TEACHING

To teach students the fundamental relationship between material structure and properties. Discuss how processing affects material properties and its performance. Provide a framework for students to think and select materials for new design opportunities. The textbook for this course is Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction, 9th Edition, William D. Callister and David G. Rethwisch, Wiley, NJ.

To provide each student a hands-on experience to relate concepts learned in Engineering Materials lecture class to the physical behavior of typical engineering materials in a lab environment. Labs include hardness testing, impact testing, cold working, annealing, tensile testing, corrosion testing and heat treating of metals.
I revamped the lab by obtaining equipment funding from the College of Engineering and Science and installing a metallography workstation to prepare metal samples and analyze their microstructure for accomplishing any type of engineering failure analysis. Another major improvement to the lab was the addition of corrosion engineering module that allows students to understand the chemical reactions involved in the corrosion of ferrous alloys and the galvanic series and to identify means to reduce or prevent such corrosion. The overarching goal is to lay a firm foundation on the role of materials in engineering and their relationship to many other undergraduate courses such as intermediate strength of materials and manufacturing processes.