.
.
CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO
Department of Engineering & Technology
.
.
.
ENGN 45
Materials Science for Engineers
Such components allowed substantial miniaturization in the early days of solid-state technology.
INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION
Wynd Kaufmyn
Email: wkaufmyn@ccsf.edu
Phone: (415) 239-3159
Website: http://fog.ccsf.edu/~wkaufmyn
Office: Science Bldg Room 143A
Office Hours: see my schedule
for current semester office hours.
Note: The access to this office is through the classroom S143. Do not be shy about walking through the classroom, even if there is a class in session, to get to my office.
COURSE INFORMATION
ENGN 45
Materials Science for Engineers
See my current schedule
for section number and CRN number
..
Course Description
This is an introductory course in the
fundamental science of materials used by
engineers. Emphasis is placed on understanding the
structure and properties of materials. Standard material
properties are defined and explained. The
processing and applications of materials is also
covered. Finally, a strategy is developed for the
selection and use of these materials.
Course Prerequisites
Completion of ENGN 10B, CHEM 101A or CHEM 103A, PHYC
4A-4AL
Contact the instructor if you have not already
taken these classes.
Required Materials
* textbook: Introduction to Materials Science for Engineers by James F. Shackelford, Pearson-Prentice Hall publishers
* high speed computer with internet access
* an email account that is checked
regularly
* Adobe Acrobat Reader.
* Current
Internet Browser:
* scientific calculator
* laboratory logbook
* pens for recording laboratory data (not pencils)
* toothpicks and gumdrops (for Crystallography Lab)
* four waterproof zip-lock plastic bags and a dust mask (for Concrete Lab)
..
..
TIME
REQUIREMENTS
Whether this course is face-toface or
online, you are not
free to learn at your own pace. You must keep up
with the course schedule!
If you are taking this class face-to-face you will have 2 hours of lecture/week) and 3 hours labwork/week. On top of that you should spend 6-9 hours per week outside of class doing homework. A student taking this course online needs to spend 9 - 12 hours/week working on the class. This course is more challenging than most, so a student may need to spend even more time than the stated guidelines.
If you enroll for this course, you should plan on spending at least two hours per day, 5 days per week working on it. Anything less is certain failure. If you cannot carve out that kind of time commitment in your schedule, please do not enroll for this course.
..
..
ATTENDANCE
Students are expected to attend all on-campus meetings as well as to log in almost daily for their weekly readings, homework assignments, quizzes and to check the discussion forums.
..
For the online section of this class, the 6
mandatory campus meetings are:
- 1 one-hour mandatory
orientation in Week 1
- 3 eight-hour
laboratory
sessions in Weeks 5, 10 and 14
- 1 two-hour midterm examination in Week 9
- 1 two-hour final examination in Week 18
Click here for the dates and times of these campus meetings.
Online students need to bring a valid picture identification to the exams.
Valid identification is limited to a California driver's license, a California identification card or a passport.
ONLINE DELIVERY MODE
If this is an
online course then you will do all of the work from
your own computer.
The online section of this class is essentially the same
as the onsite section. Some of the advantages of taking it
online are the scheduling flexibility and the absence of a
commute. However, these advantages are countered by
major disadvantages, including not having the face to face
contact with the instructor to get questions answered
immediately and not having difficult concepts explained in
person. Instead, the online student needs to rely on their
own ability to gain understanding of the material through
reading the textbook and doing the assignments on their
own.
The online section of this course is only for students with excellent time management and organizational skills. They take responsibility for their own learning process. They are able to read a textbook and learn from it. They complete all assignments on schedule. They realize when they understand a concept, and more importantly, when they do not.
The questions that normally come up during face-to-face lectures will be accommodated by the discussion forums and email. So the online student needs to be able to articulate, in writing, any questions that they may have so that they can submit them via email. An advantage to this method is that students will be required to articulate their questions in written form which will force them to think through the material in a more careful and thoughtful manner than would be required of them in a classroom situation.
You should consider your individual skills and
specific situation to decide if the online option is for
you. As any engineer would ask, "Do the benefits outweigh
the cost?"
..
EMERGENCY PROCEDURES
If
for some reason the online version of the course becomes
inaccessible,
or I am absent due to a personal emergency, you will
receive an
email at your CCSFmail address with details about a
contingency plan for course work.
..
ASSIGNMENTS
Each week of the course has a set of tasks that must
be completed.
These tasks generally include the following:
-
a reading assignment from the text book
- going through a presentation that highlights and clarifies text material
-
a homework assignment (not to be turned in)
-
a quiz (taken online)
-
lab preparation
-
writing up a lab report
The overall schedule for the whole semester is given below, for your convenience.
Students are encouraged to communicate with each other via the discussion board tool. Use it to get help from other students. Use it to give help to other students. Use it to give others your own insights and thoughts on the class material. The instructor will be monitoring the discussions; however she will give input only as needed. The discussion board is primarily for the students to communicate with each other.
COURSE STUDENT LEARNING
OUTCOMES
Every
course at City College has a list of items called
"Student Learning Outcomes" or " SLOs"
These
SLOs are what the student should have learned after
completing the course.
SLOs
for ENGN 45:
Upon
completion of this course a student will be able to:
1. Classify and summarize the
various categories of engineering materials, their
material properties and levels of structure.
2. Relate the definition of a
standard material property to the qualitative property
that it measures.
3. Relate the microscopic
structure of a material to its macroscopic properties.
4. Relate the methods of altering
a material's microstructure by mechanical, thermal, or
chemical means to the new or improved macroscopic
property obtained.
5. Select a material for an
elementary application and formulate a test procedure to
measure the alteration of a material's macroscopic
properties as an environmental variable is changed.
SLO ASSESSMENT
We
teachers need to assess how well our students have
achieved these outcomes. (In other words: How well have
we taught our students?!) I need your input to improve
my teaching. Please help me assess the SLOs of this
course by filling out two surveys. One at the beginning
of the semester, and the other after you take the final.
I also need this input for reporting purposes to the
school administration. Hence, this is a mandatory
requirement for completion of this class. You will not
get a grade if you do not fill out these surveys. Please
know that your grade is absolutely not affected by your
answers! Thank you in advance for your thoughtful and
well considered answers to this survey.
The
survey can be found at this link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1CRpFKNX-1qDvcuGgFinLWCwGjJokYotZD9sds0X351A/formResponse
QUIZZES & EXAMS
Quizzes
There will be periodic quizzes covering the assigned
reading and the assigned problem sets. These quizzes will
be taken online and you will be allowed three attempts for
each quiz. The final score will be the average of the
three attempts. You need complete a quiz by the
end of the work week in which it appears, i.e. on Friday.
They will remain open until almost midnight on
Sunday, just in case there are technical difficulties or
shut downs of the Insight server when it is due. In
total there will be 10 quizzes, each worth 10 points for a
total of 100 points. Quizzes will count as 10% of the
overall course grade.
QUIZ #0 (CCSFmail)
When you register at CCSF
you are automatically given a Google email account,
which we call CCSFmail. It is the only way that
teachers, administration, etc. can contact you so you
will need to check it regularly. To make sure that you
have access to it, I will send an email to you at this
account by the end of the second week of the semester.
You will need to follow the instructions in this email
by the end of the third week of the semester. This is
worth one quiz score.
.
Exams
There will be 2 exams: a midterm and a final, which will be conducted on campus.
For the time, date and location of these exams
Face-to-face students click here
You should mark your calendars now with these dates. If there is an issue with this schedule you need to contact me within the first two weeks of the semester to see if an alternate time can be arranged.
.
Online students are required to bring a valid picture identification to the exams. Valid identification is limited to a California driver's license, a California identification card or a passport. Make-ups exams are given only for extremely extenuating circumstances that can be documented.
..
Exams are graded for correctness of solution and for clearly showing the method of solution. Your grade will suffer if you cannot present a clear, legible solution.
..
You should count on the exams being closed book, closed note exams, although that is subject to change. If they are closed book, closed note, you will be allowed one formula sheet no larger than 8.5" x 11", written on only one side, no tape, glue or staples.
..
At the completion of any testing time
I will announce that the test is over and that you
should put your writing implements down. Your exam will
not be graded if you do not put your implement down
immediately. Furthermore, your exam will not be graded
if you do not turn in the exam within 1 minute of the
announcement. If your exam is not graded you will
receive zero points for it.
..
Midterm Exam
The midterm will be a two-hour exam covering chapters
1 - 8. It will consist of a combination of multiple choice
questions, true and false questions, short answer
questions, short essays and calculation problems. The
midterm exam is worth 25% of the overall course grade.
Final Exam
The Final will be a comprehensive two-hour exam
covering the whole course. Its format will be similar to
the midterm. The final exam is worth 300 points, which is
35% of the overall course grade.
CHEATING
POLICY
Cheating is an egregious
offense. You will suffer profoundly if found cheating.
Don't do it.
LAB INFORMATION
Lab Schedule
Online students will have three 8-hour lab sessions at Weeks 5, 10 and 15 in the semester. In each session two to three labs will be performed.
Face-to-face students will meet for 3 hours each week.
Lab Briefings
There will be important information on the website
about the labs that are to be performed for each lab
session. It is essential that the student prepare
for the lab experiments before coming to campus to perform
the labs.
Lab Teams
You will work as part of a team in the lab. The team
performs the experiments together and writes the reports
together. Learning to work as a team is critical to
becoming an engineer. Although the work is done as a team,
each individual is responsible for understanding the
theory and procedures of each lab.
...
Lab Notebook
Any notes about the lab that you keep, all data
taken for a lab and anything else pertaining to the lab
should be recorded in a lab notebook. This is ideally an
official laboratory logbook, which is available at the
CCSF bookstore. More information on this laboratory
logbook is available in the course.
Laboratory Standards
You must clean up after yourselves and put all equipment and materials away before leaving the lab for the day. Failure to do so will result in deducting points for that lab report up to receiving no credit at all. Be sure to check in with your instructor before you leave for the day to ensure that clean-up and equipment storage requirements are satisfied.
Lab Reports
The lab reports are due according to the schedule
shown below. No late lab reports will be accepted. The lab
reports constitute 24% of the final grade.
The lab reports will be written as a team effort and should be seen as a report generated by an engineering consulting firm. Only one lab report should be submitted for the entire team. (Any duplicate lab reports submitted after the first for a lab team will be discarded.) The instructor should be viewed as a client that the firm needs to satisfy. Assume that the client does not know much about Materials Science. Therefore, the report should include everything that the client would need to understand it, in a concise, yet complete format.
Lab Reports should be clear, professional documents that include the following:
-
Title page
-
Lab group designation (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 or C2)
-
Name of lab team/consulting company
-
Name of lab experiment
- Semester and Class
- Names of all team members (full names spelled correctly)
-
Objective
-
Background Theory
(Give enough background so that a layperson would be able to understand the report.) -
Materials and equipment list
-
Procedure
-
Data
-
Calculations & Graphs
-
Analysis
-
Conclusion
-
Bibliography
Lab Safety
Lab safety is everyone's responsibility! Before you do
anything - THINK! Is there
a safety concern for you? For others?
Most potential problems associated with working
in a lab can be avoided by using common sense.
Some of the following
safety rules pertain to this materials science lab.
Furthermore, since we share the lab space with biotech
lab classes that work with chemical reagents which are
potentially hazardous, there are some additional safety
rules that need to be strictly followed.
1. Do not drink, eat, apply cosmetics, store food,
chew gum or smoke in this laboratory.
Furthermore, do not put anything in your mouth,
such as pen tops, pencils, fingers, etc.
2.
3. Wipe the bench top with disinfectant before and
after each laboratory.
4. Always wear covered (closed-toed) shoes and
long pants. Do not wear shorts or dresses to this lab.
5. Safety glasses, gloves and dust masks must be
worn for some of the lab experiments.
6. Dispose of waste appropriately:
o Any broken glass must be disposed of in the
"Broken Glass" Box.
o Cement dust and debris should be disposed of in
the large yellow garbage bin filled with water. Not a
speck of cement or concrete should go down the drains in
the sinks. (This is as much a plumbing issue as a safety
issue.)
7. Take care with all the equipment in this lab as
some of it is extremely expensive.
Always be sure you know what you are doing before
using anything. If you are not sure, ask before
proceeding.
8. Turn Bunsen burners off when not in use. Tie
long hair back. Be sure that you are not wearing loose
sleeves or other clothing that may get in the way of the
flame. Keep all volatile and flammable liquids away from
the flame. Organize your workspace so you do not have to
reach over the flame.
9. Take note of the location of the eye-wash
station, emergency shower, fire extinguisher, first aid
kit, and exits in the laboratory. If
contaminated, rinse eyes with water for 20 minutes.
10. Report any injuries or accidents to the
instructor immediately. Do not work with any uncovered
cuts; cover them with a Band-Aid.
11. Lastly: The most important rule in any
laboratory is to "use your head"!
..
GRADING
Your course grade will be determined according to the following:
Quizzes........................................................10%
Laboratory
Reports......................................24%
Research
Paper..............................................6%
Midterm.......................................................25%
Final.............................................................35%
Grades will be assigned on the
following percentage scale:
90% - 100%
A
80% - 89% B
70% - 79% C
60% - 69% D
0% - 59% F
I may curve grades if it will be to students' advantage.
Please do not email me asking for any special considerations. Your grade will be based solely the grading criteria stated here.
Also, please do not email me requesting that I send your grade. You will need to wait until the school officially publishes it.