G-MSEG-MS - MS in Materials Science and Engineering

At least thirty course credits are required for students with a bachelor’s degree to receive graduate degrees in the MatSci Program. For the MS degree, only a project option is available. Core courses (3 or 4 credits each) are required to cover fundamentals and to prepare for research with MatSci affiliated faculty. These core courses should be taken in the first year and must be selected from nine options. MS students must select six courses. In addition to the minimum of 18 course credits from the core courses, a three-semester seminar course (3 credits total) and three elective courses (3 or 4 credits each) are required, all of which should be completed within the second year for a minimum of 30 course credits. The elective courses must be approved by the Director of Graduate Studies. A maximum of one elective course may be replaced with an independent study to receive course credit for research. Academic Integrity and Responsible Conduct of Research training is required by The Graduate School: 6 hours for MS students.

Core Courses

• CHEM 548: Solid State/Materials Chemistry (Fall)

• CHEM 544: Statistical Mechanics (Fall) or ECE 521: Quantum Mechanics (Fall)

• ME 562: Materials Synthesis & Processing (Fall)

• ME 511: Computational Materials Science (Spring)

• ME 563: Fundamentals of Soft Matter (Spring)

• ECE 721/ME 711: Nanotechnology Materials Lab (Spring) or PHYS 800: Intro to Experimental Condensed Matter Physics (Spring) or ECE 511: Found. of Nanoscale Sci. & Technology (Spring)

Seminar Course

ME 560S: Materials Science and Engineering Seminar (3 semesters)

Elective Courses

Choose three electives. Must be approved by the Director of Graduate Studies. 

MS Project Exam

A project exam is required to complete the MS degree. In the project exam, a poster presentation is reviewed by the Graduate Exam Committee.