CHME350: Multiscale Materials Science
This course provides the student with an overview of structure, properties, and processing of metals, polymers, ceramics and composites. Structural imperfections, atom packing, and phase diagrams are also discussed. The course develops a basic understanding of the structure/properties relationship in materials and introduces the principles governing phenomena occurring on the smallest continuum scales. Topics include force fields and interatomic bonding, crystallography, microscopy, order-disorder transitions and solidification phenomena. Conventional chemical engineering analyses topics, such as transport processes and thermodynamics, are adjusted and extended to the micro[nano]-scale.
CHME651: Soft Matter & Molecular Selfassembly
Much of the modern research takes place at the interface of physical and life sciences. Soft matter systems bridge scientific communication across disciplines and produce a unique synergy between theory and experiments. Principles of soft matter are highly visual and easily extended to biological self-assembly and food science. CHME-789 provides essential tools to understand the behavior of soft matter at the meso- and micro- scale. This course will also provide representative examples of the latest experimental research with soft matter systems (e.g., DNA, proteins, particle tracking, active matter, and external force field activation). Specialized guest lectures and exposure to open-source software will be featured along the course.