Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory

Catalog description

This course is the laboratory portion of Materials Science and Engineering. It consists of experimental investigations of crystalline structures, the mechanical behavior of metals and polymers, cold-working, heat-treatment, material hardness, ductile-to-brittle fracture behavior, fatigue, equilibrium phase diagrams, steel microstructure and corrosion. Computers are used to control test equipment, gather and process data, and to visualize microscopic images.