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Recent advances in instrumental capabilities are fast making it routine to acquire large 2D and 3D datasets and maps of crystalline materials. SEM-based orientation imaging microscopy (OIM) and transmission Kikuchi diffraction (TKD) and TEM-based precession-assisted crystal orientation mapping (PACOM) provide the means to characterize intra- and inter-grantular details such as grain: orientation, size, shape, neighborhoods and GND distributions. This course will cover the science that underpins these technologies and provide practical experience in gathering, filtering, quantifying and displaying such information. It is motivated by the fact that emergent advances based on the practice of Integrated Materials Science and Engineering (ICMSE) and the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) are predicated on the availability of physics-based, multi-scale models that are based on such detailed quantitative experimental observations of polycrystalline materials.