Materials Science and Engineering

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http://mse.utk.edu/

Veerle Keppens, Head
Kurt Sickafus, Director of Graduate Studies

Professors
Duscher, G., PhD – University of Stuttgart (Germany)
Egami, T., PhD – Pennsylvania
Gao, Y., PhD – Princeton
Hu, B., PhD – Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
Kalyanaraman, R., PhD – North Carolina State University
Keffer, D.J., PhD – Minnesota
Keppens, V., (Department Head), PhD – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
Liaw, P.K., PhD – Northwestern
Lundin, C.D., PhD – Rensselaer Polytechnic
Mandrus, D.G., PhD – Stony Brook
Nieh, T.G., PhD – Stanford
Rack, P.D., PhD – Florida
Sickafus, K., PhD – Cornell
Simpson, M.L., PhD – Tennessee
Weber, W.J., PhD – Wisconsin

Associate Professors
Choo, H., PhD – Illinois Institute of Technology
Fowlkes, J., PhD – Tennessee
Kit, K., PhD – Delaware
Morris, J.R., PhD – Cornell
Rawn, C.J., PhD – Arizona
Zhang, Y., PhD – Lund Institute of Technology (Sweden)

Assistant Professors
Gilbert, D.A., PhD – California (Davis)
Xu, H., PhD – Florida
Zhuravleva, M., PhD – Tohoku (Japan)

Senior Lecturers
Meek, T.T., PhD – Ohio State
Wetteland, C., MS – Wisconsin

Emeriti Faculty
Benson, R.S., PhD – Florida State
Fellers, J.F., PhD – Akron
Wadsworth, L.C., PhD – North Carolina State

Graduate programs are offered leading to the degrees of Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy with a major in materials science and engineering. The materials science and engineering program is flexible and interdisciplinary in nature. Students may be admitted from a wide range of disciplines. These include physics, chemistry, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, materials engineering, and engineering science programs.

The materials science and engineering concentrations offer specializations to include, but not limited to, ceramics, composites, electronic materials, physical metallurgy, materials processing, welding metallurgy and materials joining, corrosion science and engineering, biomedical materials, nonwovens science and technology, mechanical and physical behaviors of materials, and nanoscience and technology.

Admission

Applicants for admission to the MS and PhD programs in materials science and engineering are expected to have completed a bachelor’s degree in an area of engineering or science with a grade-point-average of at least 3.0 out of 4.00 both overall and in the senior year. In addition, all applicants must submit scores from the general Graduate Record Examination (GRE). Applicants whose native language is not English must have a minimum TOEFL score of 550 on the written exam or 80 on the Internet-based Test to be considered for admission to the programs.

Interdisciplinary Graduate Minor in Computational Science (IGMCS)

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering participates in the interdisciplinary graduate minor in computational science (IGMCS) program. Any student pursuing a master’s or PhD with a major in materials science and engineering can receive a minor in computational science by completing the appropriate IGMCS requirements. For additional information, see the description of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Minor in Computational Science  listed under Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science or visit the IGMCS website at http://igmcs.utk.edu/. The Department of Materials Science and Engineering also contributes courses to the IGMCS program curriculum.

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