The Student will be able to
- make a classification of engineering materials
- understand structure - property - processing - performance relations in material systems
- describe atomic bonds, crystalline and noncrystalline materials and the effects of bonding in materials
- define crystallographic directions and planes
- identify the different types of defects in solids
- use the diffusion equation for the hardening of steels
- make calculations regarding the composition and mass fractions of phases in binary systems