Materials and Manufacturing Processes

Catalog description

The purpose of this class is to introduce chemical and physical properties of materials (metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, sustainable materials), manufacturing processes (casting, finishing, molding, forming, joining, and machining) and automated design and manufacturing. The topics include the following: material properties and product attributes; engineering materials; solidification processes; processing of metals and ceramics; metal forming and sheet metalworking; metal removal processes; property enhancing & surface processing operations; joining and assembly processes.