Metals show up everywhere and, although they may not be under the media spotlight as much as composites, nanotubes or ceramics, they have achieved dramatic performance improvements over the last few years. The course will concentrate on providing an introduction to the principal families of modern engineering metals and alloys. We shall examine:

• What makes a metal a metal?
• Properties: mechanical, electrical, physical
• Structures
• Physical Metallurgy
• Processing

• Alloy Steels
• Light Metals
• Intermetallics such as Nickel Aluminides, Titanium Aluminides
• Biocompatible alloys
• Superalloys
• Metal matrix composites