MSE 209 – Spring 2004
INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE OF ENGINEERING MATERIALS
Course Objectives: To introduce the basic principles underlying the behavior and properties of
materials. This course will provide the scientific foundations for an understanding of the
relationships among material properties, structure and performance for the classes of engineering
solids (metals, ceramics, polymers, semiconductors and composites). Concepts will be developed
and applied which allow for correlation between performance and aspects of structure, from
atomic through the macroscopic level. Ideas relating to atomic and larger size defects and their
influence on material behavior are included.
Prerequisites: Chemistry 111 or 141, principles of differentiation and integration, principles of
algebra, geometry and trigonometry.
Textbook: Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction (6th edition)
W.D. Callister, Jr. (Wiley and Sons, ISBN 0-471-13576-3, available at bookstore)
Grading: The final course grade will be determined from homework (which is assigned on a
weekly basis beginning 29./30. January), tests (three on hour, in-class exams) and final exam
grades. Homework will be 20%, all three test together 50% and the final exam 30% of the course
grade.
Homework: The homework will consist of eleven problem sets. Each assignment will be due at
the beginning of the class about one week after assignment is posted. The assignments (and a
week later the solutions) are posted on the Toolkit pages for your session. Please check the
TOOKIT regularly for updates!
Homework submissions should be neat, stapled and with your name listed on every page. While
students may cooperate and discuss concepts necessary to solve homework problems, copying
another student’s homework is not permitted. Your pledge should reflect this stipulation. Late
homework hand-ins are acceptable only with an approved excuse.
Problem sessions: Three teaching assistants are assigned to this course and will be available for
problem sessions and discussions. The session are scheduled for Wednesday afternoon and
Thursday morning, final times and rooms will be announced soon.
Honor system: Every student in this course must comply with all provisions of the UVa honor
system.
On tests and exams you are to pledge that you have neither received nor given aid. Your
signature below this pledge affirms that you have not accessed notes, study outlines, old exams,
answer keys, or textbooks while taking the tests and the exam and that you have not obtained
answers from another students exam.
On homework you are to pledge that the work is your own. Your signature by this pledge
indicates that while you may have discussed assigned problems with fellow students at the
concept level, the calculations and answers are your own.
Alleged honor violations brought to the attention of the professor will be forwarded to the Honors
Committee. If, in my judgment, it is beyond reasonable doubt that a student has committed an
honors violation that student will immediately receive a grade of F for the affected work,
irrespective of any subsequent action taken by the Honors Committee.
Tests:
Test 1 : 19. / 20. February
Test 2 : 25. / 26. March
Test 3 : 22. / 23. April
Tests are 60 minutes each and in the classroom.
CLASS TIME
Finals DATE and TIME
MWF 11:00 – 11:50 Thursday May 6th 9:00 – 12:00
TR
11:00 – 12:15 Monday May 3rd 9:00 – 12:00
TR
9:30 – 10:45 Tuesday May 4th 14:00 – 17:00