MAT SCI 161 · MSE 161Processing of Ceramics and Glasses
Materials Science and Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Study of processes used in fabrication of ceramics and glasses for structural applications, optics, and electronics. Processing operations, including modern techniques of powder synthesis, greenware forming, sintering, glass melting. Microstructure properties relations in ceramics. Fracture analysis and design with ceramics.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 160.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MAT SCI 161
- 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
1 direct requisite. Showing 9 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 161
- MAT SCI 161LLaboratory in Ceramics
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.