Graduate Studies
The graduate students in the department are taught by a dedicated materials science and engineering faculty. Many graduate students have faculty research advisors from other departments at Penn State. Graduate students have daily contact and dialogue with these faculty members who teach them in small classes and research groups. The faculty are nationally and internationally known for their research, publications, activities in government committees and commissions and in professional organizations where they hold high office. Furthermore, the materials science and engineering faculty have strong inter-college and inter-department associations throughout the University. All of the departmental administrative offices are located in Steidle
Building. The faculty offices, laboratory facilities, and research
equipment are located in Steidle Building and the adjoining Hosler
Building, the MRI Building at the Penn State Innovation Park, the MRL
Building, and the Applied Research Laboratory.
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The graduate program
in Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State offers a comprehensive
graduate education in the fundamentals
of materials science and engineering (synthesis-structure-property-performance
relationships). The latest study by the National Research Council ranked
the department among the country’s top ten materials science
and engineering departments. The department has strong research and
educational thrusts across the entire spectrum of materials including:
Inorganic and structural materials; Electronic and photonic materials;
Polymers and biomaterials; and Computational and fundamental materials
science. Students may choose to study across the major themes of materials
today including materials in energy applications, nanotechnology, materials
in medicine, materials in communications, materials for sensor applications,
structural materials, etc. by using a combination of MatSE courses
and a myriad of materials-related courses offered in the science and
engineering departments at Penn State.