Description: Lecture, two hours; laboratory, two hours; outside study, five hours. Enforced requisite: course 140A. Explicit guidance among myriad materials available for design in engineering. Properties and applications of steels, nonferrous alloys, polymeric, ceramic, and composite materials, coatings. Materials selection, treatment, and serviceability emphasized as part of successful design. Design projects. Letter grading.

Units: 3.0