This semester I teach an introductory graduate course in solid mechanics. Following a suggestion made by Mark Walter, I posted an outline of my course in iMechanica.

This is the first time I teach the course at Harvard, but I taught a similar course at UCSB, and an upper-level undergraduate course of similar content at Princeton. The students for the three courses have different backgrounds. At Harvard, I assume that students have taken an undergraduate course on strength of materials (tension, bending, torsion, etc.), a course on multi-variable calculus, and a course on linear algebra. I try to avoid excessive math, and try to bring out features of mechanics. (My students may disagree with me, but at least my heart is in right place.) Most students will not be specialized in mechanics, as evident from their descriptions of themselves.

Many of us teach a similar course at different universities. It might be fun and useful for us to compare notes. Could you please describe your introductory graduate course in solid mechanics? For example, you can list topics, textbooks, and backgrounds of students. If you already posted notes online, please include a hyperlink.

You can post your description of the course as a comment to this forum entry.  Alternatively, you can post a blog entry, and then enter brief comment below this post, with a hyperlink pointing to you blog entry.

Related discussion on a post by Roberto Ballarini:

Are notes and textbooks a higher priority than journal clubs?