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Feedback for Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering

Dear student

We are glad that you have attended the NPTEL online certification course.

We hope you found the NPTEL Online course useful and have started using NPTEL extensively.

In this regard, we would like to have a feedback from you regarding our course and whether there are any improvements, you would like to suggest.
 
We are enclosing an online feedback form and would request you to spare some of your valuable time to input your observations. Your esteemed input will help us in serving you better.

The link to give your feedback is : https://goo.gl/forms/7gaDg8jUvt3EO2pX2

We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Solutions to Weekly Assignments

Dear Student
Solutions to all the assignments have been uploaded.

Thanks and Regards
Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering Team

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Video recording on Interactive session

Dear All,

There was an interaction session with some of the students for the course "Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering"

The video recording is now available in the portal under the last unit "Interactive session"

Those who are interested can take a look.

-NPTEL Team

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Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering : Hall ticket for April 28/29 NPTEL Online Certification exams is now available for download

Dear Candidate:

If you have registered and paid successfully for the April28/29 NPTEL Online certification exams, your Admit Card/Hall ticket is now available at http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/

Login with your registered Google-enabled account email id (used to access the course on the portal and used for registering for the exam) and its password to access the link. Click on April exam to download the hall ticket(s) for the April28/29 exams, from the link.

2. You can also download it from the alternate link given below:
https://cdn3.digialm.com//EForms/configuredHtml/885/54105/login.html  

Please try to access both the links to download your hall ticket: if you are not able to find your hall ticket in both the links, kindly write to us at nptelexam@nptel.iitm.ac.in
 
Note that you will be able to login here, only if you have a valid registration for exams on April 28/29, 2018. 

Please download hall ticket, take a print out and along with a original ID card, carry it with you to the exam venue (The exam centre address is displayed in the hall ticket). Read all instructions given in the admit card/ hall ticket carefully and follow them.
Download hall tickets for all the exams you have registered for - in case you don't get the hall tickets for any particular course, please write to  nptelexam@nptel.iitm.ac.in .

IMPORTANT:

1. Change of shift, course, exam center, exam city is NOT POSSIBLE.
2. You WILL NOT BE ALLOWED to write the exam if you are showing up at the exam center which is not allocated to you by mistake or by intention.
3. Candidates will not be allowed to write the exam without Hall ticket and proper id proof. Proof on the mobile phones or soft copy of hall ticket is NOT PERMITTED.

NPTEL Team wishes you the very best for the certification exam.

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Solutions to Assignments 8 and 9

Dear Student
The solutions to assignments 8 and 9 have been uploaded.
Assignment 8 Solutions
Assignment 9 Solutions

Thanks and Regards
Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering Team

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Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering - Week 12

Dear Student
The contents of Week 12 have been released.
Assignment 12: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_me01/unit?unit=215&assessment=234

Thanks and Regards
Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering Team

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Solutions to Assignment 7

Dear Student
The solutions to assignment 7 have been uploaded.
You may find it here.

Thanks and Regards
Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering Team

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Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering - Week 11

Dear Student
The contents of Week 11 have been released.
Assignment 11 https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_me01/unit?unit=194&assessment=212

Thanks and Regards
Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering Team

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Important Addition to Supplementary Materials: Materialopaedia

Dear Student
Materialopaedia - consisting of important terms and definitions in Materials Science has been been uploaded to the Supplementary Materials section of course.
You may also find it here.

Thanks and Regards
Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering

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Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering - Week 10

Dear Student
The contents of Week 10 have been released.
Assignment 10 https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_me01/unit?unit=176&assessment=193

Thanks and Regards
Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering Team

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LIVE streaming of NPTEL Online Certification Course Sessions on "Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering"

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Solutions to Assignments 5 and 6

Dear Student
The solutions to assignments 5 and 6 have been uploaded.
Assignment 5 Solutions
Assignment 6 Solutions

Thanks and Regards
Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering Team

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New Supplementary Videos

Dear Student

New Supplementary Videos have been uploaded.

• Miller-Bravais Indices for Hexagonal Crystals: An indexing system used for convenient description of crystallographic planes and directions in crystals with hexagonal symmetry.
  
• Interstitial Voids in BCC Crystals: The size and location of distorted tetrahedral and octahedral voids in a BCC crystal.
• Regular/Platonic Solids: Tetrahedron, Cube, Octahedron, Icosahedron, Regular pentagonal dodecahedron along with Euler's Polyhedron formula.
  
• Proof of Lever Rule: Based on mass balance.
  
• Turbine Blades: Creep Resistant Materials and Design: Turbine blade material, directional solidification, single crystal blades, blade cooling and some REAL turbine blades.
• Comet: A case study of fatigue: The tragic history of the world's first commercial jetliner explained.

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Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering - Week 9

Dear Student
The contents of Week 9 have been released.
Assignment 9 https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_me01/unit?unit=153&assessment=162

Thanks and Regards
Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering Team

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Last date for Exam registration extended till March 15, 2018 - 1 pm (Thursday) - Hurry up and register today!!

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Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering - Week 8

Dear Student
The contents of Week 8 have been released.
Assignment 8 https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_me01/unit?unit=136&assessment=150

Thanks and Regards
Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering Team

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Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering :Exam and Certificate Format

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Last date for Exam registration extended - Hurry up and register today!!

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Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering - Week 7

Dear Student
The contents of Week 7 have been released.
Assignment 7 https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_me01/unit?unit=116&assessment=117

Thanks and Regards
Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering Team

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Solutions to Assignments 2,3 and 4

Dear Student
Solutions to assignments of weeks 2,3 and 4 have been released. You may find it here:

• Assignment 2
  
• Assignment 3
  
• Assignment 4

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Assignment 1 Solutions

Dear Student
Week 1 Assignment Solutions have been released. You may view it here.

Thanks and Regards
Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering Team

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Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering - Week 6

Dear Student

The Overview, Reading list, Video lectures and Assignment for Week 6 have been released.

Assignment 6: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_me01/unit?unit=99&assessment=112

Due date: March 7, 2018

Thanks and Regards
Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering Team

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Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering - Week 5

Dear Student

The lectures and assignment for Week 5 have been released. The weekly overview and the reading list will be added soon!

Assignment 5: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_me01/unit?unit=81&assessment=93

Due date: February 28, 2018

Thanks and Regards
Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering Team

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Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering - Week 4

Dear Student

The lectures, reading list, overview and assignment for Week 4 have been released.

Assignment 4: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_me01/unit?unit=61&assessment=62

Due date: February 21, 2018

Thanks and Regards
Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering Team

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New Supplementary Videos Added

Dear Student
Two new videos have been added to supplementary videos:

1. History of Crystallography:  A brief and interesting history of crystals and crystallography. Click here
   
2. Sodium chloride (NaCl) molecule: A scientific controversy: W.H. Bragg vs. H.E. Armstrong, a dispute over the structure of NaCl. Click here

Thanks and Regards
Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering Team

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Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering

Dear Student

The lectures, reading list, overview and assignment for Week 3 have been released.

Assignment 3: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_me01/unit?unit=45&assessment=54
Due date: February 14, 2018

Thanks and Regards
Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering Team

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New addition - Weekly overview and Reading list

Dear Student, 

You are encouraged to go through the Weekly Overview and Reading List for each week!!! 

Kind Regards, 
Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering Team

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Week 2 Forum Question

The forum questions for Week 2 have been uploaded.

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Answering of Questions

The questions raised on this forum need not be answered only by the Instructor or TA's. You are encouraged to answer questions by others.

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Sharing of resources

You are encouraged to share other resources relevant to topics in this course. For example a very interesting website for learning materials science topics is 

https://www.doitpoms.ac.uk

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Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering Week 2

Dear student

The lectures and assignment for Week 2 have been released.

Assignment 2: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_me01/unit?unit=15&assessment=17
Due date: February 07, 2018

Thanks and Regards
Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering Team

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Week 1 Forum Question is uploaded

Every week we will post a question to be discussed on forum. It will not be graded. Week 1 Question is already uploaded on Forum.

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Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering Week 1

Dear student

The lectures and assignment for Week 1 have been released.

Assignment 1: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_me01/unit?unit=13&assessment=14
Due date: February 05, 2018

Thanks and Regards
Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering Team

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Reminder 1:REGISTER TODAY - CERTIFICATION EXAM FORM IS NOW OPEN!

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Course Contents

The course contents have been updated in the home page. 
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_me01/assets/img/Course_Contents.pdf

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Assignment 0

Assignment 0 is an assessment of the pre-requisites for the course.
The marks WILL NOT BE COUNTED for grading.
All registered students are required to take the test latest by January 21^st.

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Introduction to Materials science and Engineering

Dear student

Welcome to NPTEL Online Courses and Certification!

Thank you for signing up for our online course Introduction to Materials science and Engineering. We wish you an enjoyable and informative learning experience.

The course will begin on 22 Jan 2018. When content is released on the portal, you will get an email alerting you. Please watch the lectures, follow the course regularly and submit all assessments and assignments before the due date. Your regular participation is vital for learning.

We will open registration for the exam soon after the course starts. A form has to be filled and the certification exam has a fee, which needs to be paid at the time of registration. Everyone who has signed-up for the course, including those who do not register for the exam, will continue to have access to the course contents.

There are two sections on the portal apart from the course content and assignment sections:
•    The announcement list which will only have messages from course instructors and teaching assistants - regarding the lessons, assignments, exam registration, hall tickets etc.     
•    The discussion forum which is for everyone to ask questions and interact - If you have any questions regarding the technical content in the lectures, any doubts in the assignments or any question related to the exam, registration, hall tickets, results, etc, kindly write about this in the forum and the course instructor/TA will respond to it. Please use this well and participate to benefit from the course.

Details regarding the course:

Name of the course:  Introduction to Materials science and Engineering
Course url: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_me01/
Course duration :12 Weeks
o    Date and Time of Exams: April 28 (Saturday) and April 29 (Sunday) :  Afternoon session: 2pm to 5pm
o    Exam for this course will be available in one session on both 28 and 29 April.
o    Final List of exam cities will be available in exam registration form.
o    Exam registration url - Will be announced shortly

Once again, thank you for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning - NPTEL team.