MAT SCI 160 · MSE 160Introduction to Ceramics and Glasses
Materials Science and Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Introduction to ceramics and glasses being used as important materials of engineering, processing techniques, and unique properties. Examples of design and control of properties for certain specific applications in engineering.
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 requisites: courses 104, 130.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MAT SCI 160
- 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
- MAT SCI 130Phase Relations in Solids
2 direct requisites. Showing 25 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 160
- 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
7 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 12 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.