ENMA 400 / ENMA 600 – Atomistic Modeling in Materials Science (Previously known as ENMA 489A / ENMA 698A )

Dr. Mo has developed an introductory course for junior/senior undergraduate and graduate students (ENMA 400/600 previously as ENMA489A/698A) to study atomistic modeling and simulation techniques used in materials research. This course covers the theories, methods, and applications of atomistic-scale modeling techniques in simulating, understanding, and predicting the properties of materials. Specific topics include:

• Molecular statics using empirical force fields
• Quantum mechanical methods including density functional theory
• Molecular dynamics simulations
• Monte Carlo and kinetic Monte Carlo modeling

This course has received good feedback and evaluations [UMD News Story].

 

ENMA 489C / ENMA 698C: Continuum Modeling of Materials

This is an introductory course aiming for junior/senior undergraduate students and graduate students to study continuum modeling techniques used in materials research. This course covers the methods and applications of continuum modeling techniques using COMSOL in simulating a range of materials phenomena and properties. Specific topics of continuum modeling include:
• The construction and analyses of continuum models using COMSOL.
• Structural mechanics.
• Heat transfer.
• Electrical current.
• Chemical species transport.
• Fluid flow.
• Multi-physics models coupling above phenomena.

 

ENMA 461 – Thermodynamics of Materials 

Developed and integrated a computation course module of thermodynamic database ThermoCalc in the core course “Thermodynamics of Solid Materials” (ENMA 461). This module uses ThermoCalc software database to aid students learning, including problem sets of using ThermoCalc to solve thermodynamic problems.

 

Computation laboratory in ENMA 312 – Experimental Methods in Materials Science

Developed a new lab session of studying computational modeling techniques in the required core course ENMA 312 for undergraduate students.  This course development effort emphasizes the integration of essential computation techniques into the undergraduate materials science curriculum. In the spirit of the Materials Genome Initiative, it is essential to train our next-generation materials workforce with computation skills.

 

ENMA300 / ENME382 – Introduction to Materials Engineering

ENMA 688 – Seminar in Materials Science and Engineering

ENMA 499: Senior Laboratory Project in Materials Science and Engineering

PHYS 499A: Special Problems in Physics

ENMA 698: Special Problems in Engineering Materials