Materials Science and Engineering: Crystallography

Materials Science and Engineering ,An important field of science that has always had a strong effect on the evolution of civilizations and how advanced they were. Being a measure of humanity's capability, knowledge of materials was used to mark ages , we say "stone age". As time passes, our knowledge became more comprehensive and accurate about the different types of materials and their properties ,So advanced that we can now produce new materials, which is what we call materials engineering.

And That's why I present this course to you. One of the fields that I study passionately is materials science, because it is a crucial prerequisite for designing any structure or machine. This course "Crystallography" is an introductory course for materials science, starting from the very basics ,designed for high school students or college students in early years , who are interested to know how do solid materials look like at the deepest levels of the atomic scale.

how are atoms oriented together, and how could we describe this orientation. In this course we'll not follow the traditional way of teaching. It is meant to be a comprehensive course covering a large group of topics regarding crystalline solids , especially steels ceramics and polymers.

As they are the most commonly used materials in manufacturing. We will study these topics in full detail ,and move slowly but surely towards building a strong foundation for future studies in engineering fields. This is the first batch of the course covering the following topics: - Crystal structure and its different levels - 2d & 3d Lattices -unit cells - symmetry in 2d &3d , - Square lattice as an example of 2d lattices - Cubic lattice as an example of 3d lattices.