ROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY
ME 328 Materials Engineering
Winter 2006-2007
Professors:
Moench Hall D109 Moench Hall C109 Moench Hall D103
Ext.
8598 Ext. 8353 Ext. 8207
Textbook: Materials Science and Engineering: An
Introduction
William
D. Callister, Seventh Edition
Objective: The overall goal of this course is for the
student to acquire a working knowledge of the properties, uses, and advantages
of commonly encountered engineering materials and to be able to apply this
knowledge to solve materials problems in practice. The relationships between a material's
structure, processing history, and mechanical properties will be emphasized. Properties such as strength, ductility,
stiffness, and toughness will be defined in their engineering sense, and
methods of determining these properties will be discussed.
Homework: Homework will be assigned
approximately once each week but will not be collected or graded. Solutions will be posted.
Exams: A short (twenty minute) exam will be given
once a week for a total of nine exams.
Project: A group project will be
assigned that will require students to apply knowledge gained in class and
thorough outside research to a critical analysis of material/ manufacturing for
an application. Results will be
communicated through a poster session or by a web page.
Grading: Research Project 16%
Exams 54%
Final
Exam 30%
How to Succeed:
To succeed in this course reading skills will
be very important. Unlike Statics or Mechanics of Materials, there will be few
equations and not much plugging and chugging.
Instead you will be learning and applying information gleaned from
lectures, the book, and handouts. Keep
up with the reading and make sure you understand the assignments. Every field of knowledge has a common
language, and you will find that learning the vocabulary is key
to understanding the concepts.
ROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE
OF TECHNOLOGY
ME 328 Materials
Engineering
Winter 2006-2007
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QUIZ |
TOPICS |
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1 Dec. 1 |
Introduction to
Materials Engineering Mechanical Properties of Metals Failure: Fracture Failure: Fatigue QUIZ 1 |
1.1-1.4 6.1-6.12 (not 6.7) 8.1-8.6 8.7-8.12 |
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2 Dec. 8 |
Dislocations, Slip
and Plastic Deformation Mechanisms of
Strengthening in Metals Recovery, Recrystallization and Grain Growth QUIZ 2 |
7.1-7.4, 7.6 4.5-4.6 3.2-3.4, 3.12-3.17 7.8-7.10 7.11-7.13 |
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3 Dec. 15 |
Phase Diagrams The Iron-Carbon
System QUIZ 3 |
9.1-9.15 9.17-9.19 |
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4 Dec. 22 |
Microstructural Changes in Fe-C Alloys Thermal Processing QUIZ 4 |
10.5-10.9 11.7-11.9 |
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5 Jan. 12 |
Ferrous Alloys Nonferrous Alloys QUIZ 5 |
11.1-11.2 11.3 |
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6 Jan. 19 |
Ceramic Structures
and Properties Applications and
Processing of Ceramics QUIZ 6 |
12.8-12.11 Handout & 13.8 |
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7 Jan. 26 |
Polymer Structure Mechanical
Properties of Polymers QUIZ 7 |
14.1-14.12 15.1-15.14 |
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8 Feb. 2 |
Polymer Processing QUIZ 8 |
15.15-15.24 |
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9 Feb. 9 |
Composites Corrosion Degradation of
Polymers QUIZ 9 |
16.1-16.15 17.1-17.10 17.11-17.13 |
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10 |
Material Selection Evaluations |
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Section numbers in the text
followed by a “W” (those with a mouse icon) should be considered supplemental.