Materials Science Courses

Materials Science: 10 Things Every Engineer Should Know

5 reviews

We explore “10 things” that range from the menu of materials available to engineers in their profession to the many mechanical and electrical properties of materials important to their use in various engineering fields. We also discuss the principles beh…

• Coursera
• 8-9 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• Today
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Material Behavior

1126 ratings at Coursera

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 s…

• Coursera
• 25 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 6 days from now (15th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Cellular Solids: Structure, Properties and Applications (Spring 2015)

This course reviews the processing and structure of cellular materials as they are created from polymers, metals, ceramics, glasses, and composites, develops models for the mechanical behavior of cellular solids

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 21 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Materials Data Sciences and Informatics

295 ratings at Coursera

This course aims to provide a succinct overview of the emerging discipline of Materials Informatics at the intersection of materials science, computational science, and information science. Attention is drawn to specific opportunities afforded by this ne…

• Coursera
• 9-10 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 6 days from now (15th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Part 1: Linear Elastic Behavior

3 reviews

Explore materials from the atomic to the continuum level, and apply your learning to mechanics and engineering problems.

• edX
• 11-13 hours a week, 5 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Material Science

1 review

The course gives knowledge about different types of materials, their properties and behaviour that are utilized in various kinds of products that we use in daily life or in construction. It also gives an overview of the current development in material sc…

• Swayam
• 16 weeks long
• 5 days from now (14th Aug)
• Free Online Course

Advanced Functional Ceramics

115 ratings at Coursera

To realize next-generation devices, novel ceramic materials with ultimate physical and chemical properties are required. For this purpose, a few intrinsic and extrinsic approaches for the development of new functional ceramics are proceeding. This course…

• Coursera
• 16 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 1 week from now (22nd Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Part 2: Stress Transformations, Beams, Columns, and Cellular Solids

2 reviews

Explore materials from the atomic to the continuum level, and apply your learning to mechanics and engineering problems.

• edX
• 11-13 hours a week, 4 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

SJTU

Fundamentals of Materials Science

69 ratings at Coursera

Materials are the physical foundations for the development of science and technology. The human civilizations are historically designated by the evolution of materials, such as the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Nowadays, materials science a…

• Coursera
• 20 hours worth of material, 16 weeks long
• Today
• Free Online Course (Audit)

IIT Kanpur;  NPTEL

Electronic Properties of the Materials: Computational Approach

About The Course :The course aims to explain the physics of electronic materials in detail, followed by a brief discussion on their applications. A student taking the course will learn about traditional metals, semiconductors, and ionic-conductors, as w…

• Swayam
• 8 weeks long
• 1 week from now (21st Aug)
• Free Online Course

Cellular Solids Part 1: Structures, Properties and Engineering Applications

Learn how to model the mechanical properties of honeycombs and foams and to apply the models to material selection in engineering design.

• edX
• 11-13 hours a week, 9 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Microstructural Evolution of Materials Part 2: Defects and Diffusion

Discover the principles of point defect evolution that explain materials science phenomena.

• edX
• 8-10 hours a week, 5 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Microstructural Evolution of Materials Part 3: Surfaces & Surface-Driven Reactions

Discover the principles of Surfaces & Surface-Driven Reactions that explain materials science phenomena.

• edX
• 8-12 hours a week, 4 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Microstructural Evolution in Materials: Phase Transformations

Learn how the kinetics of phase transformations influence the microstructure of materials

• edX
• 8-12 hours a week, 4 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

From Chemistry to Living Materials: Matter & Sound

MIT professor and materials scientist Markus Buehler discusses how scientists can design new proteins that can revolutionize materials engineering through manipulating vibrations that have been changed from matter into sound and from sound back into matt…

• World Science U
• Self paced
• Free Online Course