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CME 260: Properties of Materials

Last Offered: Fall 2025
Prerequisites:  CHEM 122, CHEM 123, MATH 181, and PHYS 141.
Course topics: Introduction to the relationships between composition and microstructure; correlation with physical and mechanical behavior of metals, ceramics, and polymers; manufacturing methods; service performance; materials selection.

CME/ME 261: Materials for Manufacturing

Last Offered: Spring 2023
Prerequisites: CHEM 112 or CHEM 122, MATH 181, and PHYS 141.
Course topics: Introductory-level course in materials engineering to familiarize students with relationships between processing, structure and properties of materials used to manufacture devices.

CME 470: Physical and Mechanical Properties of Materials

Last Offered: Spring 2025
Prerequisites: CME 260 or instructor permission
Course topics: Review of Bravais Lattices, Constitutive Laws; Elasticity tensors; Review of phase diagrams; Thermodynamics of mixtures; Nucleation and growth kinetics; Thermomechanical processing of materials

CME 560: Advanced Crystallography and Diffraction 

Last Offered: Spring 2024
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of the instructor
Course topics: Non-cubic crystal systems; Point and Space groups; The reciprocal lattice; Bragg and Laue equations; Structure factor determination; X-ray diffraction; Electron diffraction; Electron backscatter diffraction

CME 573: Physical Properties of Nanostructured Materials

Last Offered: Fall 2024
Prerequisites: Graduate standing
Course topics: Scaling laws in materials; Nanomaterial synthesis; Applications of nanomaterials; Mechanical properties of nanostructured materials; Optoelectronic properties of nanomaterials

CME 597: Materials Graduate Student Seminar

Last Offered: Fall 2025
Prerequisites: Graduate standing
Course topics: Educational seminar course with the goal of preparing graduate students with research presentation skills. Weekly presentations by graduate students. Research progress or literature reviews suggestions by the faculty supervisors.