Katelyn Kirchner, a doctoral student in materials science and engineering at Penn State, recently earned the Alfred R. Cooper Scholars Award from the American Ceramic Society.
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**MatSE 590 All graduate students are required to take MatSE 590**
The Fall 2023 MatSE 590 for graduate students consists of an exciting and jam-packed schedule. MATSE 590 is a colloquium (1-3 credits) consist of a series of individual lectures by faculty, students, or outside speakers.
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A supersensitive dopamine detector can help in the early diagnosis of several disorders that result in too much or too little dopamine, according to a group led by Penn State and including Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and universities in China and Japan.
Materials research is about more than technical impact—it’s about having a human impact as well. Director of the Materials Research Institute at The Pennsylvania State University Clive Randall discusses the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration between scientific fields, his work on cold sintering, and his experience as a first-generation college student.
A team of four College of Engineering students, one College of Earth and Mineral Sciences student and one engineering faculty member recently won the top prize in the Ben Franklin (BF) TechCelerator @ State College program.
Your next cell phone will be harder to scratch, writes WIRED. Our glass expert John Mauro of Penn State Department of Materials Science and Engineering explains why that will also limit cracks. Mauro worked for Corning® Gorilla® Glass for 18 years developing several iterations of the famed Gorilla Glass.
The possibility of achieving room temperature superconductivity took a tiny step forward with a recent discovery by a team of Penn State physicists and materials scientists.
Both materials scientists and materials engineers share many things in common:
- similar training
- may perform very similar tasks in their work
- work involves analyzing data
- performing tests on materials
- alter or create new materials
There are some differences between the materials scientists and material engineers such as the focus of their work and the environment in which they work.