Materials Engineering Laboratory. 4 credits, 7 contact hours

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Prerequisites: FED 101 , MTEN 205 , MTEN 301 , MTEN 305 , MTEN 309 . This course introduces modern materials characterization equipment, techniques and methods for qualitative and quantitative analysis of materials properties, methods of presenting collected data. Course emphasizes structure-properties relationships via the measuring properties of different classes of materials. This course includes physical, mechanical, thermal, electrical and optical properties measurements. Techniques for direct micro- and macrostructural analysis include X-Ray diffraction, optical and electron imaging.