MAE 4240

Materials Processing and Manufacturing

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

How a material is made into its final form has great importance to its structure and therefore to its properties and performance. This course is aimed at giving students an understanding of the state-of-the-art material processing and manufacturing technologies as well as how these processes influence materials' microstructure and properties. With a unified approach this course will introduce the fundamentals of materials processing applied to metals, ceramics, and polymers. Different material processing routes from melt-based and powder-based processes to shape forming, joining, surface engineering and additive manufacturing will be discussed. Emphasis will be placed on the physics of the process as well as on how the processes will influence the properties of emerging materials and applications.

Prerequisites REF-FA25/Corequisites REF-FA25 ENGRD 2020 or ENGRD 2610. Corequisites: None.

Enrollment Priority REF-FA25 Enrollment limited to: junior and senior students.

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Outcomes REF-FA25

• Describe the physics of materials processes and manufacturing technologies.
• Identify and explain process-microstructure-property relationships for different materials processes.
• Design processing routes and justify process selection for a desired performance.

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