Teaching

 


Lectures


  • Undergraduate: MECH 331 "Introduction to Engineering Materials", Department of Mechanical Engineering.

    MECH 331A is a 3-credit lecture and MECH 331B is a 1-credit lab section. MECH 331A is also offered as an online course (801 section). This is a core course for MECH undergraduate students. Understanding and applying materials science concepts is essential to optimizing mechanical engineering design. In this course, students will gain an introduction to materials science as it relates to engineering by focusing on structure-property-performance relationships, learning how macroscopically measurable qualities that are characteristic of metallic, ceramic, or polymer materials arise from micro or nanoscale levels of atomic organization.


  • Undergraduate: MECH 436 "Green Engineering-Materials and Environment", Department of Mechanical Engineering.

    MECH 436 is a 3-credit tech-elective undergraduate course that is offered in both face-to-face and online formats. As decarbonization and sustainability become a global emphasis, it is important to gain knowledge in green engineering for career development in both academia and industry. This course will introduce the principles of green engineering with an emphasis in the context of materials since the design of anything essentially requires the use of materials. This course explores human dependence on materials and its environmental consequences and provides perspective, background, methods, and data for thinking about and designing with materials to minimize the environmental impact. Students will learn eco-attributes of materials and the relationship between materials engineering and environment. The course will combine regular lectures, case studies, open discussions, and computer-aided materials selections (via Ansys Granta EduPack) to cover life cycle assessment, cost modeling, eco-selection and eco-design.


  • Graduate: MSE 503 "Mechanical Behaviors of Materials", School of Advanced Materials Discovery.

    This is a core/mandatory course for graduate students in the program of school of advanced materials discovery (SAMD). It is offered as an online/distance education course as well. This course covers the mechanical behavior of structures and materials, from the continuum description of properties to the atomistic and molecular mechanisms that confer those properties to all materials, including metals, polymers, ceramics, and composites. Topics include elastic and plastic deformation, strengthening mechanisms, creep, fracture, and fatigue for both crystalline and non-crystalline materials. Practical and specific performance analyses of structural materials are examined. From this course, students will also learn the design and processing of materials from the atomic to the macroscale to achieve desired mechanical behavior.