Yifei Mo

Yifei Mo

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland.

Teaching

ENMA 461: Thermodynamics of Materials

Undergraduate course, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, 2026

A basic theoretical materials science and engineering course devoted to the analysis of fundamental material properties and processes under near-equilibrium conditions. Principal concepts and applications of thermodynamics are used to understand material properties, with a statistical-mechanical approach introducing entropy and temperature. The course covers phase equilibrium and phase transformations in single- and multi-component systems, the construction and application of phase diagrams, and thermodynamic analysis of materials processing, synthesis, and engineering examples.

ENMA 312: Experimental Methods in Materials Science

Guest lecture, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, 2025

Guest lecturer for the computational methods module of this undergraduate experimental methods course, introducing students to machine-learning interatomic potentials as a tool for materials calculations alongside the course’s experimental techniques.