Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) combines engineering, physics, and chemistry principles to solve real-world problems associated with nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, energy, manufacturing, and other major engineering disciplines.
Everything has made of something. Materials scientists investigate how materials perform and why they sometimes fail. By understanding the structure of matter, from the atomic scale to the millimeter scale, they invent new ways to combine chemical elements into materials with unprecedented functional properties. Other branches of engineering rely heavily on materials scientists and engineers for the advanced materials used to design and manufacture products, such as safer cars with better gas mileage, faster computers with larger hard drive capacities, renewable energy harvesting devices, and better medical devices. Material Science Engineering (MSE) is the field that leads in the discovery and development of the stuff that makes everything work.
Materials scientists work with diverse types of materials (metals, polymers, ceramics, liquid crystals, composites) for a broad range of applications (energy, construction, electronics, biotechnology, nanotechnology) employing modern processing and discovery principles (casting, coating, evaporation, artificial intelligence, and computer simulations).