5/8/02. Presentation Schedule:
5/8, Wednesday, Zuqiang, Sumit. 5/10, Friday, Xiaodong, Indranil.

4/29/02. Presentation Schedule:
5/8, Wednesday, Zuqiang. 5/10, Friday, Xiaodong.

4/29/02. The last date for presentation and report submission is 5/10. This deadline must be enforced.

4/29/02. Presentation Schedule:
5/1, Wednesday, Edna;
5/8, Wednesday, Zuqiang.

4/28/02. For the "Know an Active Scientist" project, please prepare according to the grading polocy. For the presentation part, students will grade the speaker [7 points]. The gradeing sheet is here.

4/26/02. Here is the report for this class [pdf]. Please check your score and tell me any error you find.

3/13/02. The homework #7 is posted on the webpage. Sorry I did not bring copies to the class. You can download it if you are working on it right now. Anyway I will bring copies to the class Friday. I will also explain a little bit on the homework in Monday before I collect them in Wednesday.

3/8/02. Jacob, Indranil, Xiaodong, I am finally convinced by Sumit that for the Larson-Miller plot in the homework #5, both the logarithm and linear scale for the stresses are correct. I will put 1 point back to your score. Sorry for this issue.

2/24/02. Test 1 will be tomorrow. You can bring any references to the classroom. For those who missed the class, please notice the change.

2/13/02. The project proposal will be collected Friday, 2/15.
The first exam will be in Monday, 2/25. The test covers all the things from the classes and the homeworks (problem set 1 to problem set 4). Make sure you understand every problems in the homework. Undergraduate students are not required to understand the problem for graduates.

2/6/02. The homework sent out in today's class should be "Problem Set 3", not "Problem Set 2". Sorry for the mistake.

2/6/02. I will modify the policy for homework and reinforce it.
Each homework is sent out at Wednesday's class. If you turn in the solution at the next Wednesday's class, you can get 2 extra points, and I will grade your homework and give comments on Friday.
You can turn in your homework at the beginning of Friday's class, but there is no extra points. I can not comment your work in Friday's class and I will return your homework next Wednesday.
After or during Friday's class, no credit.

2/2/02. A new directory for homework and solutions is created.

1/25/02. I put the whole description of the problems for your home work in case you may have different version of the text books, or still haven't get the book yet.

1/23/02. The class notes are available on the website now. It is in the "Class notes" directory. I will try to post them prior to each class so that you can take notes on the slides and also preview the course. The notes are in PowerPoint format.

1/23/02, glad to know you in the class. When you read here, can you send me your email address, and tell me how often you check the email. so I can contact you often about the class.

The first class will be Wednesday (1/23/2002). You will get three things:

Course Organization

Course Outline

First week problem sets , the solution must be turn in at class of next Wednesday (1/30/2002).

I will do a survey in the class to know more about your academic background so that I can teach you better. Here are the survey questions .