Engineering

Introduces the fundamental concepts and experimental foundations of thermodynamics, equilibrium, azeotropes, phase transitions, and thermochemistry relevant to materials.

The course continues to connect atoms, their bonding arrangements, and crystal microstructures to macroscopic material properties, electric, magnetic, mechanic, optic and thermal. Students continue to be introduced to tools, experimental techniques and theories used in government, industry and academia to investigate, characterize and develop materials systems and their properties.

Addresses the basic principles of high-temperature reactions and processes. These include: binary and ternary phase diagrams, surface and interface phenomena, atomic defects in materials, diffusion, and sintering theory. The interrelation and importance of those principles with respect to control of the microstructure and properties of materials is key.

A survey of the nature of the vitreous state with detailed consideration of structural and kinetic theories of glass formation. Composition-structure-property relationships are emphasized to illustrate how glass compositions can be designed to fulfill a particular set of product requirements - ranging from thermal, chemical, optical, and mechanical properties. Processes for post-forming treatments which further tailor properties are also presented.

Perovskites are a large family of materials of scientific and technological interest due to their enormous range of material properties. This course uses fundamental constructs and project based active learning toward design, synthesize, characterization and improved understanding of "simple", "simply mixed" and more complex, including high entropy and high temperature superconducting halide and chalcogenide perovskites. Temperature dependent atom properties, radii and polarizability, Mossotti-Lorenz-Lorentz-Clausius relation, and (diluted) electric-field dipole engineering at the nanoscale (E-DENS) are used within the new simple material model (NSMM) to investigate and strengthen understanding of structure - property relations, including mechanisms for and temperature of specific structural phase transitions, including linkages to thermodynamic phase diagrams.

A thorough discussion of diffusion processes including gases in glasses and fining; water and glass interaction from weathering to bio glasses; ionic diffusion, ion exchange and ionic conductivity; Crystallization and glass ceramics; amorphous-amorphous phase separation; radiation induced defects; and responses of glasses against mechanical impact. The effects of both atomistic structure and morphology will be discussed for each of these topics.

This course will introduce students to laboratory equipment and processes utilized in biomaterials engineering research, while also exploring a range of career pathways available in the medical and medically-adjacent fields

This course will introduce students to laboratory equipment and processes utilized in biomaterials engineering research, while also exploring a range of career pathways available in the medical and medically-adjacent fields

This course introduces the fundamentals of the modern processor design through qualitative and quantitative analysis. Both hardware and software design aspects are discussed. The main topics include economics of scaling, pipelining, memory segmentation and performance, instruction set design, and performance optimization. The course includes a design project, implemented in VHDL, that utilizes the topics discussed in class.

This course is designed for advanced undergraduate students to gain the basic science and engineering concepts behind fuel cell technology. It emphasizes the functional scientific principles and practical application.

Perovskites are a large family of materials of scientific and technological interest due to their enormous range of material properties. This course uses fundamental constructs and project based active learning toward design, synthesize, characterization and improved understanding of "simple", "simply mixed" and more complex, including high entropy and high temperature superconducting halide and chalcogenide perovskites. Temperature dependent atom properties, radii and polarizability, Mossotti-Lorenz-Lorentz-Clausius relation, and (diluted) electric-field dipole engineering at the nanoscale (E-DENS) are used within the new simple material model (NSMM) to investigate and strengthen understanding of structure - property relations, including mechanisms for and temperature of specific structural phase transitions, including linkages to thermodynamic phase diagrams.

This course covers power system operation, generation scheduling, and trading. The idea is to minimize the total operation cost of a power system subject to power balance and other constraints. Topics such as power system control, reliability, and distribution system are covered.

Design of VLSI circuits concentrating on CMOS technologies. Logic design, fabrication principles, CAD layout and introduction to VLSI systems architecture. Structured design emphasis will be with the concept of hierarchy. Design methodology will focus on design of VLSI subsystems using advanced hierarchical design tools including Verilog HDL.

Continuation of the analog design component of VLSI Design. Transistor Circuits, current sources and mirrors, differential operational amplifiers, comparator. Switched capacitor techniques. Analog-to-digital/digital-to-analog conversion, analog signal processing.

This course introduces the student to the relationships between the various levels of structure (electronic, atomic, crystal, microstructure and macrostructure) in a material and the influence of structure on properties and performance. The influence of structure on mechanical, electrical, optical, thermal and magnetic properties are discussed in the context of bonding, defects, crystal, micro and macrostructure. A significant aspect is the emphasis on the raw materials from which fuels, engineering polymers, ceramics and metals are derived.

This course is designed for advanced undergraduate students to gain the basic science and engineering concepts behind fuel cell technology. It emphasizes the functional scientific principles and practical application.

This course covers power system operation, generation scheduling, and trading. The idea is to minimize the total operation cost of a power system subject to power balance and other constraints. Topics such as power system control, reliability, and distribution system are covered.