All engineering students at the University of Tennessee at Martin (UT Martin) are required to take an introductory course in materials science and engineering. This is a common requirement for most engineering programs. At UT Martin this introductory course consists of two lecture hours and one three-hour lab per week. Additional exposure to materials concepts and applications are obtained through courses such as Strength of Materials, and depending on the area of concentration courses in Reinforced Concrete, Soils, Manufacturing Processes, Electronics, and Machine Design. An examination of student performance on the Materials and Structure of Matter section of the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination showed that UT Martin students consistently scored below the national average and that the trend was constant to slightly negative.
展开▼
