Materials Engineering

Nonmetallic solids made from inorganic materials (often minerals). A very hard, inorganic, refractory, nonmetallic material with little electrical conductivity.

• Ceramic

• Tensile Strength

• Compression Strength

• Plasticity

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Ability to return to the original dimensions when stress is removed.

• Alloy

• Conductivity

• Elasticity

• Melting Point

Design of new materials and devices at the scale of a nanometer.

• Destructive Material Test

• Alloy

• Nondestructive Material Test

• Nanotechnology

Tags

NGSS.HS-ETS1-4

Mixture of a metal with one or more additional elements. Often a combination of two or more metals.

• Nanowire

• Alloy

• Ultrasonic Test

• Strain

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS2-6

Measurement of how well a material resists the flow of electricity.

• Nanowire

• Ceramic

• Polymer

• Resistivity

Test that leaves the material intact and does not destroy the material.

• Nondestructive Material Test

• Nanowire

• Plasticity

• Nanotechnology

Organic, noncrystalline material made up of a long chain of small molecules (primarily made up of carbon and hydrogen atoms) that form a much larger molecule.

• Stress

• Corrosion

• Polymer

• Thermal Conductivity

Measurement of how well electricity flows through a material.

• Melting Point

• Buckyball

• Plasticity

• Conductivity

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS2-5

Reaction between a material and the environment that leads to deterioration of the material.

• Corrosion

• Shear Stress

• Buckyball

• Nanoparticle

Deformation that occurs from the yield point to the fracture point.

• Nondestructive Material Test

• Ultrasonic Test

• Plasticity

• Thermal Conductivity