Kinetics of Materials and Process Design (MATE 370) is a 4-unit major course for junior-year undergraduate students of the Materials Engineering Department, Cal Poly State University. The Materials Engineering Department endorses the applications of theory to practice through its "learn-by-doing" philosophy. In this project, we have created three practical labs, by exploring and using various simulation tools, available on nanoHUB. These labs cover (a) Diffusion in Solids, (b) Nucleation, Crystallization, and Growth, and (c) Phase Transformation.

Crystal Ipong: Undergraduate Student, Materials Engineering, Cal Poly State University

Mohsen B Kivy, PhD: Assistant Professor, Materials Engineering, Cal Poly State University

This project was sponsored by Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) as an Undergraduate Summer Computational Education Experience.

1. Shuqing (Victor) Cao, Yang Liu, Peter Griffin (2019), "Process Lab: Defect-coupled diffusion," https://nanohub.org/resources/prolabdcd. (DOI: 10.21981/4TB9-S464)
2. Shuqing (Victor) Cao, Yang Liu, Peter Griffin (2019), "Process Lab: Concentration-Dependent Diffusion," https://nanohub.org/resources/prolabcdd. (DOI: 10.21981/DJ6J-7953)
3. Michael Waters, R. Edwin García, Alex Bartol (2015), "Virtual Kinetics of Materials Laboratory : Polycrystalline Growth and Coarsening," https://nanohub.org/resources/vkmlpsgg. (DOI: 10.4231/D3028PF0Z)
4. Michael Waters, R. Edwin García, Alex Bartol (2015), "Virtual Kinetics of Materials Laboratory: Dendritic Growth," https://nanohub.org/resources/vkmlggs. (DOI: 10.4231/D33R0PV23)
5. Michael Waters, R. Edwin García, Alex Bartol (2015), "Virtual Kinetics of Materials Laboratory: Spinodal Decomposition 3D," https://nanohub.org/resources/vkmlsd3d. (DOI: 10.4231/D3C824F9W)
6. Sam Reeve, Christopher Chow, Michael N Sakano, shuhui tang, Alexis Belessiotis, Mitchell Anthony Wood, Kiettipong Banlusan, Saaketh Desai, Alejandro Strachan (2019), "Nanomaterial Mechanics Explorer," https://nanohub.org/resources/nanomatmech. (DOI: 10.21981/0M7D-1Y55)

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Mohsen B Kivy, Crystal Ipong (2020), "Computational Labs in Kinetics of Materials and Process Design (California Polytechnic State University)," https://nanohub.org/resources/34118.

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1. crystals
2. diffusion
3. hands on
4. junior level
5. kinetics of materials
6. materials science
7. NCN Group - Materials Science
8. phase transformation
9. teaching and learning
10. teaching materials
11. undergraduate level