Materials Research Symposium 2018 - Award Winners

Please join us in congratulating all the award winners from the 3rd Annual Materials Research Symposium, held Friday, November 16 in G.G. Brown. The symposium...

Taub named TMS Fellow

MSE is pleased to announce that Professor Alan Taub has been named a Fellow by the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), placing him in...

MSE and ME faculty partner in a new $12.5M DOE Center for Research Excellence in Additively Manufactured Metallic Alloys for National Security

Amit Misra, Professor and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering, and Professor (by courtesy) of Mechanical Engineering, and Jyoti Mazumder, Robert H. Lurie Professor of Mechanical Engineering and...

Max Madden receives 2018 Alumni Merit Award for MSE

Homecoming this year was extra special for Max Madden (BSE ‘62, MSE ’63, PHD ’65), who was selected by the College of Engineering as the...

MSE UNDERGRAD PROGRAM RANKED #2 IN U.S.

In the just-released 2019 U.S. News & World Report rankings, our MSE undergraduate program jumped two spots from 2018 to #2. Only MIT is ranked...

2018 Van Vlack Lecture draws one of world's top MSE scholars and researchers

This year’s Van Vlack Lecture went international with a visit from Subra Suresh, current president of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and former NSF director...

Nik Chawla (PHD '97) receives Distinguished Alumnus Award

On September 21, Nikhilesh (Nik) Chawla became the fourth alum to receive MSE's Distinguished Alumni Lecture Award. Chawla, who currently serves as the acting chair...

Inaugural Robert D. Pehlke Lectureship in Materials Processing features speaker Ron Radzilowski

The first Robert D. Pehlke Lecture on Materials Processing, endowed in 2017 by faculty emeritus Robert Pehlke, was held September 13 and 14 and featured...

Bigelow elected Fellow of Microanalysis Society

Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Wilbur Bigelow on being elected Fellow of the Microanalysis Society (MAS). 

According to the MAS website, “the Microanalysis Fellow is a...

Twenty-four MSE students earn scholarships for 2018-19

MSE is proud to announce that 24 MSE undergraduates received academic scholarships for the 2018-19 year. See link below for individual scholarship criteria. Congratulations to...

Kim tapped as new director of MACRO program

MSE is pleased to announce that Professor Jinsang Kim has been appointed as the new director of the Macromolecular Science & Engineering Program (MACRO). His three-year...

The material that could power tomorrow's solar cells

Materials science is moving us closer to the era of “solar everywhere,” says Pierre Ferdinand Poudeu-Poudeu, associate professor of materials science and engineering.

Poudeu led...

Thornton inducted as L.H. and F.E. Van Vlack Professor of MSE (Photos/video)

On May 16, Katsuyo Thornton was inducted as the L.H. and F.E. Van Vlack Professor of Materials Science & Engineering in a special ceremony/lecture in...

President of Nanyang Technology University & former NSF director Subra Suresh to be 2018 Van Vlack Lecturer

The Materials Science & Engineering Department is pleased to announce that Subra Suresh, president of Nanyang Technology University (Singapore), will be the 2018 Van Vlack...

Allison receives CoE's inaugural Staff-Faculty Partnership Award

MSE Professor John Allison was selected as the first-ever recipient of the College's Staff-Faculty Partnership Award. Allison was officially recognized at the College of Engineering...