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This is a free online course offered by the Saylor Foundation.

'This self-contained course presents a sampling of the fields of Materials Engineering and Materials Science. This course is intended primarily for engineering students who are not planning to major in either Materials Engineering or Materials Science. We will focus primarily on the concerns of the materials engineer—the person interested in choosing materials to make a finished product. This selection is determined by compromises among material properties, ease of fabrication, and cost. In contrast, thematerials scientist is concerned with understanding the relationships between material properties and the internal structure of a material—that is, atomic bonding, arrangements of atoms, grain structure, and other microscopically observable features. We leave most of these associations to advanced courses, which will use more chemistry and physics than needed for this course.

The course is divided into four units:

Unit 1: Ways That Materials Can Fail – What Can Go Wrong?Unit 2: Classes of Engineering Materials – What Do We Have?Unit 3: Comparison of Engineering Materials – ­Which Is Best?Unit 4: Processing of Materials – How Can We Shape It?

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