ENGR 220: Fundamentals of Materials Spring 2019 Lecture: Monday, Wednesday, Friday CAT 61
Instructor Contact Information Dr. Christopher Weyant Email: chrisweyant@drexel.edu Office: 335A LeBow Engineering Center Office Hours: Mondays 3:00-5:00 Course Overview
Course Purpose This course introduces materials and their properties Every field of engineering is highlighting the role of atomic structure and the architec- influenced by the suite of ture of solids.In addition, atomic motion in solids as well materials that are used in its as mechanical, magnetic, electrical and optical properties products and tools. From of materials will be explored. The impact of environmental nanoscale semiconductor degradation will be highlighted through lectures on corro- transistors in microchips to sion of metals and weathering of polymers. large-scale reinforced con- crete in buildings, structures The key to understanding the nature and behavior of of constituent materials materials is recognition of the fact that material proper- determine the properties ties, and thus their performance, are a function of both required for a given function. composition and structure. The composition aspect relates This course gives engineers a to the actual elements that make-up a material. The struc- basic knowledge of the rela- tionship between material effects of electron configurations, atomic arrangements structure and properties and defects at the atomic level. Furthermore, processing which spans the various routes to making materials influences the structure that classes of materials relevant develops. For a given composition of material, different to all engineering disciplines. processing routes can give rise to different structures, and hence to different properties.
Book Required Book: William D. Callister, Jr. and David G. Rethwisch, Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction, 10th Edition (2018), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York ISBN: 9781119405498 (a Wiley enhanced e-textbook). ISBN 9781119463153: (a Wiley enhanced e-textbook+ Abridged Print Companion set). One source for the book: https://www.vitalsource.com/ products/materials-science- and-engineering-an-william-d callister-jr-v9781119405498? term=978-1-119-40549-8
Teaching Assistants
Office Hours are Mondays in ACE (Main 005)
Ozgun Acar oa387@drexel.edu Office Hour: 12:00-1:00 Sankalp Kota ssk63@drexel.edu Office Hour: 1:00-2:00
Jiayi Wang jw3338@drexel.edu Office Hour: 2:00-3:00
Important Weeks
Online Lecture Quizzes are taken through Blackboard Learn and are centered on online Grading lectures and textbook reading assignments. You will have a maximum of three attempts to answer the quiz questions with your highest graded attempt being record- 5% Online Lecture Quizzes ed in the gradebook. No additional attempts at the quiz will be given. These online 10% In-Lecture Activities quizzes will only be available until 11:59 PM on the Sunday following the week in which. the online lectures are assigned. Quiz grades cannot be updated after the third 5% Homework Attempts attempt or after this deadline. 3% Recitation Attendance In-Lecture Activities will involve individual and group work with submissions that must 2% Recitation Participation occur in-lecture. The lowest two scores will be dropped. Students must be present in lecture in order to earn credit for these activities 10% Recitation Group Projects The Homework Attempts grade is based on completing homework assignments 40% Midterm Exams (excluding Week 1). Your recitation instructor will briefly check y