Specialization tracks allow upperclass students to focus on a specific area of materials science and engineering. Combining foundational knowledge of materials with a tailored topic gives students a customized educational experience that has relevance for co-op, graduate school and future career opportunities.
Students select a track in their third (pre-junior) year, with the option of choosing from five pre-determined tracks or creating their own path.
Customize Your Education
- Advanced Materials Design and Processing: Innovate in the development of new materials while focusing on the design, environmental impact, performance and the business principles that guide successful application and manufacturing, such as speed to market and economic factors.\
- Biomaterials: Explore the body’s natural tissue organization and composition, understand how implanted materials help to treat debilitating disease and apply materials science and engineering to the design and manufacture of medical products.
- Electronic and Photonic Materials: New computing and communications technologies rely on an understanding of the electronic and optical properties of materials. Gain a broad interdisciplinary perspective on the possibilities of the integration of materials that advance the possibilities of innovation.
- Nanoscale Materials and Nanotechnology: Work at the molecular level to create materials, structures and devices with new properties and functions. Manipulate individual atoms or molecules to build smart materials with uses from medical devices and drug delivery systems to next generation batteries and energy technologies.
- Soft Materials and Polymers: Study soft, or organic, materials with complex and dynamic properties between crystals and fluids. Explore the possibilities of soft matter for careers in industries such as polymers, cosmetics, liquid crystal devices and biomaterials.
- Custom track: Work with your advisor to create a cohesive group of four technical electives for your own specialization.
Current students should go to A4E on Blackboard Learn for additional information.