MAT SCI 130 · MSE 130Phase Relations in Solids
Materials Science and Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Summary of thermodynamic laws, equilibrium criteria, solution thermodynamics, mass-action law, binary and ternary phase diagrams, glass transitions.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: course 104.
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confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MAT SCI 130
- MAT SCI 104Science of Engineering Materials
- CHEM 20AChemical Structure
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- CHEM 20BChemical Energetics and Change
- CHEM 20AHChemical Structure (Honors)
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- CHEM 20LGeneral Chemistry Laboratory
1 direct requisite. Showing 23 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
MAT SCI 130
- MAT SCI 131Diffusion and Diffusion-Controlled Reactions
- MAT SCI 131LDiffusion and Diffusion-Controlled Reactions Laboratory
- MAT SCI 132Structure and Properties of Metallic Alloys
- MAT SCI 201Principles of Materials Science II
- MAT SCI 223Materials Science of Thin Films
- MAT SCI 160Introduction to Ceramics and Glasses
- MAT SCI 140AMaterials Selection and Engineering Design A
- MAT SCI 140BMaterials Selection and Engineering Design B
- MAT SCI 151Structure and Properties of Composite Materials
- MAT SCI 250BAdvanced Composite Materials
- MAT SCI M297CComposites Manufacturing
- MECH&AE M297CComposites Manufacturing
- MAT SCI 161Processing of Ceramics and Glasses
- MAT SCI 161LLaboratory in Ceramics
- MAT SCI 246AMechanical Properties of Nonmetallic Crystalline Solids
- MAT SCI 246BStructure and Properties of Glass
- MAT SCI 246DElectronic and Optical Properties of Ceramics
- CH ENGR C111Cryogenics and Low-Temperature Processes
- MAT SCI CM163Electrochemical Processes
- MAT SCI 222Growth and Processing of Electronic Materials
- CH ENGR CM114Electrochemical Processes
- MAT SCI 226Si-CMOS Technology: Selected Topics in Materials Science
- MAT SCI CM263Electrochemical Processes
- CH ENGR CM214Electrochemical Processes
9 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 30 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.