This course will provide students with a fundamental understanding and working knowledge of modern functional ceramics. It includes coverage of insulators, conductors, dielectric/pyroelectric/ferroelectric/piezoelectric, electro-optic, magnetic, and other functional ceramic materials. Students will explore devices based on functional ceramics such as capacitors, resistor, varistors, thermistors, transducers, actuators, memory elements, multilayered components, and their applications. At the end of this course, students should be able to explain the basic phenomena underlying the particular properties of functional ceramics in terms of their crystal structure, defect state and microstructure as well as to design useful products for real applications.