Please like everyone else has said do not EVER procrastinate on this class. The moment you are done with the class, go home and start on it immediately. My advice is to start on the results and discussion part of the report, then everything else can be added later. This is due to you having a fresh memory of what just happened in lab so it will be easier to do these two sections without any issues IF YOU ARE EARLY!!! The lab themselves are pretty basic, more on the boring side due to there being only one XRD machine so it's more of a "the TA run the experiment while you just stand there and watch" kind of thing. Even though it is pretty boring, I think what you learn in this lab class overall is pretty cool and if your future career uses XRD, which is pretty basic in materials engineering, then the knowledge is pretty helpful. There will be 8 labs in total, and they are grouped together differently like so. You submit lab 1 first, then group 2 3, group 5, 6, 7, then lab 8. Lab 4,9 is more of an attendance lab with no real report to write besides a short form to fill in. Each lab will a have proportional amount of time to write, like lab 1 will have 2 to 3 week to write and submit, lab 2,3 will have 2 or 3 weeks, and so on. However the TA is pretty lenient and as long as you ask for a reasonable and infrequent extension, it will be granted. Gl on your journey with this class!

Tough class. Don't wait too long to start and stay up for 18 hours like the rest of us. Talk to your TA :D.

This class is not necessarily difficult, but it is a lot of work. Take this class at the same time as 110!! The two classes have a lot of overlapping topics and taking them together made it easier to understand and do well in both classes. DO NOT PROCRASTINATE ON THE LAB REPORTS. There are a total of 4 individual lab reports, each covering anywhere from 1 to 3 weeks worth of content. If you are given more time to complete a lab report, you are also expected to cover more content in it. If you distribute the work over the several weeks that you have to write them, they're still a lot of work, but much more manageable. If you procrastinate, you can expect to pull an all nighter or two the days before the lab reports are due. The TAs are really good at answering questions and explaining how to perform the data analysis, so take advantage of them!

Absolutely brutal, rivaling the Physics 4 labs.

Take this class with MSE 110....it definitely helps!!!