Materials Science and Engineering Core Curriculum
Editors: Kenneth R. Shull, Jonathan Emery, Northwestern University
Last File Update: Feb 27, 2024
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* Can also be taken spring quarter freshman year.
Background
The aim of this project is to provide an up-to-date repository of course documents defining the core curriculum in Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University. Most of the documents are produced by LyX (
www.lyx.org), graphical interface that takes much of the pain out of working with LaTeX files. LaTeX, in turn, is the only realistic option for a project this big. The project is a work in progress, and is actively being developed by students and faculty at Northwestern, with the editable files located in a set of GitHub repositories. The status of the different course documents is variable, depending on the resources that we have been able to devote to different courses.
A single text file corresponding to individual core classes can be obtained from the links in the table above. In addition to a narrative description of the content of the course itself, these files include catalog descriptions, course outcomes, problems and labs. Information for 315, 316-1, 316-2, 331, 332 are all relatively complete. 314, 361, 390 and 396 are complete enough to be a useful resource, but substantial editing is still needed. 351-1 and 351-2 still need to be developed.
Curriculum Summary Documents
These documents include aggregated content from the entire core course curriculum:
- Laboratories: This is a useful document if you want to see the complete laboratory curriculum all in one place.
- Problems: An aggregated list of the problems assigned throughout the curriculum. It can be used as a practical guide to the problems that you will be expected to be able to solve after completing the curriculum.
- Catalog Descriptions: Course descriptions as they appear in the university catalog.
- Catalog Descriptions and Outcomes: Course descriptions as they appear in the university catalog, along with course outcomes. These outcomes describe things you should be able to do after completing the specified course.