Many of our graduates continue on for advanced study in areas such as business, engineering, law, and medicine. Click here for the Goals and Objectives of the Mechanical Engineering program. You should complete your application by February 15, 2000. Materials Science and Engineering Materials science is a modern-day engineering program concerned with the production, fabrication, and properties of materials used by society. These include metals and their alloys, semiconductors, ceramics, glasses, polymers, and composites of various materials.
All matter is made up of atoms of the elements found in the earth s crust.
These atoms are combined in different ways in each of the various classes of materials. This results in materials exhibiting different electronic, atomic, molecular, and crystalline structures. A material s internal structure often consists of various chemical phases and crystalline regions of different orientation in space, both of which are connected by interface boundaries of atomic dimensions. The materials scientist primarily involves himself or herself with producing the correct class of materials and subsequently altering the internal structure within the means available so that the component will perform satisfactorily in the application for which it is intended. This rapid growth demanded the education of broadly based materials scientists to develop and select the materials required by today s technology.