This course aims to provide the student with a fundamental appreciation of the relationship between structure and properties of engineering materials.

2 x 1 hour lectures per week
2 x 3 hour laboratories

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70% Written Exam

30% Set Exercise (from 10 weekly Moodle quizzes on lectures)

The aims of this course are to:

■ provide the student with a fundamental appreciation of the relationship between structure and properties of engineering materials;

■ give the students practical experience in the application of the engineering principles taught in the lectures.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ build on the concepts introduced in the Materials 1 course, and apply these into the areas of properties and applications of a range of engineering materials;

■ describe the potential and constraints associated with the applications of different classes of materials for various engineering purposes;

■ apply basic laboratory skills and appreciate some of the basic engineering concepts.

Students must attend the degree examination and submit at least 75% by weight of the other components of the course's summative assessment.

Students must attend the timetabled laboratory classes.

Minimum of 40% overall mark in Moodle quizzes

Submission of attempts for 80% of Moodle quizzes