Course title: Modern Engineering Materials

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Yeditepe University

 

ME 361

Fall 2008

 

 

Meetings:    Tuesday      09:00 – 09:50       Room B-520

                                      10:00 – 10:50

                   Friday         11:00 – 11:50       Room B-520

 

 

Instructor:   Prof. Dr. A. Cuneyt Tas  (Dept. of Biomedical Engineering)

                                                          www.cuneyttas.com

 

Textbook:    Foundations of Materials Science and Engineering

                   William F. Smith and Javad Hashemi

                   McGraw-Hill, 4th Edition

ISBN: 007-125690-3

 

Course content:

 

Production of iron and steel,

Iron-iron carbide system,

Heat treatment of plain carbon steels,

Temperature-time-transformation diagrams,

Low alloy steels,

Aluminum, magnesium, titanium and nickel alloys,

Metals in biomedical applications,

Ceramic materials,

Polymeric materials,

Composite materials.

 

Grading:

         

          2 Exams (30% each) + Final (40%)              100%