This is an archived course. A more recent version may be available at ocw.mit.edu.

Projects

Term Paper

As graduate students, courses are of most value to you when they interface directly with your research. Here, you will develop a term paper over the course of the semester that evaluates a research problem of interest to you within the context of physical metallurgy. That is, how do defects and second phases impact the processing, properties, and/or performance of your material system?

To maximize the benefit of this paper to you, the timeline is as follows:

SES # STEPS
5 Meet with professors to discuss research, ideas
7 Abstract
13 Outline
19 Meet with professors to discuss progress
22 Final draft