MAT SCI 140A · MSE 140AMaterials 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.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
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 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
- MAT SCI 160Introduction to Ceramics and Glasses
- MAT SCI 104Science of Engineering Materials
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields3 more beneath
- MAT SCI 130Phase Relations in Solids
3 direct requisites. Showing 14 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
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.