<p>(Formerly numbered M213L.) Laboratory, four hours. Requisites: courses M213 (or 216) and 214 or one course from Conservation 260 through 263. Corequisite: course C212. Research-based laboratory through object-based problem-solving approach in conservation materials science. Experimental techniques, characterization, and analysis of archaeological and ethnographic materials (using materials science principles and reverse engineering processes) to determine technological features, defects, and products of alteration. Hands-on experience with noninvasive imaging and spectroscopic techniques, sampling and sample preparation methods, analysis of microsamples. Letter grading.</p>

Materials Science and Engineering

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Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science

Materials engineering is concerned with the design, fabrication, and optimal selection of engineering materials that must simultaneously fulfill dimensional, property, quality control, and economic requirements.

General Catalog

Cultural Materials Science Laboratory: Technical Study

MAT SCI 213L

4 units