Provide an in-depth education in the field of materials science, an interdisciplinary area of knowledge that includes the study of structures, properties, processing, and applications. It covers traditional structural materials, functional materials, and nanomaterials. The course shows that the behavior of materials is directly linked to their fundamental structures, and how structures and hence properties may be altered through processing. Properties, processing, design and environmental protection and degradation will be considered. Case studies in materials selection will be included and some examples of state-of-the-art applications of novel materials will be given.

CILO-1: Students will be able to grasp the physical concepts such as materials science, materials engineering, in-depth relationships between composition, microstructure, processing, and performance. CILO-2: Students will be able to categorize and design materials such as metallic, ceramic, polymer, composite, and new materials based on actual requirements. CILO-3: Students will be able to synthesize new materials by optimizing preparing parameters and factors influencing the phase formation. CILO-4: Students will be able to characterize materials such as crystalline structure, magnetic structure, neutron/synchrotron X-ray scattering techniques, and comprehensive in-house methods.