MET 281 - Special Problems in Materials Science

Credits: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 1
Lab Contact Hours: 3
Description: This course involves the execution of an applied research project involving materials processing and/or analysis. Literature review, hypothesis development, experimental design, experimentation and data analysis culminate in formal written and oral presentations.

Prerequisites: MET 212. MET 216.
Corequisites: MET 232 if not taken previously.
Recommended: None.

Course Category: Occupational
This Course is Typically Offered: Winter Only
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Course Competencies

Identify a materials-related topic of interest.
Utilize a bound laboratory notebook.
Obtain background information on a selected topic via literature review, expert interviews or personal experience.
Express a working title of a project.
Express a scope of work.
Express a working hypothesis.
Express an experimental plan complete with equipment, funding, response characteristics, experimental factors and levels, control factors, noise factors, replication, randomization and blocking.
Manage a Gantt Chart.
Reconcile observations, a hypothesis and an experimental plan.
Perform experiments to test a hypothesis.
Analyze data using appropriate mathematical and statistical techniques.
Write a technical paper with Abstract, Introduction, Experimental, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Recommendations, Acknowledgements and References.
Present a final paper complete with visual aids to industry experts and other invited parties.