The Master's Degree in Materials Science and Engineering can be obtained entirely online if the student chooses. Online delivery allows for independent, self-paced learning at the desktop, plus added interactivity. The NTU Winter Quarter/Spring Semester 2003 courses listed below are available in an online format and can be applied toward the NTU Master's Degree in Materials Science and Engineering.

Note that a number of NTU courses are also available on CD-ROM & DVD. These delivery formats offer superior portability, flexible scheduling, and reusability. NTU Winter Quarter/Spring Semester 2003 courses available on CD-ROM and on DVD.

Electronic Materials Processing
IC 530-DE
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: This course is designed to give senior undergraduate and beginning graduate students an overall understanding of the technologies that are used to fabricate devices and integrated circuits in silicon and III-V semiconductor ... more

Finite Element Analysis I
MP 721-Y
Credit Hours: 2
Course Objectives: To introduce the theory and applications of the Finite Element Method as a general and powerful tool to solve the variety of problems of engineering and physics. The course is aimed at a general technical audience at the ... more

Mechanical Behavior of Engineering Materials
MP 724-P
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: The course is intended for graduate engineering students who seek to develop a working knowledge in deformation and fracture of materials and its relation to material microstructure.

Introduction to Fracture Mechanics
MP 730-Y
Credit Hours: 2
Course Objectives: Obtain understanding on the fundamentals of linear elastic fracture mechanics and elastic-plastic fracture mechanics. Gain ability to realize fracture and fatigue problems and to design fracture and fatigue resistance structures.

Fracture of Brittle Materials
MP 736-R
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: To familiarize the student with the application of fracture mechanics to the fracture of brittle materials; the use of quantitative fractography in failure analysis, of scaling concepts in fracture and the effect of microstructure ... more

Composite Materials Structures
MP 543-DE
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: To provide a basic understanding of the behavior of composite materials such that the student develops the capabilities to design, analyze and optimize structures and products composed of composite materials.

Materials Microstructure
MS 715-R
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: To be able to visualize and describe qualitatively and quantitatively real three-dimensional microstructures; to understand how microstructures arise, develop and evolve in the processing of materials; to be able to use ... more

Science of Biomaterials I
MS 716-R
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: Introduce state of the art materials used in medicine for contact with tissue (usually implantation).

Thermodynamics and Reactions in Solids
MS 522-CL
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: Free energy of phases, the relationship between phase diagrams, metastability, applications to problems in solids, including thin film. Thermodynamics of surfaces and interfaces, effect of particle size on phase equilibria, ... more