Undergraduate Courses

• Introduction to Materials Science
• Atomic structure
• Chemical Bonds
• Metallic Bond
• Structure of Crystalline Solids
• Imperfections in Solids
• Diffusion
• Mechanical Properties
• Strengthening Mechanisms
• Phase Diagrams
• Structure-properties-applications of Catalytic materials
• Composites
• Materials Properties
• Materials for environmental and energy applications
• Economic, environmental and social issues in the selection and use of materials.

• Humanity and the environment.
• Concepts and principles of ecology.
• Environmental ethics and legislation.
• Environment and sustainable development.
• Environmental problems: global warming and climate change, depletion of stratospheric ozone, acid rain, urban smog, damage of ecosystems.
• Environmental Management Systems.
• Life Cycle Analysis.
• Environmental – ecological footprint.
• Ecological and energy labelling.
• European legislation and international standards and regulations for environmental issues and energy planning and management.

• Introduction and general definitions.
• Energy forms and global energy needs.
• Solar energy: solar thermal, photoelectric and passive solar systems.
• Wind energy: key features of wind – technology of wind turbines.
• Biomass – Biofuels.
• Geothermal energy.
• Hydraulic power and hydroelectric plants.
• Ocean and Tidal energy.
• Main principles of energy saving and energy efficiency.

• Global Energy System & Fossil Fuels
• Industry & Environment
• Air pollution: sources, consequences and control technologies
• Water purification
• Waste water treatment
• Solid waste management
• Particulate Matter Emission & Control Technologies.

• Introduction to heat transfer
• Heat transfer modes
• One dimensional, steady state heat conduction
• Thermal resistances
• Conduction with heat generation
• Cooling fins
• Multi dimensional heat condyction
• Transient heat conduction
• Numerical methods in heat conduction
• Introduction to heat convection
• Boundary layer, laminar and turbulent flow, boundary layer equations
• Similarity theory
• Analogies in heat and momentum transfer
• Heat convection in external flows
• Heat convection in internal flows
• Intriduction to heat radiation

• Introcuction to fluid mechanics
• Fluid properties
• Hydrostatics, Hydrostatic pressure prism
• Eulerian and Langragian flow description, streamlines, pathlines
• Flow equations, integral form
• Flow equations, differential form
• Stream function. Velocity potential
• Bernoulli equation
• Rotational and irrotational flow fields
• Euler equations
• Newton law for viscosity
• Navier-Stokes equations
• Laminar and turbulent flow in pipes. Moody diagram
• Major and minor losses in pipes
• Flow in pipe networks

Introduction to Chemistry. Atomic structure. Electron configuration. Periodic Table and periodic trends. Ionic bond versus Covalent bond. Molecular Geometry-Valence Shell Electron pair Repulsion (VSEPR) Theory. Valence Shell Theory. Hybridization. Molecular Orbitals. Metallic Bond. Intermolecular forces. Chemical Kinetics. Chemical Equilibrium. Solutions. Acid-Base chemistry. Oxidation-reduction reactions. Surface/structure analysis methods in materials science.

Book written by Michalis Konsolakis for this lesson: General Chemistry: Principles and Applications

• Introduction and Basic Concepts
• First law of thermodynamics-Energy Conversion and Energy Analysis
• Properties of Pure Substances
• Energy Analysis of Closed Systems
• Mass and Energy Analysis of Control Volumes
• The Second Law of Thermodynamics
• Entropy
• Gas Power Cycles: Otto, Dielel, Stirling, Ericksson, Brayton
• Chemical Reactions & Chemical Equilibrium

• Introduction to Materials Science
• Atomic structure
• Chemical Bonds
• Metallic Bond
• Structure of Crystalline Solids
• Imperfections in Solids
• Diffusion
• Mechanical Properties
• Strengthening Mechanisms
• Phase Diagrams
• Structure-properties-applications of Catalytic materials
• Composites
• Materials Properties
• Materials for environmental & Energy Applications

• Global Energy System & Fossil Fuels
• Industry & Environment
• Air pollution: sources, consequences and control technologies
• Water purification
• Waste water treatment
• Solid waste management
• Particulate Matter Emission & Control Technologies.