 Hi, I'm Dr. Kimmel and I want to welcome you to material science 201 introduction to material science and engineering This course holds a very special place in my heart because it was this course that set me on the path to studying materials When I was coming out of high school. I really liked math and science But I was the first in my family to go to college and and my father had a friend from high school Who had become an electrical engineer and so you know it was sort of decided that well I was going to major in engineering because I like math and science and Well, what types of engineering are there? Well, there's an electrical engineer. I knew that so that's what I chose and so You know chose that sort of blindly but fortunately for me in in my third semester The department required us to take an introduction to materials course And and I will never forget the first two weeks sitting in that course thinking. Oh my gosh. This is what I want to do This is chemistry. This is physics But it's used with a purpose to explain Why materials behave the way they do and then as such why we choose certain materials for certain applications? so it's a very exciting world and and we're going to explore that from the mundane to Why turkey timers incorporate so much material science to things like? fuel injected engines and and the necessity of certain types of materials that allow fuel injected engines to become possible and We're going to cover all of those things and and so much more and so I hope that When you're done with this course, you'll have a much greater appreciation for the materials that impact you on a daily basis And once again why those materials are present in your life So let's get excited and let's get going