Welcome
to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MatSE)
at Penn State!
Materials Science and Engineering is one of 13 engineering departments at Penn
State. With more than 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 including polymers, ceramics, and
metals. The faculty in MatSE covers all interdisciplinary areas of research in
materials including nanotechnology, electronic and photonic materials, biomaterials,
computational materials science, composites, and a myriad of processing techniques.