In addition to the general university requirements of at least a "C" (2.0) GPA for graduation, all Materials Science and Engineering minors must earn at least a "C" in those minor courses designated with an asterisk (*) and a "C" average for all courses used to satisfy the minor requirements. This minor is open to any engineering or physical science majors except students majoring in the Materials Science and and Engineering B.S. program, or the Materials Science and Engineering emphasis in the B.S. of Chemical Engineering program. Courses may be used to satisfy the major and minor requirements simultaneously.
Courses required: (18 credits)
- MSE 250 Elements of Material Science*
- MSE 415 Materials Characterization
- MSE 430 Phase Transformations and Kinetics
Plus nine credits from the following (other courses may be substituted with approval of department chair):
- MSE 361 Thermodynamics of Materials OR
- CHEM 421 Physical Chemistry I
- MSE 401 Corrosion of Metals
- MSE 416 X-Ray Diffraction
- MSE 433 Electronic, Magnetic and Optical Properties of Materials
- MSE 457 Introduction to Biomaterials
- MSE 460 Physical Metallurgy I
- MSE 461 Physical Metallurgy II
Maximum of one of the following:
- CHE 406 Introdution to Polymer Science and Engineering
- CHEM 449 Polymer Chemistry
- MSE 470 Polymeric and Composite Materials
- MSE 472 Introduction to Ceramics
- MSE 498 Special Topics in Materials
- ME 432 Materials
- ME 433 Introduction of Plasticity and Creep
- ME 446 Composite Materials
- PHYS 426 Physics of Solids