Introduction to Materials Science
Code: 103948 ECTS Credits: 5| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500097 Physics | OT | 3 | 2 |
Contact
- Name:
- Santiago Suriņach Cornet
- Email:
- santiago.surinyach@uab.cat
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
They do not exist
Objectives and Contextualisation
This cours is about bringing students closer to the world of materials science. The physical properties are related to the applications and a brief incursion into the technological materials.
It is aimed at students who want to study materials science related to students interested in solid state physics and, in general, to students who want to relate the physical properties that they study in their career with them applications
Competences
- Act with ethical responsibility and respect for fundamental rights and duties, diversity and democratic values.
- Apply fundamental principles to the qualitative and quantitative study of various specific areas in physics
- Be familiar with the bases of certain advanced topics, including current developments on the parameters of physics that one could subsequently develop more fully
- Communicate complex information in an effective, clear and concise manner, either orally, in writing or through ICTs, and before both specialist and general publics
- Develop the capacity for analysis and synthesis that allows the acquisition of knowledge and skills in different fields of physics, and apply to these fields the skills inherent within the degree of physics, contributing innovative and competitive proposals.
- Make changes to methods and processes in the area of knowledge in order to provide innovative responses to society's needs and demands.
- Take account of social, economic and environmental impacts when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
- Use critical reasoning, show analytical skills, correctly use technical language and develop logical arguments
- Use mathematics to describe the physical world, selecting appropriate tools, building appropriate models, interpreting and comparing results critically with experimentation and observation
- Work independently, have personal initiative and self-organisational skills in achieving results, in planning and in executing a project
Learning Outcomes
- Communicate complex information in an effective, clear and concise manner, either orally, in writing or through ICTs, in front of both specialist and general publics.
- Describe the relationship between the structure, properties, processing and applications of materials.
- Describe the various types of existing materials and their differences.
- Distinguish the fields of application for different types of microscope (optical, electronic, tunneling or atomic force).
- Establish the foundation for the study of nanomaterials and their application in society.
- Explain the explicit or implicit code of practice of one's own area of knowledge.
- Identify situations in which a change or improvement is needed.
- Identify the social, economic and environmental implications of academic and professional activities within one's own area of knowledge.
- Relate the properties of materials with their application to engineering.
- Use calculation in the parameterization of material properties.
- Use critical reasoning, show analytical skills, correctly use technical language and develop logical arguments
- Work independently, take initiative itself, be able to organize to achieve results and to plan and execute a project.
Content
- Introduction: Importance of materials science and engineering. Brief historical introduction. Types of materials. Competence and interrelation between them.
- Structure of metals, ceramics and polymers
- Imperfections and mechanisms of diffusion in solids
- Diagrams and phase transformations
- Mechanical properties and mechanisms of deformation in solids
- Thermal, electrical, magnetic and optical properties of solids
- New materials
Methodology
Lectures
The Introduction to Material Science course is totally interdisciplinary, which makes it suitable for being taught using the new educational resources: slide projector, internet, etc. Thus, the lectures will consist of a set of presentations in PowerPoint on the concepts and fundamental subjects of the physics of materials. Students will have this content in sufficient time to prepare the classes and follow them properly.
Problems class
The student will have a list of problems that will be facilitated throughout the course. The classes of problems will be coordinated with the theoretical classes, so that the students will be able to consider themselves and, in some cases, to solve the problems themselves. The list of problems is a set of exercises that illustrate the theory's content
Non-classroom teaching
During the course the student can download all the theoretical material of the subject and the lists of problems through the Virtual Campus of the UAB. In addition, there will be included in the Virtual Campus connections to various Internet pages showing animations related to the world of materials.
Tutorials
Throughout the course, the individualized discussion between the students and the teacher will be encouraged. Communication with teachers will be done through the VIRTUAL CAMPUS (TUTORIES tool).
Thematic work
The students, divided into groups of no more than 3 members (if possible, made up of students of both genders), will have to present oral and publicly a work to choose from a list, suggested by the teachers, of topics related to the world of "new materials". The exposure time will be approximately 40 minutes per subject.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| problems solved in the class | 14 | 0.56 | 3, 2, 9, 10 |
| theoretical classes | 27 | 1.08 | 3, 2, 4, 5, 9 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| tutorials | 2 | 0.08 | 5, 9 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| personal work | 33 | 1.32 | 3, 2, 4, 5, 9, 10 |
| problems solved | 21 | 0.84 | 2, 9, 10 |
| thematic work | 20 | 0.8 | 3, 2, 5, 9 |
Assessment
* The minimum qualification to pass each of the midterm tests is 3.0. If the overall score obtained in the two midterm tests is less than 4.0 (over 10 points), the note will not be considered with the rest of the blocks (delivery of problems and thematic work). In this case, the student will have to take a resit exam that will count 75% of the total grade.
** To opt for the resit examination, it must have been presented, at least, to evaluation activities that represent 2/3 parts of the total.
The student will be considered submitted for evaluation if it is presented in more than 35% of the final mark of the evaluation.
Unique assessment
Students who have accepted the single assessment modality will have to take a final test which will consist of a theory exam where they will have to answer a series of short questions. Then you will have to do a problem test where you will have to solve a series of exercises similar to those worked on in the Classroom Practice sessions. When you have finished, you will hand in a paper, a document of at least 5 pages, on one of the proposed seminar topics. These tests will take place on the same day, time and place as the tests of the second part of the continuous assessment modality.
The student's grade will be the weighted average of the three previous activities, where the theory exam will account for 40% of the grade, the problem exam 35% and the seminar work 25%.
If the final grade does not reach 5, the student has another opportunity to pass the subject through the remedial exam that will be held on the date set by the degree coordinator. In this test you can recover 75% of the grade corresponding to the theory and the problems. The written part of the work is non-refundable.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| delivery of problems | 35% | 0 | 0 | 3, 2, 4, 7, 11, 9, 12, 10 |
| midterm exam* (2 partial tests) | 40% | 4 | 0.16 | 3, 2, 4, 5, 9, 10 |
| resit exam | 75% | 3 | 0.12 | 3, 2, 4, 9, 10 |
| thematic work (oral presentation) | 25% | 1 | 0.04 | 1, 3, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 9 |
Bibliography
Theory books and / or problems
- Class notes: Campus Virtual UAB.
- Ciència dels materials; M.Cruells et al.; Publicacions i edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2007.
- Ciencia e Ingeniería de los materiales; D.R.Askeland, Ed. Paraninfo, Madrid, 2001.
- Ciencia e Ingeniería de los Materiales; W.D.Callister y D.G.Rethwisch, 2ªed Ed. Reverté 2016
- Fundamentals of materials science and engineering, an integrated approach; W.D.Callister 3ª ed. Ed. John Wiley, 2008.
- Introducción a la Ciencia de Materiales para Ingenieros; J.F.Shackelford, 6a ed., Prentice Hall, Madrid, 2005.
- Solid State Physics, An introduction; Hofmann, P. ; 2nd Edition, Wiley-VCH 2015
- Callister, William D., and David G. Rethwisch. Ciencia e Ingeniería de Materiales, Editorial Reverté, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uab/detail.action?docID=6798944.
Software
This subject does not use any particular software