1. Course Objective/Description: Introduce fundamental concepts in Materials
<br> Science. After this course, you will learn about material structure, how structure dictates properties and how processing can change structure.
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<br>2. Required textbook:Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction, 
<br>W.D. Callister, Jr. and D.G. Rethwisch, 8th edition, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (2010).
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<br>3. Couse website: LMS 數位學習系統 http://lms.nthu.edu.tw  , including syllabus, lectures notes, homework probelm etc.
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<br>4. Teaching method: Lectures with powerpoint materilas highlight improtant portions of each chapter. Some experiment will be conducted for some chapters.
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<br>5. Lecture schedule
<br>chapter 1  General introduction  
<br>chapter 2  atomic bonding  (
<br>chapter 3  Crystalline structures  
<br>chapter 4  Impections (point defects, line defects, and volume defects) 
<br>chapter 5  Diffusion  
<br>chapter 6  Mechanical properties  
<br>chapter 7  Strenthening Mechanisms  
<br>chapter 8  Failure  
<br>chapter 9  Phase diagrams  
<br>chapter 10 & 11  Phase transformations   
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<br>6. Grading:  
<br>  15% of homework,
<br>  25% of midterm #1, 
<br>  30% of midterm #2,  
<br>  30% of final exam. 
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