Teaching

Spring Semester:

Phase Transformations: Thermodynamics and Phase diagrams, Diffusion, Interfaces and Microstructure, Nucleation and Growth theories, Solidification, Coarsening, Precipitation, Eutectoid transformations, Massive Transformations, disorder-to-order transformations, Spinodal Decomposition, Cellular Precipitation, Martensitic Transformations, Case studies.

Fall Semester

Kinetics of Materials: Point defects, Fick’s laws of diffusion, concept of jump frequency, activation energy, Kirkendall effect, solidification, nucleation, constitutional supercooling, sintering, interfaces, grain growth, solid state transformations, JMA theory, GP zone, Spinodal decomposition, ordering and martensitic transformations, effect of stress and electric current.