ABSTRACT
A survey of undergraduate curricula in materials science and engineering showed
that every program requires a core course in thermodynamics. In more than 90% of
those programs, the course is taught within the department. Most graduate programs
have one or more courses in the subject. Evidently there is widespread agreement
that this subject is a central one in materials science and engineering. The same
statement can be made for programs in chemical engineering and chemistry and,
perhaps to a lesser extent, physics.
