MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

Dielectric Properties of Materials Materials, Processing, and Design Information Age of Matter Systems Transformations Materials Design Concepts I & II Senior Thesis I & II Mechanical Properties of Electronic Materials for the Junior Laboratory I & II & Professional Skills Technical Mechanical Properties of Senior Materials Laboratory Materials: From Nanodevices to Superstructures and Molecular Structure Atomic Materials Chemistry Thermodynamics of Condensed Kinetics, Diffusion, and Phase Electronic, Magnetic, and

MSE 3070 & 4070 MSE 4030 MSE 2060 MSE 3010 MSE 3040 MSE 3050 MSE 3110 & 3120 MSE REQUIRED COURSES ENGRD 2610 MSE 3111 MSE 4020 or MSE 4050–4060 ENGRD 2620 MSE 3030 MSE at Cornell multidisciplinary at isMSE a broad, field understanding to devoted and manipulating the mechanical, chemical, electrical, magnetic, optical, propertiesand biological materials. of The science the mechanisms investigates basic MSE of side that materials give their properties. The applications modify to ways all explores typesside materials, of including and metals, plastics—and semiconductors, create materials to new like ways even nanoparticles—

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With materialsWith required virtually for all engineered professionals products, with training across allin industrial are MSE employed sectors. They are in working every size company, from large corporations chemicals, in aerospace, medicine, and microelectronics a to tiny of multitude startups. responsibilities Job materials include selection and qualification, materials processing, failure analysis, research and materials, design new of and product in degrees national, students advanced continue and Many MSE work for development. suchindustrial, as research the and academic technologies labs developing tomorrow, of sunlight-harvesting nanopillars for porous scaffolds tissue or regeneration. for improving performancefor metrics, such as speed, strength, compactness, and biocompatibility in engineered products. UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAM DEGREE UNDERGRADUATE technology. also dominated have materials dominated who have age, those In every and aircraft, advanced the most the tiniest microcircuits, performance of Indeed, the material properties. The is defined and limited by the the bones in your body, even core as new materials form the is more critical today than ever mastery of materials and sustainability, electronics, nanotechnology, in energy, of technological advances at Cornell prepares students to science and engineering (MSE) biomaterials. Materials and with engineering to improve physics, chemistry, and biology couple fundamental that enable these advances. materials novel invent Department of Materials Science and Engineering Science of Materials Department SOME AREAS OF Students are encouraged to take courses FACULTY RESEARCH outside MSE, both to broaden their general MSE SAMPLE ELECTIVE COURSES engineering experience and to understand ENGRI 1110 Nanotechnology batteries how materials impact specific applications. ENGRI 1140 Materials: The Future of Energy biofouling The major meshes well with courses in many areas, particularly electrical and ENGRI 1190 Biomaterials for the Skeletal System biomineralization computer engineering, mechanical and MSE 4100 Physical Metallurgy & Applications aerospace engineering, and chemical and MSE 4330/ Materials for Energy Production, block copolymers biomolecular engineering. Courses in these 5330 Storage & Conversion bone mechanics majors often count as electives within MSE 4610 Biomedical Materials & Their the MSE curriculum, or may be taken to Applications carbon sequestration satisfy a formal minor or even a double MSE 4890/ Colloids and Colloid Assemblies major. Common minors for MSE students colloidal particles 5890 include biomedical engineering, mechanical MSE 5120 Mechanical Properties of Thin Films computational materials engineering, electrical and computer engineering, and business for engineering MSE 5210 Properties of Solid Polymers MSE 5230 Physics of Soft Matter core-shell nanoparticles students. MSE 5310 Introduction to Ceramics electronics/photonics UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH MSE 5420 Flexible Electronics fuel cells Cornell is a leader in materials research and MSE 5430 Thin-Film Materials Science hosts several premier research centers. Many MSE 5450 Magnetic & Ferroelectric Materials laser processing of our students choose to become directly involved in research at some point either as MSE 5620 Biomineralization: Formation & layered materials Properties a volunteer, for pay, or for academic credit. materials genomics Working alongside faculty and graduate MSE 5630 Nanobiotechnology students, they contribute extensively to the MSE 5710 Analytical Techniques for Material metal & oxide thin films research program and often author scientific Science multiferroic oxides publications based on their work. MSE 5720 Computational Materials Science MSE 5740 Electrochemistry in Materials nitride semiconductors MASTER OF ENGINEERING Science DEGREE PROGRAM MSE 5880 Nanoparticles: Synthesis, nanoscale dynamics The Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Characterization, & Applications photocatalysis MSE is a one-year, professionally-oriented program designed to prepare students for photolithography engineering or engineering management supercapacitors careers in business, government, and industry, or for entrepreneurial pursuits. The MSE M.Eng. curriculum is flexible and interdisciplinary, allowing students to thermoelectric materials tailor coursework to their personal interests and backgrounds. An option for Cornell thin film transistors undergraduates is the early admission to M.Eng.; this enables students to complete both the B.S. and the M.Eng. degrees in nine semesters. x-ray science Our M.Eng. graduates typically join the professional ranks with higher starting salaries and water purification advanced levels of responsibility, compared to those with bachelor’s degrees. Some M.Eng. students alternatively use this program to strengthen their research background before applying to Ph.D. programs.

MSE By the Numbers MSE undergraduate students 68 MSE graduate students 130 Starting salaries of B.S. Materials Science and Engineering graduates (for 2018) Low $64,000 Median $69,750 High $105,000

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