Materials Science and Engineering

Master of Science in Engineering
Doctor of Philosophy

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Campus address: Engineering Education and Research Center (EER) 6.614A, phone (512) 471-1504, fax (512) 475-8482; campus mail code: C2201

Mailing address: The University of Texas at Austin, Materials Science and Engineering Program, 204 E. Dean Keeton Street Stop C2201, Austin TX 78712

E-mail: mse@tmi.utexas.edu

URL: http://www.tmi.utexas.edu/

Objectives

This program is designed to educate materials scientists and engineers, to develop new knowledge, and to solve problems related to the synthesis, processing, characterization, and application of materials.

Facilities for Graduate Work

Extensive facilities, including laboratories for materials research and instruction and offices for faculty members and students, are located in several buildings on the main campus and at the J. J. Pickle Research Campus. The offices for the Texas Materials Institute (TMI) the materials science and engineering graduate program are located in the Engineering Education and Research Center (EER) building. Core central facilities for research include the Electron Microscopy, X-Ray Scattering, Surface Analysis, Nanofabrication and Testing, Electronic and Vibrational Scattering, Microelectronic Materials Processing, Organic Electronic Fabrication, Scanning Probe, X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry, and Polymer Characterization Facilities, each of which employs a manager to assist users. Other laboratories provide materials synthesis, powder processing, mechanical testing, and property measurements facilities for use by students and faculty members.

Areas of Study

Graduate study is focused on a range of materials, including metals and alloys, ceramics, polymers, composites, nanomaterials, structural materials, electronic and photonic materials, energy materials, and computational materials.

Graduate Studies Committee

The following faculty members served on the Graduate Studies Committee (GSC) in the spring 2022 semester.

Deji Akinwande Narayana R Aluru Sanjay K Banerjee Michael Franklin Becker David L Bourell Jonathan Yan Chen Ray T Chen Michael Arthur Cullinan Alejandro L De Lozanne Ananth Dodabalapur John G Ekerdt Donglei Fan John B Goodenough Graeme Andrew Henkelman Rui Huang Tanya Hutter Gyeong S Hwang Keith P Johnston Brian A Korgel Desiderio Kovar Wei Li

Kenneth M Liechti Jung-Fu Lin Yuanyue Liu Nanshu Lu Filippo Mangolini Arumugam Manthiram David Mitlin Charles B Mullins Li Shi Chih-Kang Shih Donald Jason Siegel S V Sreenivasan Venkat Subramanian Eric M Taleff Yaguo Wang Jamie Warner Carlton G Willson Edward T Yu Guihua Yu Yuebing Zheng Jianshi Zhou

Admission Requirements

Students with a bachelor’s degree in engineering or in one of the physical sciences may be admitted to the materials science and engineering degree program upon the recommendation of the Graduate Studies Committee. Students who do not have a background that the committee considers satisfactory for the study of advanced materials science and engineering will be required to take preparatory coursework, some of which may be at the undergraduate level. Completion of some coursework may be required before the student begins the work for the graduate degree.