Materials Science BS Program of Study

Complete a minimum of 5 credits from the approved course list.

Students should plan accordingly when picking Section 1 tech electives. The following credit combinations will fulfill the Section 1 requirement: 3+3; 3+2; 2+2+2; 3+2+2. Students will not be penalized for taking more than the required credits.

MSE 5050 courses are special topics and will vary each semester. Students may take multiple sections of MSE 5050 to fulfill the tech elective requirement, so long as the topic is not repeated.

Offered fall semester (not guaranteed)

• MSE 5073 – Nanostructures Materials: Science & Technology
• MSE 5074 – Photovoltaic Materials & Solar Cells
• MSE 5050 – Nanoscale Probing and Imaging
• MSE 5050 – Optics for Energy
• MSE 5201 – Semiconductor Device Phy I (odd years only)
• MSE 5520 – Single Crystal Growth and Crystallography (odd years only)

Offered in the spring semester (not guaranteed)

• MSE 5040 – Introduction to Modern Biomaterials
• MSE 5055 – Microsystems Design & Characterization
• MSE 5050 – Polymers: Chemistry*
• MSE 5050 – Materials for Energy
• MSE 5540 – Materials Informatics (even years only)
• MSE 5530 – Polymers: Materials (even years only)
• MSE 5510 – Materials Innovation (odd years only)
• MSE 5050 – Recycling (odd years only)

Offered spring or fall, but not consistently

• MSE 5072 – Thin Film Techniques
• MSE 5353 – Physical Ceramics
• MSE 5354 – Processing of Ceramics
• MSE 5475 – Introduction of Composites
• MSE 5050 – Def & Frac Nanocomposites
• MSE 5050 – Biomaterials Engineering
• MSE 5050 – Fundamentals of Nanofabrication

Complete a minimum of 2 credits from the approved course list.

Offered in the fall semester (not guaranteed)

• MET E 5260 – Physical Metallurgy I
• MET E 5300 – Alloy and Material Design
• METE 5480 – Steelmaking
• METE 5260 – Physical Metallurgy
• METE 5420 – Mineral Surface Chemistry (even years only)
• MET E 5270 – Powder Metallurgy (even years only)
• METE 5230 – Biomedical Devices and Sensors (even years only)
• MET E 5680 – Mineral Processing II (odd years only)
• MET E 5310 – Concepts and Applications in Renewable Energy (odd years only)

Offered in the spring semester (not guaranteed)

• MET E 5600 – Corrosion Fundamentals
• MET E 5670 – Mineral Processing I
• MET E 5760 – Process Synthesis, Design & Economics
• MET E 5780 – Metals Processing
• MET E 5600 – Corrosion Fundamentals and Minimization
• METE 5470 – Practical Digital Image Processing and Analysis
• MET E 5210 – Nuclear Materials (even years only)
• METE 5300 – Alloy and Materials Design (even years only)
• MET E 5720 – Molten Salt Engineering (odd years only)

Offered spring or fall, but not consistently

• MET E 5800 – Special Topics Metallurgy Engineering
• MET E 5800 – Nuclear Safeguards
• MET E 5280 – Magnetic Materials and Devices
• MET E 5290 – Principles and Practice of Nanoscience and Technology
• MET E 5040 – Introduction to Modern Biomaterials
• MET E 5330 – Energy Conversion Storage Materials
• METE 5250 – Principles and Practice of X-ray Diffraction

Complete a minimum of 3 credits from the approved course list.

Complete a minimum of three credits with an internship/research experience or an engineering course. Courses listed in Section 1 and 2 can also be used to fulfill the Section 3 requirement. All course not listed below must be approved by the Materials Science and Engineering Academic Advisor to count toward a Section 3 technical elective.

Students may use one 3-credit internship to fulfill the Section 3 tech elective. Students may not use multiple types of internships to count for credit. Internships only fulfill a Section 3 tech elective and cannot be used to fulfill a Section 1 or 2 tech elective. Internships must be approved by the MSE Department two weeks before the semester of the internship/research experience. For information on how to register for MSE 5800/ MSE 5061, click here.

• MSE 5800 – MSE Industry/MCL Internship
• MSE 5061 – MSE Research Internship

Students who do not complete an internship may choose from the following approved courses:

• CHEM 3000 – Quantitative Analysis
• CHEM 3070 – Thermodynamics and Chemical Kinetics
• CHEM 3100 – Inorganic Chemistry
• CH EN 3353 – Fluid Mechanics
• CH EN 3453 – Heat Transfer
• CH EN 3553 – Chemical Reaction Engineering
• CH EN 3603 – Mass Transfer and Separations
• CH EN 4203 – Process Dynamics and Control
• CH EN 5308 – Electrochemical Systems for Energy Storage and Beyond
• CH EN 5310 – Renewable Energy
• COMP 5360 – Introduction to Data Science
• CS 5962 – Programming for Engineers*
• CVEEN 5730 – Project Management and Contract Administration
• EAE 3600 – 3D Modeling
• ECE 5250 – Introduction to Quantum Computers
• ENGIN 5030 – Patent Law and Strategy
• GEO 3070 – Mineralogy and Petrology for Engineers
• PHYS 3740 – Introduction to Quantum Theory and Relativity

• ME EN 5110 – Industrial Safety
• ME EN 5160 – Fundamentals of Systems Engineering
• ME EN 5170 – Systems Engineering and Integration
• ME EN 5520 – Mechanics of Composite Materials
• ME EN 5000 – Law for Engineers and Scientists
• ME EN 5050 – Fundamentals of Micromachining Processes
• ME EN 5055 – Microsystems Design and Characterization
• ME EN 3000 – Design of Mechanical Components
• ME EN 3650 – Heat Transfer
• ME EN 3710 – Fluid Mechanics
• ME EN 5200 – Classical Control System
• ME EN 5510 – Applied Elements
• MG EN 5030 – Materials Handling
• MG EN 5080 – Sustainable Resource Development
• NUCL 3000 – Nuclear Principles in Engineering and Science
• NUCL 3200 – Radiochemistry with Laboratory I