Department of Materials Science and Engineering | The Pennsylvania State University

By the Numbers

$70,000

In 2016, Penn State graduates with a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering entered the industry with an average starting salary of $70,000 a year.
12th Worldwide

MatSE at Penn State was ranked 12th worldwide by QS organization in 2013
$277,000

The department has 56 active scholarship/fellowship opportunities available to our undergraduate and graduate students; last year $277,000 was awarded to students.
16,318,449

Annual Research Expenditures is $14,576,657
#1

MATSE at Penn State ranked 1st by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research expenditures. The rankings, released in February 2015, are for the 2013 fiscal year.
30

30 Materials Science and Engineering Faculty
170

Graduate Students
385

Undergraduate Students
76

Research Associates/Postdoctoral Scholars

Events

Tressler Seminar - Juan Claudio Nino - "Point Defect Engineering and Dynamics in Fluorites: Lessons from Doped Cerium Oxide"

04/26/18

Intellectual Property

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About MatSE

Featured Research

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Designing a new material for improved ultrasound

The fine-tuning of two-dimensional materials

NSF grant to help create sustainable fuels through artificial photosynthesis

Large-scale atomically-thin 2-D films by gas-source chemical vapor deposition. Image: Xiaotian Zhang / Penn State

Scalable two-dimensional materials advance future-gen electronics

A grain boundary forms when graphene growth advances past an apex on a conical bump, where the curvature resembles that on a sphere; it terminates at the foot of the bump, where curvature is saddle-like. Image: Crespi Lab / Penn State

Two-dimensional materials gets a new theory for control of properties

News and Awards

Penn State Relay For Life executive director plans on lifelong cancer advocacy

Date Posted: 04/03/18
Six receive Faculty Scholar Medals (Qing Wang from Materials Science and Engineering)

Date Posted: 04/02/18
Beese honored for early contributions to materials research at TMS conference

Date Posted: 04/02/18
Award recognizes Liu's leadership in materials, alloy science

Date Posted: 04/01/18
Three Receive the Young Scientist Award at PCSI-45

Date Posted: 01/25/18