Bachelor of Applied Science in Materials Engineering specializing in Materials Manufacturing and Performance (Corrosion and Nanotechnology)

Spring 2015

1)      MTRL 475 - Microstructure Engineering (MILITZER, MATTHIAS)

-          Follows the production of metallurgical products, focusing on process design models used to describe solidification, recrystallization, and precipitation.

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This course is very interesting but you have Militzer who is very strict while marking the exams. If you have another instructor, you can still consider you clique who can discuss with you regarding the assignment and Modelling Project

-          Modelling Project: Attend all lectures, print lecture notes, write notes during lecture, ask question, GO TO OFFICE HOURS

2)      MTRL 456 – Environmental Degradation of Materials

-          Fundamental aspects of environmental degradation of metals (corrosion), ceramics, and polymers, with an emphasis on aqueous environments.

-          Comment: This course is really interesting if you gonna work in the oil and gas industry, print the lecture notes, write the notes during lecture, ask question, make sure you score 90% on all assignments and 80% in the midterms and GO TO OFFICE HOURS.

3)      MTRL 478 - Electronic Materials (XIA, GUANGRUI)

-          Materials and physics aspects of semiconductor, optical and magnetic devices: energy bandstructure, crystal structure, crystal defects and impurity effects, relationship of material characteristics and physical properties; production of electronic materials and devices: single crystal growth, epitaxy, metallization, ion implantation, lithography and etching; characterization techniques: X-ray diffraction, photoluminescence.

-          Comment: You have Maggie as you prof,she can be my referee for my Master’s application. Print lecture notes, write notes during lecture, ask questions, GO TO OFFICE HOUR

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4)      MTRL 458 – Hydrometallurgy II (ASSELIN, EDOUARD)

-          Leaching, purification, precipitation, regeneration; thermodynamics and kinetics of separation steps; electrochemical applications.

-          Yah, you have Edouard as you prof, a super easy prof. Write notes in the class, attend all lectures, ask question, GO TO OFFICE HOURS. He can be my referee for my Master’s application. Make sure I got him for my FINAL YEAR PROJECT.

-          Make sure 90% for all assignments, 80% for midterms

5)      MTRL 471 – Nanofibre Technology (BAHI, ARDESHIR)

-          Introduction to nanomaterials in the form of fibres and composites, including processing, structure, characterization methods, properties, and modeling. Credit will only be given for one of MTRL 471 or MTRL 571.

-          This course is all about reading, The thing is I need to attend all lectures and write the notes, ask question and GO TO OFFICE HOURS

6)      MTRL 494- Composite Materials (ZOBEIRY, NAVID)

-          Understanding the properties and the mechanical behaviour of composite materials with emphasis on analysis, design, and manufacturing. Credit will only be given for one of MTRL 494, 594

-          This course is a hard course because it involves manufacturing, write notes, attend all lectures, ask question and GO TO OFFICE HOURS

7)      MTRL 467 – Engineering Design Project II

-          ASSELIN, EDOUARD (Hydrometallurgy and electrochemistry) EASY

-          COCKCROFT, STEVEN (Manufacturing, casting and heat transfer) HARD

-          FERNLUND, GORAN ( Mechanical Behaviour of Polymers) MODERATE

-          MAIJER, DAAN (Modelling)HARD

-          POURSARTIP, ANOSHIRAVAN ( Manufacturing polymer matrix Composites) EASY

o   Just follow the Chad’s final year project plan.

DAILY BASIS:

After lectures, get to Tim Hortons and Review all the lectures for that day for on daily basis

Leave Home by 7.00 am and get to Tim Hortons Forestry building for breakfast

Work out before sleep so you gonna get fit

Sleep every night by 10.30 am and I mean real sleep and leave all the S3 and ipod and just turn ON the alarm

Leave UBC and go home every day by 9.00 pm and better to take bus 25

FRIDAY NIGHT: Go to café or Blenz (downtown) to complete up my entire final year project tasks.

WEEKEND: Stay at UBC and do all the assignments, review the notes, better to study at UBC by Saturday and feel confident to finish all the works by Sunday

January 15 – start studying for midterms

February 9 (Monday) – Family day (utilizes the time for final year project)

February 14-22 –Reading Break: Study the Composite Materials and Nanofiber Technology

February 25- Start studying for the final exam and finalize the final year project

March – FULL TIME STUDYING AND WORK

April 3 and 6 – Holiday (STUDYING FOR FINALS)

Microstructural Engineering

"Recovery, Re crystallization and Grain Growth"

Sharpest Lives

Well it rains and it pours
When you're out on your own
If I crash on the couch
Can I sleep in my clothes?
'Cause I've spent the night dancing
I'm drunk, I suppose
If it looks like I'm laughing
I'm really just asking to leave

This alone, you're in time for the show
You're the one that I need
I'm the one that you loathe
You can watch me corrode like a beast in repose
'Cause I love all the poison
Away with the boys in the band

I've really been on a bender and it shows
So why don't you blow me a kiss before she goes?

Give me a shot to remember
And you can take all the pain away from me
A kiss and I will surrender
The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead
A light to burn all the empires
So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be
In love with all of these vampires
So you can leave like the sane abandoned me

There's a place in the dark where the animals go
You can take off your skin in the cannibal glow
Juliet loves the beat and the lust it commands
Drop the dagger and lather the blood on your hands, Romeo

I've really been on a bender and it shows
So why don't you blow me a kiss before she goes?

Give me a shot to remember
And you can take all the pain away from me
A kiss and I will surrender
The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead
A light to burn all the empires
So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be
In love with all of these vampires
So you can leave like the sane abandoned me

(My Chemical Romance)

Get thee to a Nunnery

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all. Believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery.

Where’s your father?

OPHELIA

At home, my lord.

HAMLET

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in ’s own house. Farewell.

OPHELIA

O, help him, you sweet heavens!

HAMLET

If thou dost marry, I’ll give thee this plague for thy dowry. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go. Farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go, and quickly too. Farewell.

OPHELIA

Heavenly powers, restore him!

HAMLET

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough. God has given you one face and you make yourselves another. You jig and amble, and you lisp, you nickname God’s creatures and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I’ll no more on ’t. It hath made me mad. I say, we will have no more marriages. Those that are married already, all but one, shall live. The rest shall keep as they are. To a nunnery, go.

-  tengok Hamlet sambil buat research on psychoanalysis-

Third Year 2014

Third Year Materials Engineering Plan of Action

Manufacturing in Materials Engineering(3)

Prof: Cockcroft, Steven (3/5)

Manufacturing processes from a materials perspective; metal casting, heat treating processes, forming processes, machining and joining. Role of manufacturing in microstructure and material properties development and on component performance.

Strategy: Do the assignment yourselves, review notes right after the lecture

Mechanical Behaviour of Materials(3)

Prof: Sinclair, Chadwick W.(3.4/5)

Polycrystalline and single crystal deformation; dislocation theory; strengthening mechanisms; fracture mechanics; fatigue; high temperature deformation mechanisms.

Strategy: Never miss his class and his lecture notes

Phase Transformation(3)

Prof: Militzer, Matthias (Dofasco Chair in Advanced Steel Processing)

Solidification and solid state transformations; nucleation and growth processes; segregation and structure in castings; phase changes in steel; transformation diagrams; diffusion equations.

Strategy: Do assignment yourselves and review the lecture right after class

Structure and Properties Laboratory(1)

Prof: Azizi-Alizamini, Hamid

Structure and properties of ferrous and non-ferrous metals; heat treatment; hardenability; metallography; age hardening.

Ceramics(4)

Prof: Troczynski, Tom

Fundamentals of engineering ceramics focusing on raw materials, forming, sintering and properties, characterization, and design with ceramics.

Strategy: Make your own notes regarding the ceramics analysis, have a file for a proper lecture notes

Engineering Technical Communication(2)

Prof: Derksen, Ruth(4.1/5)

Written and oral technical communication. Report preparation and oral presentation of technical information.

Polymers and Polymer Matrix Composites(4)

Prof: Ko, Frank (Canada Research Chair Professor (Tier I) in Advanced Fibrous Materials)

The structure and properties of polymeric materials, reinforced polymers and polymer matrix composites with emphasis on their engineering properties and applications.

Strategy: Perform analysis on polymers and Composites,Have a proper lecture notes

Medic,Engineering and Materials

Back to the 2006, I had already made my own choice to be a medical doctor. Being a doctor is perceived to provide me with more promising future with higher salary and better social status. However, everything changed in 2007 when I took an engineering class that required me to learn about heat engines and its constituent’s processes. Even I had the chance to watch a demonstration on engine operation and got inspired by the class to learn more and do my own investigation on the heat engine.

One year later, I decided to get into the science stream and took physics class in order to master my understanding on physical world mainly on mechanics and Newton’s laws. My passion kept growing when I participated in the Formula One in School National Competition where we were grouped in a team and manufactured a miniature racing car using Computer Aid Design (CAD) software for designing the prototype and built the miniature car using the Computer Aid Manufacturing (CAM) according to the CAD specification.

I graduated from high school in 2010 and I obtained straight A’s in which guaranteed me to acquire government scholarship for my post-secondary level. A year later, I was offered to study engineering at The University of British Columbia. My first year was a bit tough where there was a shift to a new kind of environment and different kind of curriculum. I was expected to be independent and think critically especially in the case of problem solving. Before completing my first year, I had a chance to join a seminar on materials engineering. This seminar exposed me towards understanding materials and their impacts towards the devices performance. Later, my curiosity grew when I attended a lecture on Boeing 787 where composite is used for the aircraft fuselage. From there, I started making more researches on Boeing 787 and kept reading news and articles about the Boeing and their new kind technology involved in the aircraft operation.

Finally, I made my decision to study in materials engineering as I want to get involved in the manufacturing industry primarily in the aircraft industry or maybe in the automobile industry. Everything becomes more interesting while doing the analysis the material’s production, inspection and maintenance. Therefore, I am looking forward to specialize in manufacturing stream in fourth year.

Want to unleash your true potential and be a critical thinker? Go for engineering!