This module covers the following topics: - Introduction of Engineering Materials with topical research and industrial progresses; Classification of materials; Chemical bonding and structures; Atomic and molecular packing, Miller's indices; Stress/strain relationships, Hooke's Law, elastic moduli; Elastic, visco-elastic, and plastic deformation; Defects in materials, slip and dislocations; Mechanisms of fracture, fatigue, creep and strengthening; Basics of XRD, DSC, tensile, hardness, fracture toughness, creep tests; Introduction to mechanical design and materials selection of thin pressure vessels in terms of performance, availability and cost; Phase equilibria and binary phase diagrams; Corrosion and high temperature oxidation mechanisms and general approaches for material protection.