Administered courses, with course objectives.
Fall 2023: MSEN 3304 – Materials Science for Sustainable Energy (cross-listed as MECH 3v95) – In taking this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the historical and present energy landscape (production and consumption)
- Explain climate change impacts, trends, and the need to alter the energy landscape
- Describe renewable energy options that can contribute to reducing the impact of climate change, relate their relative sustainability, and understand the material challenges underlying these technologies
- Describe relevant properties in materials for sustainable energy and summarize energy materials research directions
- Combine knowledge of materials science and sustainability to summarize current materials research in a specific topic area
- Work as a team to explore materials challenges for this topic and propose a capstone-type materials research project that would enhance sustainable energy efforts in this topic area
Spring 2023: MSEN 3304 – Materials Science for Sustainable Energy (cross-listed as MECH 3v95 and PHYS 4v11) – In taking this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the historical and present energy landscape (production and consumption)
- Explain climate change impacts, trends, and the need to alter the energy landscape
- Describe renewable energy options that can contribute to reducing the impact of climate change, relate their relative sustainability, and understand the material challenges underlying these technologies
- Describe relevant properties in materials for sustainable energy and summarize energy materials research directions
- Combine knowledge of materials science and sustainability to summarize current materials research in a specific topic area
- Work as a team to explore materials challenges for this topic and propose a capstone-type materials research project that would enhance sustainable energy efforts in this topic area
Fall 2022: MSEN 5320 – Materials Science for Sustainable Energy (cross-listed with CHEM 6V79, MECH 5V95, PHYS 5V48) – In taking this course, students will be able to:
- Describe historical energy production and consumption
- Explain climate change impacts, trends, and the need to alter the energy landscape
- Understand material challenges underlying these technologies
- Describe the sustainability challenges associated with the full lifecycle of energy materials
- Explore the literature to understand the materials challenges faced in a selected field
- Explain what materials scientists are doing to address these challenges for a particular topic
Spring 2022: MSEN 3304 – Materials Science for Sustainable Energy (cross-listed as MECH 3v95 and PHYS 4v11) – In taking this course, students will:
- Understand the landscape of energy production and consumption
- Become familiar with the impacts of climate change
- Be able to connect future energy needs with current materials science research priorities
- Know how to analyze the sustainability of the full lifecycle of energy-related materials
- Understand the interplay of different disciplines (chemistry, physics, mechanical and electrical engineering) as they relate to energy-related materials science
In addition to the Core courses of their program, graduate students in the McCall Lab may find elective courses from the following list (course number links go to the UTD course catalog webpage) valuable in pursuit of their research:
MSEN 5341 (CHEM 5341) Advanced Inorganic Chemistry I
MSEN 5371 (PHYS 5371) Solid State Physics
MSEN 6338 Advanced Theory of Semiconductors: Electronic Structure and Transport
MSEN 6362 Diffraction Science
MSEN 6371 (PHYS 6371) Advanced Solid State Physics
MSEN 6374 (PHYS 6374) Optical Properties of Solids
MSEN 6380 (MECH 6357) Phase Transformations and Kinetic Processes in Materials