MAT SCI 246B · MSE 246BStructure and Properties of Glass
Materials Science and Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Structure of amorphous solids and glasses. Conditions of glass formation and theories of glass structure. Mechanical, electrical, and optical properties of glass and relationship to structure.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 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
Requisite: course 160.
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MAT SCI 246B
- 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
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