Welcome to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State!
Materials Science and Engineering is one of fourteen engineering departments at Penn State. With thirty full time faculty members, we are one of the premier materials departments in the world. We offer an in depth education over the full spectrum of materials science and engineering. The 140 undergraduate students in MatSE specialize in ceramics, polymers, metals, or electronic and photonic materials (EPM). In addition we offer minor options in biomaterials, polymers, materials and EPM science and engineering students. Undergraduate students are actively engaged in high level research through the Undergraduate Research Fellows program, International Internships in Materials (IIM), numerous Cooperative Education & Professional Internship Program (Co-op) activities with industry and government labs, and the senior capstone project. Graduate studies in materials are organized as part of the Intercollege Graduate Degree Program at Penn State (i-MatSE). There are currently 180 graduate students advised by i-MatSE faculty and faculty members from other science and engineering departments. The extensive research activities at Penn State are organized under the Materials Research Institute (MRI). Penn State faculty have research programs covering all interdisciplinary areas of the field including nanotechnology, electronic materials, photonic materials, energy materials, biomaterials, computational materials and structural materials with applications in health care, communications, transportation, recreation, energy and electronics. MatSE faculty members provide leadership in MRI, the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers on (1) Dielectric Materials, (2) Particulate Materials, (3) Glass, (4) Computational Materials Design, and the Keck Smart Materials Integration Lab. We are also actively engaged in the National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (NSF MRSEC) for Nanoscale Science.

In our video, you'll learn more about materials research at Penn State, how our research touches the lives of millions every day, and how our research effects the global economy.