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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Material Behavior by Georgia Institute of Technology

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About the Course

Have you ever wondered why ceramics are hard and brittle while metals tend to be ductile? Why some materials conduct heat or electricity while others are insulators? Why adding just a small amount of carbon to iron results in an alloy that is so much stronger than the base metal? In this course, you will learn how a material’s properties are determined by the microstructure of the material, which is in turn determined by composition and the processing that the material has undergone. This is the first of three Coursera courses that mirror the Introduction to Materials Science class that is taken by most engineering undergrads at Georgia Tech. The aim of the course is to help students better understand the engineering materials that are used in the world around them. This first section covers the fundamentals of materials science including atomic structure and bonding, crystal structure, atomic and microscopic defects, and noncrystalline materials such as glasses, rubbers, and polymers....

Top reviews

SS

Mar 30, 2018

Material Behavior is a key subject for material studies and also very important for the mechanical engineering career. This course is very helpful and very easy to understand the hole concepts.

JL

Jun 17, 2016

The course was excellent. A lot of in-depth material, beyond even what I remember from college. Coverage of polymer systems in addition to the usual metals was very nice, and the

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By Robin v

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Dec 3, 2020

Zero stars. The forums are unmoderated; student questions remain unanswered. At least one quiz question is incorrectly graded. The instructor speaks in a monotone. The movement through the concepts can be rapid. It might help to know that the course is based on "The Science and Design of Engineering Materials," Second Edition.

By Surabhi L

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Aug 8, 2021

Not indulging. I attended lectures on Miller indices and Bravais lattice. The lectures are monotonous. Crystallography has a lot of chance to involve good visualisations. Or else, possibility to draw some structure to make the listener walk through. Found both aspects missing.