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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

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    Certificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    yesMIT Cambridge

    The Syllabus

    • Introduction to externalities of materials selection, comprising social, political, economic, military, cultural, environmental and other effects. 

    • Introduction to relationship between material cost, abundance and usage. Factors influencing availability such as energy density and recyclability are also discussed.

    • Introduction to the properties of materials that influence use in structural applications. Discussion of ratio analysis using among other examples steel, aluminum, and titanium.

    • Discusses manufacturing and processing factors that effect material choice in various applications. Introduction to causes of material failures

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