Looking for a gentler semester? Start with courses where students have earned higher grades.
Highest historical GPA first. At least 100 letter grades over the five years through the selected term. Grades reflect past outcomes, not workload or a guaranteed result.
Historical grades cover up to five years through the selected term. Only courses with at least 100 letter grades are ranked.
MS&E 470 is a capstone course focusing on materials design, selection, and application through creative problem solving and experimental analysis.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025MS&E 803 covers varying special topics in Materials Science.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2025MS&E 401 covers special topics in materials science and engineering.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026MS&E 362 is a laboratory course focusing on the synthesis and characterization of materials, including experiments on mechanical and electronic properties, computer instrument control, and data analysis.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025Introduction to ceramic materials covering crystal structure, phase equilibria, defects, transport phenomena, and processing technologies.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025MS&E 456 covers the quantitative description of electronic, optical, and magnetic structure-property relationships and strategies for developing new materials.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025Nuclear Engineering Materials covers the fundamentals of fuel and cladding behavior, focusing on thermal, chemical, and radiation damage properties.
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Historical reviews of Adrien Couet: The course involves a non-trivial amount of work; students must be prepared to treat it as a four-credit course and put in effort outside of class to learn the material.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025Covers macroprocessing of materials including iron/steel production, electrolytic metal production, alloy solidification, and single crystal growth.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025CHEM/MS&E 421 covers polymeric materials, focusing on polymer chemistry, physics, structure-property relationships, and synthesis for optoelectronic applications.
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Spring 2022–Fall 2025Introduction to the structures and properties of solid materials, covering phase equilibria, mechanical behavior, and selection.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026Introduction to materials science focusing on structure-property relations in solids.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025MS&E 330 introduces the thermodynamics of materials, covering equilibrium constants, solutions, heterogeneous equilibria, and electrochemistry.
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Spring 2022–Fall 2025