Minor in Materials Science & Engineering 

The Designated Minor in Materials Science and Engineering provides the CIT student with a background in the field of Materials Science and Engineering. This minor is open to all CIT students, with the exception of MSE majors. All required and elective courses are taught within the MSE Department.



Director
Michael E. McHenry
Office: Roberts Engineering Hall 243


Course Requirements: The minor requires a minimum of 45 units, with two semester long required courses (the first being a sequence of two minis).


Prerequisites: Students wishing to take the MSE minor must have prerequisite thermodynamics and transport courses. The prerequisite MSE courses may be substituted for by a thermodynamics and transport course  in another engineering discipline.


Core Courses (21 units)
Course One (consisting of two half semester minis): 27-201, Perfect Crystals (6 units), 27-202, Defects in Materials (6 units). The  laboratories with these courses are not required as core but will be counted as elective units if desired.
 
Course Two: 27-217, Phase Relations and Phase Diagrams (9 units), again the laboratory with this course will not be required as core but will be counted as elective units if desired


Elective Courses (24 units minimum)
The student must select a minimum of 24 units from the followin list:
27-100, Introduction to Materials Science
27-201(a), The Structure of Materials (3 units)
27-202(a), Defects in Materials Laboratory (3 units)
27-217(a), Phase Relations and Phase Diagrams Laboratory (3 units)
27-301, Microstructure and Properties
27-302, Microstructure and Properties II
27-311, Polymeric Biomaterials
27-312, Metallic and Ceramic Biomaterials
27-322, Processing of Metals
27-323, Powder Processing of  Materials
27-324, Introduction to Polymer Science and Engineering
27-325, Polymer Physics and Morphology
27-367, Selection and Performance of Materials
27-432, Electronic and Thermal Properties of Metals, Semiconductors and Related Devices
27-433, Dielectric, Magnetic, Superconducting Properties of Materials and Related Devices
27-445, Structure, Properties and Performance Relationships in Magnetic Materials
27-551, Properties of Ceramics and Glasses
27-565, Nanostructured Materials
27-582, Phase Transformations in Solids
27-591, Mechanical Behavior of Materials
27-592, Solidification Processing
27-594, Electrochemical Processes in Materials
27-530, Advanced Physical Metallurgy
27-357, Introduction to Materials Selection
27-510, Bio-Materials I
27-511, Bio-Materials II  
27-555, Materials Project I.
27-582, Phase Transformations in Solids
27-421, Processing Design
27-432, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties of Materials
27-591, Mechanical Behavior of Materials
27-560, Physical Chemistry of Metallurgical Reactions
27-454, Supervised Reading
27-530, Physical Metallurgy with Applications
27-533, Principles of Growth and Processing of Semiconductors
27-542, Processing and Properties of Thin Films
27-551, Properties of Ceramics and Glasses
27-566, Special Topics
27-592, Solidification Processing
42-644, Medical Devices