Computational Materials Design
3.0
creditsAverage Course Rating
This course will cover the use of computational methods to discover and design materials for new technologies. Topics addressed will include structure prediction, materials informatics, and the calculation of material properties from first principles using methods such as density functional theory. Participants will gain hands-on experience with modern computational techniques.
Fall 2014
Professor: Timothy Muel er
Students praised this course for having a small class size and for having a helpful instructor who was wil ing to help students master the subject matter. Perceived issues with the course varied though some students believed the instructor assigned an excessive amount of homework problems. Suggestions for improvement varied. Most students couldn’t perceive an issue with the course, although a couple wished the course would assign fewer homework problems and that the pace of the course would slow down. Prospective students should know that students found the course to be challenging and warned against falling behind in the work. Despite the difficulty of the course, student found the class to be a good introduction to calculus.