concepts, and methods in materials science and engineering
Audience: Graduate

2. Apply key theories, concepts, and methods in materials science and engineering, using appropriate tools, equipment, processes, and/or software
Audience: Graduate

3. Apply, analyze, or evaluate advanced theories, concepts, or methods in materials science and engineering
Audience: Graduate

4. Communicate results in writing, in live presentations, written assignments, or recorded presentations
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate an ability to formulate and analyze advanced materials science and engineering problems
Audience: Graduate

2. Communicate research results in writing and seminars
Audience: Graduate

3. Work independently and collaboratively, as appropriate, on solutions for materials science and engineering problems
Audience: Graduate

4. Prepare for academic requirements such as the graduate preliminary exam
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate awareness of current advances in materials science and engineering research gained from the material science and engineering seminar series
Audience: Graduate

2. Demonstrate awareness of professional responsibilities in maintaining and equitable and inclusive work environment
Audience: Graduate

3. Develop and apply professional skills in technical presentation and writing
Audience: Graduate

4. Demonstrate awareness of professional responsibilities with respect to ethics, intellectual property, and/or appropriate documentation of research
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate an ability to formulate and analyze advanced materials science and engineering problems
Audience: Graduate

2. Communicate research results in writing and seminars
Audience: Graduate

3. Work independently and collaboratively, as appropriate, on solutions for materials science and engineering problems
Audience: Graduate

4. Prepare for academic requirements such as the PhD thesis defense and PhD thesis
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Conduct and report on independent materials science and engineering research
Audience: Graduate

2. Independently develop materials science and engineering research directions
Audience: Graduate

3. Appropriately utilize research materials including the scientific and technical literature
Audience: Graduate

4. Connect their research clearly to other research in their field of study
Audience: Graduate