Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS MODELING

Department: *Mech Eng & Materials Science*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Physico-chemical principles augmented by ever-advancing computation technology have become a tool for explaining rich materials properties, designing nano-structures and their possible functionality. This course overviews basic quantum principles of materials sturcture, and a hierarchy of approximations broadly used in computational models. This includes classical mutli-body potentials, tight-binding approximations, electronic density functional theory methods, etc. Graduate version of MSCI 433. Additional work required. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: MSCI 433.