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3.00 Credits
Wear and degradation of engineering systems. Dry and lubricated wear modes, identification, and prevention. Materials selection. Friction, contact mechanics, and lubrication theory. Case studies of mechanical systems and failure analysis. Wear Modeling and testing. 3 lectures. Prerequisite: MATE 210, MATE 215.
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1.00 Credits
Wear testing and measurement through various processes including dry sand rubber wheel, cavitation/erosion, and simulated chemical/mechanical polishing. Wear analysis to include wear modeling, materials characterization via metallography, scanning electron microscopy, and surface profilometry. Experiments focus on real engineering systems and their degradation as a result of wear. 1 laboratory. Prerequisite: MATE 210, MATE 215, MATE 235 or consent of instructor. Co-requisite: MATE 540.
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4.00 Credits
Fundamentals of intelligent systems employing sensors, actuators and intelligent controls. Impact on material properties as devices shrink in the micrometer realm. Applications toward exploring nanotechnology. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: MATE 210, graduate standing or consent of instructor.
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2.00 Credits
Design, fabrication, and testing of a microfluidic device. Utilization of a rapid prototype soft lithography processing technique to create micro channels, valves, mixing chambers, etc. for controlling fluid flow dynamics. 2 laboratories. Prerequisite: Senior or graduate standing or consent of instructor. Corequisite: MATE 550. New course effective Spring 2009.
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3.00 Credits
Thin film science and technology: deposition techniques, surface crystal notation, energy and kinetic processes, epitaxy. Schottky barriers and surface states, stress analysis, characterization techniques, electronics devices incorporating thin films. The Schedule of Classes will list topics for selection. Total credit limited to 6 units. 3 lectures. Prerequisite: Grad-uate standing or permission of instructor. Materials processing course.
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2.00 Credits
Thin film processing and analytical techniques: direct current and radio frequency magnetron sputtering, reactive sputtering, co-evaporation, epitaxy, grazing incidence x-ray diffraction, magnetic force imaging. The Schedule of Classes will list topics for selection. Total credit limited to 6 units. 2 laboratories. Concurrent: MATE 560 or consent of instructor. Materials processing course.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Directed group study of selected topics for graduate students. Open to undergraduate and graduate students. The Schedule of Classes will list title selected. Total credit limited to 8 units. 1-4 lectures. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. New course effective Spring 2009.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Directed group laboratory study of selected topics for advanced students. The Schedule of Classes will list title selected. Total credit limited to 8 units. 1-4 laboratories. Prerequisite: Senior or graduate standing or consent of instructor. New course effective Spring 2008.
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4.00 Credits
Fracture modes and mechanisms in engineering materials, fracture mechanics fundamentals (stress analysis of cracks, energy analysis of fracture process). Use of fracture mechanics in design. Laboratory gives concentrated exposure to fracture development in materials, fracture surface evaluation, fracture toughness testing. 3 lectures, 1 laboratory. Prerequisite: MATE 350, or graduate standing. Special topics course.
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4.00 Credits
Thermodynamics, kinetics and morphologies of solid-liquid interfaces. Heat flow in castings, crystal growth. Solidification mechanics, solute redistribution. Production, characterization and testing of metal powders. Compacting of powder. Sintering with/without liquid phase. Hot pressing, properties of sinterings as a function of processing conditions. Application of theory to the production of useful materials. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. Materials processing or Special topics course.
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