The interdisciplinary field of materials science deals with the invention and development of novel materials, notably solids. Materials science and engineering and materials physics, which emphasize the use of engineering to create usable items, are other names for the topic. Materials physics emphasizes the use of physics to describe the properties of materials. The intellectual evolution of materials science began during the Age of Enlightenment when researchers began to use analytical techniques from physics, chemistry, and engineering to understand early phenomenological evidence in metallurgy and mineralogy.
Materials science, physics, chemistry, and engineering are still employed. Since these fields are related, academic institutions have typically seen the discipline as a subfield of them. Starting in the 1940s, major technical colleges all over the world began to recognize materials science as a distinctive and distinct field of science and engineering, and they began to create specialist schools for its study.
Elon Musk in his recent tweet suggested people take the course Material Science 101, saying that they won’t regret it.
Take Materials Science 101. You won’t regret it.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 9, 2022
Description
The majority of the NU colleges, including the College of Arts and Sciences, have accepted this course to satisfy the natural science distribution requirement because it is expressly created for students who do not major in science or engineering.
The world in which we live is actually shaped by the materials that surround us. Human history has been divided into “ages” based on the main tools that were made, such as stone, bronze, and iron. There has been a genuine “materials revolution” since the industrial revolution, especially this century, bringing about hydraulic cement, high-performance metals, polymers (plastics), composites, semiconductors, superconductors, etc. The element that serves as the foundation for the gadgets that power our sophisticated electronic communication and information systems, silicon, may be used to refer to our time as the “age of silicon” by historians in the future.
It will teach students about what they will learn. They’ll learn the “workings” of materials (scientific principles), how they’re created (Aspects of engineering and manufacturing), and how they impact society in general (Also covering economic and environmental concerns).
