MAT SCI 140B · MSE 140BMaterials Selection and Engineering Design B
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
- Spring 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
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Enforced requisite: course 140A.
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MAT SCI 140B
- MAT SCI 140AMaterials Selection and Engineering Design A
- MAT SCI 132Structure and Properties of Metallic Alloys
- MAT SCI 150Introduction to Polymers
- MAT SCI 160Introduction to Ceramics and Glasses
- MAT SCI 130Phase Relations in Solids
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