Teaching! Courses!

Although lurking in the Mechanical Engineering Department, many of the courses I teach are related to Materials Science - my primary interest! They include:

MEEG 112 : Statics

Second semester freshman course, regarded by some as the "gateway" to (Mechanical) Engineering: i.e., if you've got a good grasp of Statics, the rest is maybe not plain sailing but at least it's quite feasible. 

MEEG 658 : Metals and Alloys

MEEG 667 : Materialography

Learn how to prepare ceramics, metals, polymers, and composites for microscopic examination.  Study the macro- and microstructures of materials and learn all the secrets that may be revealed through the intelligent use of straightforward optical microscopy.

MEEG 321
Materials Engineering

A course concerning how to turn materials into useful engineering components and how processing can affect their properties and usefulness in service. We also concentrate on materials selection and failure analysis.

MSEG 302
Materials Science for Engineers

An introductory course covering a very broad range of materials science topics. Unavoidable for most Engineering students.  Alas, I no longer teach this!!

MSEG 604
Phase Transformations

The course provides a brief introduction to those aspects of Materials Science necessary to an understanding of the subject of phase transformations. We shall, therefore, delve a little into elementary dislocation theory, diffusion of matter and some thermodynamics of condensed matter before addressing the main topic of Phase Transformations. It is highly "applied" and makes extensive use of case studies. Alas, another great course that's fallen into disuse.

MSEG 823: Transmission Electron Microscopy in Materials Science

Course outline here
This is a graduate level course about the operation of the TEM and how it is used to produce all those wonderful images. It covers the theory of image and diffraction pattern formation, contrast theory, high resolution microscopy and, if we have time, other related techniques such as EELS, EDS and STEM.