MDI 500LEC Special Topics in Materials Design and Innovation
Courses offered as MDI 500 are either one-time special topics or first and second offerings of new courses prior to submission for course approval.
MDI 501LEC Introduction to Materials Design and Informatics
This course will provide a unique, robust but accelerated introduction to fundamental concepts in materials science for students with non-materials science undergraduate degrees and also give a new information science perspective to materials science for students who may already have a background in solid state sciences. An overriding theme of this course is the use of data to understand materials science with a specific focus on how through the exploration of data, one can uncover and discover scientific principles defining structure-property relationships in materials.
MDI 502LEC Quant Structure-Property Relationship in Materials
Establishing quantitative relationships between structure and properties of materials is core to materials design. A major focus of this course is on the mechanistic origins of scaling laws linking physical and mechanical properties. The objective of this course is to provide an overview of phenomenological and theoretically derived multi-scale relationships between physical, mechanical properties and structures of materials. The course will explore how one can harness these relationships in developing models or guiding experiments for materials design. The course will also introduce students to the impact of crystal structure on materials with multi-functional properties. The key focus of the course is to emphasize the linkage between the length scale(s) of the structure and materials properties.
MDI 503LEC Thermodynamics and Molecular Structure of Materials
This course provides a unified first principles and thermochemical perspective of phase stability, crystal structure and equilibrium properties of materials. This course takes the view of linking thermodynamics to crystal/molecular structure. Both a thermochemical perspective and a first-principles perspective of thermodynamics is given. The course will also introduce students to the development and use of thermodynamic and crystallographic databases. This course will provide an introduction to the linkage between thermodynamics, crystal/molecular symmetry and equilibrium properties of udata.
MDI 504LEC Multivariate Statistics and Materials Informatics
This course introduces students to statistical ideas that are important in learning about materials and their properties. Topics to be covered include: regression, clustering, classification, and inference; Bayes Theorem; Gaussian Processes and neural networks. Exercises and examples will be drawn from chemical, physics, and materials datasets.
MDI 505LEC Computational Materials Chemistry and Physics
This course will provide a unified perspective of inorganic/macromolecular and hybrid bonded materials with a focus on quantifying structure-property relationships. This course provides an overview of the role of chemical bonding and electronic structure on defining properties from an electronic structure perspective.
MDI 506LEC Kinetics, Microstructure, and Defects
A quantitative exploration of both atomistic and continuum descriptions of microstructural evolution and role of defects and links to materials processing is provided in this course. Students will be provided an overview of the role of atomistic and microstructural scale defects on physical and chemical properties of materials. Particular emphasis is given to the experimental origins and the use of diffusion and microstructural data in understanding
MDI 507LEC Quantitative Methods in Materials Characterization
This course provides an overview of the different modalities of imaging and spectroscopy in materials science with an emphasis on signal and data analytics; linked to the physics of the instrumentation and the interpretation of the spectrum or image. A selection of laboratory components will be offered to be tailored to the student's research interests (e.g., X-ray, Raman, TEM AFM Atom probe and field ion microscopy).
MDI 508LEC Experimental Design for Materials Development
This course provides students with the background necessary to design experiments and analyze their findings, in order to draw supported conclusions. Topics to be covered include: randomization and comparative testing; Latin Square and factorial and fractional factorial designs; confounding; analysis of variance. Exercises and examples will be drawn from chemical, physics, and materials datasets. Students will learn methods for designing physical and computational experiments in order to achieve specific goals, and the associated costs.