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Fall 2025 Lecture Recitation Laboratory Distance Learning Upper DivisionNuclear materials laboratory that evaluates various characterization techniques and technologies, tensile properties, hardness, fracture toughness, microstructures, X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, mechanical properties of thin-films, NDE techniques and data acquisition in materials characterization techniques.
Learning Outcomes1Understanding of what materials are, and how they perform and fail.
2Understand the conceptual tools dealing with materials phenomena.
3Be able to communicate with professionals about materials problems.
4Be able to address the limitations of materials in design, and improve them.