Prerequisites: graduate standing in Materials Science and Engineering or consent of instructor
Description: MSE 201 online section; enrollment in the Online Master-in-Science in Engineering program. Covers the laws of thermodynamics and fundamental equations for multi- component elastic solids, electromagnetic media, and equilibrium criteria. Describes applications to solution thermodynamics, point defects in solids, elastic effects, phase diagrams, transitions, and interfaces. Includes nucleation theory, kinetics (diffusion of heat, mass, and charge), and coupled flows.