Courses Taught -
The list of courses that I have taught/am teaching with brief descriptions can be found here. I will slowly develop individual pages for these courses and add in material with time.
GE110: Introduction to Metallurgical and Materials Engineering - Spring 2023
(Credit structure: 3-1-0-5-3, 3 credits) This course is a core GE course for Metallurgical and Materials Engineering and quite similar in structure to GE201, although with a greater emphasis pn Physical Metallurgy and lesser emphasis on non-metallic materials. Essentially, the course provides some foundational concepts in crystallography, characterization, thermodynamics, physical metallurgy and phase transformations, mechanical metallurgy, polymers and composites, electronic and magnetic properties, powder metallurgy, oxidation and corrosion.
GE106: Materials Science for Electrical and Electronics Engineers - Spring 2023
(Credit structure: 3-1-0-5-3, 3 credits) This course is a program-specific general engineering course for Electrical Engineering and Engineering Physics. The course provides a general introduction to materials, covering the basics of bonding, crystal structure, diffusion, followed by modules on conductors, semiconductors, dielectrics and nanomaterials. I teach the first part of the course (i.e., overlapping sections with GE110)
GE201: Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering - Fall 2019
(Credit structure: 3-1-0-5-3, 3 credits) This course is offered for non-MME students and provides a general introduction to materials, covering the basics of bonding, crystal structure, phase transformations, mechanical behavior, ceramics, polymers and composites, electronic properties and environmental degradation of materials. At the end of the course, I expect the students to develop some concepts regarding materials selection for various engineering applications.
MM202: Transport Phenomena - Fall 2020, 2021, 2022
(Credit structure: 3-1-0-5-3, 3 credits) This course is offered to MME undegraduate students and provides and overview of momentum, heat and mass transfer in the context of metallurgical processes. The course supports the department's other courses related to metal extraction, iron and steel making, materials processing and phase transformations. It is expected that the students will develop a foundation for mathematical modeling of transport processes in various metallurgical operations, at the end of this course.
MM205: Physical Metallurgy Laboratory - Fall 2019, 2021, 2022; Spring 2021
(Credit structure: 0-0-2-1-1, 1 credit) This is an undergraduate level laboratory course that deals with basic topics in physical metallurgy such as metallographic sample preparation, quantitative image analysis and grain size measurement methods, microstructures of steels and non-ferrous alloys and the Jominey End Quench test. A significant theoretical component for this course is covered in GE110 (Introduction to Metallurgical and Materials Engineering) which is typically offered in the previous semester (Spring semester) and is often taken in the 2nd semester for the four year BTech program.
MM208: Phase Transformations and Heat Treatment laboratory - Spring 2020
(Credit structure: 0-0-2-1-1, 1 credit) This is an undergraduate level laboratory course that deals with fundamentals of Phase Transformations. Both ferrous and non-ferrous alloys are studied in this course, with a focus on phase diagram determination, determination of the TTT diagrams, precipitation hardening and heat treatment of steels. The course also includes an experiment on basic surface engineering and coating deposition.
MM306: Corrosion and its Prevention - Fall 2020, Spring 2022
(Credit structure: 2-2/3-0-10/3-2,2 credits) This course is offered to 3rd year students of MME and serves as a foundational course on materials degradation processes. The focus is largely on aqueous corrosion as well as hot corrosion and oxidation, focusing on the fundamental mechanisms of these processes. Additionally, various methods of corrosion testing and corrosion prevention are also discussed. The students are expected to apply this knowledge to practical scenario in the field. The lectures are supported by a separate laboratory course on corrosion as well.
While there are no official pre-requisites for the course, a solid knowledge of thermodynamics, diffusion and electrochemistry is useful.
MM402: Powder Processing - Spring 2022
(Credit structure: 3-1-0-5-3, 3 credits) This is a senior year elective course covering different aspects of powder processing ranging from synthesis and characterization to shape forming operations and densification of powder compacts. The course consists of a comprehensive approach to processing with select problems designed to test the student's ability to apply the in-class topics to real world applications while designing and manufacturing products.
MM431: Machine Learning in Materials Science - Spring 2023 || MM531: Introductory Materials Informatics - Spring 2023
(Credit structure: 3-1-0-5-3, 3 credits) MM431 is a senior year elective course, while MM531 is intended for MTech and PhD student. The lectures for both MM431 and MM531 are common; however, they are offered to different groups with a different assessment and evaluation strategy. The course covers - (1) basic concepts in Python programming and Machine Learning, (2) Thermodynamic, electronic and crystallographic descriptors of materials which can be used as features in ML models, (3) Mathematical description of shape and microstructures, image segmentation, processing-structure and structure-property linkages and (4) Principles of combinatorial materials science.
MM502: Applied Thermodynamics for Metallurgical and Materials Engineers - Spring 2020, 2021
(Credit structure: 3-0-0-6-3, 3 credits) This is a graduate level course that is offered to PhD students and provides a fundamental insight to the thermodynamics of materials. The initial module in this course provides a recap of undergraduate thermodynamics and is followed by an analysis of systems in equilibrium. Some basics of thermodynamic modeling is also covered in the course. The second half of the course focuses on thermodynamics of interfaces, non-equilibrium systems, statsitical thermodynamics and real-world illustration of thermodynamics in metallurgy and materials science. The students are expected to work on an individual term-project relevant to their research and be able to apply thermodynamic concepts for analyzing various metallurgical and materials problems, as demonstrated in their term-project.
MAT E 322: Ceramic Processing (Taught at Iowa State University) - Spring 2013, 2016, 2017 and 2018
I taught this course at Iowa State University. The course had both theory (two lectures/week) and lab (one 3 hours session/week) components. The course includes topics on synthesis and characterization of ceramic powders. Colloidal phenomena, rheology of suspensions, ceramic forming methods, and drying. High temperature ceramic reactions, liquid and solid-state sintering, grain growth, microstructure development. Processing/microstructure/property relationships.