A laboratory program designed to illustrate property-structure-processing relationships in materials science and engineering through experimentation and analysis. Laboratory experiments are linked directly to lecture materials taught in MATS1013 Diffusion and Kinetics. MATS2013 Ceramic Materials, MATS3443 Polymer Science and Engineering, MATS4013 Physical Metallurgy, and MATS5013 Materials Processing. Students will be exposed to experimental methods and instruments used for materials characterization as well as processing techniques. Implicit in this course is the cultivation of safe laboratory practices and good experimental techniques, and training in routine property measurements, methods of literature search, reliable data collection, data representation, elementary statistical analysis of data, and writing of technical reports. Two visits to selected manufacturing plants in the Sydney region are compulsory in the course.