Materials Engineering Supplemental Information

Technical Electives

• AAE 55200 - Nondestructive Evaluation Of Structures And Materials
• AAE 55300 - Elasticity In Aerospace Engineering
• AAE 55400 - Fatigue Of Structures And Materials
• AAE 55500 - Mechanics Of Composite Materials
• CHE 44200 - Chemistry And Engineering Of High Polymers
• CHE 54300 - Polymerization Reaction Engineering And Reactor Analysis
• CHE 54400 - Structure And Physical Behavior Of Polymer Systems
• CHE 59700 - Special Topics In Chemical Engineering (Title - Organic Electronic Materials And Devices)
• ECE 30500 - Semiconductor Devices
• ECE 55700 - Integrated Circuit Fabrication Laboratory
• IPPH 56200 - Introduction To Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Processes
• ME 41300 - Noise Control
• ME 50700 - Laser Processing
• ME 55400 - Intellectual Property For Engineers
• ME 55900 - Micromechanics Of Materials
• ME 59700 - Advanced Mechanical Engineering Projects I (Titles: Environmentally Sustainable Design And Manufacturing; Artificial Intellengence In Thermal Systems)
• MSE 49700 - Selected Topics In Materials Engineering (Titles - Ethics in Engineering Practice (Support or elective); Industrial Ecol & Life Cycle Analysis; Electronics Packaging And Heterogeneous Integration)
• MSE 49900 - Research In Materials Engineering (3 credits max. per semester, 6 credits max. overall) - Titles: Independent Research
• MSE 50200 - Defects In Solids
• MSE 50500 - Modeling And Simulation Of Materials Processing
• MSE 50800 - Phase Transformations In Solids
• MSE 51000 - Microstructural Characterization Techniques
• MSE 51200 - Powder Processing
• MSE 51800 - Failure Analysis
• MSE 52300 - Physical Ceramics
• MSE 52400 - Mechanical Behavior Of Polymers
• MSE 52500 - Struct-Property Relationships Of Engineering Polymers
• MSE 52700 - Introduction To Biomaterials
• MSE 53100 - Quantitative Analysis Of Microstructure
• MSE 53600 - Solidification Of Castings
• MSE 54700 - Introduction To Surface Science
• MSE 54800 - Deposition Processing Of Thin Films And Coatings
• MSE 55000 - Properties Of Solids
• MSE 55500 - Deformation Mechanisms In Crystalline Solids
• MSE 55600 - Fracture Of Materials
• MSE 55900 - Phase Equilibria In Multicomponent Systems
• MSE 56000 - The Production Of Inorganic Materials
• MSE 56200 - Soft Materials
• MSE 56700 - Polymer Synthesis
• MSE 57500 - Transport Phenomena In Solids
• MSE 57600 - Corrosion
• MSE 58600 - Experimental Characterization Of Advanced Composite Materials
• MSE 58900 - Archaeology And Materials
• MSE 59700 - Selected Topics In Materials Engineering
• (Titles - Additive Manufacturing of Materials; Design Global Sustainability; Design Global Sustainability II; Dislocation Dynamics; Dynamic Mechanical Properties; Introduction to Materials Modeling and Informatics; Kinetics of Materials; Lean Manufacturing of Materials; Magnetic Materials: Phyical Properties and Applications; Materials for Hypersonics; Materials in Extreme Environments; Materials Science of Rechargeable Batteries; Solid State Materials; Sports Technology & Entrepreneurship; Steel and Aluminum Alloys: Processing, Structure and Properties)
• NUCL 47000 - Fuel Cell Engineering
• PHYS 54500 - Solid-State Physics
• PHYS 57000 - Selected Topics In Physics

• (Titles: Propulsion Design, Build, Test; Phys Chemistry & Nanomaterials; Fundamental Atomic Force Microscopy; Phys & Material Science of Semiconductor Nanostructures)

Support Area Electives

Note that while some courses appear on both the General Education and Support Area lists, such courses cannot satisfy both requirements in your plan of study.

• AAE 25100 - Introduction To Aerospace Design
• AAE 53500 - Propulsion Design, Build, Test
• ABE 20500 - Computations For Engineering Systems
• BIOL 23000 - Biology Of The Living Cell
• BME 55100 - Tissue Engineering
• CE 20300 - Principles And Practice Of Geomatics
• CE 52400 - Legal Aspects In Engineering Practice
• CE 55900 - Water Quality Modeling
• CE 59700 - Civil Engineering Projects

• - Adv Sensing And Testing

• CHE 20500 - Chemical Engineering Calculations
• CHM 26100 - Organic Chemistry I
• CHM 26200 - Organic Chemistry II
• CHM 26300 - Organic Chemistry Laboratory I
• CHM 26400 - Organic Chemistry Laboratory II
• CHM 26605 - Organic Chemistry II
• CHM 37300 - Physical Chemistry I
• CHM 37400 - Physical Chemistry II
• COM 25200 - Writing For Mass Media
• COM 31400 - Advanced Presentational Speaking
• COM 32500 - Interviewing: Principles And Practice
• COM 45300 - Reporting Of Science News
• COM 49500 - Special Topics In Public Relations And Rhetorical Advocacy

• -History of Marketing the President

• CS 15900 - C Programming
• EAPS 24300 - Mineralogy
• EAPS 37500 - Great Issues - Fossil Fuels, Energy And Society
• ECE 20100 - Linear Circuit Analysis I
• ECE 20200 - Linear Circuit Analysis II
• ECE 20700 - Electronic Measurement Techniques
• EPCS (2 Semesters Required)
• ECE 49500 - Selected Topics In Electrical And Computer Engineering

• - Entrepreneurship

• EEE 30000 - Environmental And Ecological Systems Modeling
• ENGL 30400 - Advanced Composition
• ENGL 39000 - Practicum In Tutoring Writing
• ENGL 39100 - Composition For English Teachers
• ENGL 40600 - Review Writing
• ENGL 40900 - Intermediate Fiction Writing
• ENGL 42000 - Business Writing
• ENGL 42100 - Technical Writing
• IE 33000 - Probability And Statistics In Engineering II
• IE 34300 - Engineering Economics
• IE 47200 - Imagine, Model, Make
• IE 59000 - Topics In Industrial Engineering

• - Advanced Manufacturing

  - Advanced Nanomanufacturing

• IPPH 56200 - Introduction To Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Processes
• MA 30100 - An Introduction To Proof Through Real Analysis
• MA 30300 - Differential Equations And Partial Differential Equations For Engineering And The Sciences
• MA 36200 - Topics In Vector Calculus
• MA 45300 - Elements Of Algebra I
• ME 20000 - Thermodynamics I
• ME 27400 - Basic Mechanics II
• ME 49200 - Technology And Values
• ME 44400 - Computer-Aided Design And Prototyping
• ME 59700 - Advanced Mechanical Engineering Projects I

• - Artificial Intelligence in Thermal Systems

• MGMT 30000 level or higher
• MSE 48900 - Ethics In Engineering Practice
• MSE 49700 - Selected Topics In Materials Engineering
• NUCL 20000 - Introduction to Nuclear Engineering
• NUCL 56300 - Direct Energy Conversion
• PHYS 31000 - Intermediate Mechanics
• PHYS 33000 - Intermediate Electricity And Magnetism
• PHYS 34200 - Modern Physics
• PHYS 55000 - Introduction To Quantum Mechanics
• PHYS 57000 - Selected Topics In Physics

• - Propulsion Design, Build, Test

  - Phys Chemistry & Nanomaterials

  - Phys & Materials Science of Semiconductor Nanostructures

• PSY 27200 - Introduction To Industrial-Organizational Psychology
• STAT 31100 - Introductory Probability
• STAT 35000 - Introduction To Statistics
• STAT 51100 - Statistical Methods
• STAT 51200 - Applied Regression Analysis
• STAT 51300 - Statistical Quality Control
• STAT 51400 - Design Of Experiments
• STAT 51600 - Basic Probability And Applications
• SYS 40000 - Systems Praxis
• Any Foreign Language any level 20100 or higher

Foundational Learning Outcomes (9 credits)

To satisfy the six Foundational Learning Outcomes, students must select from a list of courses maintained by the Office of the Provost as part of Purdue’s Undergraduate Outcomes-based Core Curriculum.

Taken during the First-Year Engineering Program:

1. Written Communication
2. Informational Literacy
3. Oral Communication

One course should also be taken from each of the following Foundational Learning Outcomes for a total of 9 credit hours:

1. Human Cultures: Humanities - Credits: 3.00
2. Human Cultures: Behavior/Social Science - Credits: 3.00
3. Science, Technology, & Society - Credit Hours: 3.00

MSE Programmatic Requirements (9 credits)

The following list contains the courses currently approved to complete the 9 credits in the General Education Program for Materials Engineering.  The list is updated periodically.  If a student is interested in a course not listed, but is thought to fulfill the purpose of the General Education program as described above, the student may petition the undergraduate committee for its inclusion.

A. College of Liberal Arts

B. College of Health and Human Sciences

C. College of Agriculture

D. Polytechnic Institute - Division of Military Science and Technology

E. Office of the Provost - Purdue Systems Collaboratory

F. School of Management