{"id":242,"date":"2014-08-19T16:58:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T20:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ac.fiu.edu\/?page_id=242"},"modified":"2025-12-09T21:00:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:00:55","slug":"egn3365","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/teaching\/egn3365\/","title":{"rendered":"Materials in Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #000000\">Course Information<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">A general introductory course to basic concepts and methods in materials engineering, covering fundamentals including crystal structure, defects, diffusion, phase diagram and phase transformation, as well as properties and practical processing and applications of major categories of engineering materials including metals and alloys, ceramics and glass, polymers, and composites<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Course Objective<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The main objective of EGN3665 Materials in Engineering is to introduce the basic concepts and methods in materials engineering to undergraduate engineering students and help students develop preliminary understanding of the inter-relationships between composition, processing, structure, properties, and performance for common solid-state engineering materials<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000\">Course Syllabus<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/12\/EGN3365-Materials-Engineering_Syllabus_2017-fall_updated.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EGN3365\u00a0Course Syllabus for 2017 fall semester<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000\">Lecture Slides<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/08\/Callister_ch01_ZC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 01\u00a0 Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/08\/Callister_ch02_ZC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 02\u00a0 Atomic Structure and Interatomic Bonding<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/08\/Callister_ch03-1_ZC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 03\u00a0 Crystal Structure &#8211;\u00a01<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/08\/Callister_ch03-2_ZC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 03\u00a0 Crystal Structure &#8211;\u00a02<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/08\/Callister_ch03-3_ZC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 03\u00a0 Crystal Structure &#8211; 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/08\/Callister_ch04_ZC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 04\u00a0\u00a0Imperfection in\u00a0Crystals<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/08\/Callister_ch05-1_ZC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 05\u00a0 Diffusion &#8211; 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/08\/Callister_ch05-2_ZC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 05\u00a0 Diffusion &#8211; 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/08\/Callister_ch06_ZC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 06\u00a0 Mechanical Properties of Materials<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/10\/Callister_ch07_ZC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 07\u00a0 Dislocation and\u00a0Strengthening Mechanisms<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/10\/Callister_ch08_ZC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 08\u00a0 Mechanical Failures<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/10\/Callister_ch09-1_ZC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 09\u00a0 Phase Diagrams &#8211; 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/10\/Callister_ch09-2_ZC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 09\u00a0 Phase Diagrams &#8211; 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/10\/Callister_ch09-3_ZC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 09\u00a0 Phase Diagrams &#8211; 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/10\/Callister_ch11-1_ZC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 11\u00a0 Metals &amp; Alloys &#8211; 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/10\/Callister_ch11-2_ZC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 11\u00a0 Metals &amp; Alloys &#8211; 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/11\/Callister_ch12-1_ZC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 12\u00a0 Structure &amp; Properties of Ceramics &#8211; 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/11\/Callister_ch12-2_ZC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 12\u00a0 Structure &amp; Properties of Ceramics &#8211; 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/11\/Callister_ch13_ZC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 13\u00a0 Applications &amp; Processing of Ceramics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/11\/Callister_ch14_ZC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 14\u00a0 Structure of Polymers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/11\/Callister_ch15-1_ZC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 15\u00a0 Properties, Application, and Processing of Polymers &#8211; 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/11\/Callister_ch15-2_ZC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 15\u00a0 Properties, Application, and Processing of Polymers &#8211; 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/11\/Callister_ch16_ZC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 16\u00a0 Composites<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/11\/Callister_ch17_ZC_new.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 17\u00a0 Corrosion &amp; Materials Degradation<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000\">Review Sides<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/10\/EGN3365_review1_Bonding-and-Crystal-structure.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Review 1 for Chapter 1-3 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