From creating lightweight yet durable prosthetics to designing new types of solar panels and batteries, materials engineers combine their expertise in physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering to ...

Within the College of Engineering is the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. The department offers bachelor’s, ...

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Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Material science, at its core, is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the discovery and ...

With rapid advances in the field of medicine, architecture, technology, communication and increased demand for sustainable products, the need for newer materials is rising. This need has fuelled a ...

Your second and third years have distinctive course requirements and electives. Here we can compare four related majors through select second and third year courses. MSE 2110 - Introduction to ...

Since its establishment as the world’s first materials science academic department, Northwestern Engineering has led and defined the frontier of material research, enabling transformative technologies ...

Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. With nonlinear optical microscopy—a ...

Contemporary industrial nitrogen fixation largely relies on the energy-intensive Haber-Bosch process, which operates under ...

People tend to think of quantum materials—whose properties arise from quantum mechanical effects—as exotic curiosities. But ...

Since establishment as the world’s first materials science academic department, Northwestern Engineering has led and defined the frontier of material research, enabling transformative technologies ...

Due to advancements in materials science, the bicycle has undergone many transformations throughout Olympic history. Carbon fiber and aluminum have become the standard for high-performance bicycles, ...