Finally, the class includes a research paper, which accounts for 20% of your class grade. The paper should cover a topic of interest in modern materials science and engineering. Paper length should be between 5 and 10 pages (5 pages of double spaced text in a 12 point font and up to an additional 5 pages of charts/figures/pictures. The figures can be at the end of the paper or interspersed with the text).
Explore a topic in materials deeply. In general it is better to go in depth on a narrow topic than to give a shallow treatment of a broad topic.
Have quantitative information. If you are comparing material properties, give the numbers (e.g., show the properties for the materials in charts, tables, graphs, etc.)
Be based on authoritative sources. We live in the internet age and, in additional to standard books and journal articles, you may legitimately use online resources if they are authoritative. Any normal reference format is okay: I am not picky regarding reference formatting, but the references should at minimum include author, date, title, and publication/source from which the information was obtained.
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