Materials Science - University of North Texas Opportunities for graduate studies The Department of Materials Science addresses the educational and technological challenges of creating, applying and characterizing new materials for manufacturing products for the 21st century. The department is committed to training students at the graduate level in all aspects of modern materials and materials characterization. These materials include metals, ceramics, polymers and electronic and optical materials.
Students have opportunities for hands-on research with modern equipment and in modern facilities.
The department has strong collaborative programs with other Metroplex universities and with corporations throughout the world. Students have many opportunities to develop highly marketable skills in the automotive, aviation, biomedical, chemical, electric power, electronics and environmental industries, and in academia. The department offers both master's and doctoral degrees. Work for the master's thesis consists of independent and original studies, which may be experimental, computational or a combination of the two. The doctor of philosophy degree represents the attainment of a high level of scholarship and achievement in independent research, which culminates in the completion of an original dissertation.