Description: Students will develop a first qualitative and comprehensive view of all basic elements of materials science and engineering, which are important to understand the evolution of materials microstructure during processing and service. They learn basic facts about the solid state, about crystal defects, about thermodynamic stability, about materials kinetics and about phase transformation. They also acquire basic knowledge about materials characterization. With these basics about microstructures

and their characterisation they are enabled to study and understand advanced textbooks on materials science independently.