The main goals of this course are general information about engineering materials to be known, the ability to find correlation between molecular structure and mechanical/physical properties of materials to be gained, the fundamental methods to improve and control material properties to be learnt, the ability to choose materials for design (plant/product) purposes to be gained, international standards for material testing to be comprehended and the abilitity to discuss technological problems and come up with solutions to be achieved

Materials, Atomic bonding, molecular structure, crystallinity, imperfections, polymers, metals, ceramics, mechanical properties, physical properties, dislocation and strengthening, failure analysis, phase diagrams, applications and processing of metals, polymers, ceramics, alloys and composites