This introductory text is intended to provide undergraduate engineering students with the background needed to understand the science os structure-property relationships, as well as address the engineering concerns of materials selection in design, processing materials into useful products, and how materials degrade and fail in service. Specific topics include: physical and electronic structure; thermodynamics and kinetics; processing; mechanical, electrical, magnetic and optical properties; degradation; and failure and reliability. There is an accompanying interactive, computationally oriented, computer disk containing nine modules dealing with structure, phase diagrams, diffusion, and mechanical and electronic properties.