MSCI-320 Materials Science for Architects, Artists, and Designers

3 Credits

This course introduces different materials and their unique properties to students studying to become architects, artists, and designers to make informed decisions to use materials in their professional fields. The course will explore the subject's interdisciplinary nature and find the nexus between materials science and the technical history of art, design, and architecture. The course intends to explore the fundamental properties of materials, such as plasticity, hardness, toughness, brittleness, fatigue, creep, conductivity, reflectivity, and polarization in different materials, such as metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, semiconductors, and nanomaterials. The course's focus is to find the structure-properties-processing relationships of various material systems and their design and optimization for specific applications. The course will also examine renewable energy, net-zero energy, and sustainability while exploring the processing and use of the materials.