Material Science is the study of all the materials we see in the world around us. From the clothes we wear and the dinner plates, we eat to the new technologies used in sports, medicines, and computing. In this course, we look at how materials work and develop an understanding of how and why the use of materials has developed throughout history including the manipulation of desirable properties to suit particular uses. The thread of ideas links the structure and bonding of different types of materials including metals, composites, polymers, and smart materials to their properties.