C&EE C104
Structure, Processing, and Properties of Civil Engineering Materials
Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours. Enforced requisites: course 101, Chemistry 20A, 20B, Materials Science 104, Mathematics 31A, 31B, 32B, Physics 1A, 1B, 1C. Enforced corequisite: course 108. Discussion of aspects of cement and concrete materials, including manufacture of cement and production of concrete. Aspects of cement composition and basic chemical reactions, microstructure, properties of plastic and hardened concrete, chemical admixtures, and quality control and acceptance testing. Development and testing of fundamentals for complete understanding of overall response of all civil engineering materials. By end of term, successful utilization of fundamental materials science concepts to understand, explain, analyze, and describe engineering performance of civil engineering materials. Concurrently scheduled with course C204. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Winter 2021 - Fun class with an abundance of useful information for any major relating with concrete. I would've, however, preferred the class to be more interactive (could've been a limitation of online learning). No required textbook, but there is a recommended one that you should read to expand on the lectures. The exams are closed notes and are tough for those who struggle with rote memorization, which is what I felt the exams mostly entailed. Let's just say every detail on the PowerPoint slides is fair game on the exam. It doesn't have to be word for word, but you should understand the slides and explain the concepts in a sentence to a short paragraph, or even a diagram. There are several short equations, and you should memorize those too. The only extra-credit is from tougher exam problems. You only have about 2 hours for each exam with ~10 questions with multiple parts. A tip to be successful: Convert every bullet on the slides to a potential exam question. Study enough so you can answer them all orally or draw a picture.
Winter 2021 - Fun class with an abundance of useful information for any major relating with concrete. I would've, however, preferred the class to be more interactive (could've been a limitation of online learning). No required textbook, but there is a recommended one that you should read to expand on the lectures. The exams are closed notes and are tough for those who struggle with rote memorization, which is what I felt the exams mostly entailed. Let's just say every detail on the PowerPoint slides is fair game on the exam. It doesn't have to be word for word, but you should understand the slides and explain the concepts in a sentence to a short paragraph, or even a diagram. There are several short equations, and you should memorize those too. The only extra-credit is from tougher exam problems. You only have about 2 hours for each exam with ~10 questions with multiple parts. A tip to be successful: Convert every bullet on the slides to a potential exam question. Study enough so you can answer them all orally or draw a picture.
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