I am teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses on thermodynamics, kinetics, and phase transformations, as well as on application of computer simulation and modeling in materials science.
Currently, I am teaching three courses: (1) MatSE401,"Thermodynamics of Materials" for undergraduate students (offered every Fall). This course treats the basics of Gibbs thermodynamics with an emphasis on its application to metallurgical and ceramic systems. It covers basic laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamics of solid solutions, phase diagrams, electrochemistry, chemical reactions involving both solids and fluids, and elementary statistical thermodynamics. (2) MATSE503, "Kinetics of Materials Processes" for graduate students (offered every Spring). This course presents an advanced treatment of diffusion in solids, chemical kinetics, kinetics of phase transformations, and solid-gas reactions. (3) MATSE597, "Computational Materials Science at the Mesoscale and Continuum Scale" (offered every other Spring). This course covers the CALPHAD approach to phase equilibria and various mesoscale computational models for microstructure evolution.