Courses - Fall 2026
ENMA180
Materials Science and Engineering: The Field and the Future
Credits:
1
Grad Meth:
Reg
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Materials Science Engineering department.
Overview of the profession and the components of the Materials Science and Engineering program. Students will become familiar with the departmental faculty, areas of specialization within MSE, professional society student chapter, research opportunities and other resources available to students.
ENMA300
Introduction to Materials Engineering
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENES100; and must have completed or be concurrently enrolled in PHYS260; and permission of ENGR-Materials Science & Engineering department.
Corequisite: MATH241.
Recommended: PHYS261 .
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Mechanical Engineering department, or ENGR-Chemical Engineering department, or ENGR-Materials Science & Engineering department.
Cross-listed with: ENME382.
Credit only granted for: ENMA300 or ENME382.
Structure of materials, chemical composition, phase transformations, corrosion and mechanical properties of metals, ceramics, polymers and related materials. Materials selection in engineering applications.
ENMA362
Mechanical Properties
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENMA300.
Restriction: Junior standing or higher; and permission of ENGR-Materials Science & Engineering department.
Overview of Mechanical Behavior, Elastic Behavior, Dislocations, Plastic Deformation, Strengthening of Crystalline Materials, Composite Materials, High Temperature Deformation of Crystalline Materials, Permanent Deformation of Noncrystalline Materials, Tensile Fracture at Low Temperatures, Engineering Aspects of Fracture, High Temperature Fracture, Fatigue, and Experimental determination of Mechanical Properties including Hardness of Metals and Strength of Metals, Polymers, Ceramics and Composites.
For ENMA majors only.
ENMA401
Continuum Modeling of Materials
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENMA362, PHYS270, PHYS271, and MATH246; or equivalent; and ENMA165 or MATH206.
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Materials Science & Engineering department.
Credit only granted for: ENMA401 or ENMA489C.
Formerly: ENMA489C.
Introduces continuum modeling techniques in materials science and engineering. This course covers and emphasizes the applications of continuum modeling techniques using COMSOL software package in simulating a range of materials phenomena and properties. Specific topics of continuum modeling include: The construction and analyses of continuum models using COMSOL software package; Structural mechanics; Heat transfer; Electrical current; Chemical species transport; Fluid flow; Multi-physics models coupling above phenomena.
ENMA410
Materials for Energy I
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C- in ENMA300; and permission of ENGR-Materials Science & Engineering department.
Credit only granted for: ENMA410 or ENMA489H.
Formerly: ENMA489H.
The goal is to demonstrate the role of materials in solving one of the most critical socio-economic issues of our time, affordable and sustainable energy. There will be a discussion of U.S. and global energy and related environmental issues. Topics covered include: fuel cells and batteries (electrochemical energy conversion and storage); catalysts and membrane separations (fossil fuel and biomass energy conversion); and nuclear fuels.
ENMA437
Machine Learning for Materials Science
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: MATH461, ENMA300, and ENMA165 or equivalent.
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Materials Science & Engineering department.
Jointly offered with: ENMA637.
Credit only granted for: ENMA437 or ENMA637.
Familiarizes students with basic as well as state of the art knowledge of machine learning and its applications to materials science and engineering. Covers the range of machine learning topics with applications including feature identification and extraction, determining predictive descriptors, uncertainty analysis, and identifying the most informative experiment to perform next. One focus of the class is to build the skills necessary for developing an autonomous materials research system, where machine learning controls experiment design, execution, and analysis in a closed-loop.
ENMA441
Characterization of Materials
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENMA300, ENMA165 or MATH206.
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Materials Science & Engineering department; and senior standing.
Credit only granted for: ENMA489T or ENMA441.
Formerly: ENMA489T.
Techniques to characterize the properties of materials whose characteristic dimensions range from nanometers to macroscopic. These include conventional crystalline and noncrystalline materials, with a special attention to materials of current technological interest. The course will include recent results from the scientific literature.
ENMA460
Introduction to Solid State Physics
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: PHYS271, PHYS270, and MATH241.
Restriction: Junior standing or higher; and must be in the Engineering: Materials Science program or Physics program.
Cross-listed with: PHYS431.
Credit only granted for: ENMA460 or PHYS431.
Additional information: Materials Engineering students take ENMA460 and Physics students take PHYS431.
Classes of materials; introduction to basic ideal and real materials' behavior including mechanical, electrical, thermal, magnetic and optical responses of materials; importance of microstructure in behavior. One application of each property will be discussed in detail.
ENMA466
Advanced Materials Fabrication Laboratory
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENMA465; and permission of ENGR-Materials Science & Engineering department.
This course allows students an opportunity to study advanced materials systems in depth through a combination of lectures and hands-on laboratory experiments. Students will be trained in materials processing and characterization techniques. Each student will fabricate materials and devices in our state-of-the-art nanofabrication clean room facility (Fablab), as well as evaluate them using a variety of characterization techniques.
ENMA471
Kinetics, Diffusion and Phase Transformations
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Must have completed or be concurrently enrolled in ENMA461.
Restriction: Junior standing or higher; or permission of ENGR-Materials Science & Engineering department.
Fundamentals of diffusion, the kinetics of reactions including nucleation and growth and phase transformations in materials.
ENMA473
Engineering Using High Strength Metals and Alloys
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C- in ENMA300 and permission of ENGR-Materials Science & Engineering department.
This is a class focused on the materials engineering challenges of applying high strength metals and alloys to solutions. The extraordinary properties of these alloys derive from (1) highly metastable microstructures, (2) high strengths and melting points of the base metals, (3) complicated processing and fabrication procedures, and (4) their resulting complex behavior in extreme environments. This course will give you the knowledge base you need to select, apply and troubleshoot the performance of high strength metals and alloys in a variety of applications.
ENMA481
Introduction to Electronic and Optical Materials
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C- in ENMA300 and MATH246 .
Recommended: ENMA460 and ENMA465.
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Materials Science & Engineering department.
Electronic, optical and magnetic properties of materials. Emphasis on materials for advanced optoelectronic and magnetic devices and the relationship between properties and the processing/fabrication conditions.
ENMA486
Seminar in Materials Science and Engineering
Credits:
1
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Materials Science program.
Current research in materials science and engineering and related fields. The lectures are presented by scientists and engineers from academia, national laboratory, US government, etc., in the format of seminars.
ENMA487
Capstone Preparation
Credits:
1
Grad Meth:
Reg
Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Materials Science program; and senior standing; and permission of ENGR-Materials Science & Engineering department.
In preparation for the senior level design course, students will do background research and develop white papers from which teams will form around short listed design projects. The projects should focus on a society, industry, military or technological based problem in Materials Science and Engineering leading to a design and strategy to address the problem in the following course, ENMA 490. The course will include written and oral presentations of the white papers and team proposals.
ENMA495
Polymeric Engineering Materials I
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENMA300.
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Materials Science & Engineering department.
Study of polymeric engineering materials and the relationship to structural type. Elasticity, viscoelasticity, anelasticity and plasticity of single and multiphase materials. Emphasis is on polymetric materials.
ENMA499
Independent Undergraduate Research
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
ENMA601
Continuum Modeling of Materials
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Materials Science & Engineering department.
Jointly offered with: ENMA401.
Credit only granted for: ENMA401, ENMA601 or ENMA698C.
Formerly: ENMA698C.
An introductory course of continuum modeling in materials science and engineering. This course covers and emphasizes the applications of continuum modeling techniques using COMSOL software package in simulating a range of materials phenomena and properties.
ENMA637
Machine Learning for Materials Science
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: MATH461.
Recommended: Python knowledge.
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Materials Science & Engineering department.
Jointly offered with: ENMA437.
Credit only granted for: ENMA437, ENMA489L, or ENMA637.
Familiarizes students with basic as well as state of the art knowledge of machine learning and its applications to materials science and engineering. Covers the range of machine learning topics with applications including feature identification and extraction, determining predictive descriptors, uncertainty analysis, and identifying the most informative experiment to perform next. One focus of the class is to build the skills necessary for developing an autonomous materials research system, where machine learning controls experiment design, execution, and analysis in a closed-loop.
ENMA641
Nanotechnology Characterization
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Materials Science & Engineering department.
Credit only granted for: ENMA698T or ENMA641.
Formerly: ENMA698T.
Techniques to characterize the properties of materials whose characteristic dimensions are a few to a few hundred nanometers, including conventional nanocrystalline materials, but concentrating on novel nanomaterials: carbon nanotubes, quantum dots, quantum wires, and quantum wells are covered. The emphasis is on recent results from the scientific literature concerning those properties that make nanostructures interesting: quantum effects, novel transport phenomena, enhanced mechanical properties associated with localization and with small crystallite size.
ENMA650
Nanometer Structure of Materials
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: ENMA460; or students who have taken courses with comparable content may contact the department. And permission of ENGR-Materials Science & Engineering department.
The basic concepts required for understanding nanostructured materials and their behavior will be covered. Topics covered include the structural aspects of crystalline and amorphous solids and relationships to bonding types, point and space groups. Summary of diffraction theory and practice. The reciprocal lattice. Relationships of the microscopically measured properties to crystal symmetry. Structural aspects of defects in crystalline solids.
ENMA660
Thermodynamics in Materials Science
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Corequisite: ENMA650.
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Materials Science & Engineering department.
Thermodynamics of engineering solids. Thermal, diffusional and mechanical interactions in macroscopic systems. Systems in thermal contact, systems in thermal and diffusive contact, systems in thermal and mechanical contact.
ENMA673
Engineering Using High Strength Metals and Alloys
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Materials Science & Engineering department.
You will learn the fundamental theories and best practices based on a historical perspective and also modern breakthroughs based on computational modeling and advanced in-situ ex-situ characterization of these materials. This course will introduce the insights needed to manipulate the atomic-scale structures and engineer the next generation of materials, including ferrous and non-ferrous alloys, for a wide range of applications, including biomedical, energy, and transportation.
ENMA680
Determination of Structure, Chemical Composition and Defects in Materials
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
Prerequisite: ENMA650.
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Materials Science & Engineering department.
Basic principles of electron microscopy theory, electron diffraction, and imaging theory. The electron beam sample interaction that gives rise to different signals is related to the structural and compositional information that is obtained from a sample using a TEM. The most common TEM techniques for structural characterization of a sample, namely, electron diffraction, bright/dark field imaging, and high resolution lattice imaging are discussed. Compositional information obtained from x-ray fluorescence and electron energy loss as well as the resolution of these techniques is also covered. A description of techniques used to study magnetic materials is also presented.
ENMA683
Structural Determination Laboratory
Credits:
1
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Materials Science & Engineering department.
Credit only granted for: ENMA698L or ENMA683.
Formerly: ENMA698L.
The operation of an electron microscope is covered. TEM techniques that are used to characterize the structure, defects and composition of a sample are presented and used to study a variety of materials. These techniques are: electron diffraction patterns, bright/dark field imaging, high resolution lattic imaging and energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy. Also covers different sample preparation techniques for TEM. The goal is that the students become independent users of the TEM.
ENMA685
Advanced Electrical and Optical Materials
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
Credit only granted for: ENMA685 or ENMA698F.
Formerly: ENMA698F.
Students become familiar with basic and state of the art knowledge of some technologically relevent topics in materials engineering and applied physics, including dielectric/ferroelectric materials, magnetic materials, superconductors, multiferroic materials and optical materials with an underlying emphasis on the thin film and device fabrication technology. Fundamental physical properties and descriptions of different materials and their applications are included. Discussion will include new developments in the fields.
ENMA688
Seminar in Materials Science and Engineering
Credits:
1
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
ENMA698
Special Problems in Materials Science and Engineering
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
ENMA797
Independent Study
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
This course is designed to provide students with a directed independent study course in order to prepare the scholarly paper required for the master's degree without thesis degree option.
ENMA799
Master's Thesis Research
Credits:
1 - 6
Grad Meth:
S-F
ENMA898
Pre-Candidacy Research
Credits:
1 - 8
Grad Meth:
Reg
ENMA899
Doctoral Dissertation Research
Credits:
6
Grad Meth:
S-F
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