MAT SCI 140A
Materials Selection and Engineering Design A
Materials Science and Engineering · 3 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Explicit guidance among myriad materials available for design in engineering. Properties and applications of steels, nonferrous alloys, polymeric, ceramic, and composite materials, coatings. Materials selection, treatment, and serviceability emphasized as part of successful design. Design projects.
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Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisites: two courses from 132, 150, 160.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MAT SCI 140A
- MAT SCI 132Structure and Properties of Metallic Alloys
- MAT SCI 131Diffusion and Diffusion-Controlled Reactions
- MAT SCI 150Introduction to Polymers
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MAT SCI 140A
- MAT SCI 140BMaterials Selection and Engineering Design B
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.





