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    Materials Engineering

    Material engineering is an interdisciplinary field applying the properties of matter to various areas of science and engineering. This new scientific field investigates the relationship between the structure of materials at atomic or molecular scales and their macroscopic properties. Materials engineering incorporates elements of applied physics and chemistry.

    In recent years, there has been significant media attention focused on nanoscience and nanotechnology. Material science is now becoming more widely recognized as a specific and unique field. As a result of then, material engineering has become a more reputable degree in universities. Many of the most pressing scientific problems that are currently faced today are due to the limitations of the materials that are currently available and as a result, breakthrough in this field is likely to have a significant impact on the future of human technology.

    The basis of material science involves relating the desired properties and relative performance of a material in a certain application to the structure of the atoms and phases in that material. Major determinants of the structure of a material and thus of its properties are its constituent chemical elements and the way in which it has been processed into its final form.

    Material science encompasses various classes of material which may constitute a separate field. Industrial applications of materials science include material design, cost-benefit trade-offs in industrial production of materials, processing techniques and analytical techniques. Aside from material characterization, a material engineer also deals with the extraction of materials and their conversion into useful forms.

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    Ceramic Engineering

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    Ceramic engineering is the science of creating objects from inorganic, non-metallic materials

    Crystal Engineering

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    Crystal engineering is the design of molecular solid-state structures with desired properties.

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    Stress relaxation time

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    Partial Pressure of Reactant from Flow Rate

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    Concentration of fluid

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    grams of tin and lead

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    Calculating Heat Energy and Work

    Please see the attached file for the fully formatted problem(s). Problem 1: > A piece of wood is 2ft x 2ft x 0.25 ft ----- the hot plate is also 2ft x 2ft square > A wet piece of wood is placed on a steam heated hot plate ---- the dry weight of the wood is 10 lbs ----- the weight of the water in the wood is

    Kinetics of Particles

    The bungee jumper, an 80kg man, falls from the bridge at A with the bungee cord secured to his ankles, as shown in figure 1. He falls 20m before the 17m length of the elastic bungee cord begins to stretch. The 3m of rope above the elastic cord has no appreciable stretch. The man is observed to drop a total of 44m before being pr

    Heat Transfer : Steam and Aluminum

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    Risk management, Fragility, Uncertainties, Fault Tolerant Systems, Explosion

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    Matlab -- Developing 22 independent material balances and solving in Matlab

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    Rate of Heat Loss through a Window

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    Heat Transfer through Two Cylindrical Aluminium Bars

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    Chemicals for Indoor Concrete Flooring

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    Deriving the equation for S* for competitive product inhibition.

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