Materials Science and Engineering

Contact:
Alan Russell
2220 Hoover Hall
515 294-1880
GradMSE@iastate.edu

Iowa State is a recognized leader in materials research, offering world-class research facilities that include the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation, and the Microelectronics Research Center. Our faculty annually administer nearly $11 million in research funds to support the work of undergraduate, graduate, and other researchers. With an advanced degree in materials science, you can pursue a number of career directions in industry, government research laboratories, universities, and other research centers.

 

Areas of Specialization

• Advanced characterization methods
• Biomaterials and bio-inspired materials
• Computational materials science
• Electronic, magnetic, and photonic materials
• Materials for renewable energy
• Materials informatics
• Microstructural design and processing
• Nanomaterials and nanotechnology
• Oxide, non-oxide, and metallic glasses
• Polymers and polymer composites
• Bioinformatics and computational biology (interdepartmental)

 

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