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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

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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

  • Courtney Mensch, materials science and engineering student
    Penn State Relay For Life executive director plans on lifelong cancer advocacy
    Date Posted: 04/03/18
  • Professor Qing Wang
    Six receive Faculty Scholar Medals (Qing Wang from Materials Science and Engineering)
    Date Posted: 04/02/18
  • Allison Beese receives an award
    Beese honored for early contributions to materials research at TMS conference
    Date Posted: 04/02/18
  • Dr. Zi-Kui Liu receives an award
    Award recognizes Liu's leadership in materials, alloy science
    Date Posted: 04/01/18
  • 3 Young Scientist Award Winners
    Three Receive the Young Scientist Award at PCSI-45
    Date Posted: 01/25/18
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