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Program Requirements
 Students are required to take thirty-two credit
hours to graduate. These must include the following:
- At least eighteen credit hours should be
taken from the list of core courses. These courses will both broaden and
deepen the student's knowledge of materials. The accumulated information
will enable them to characterize materials, select them wisely for
demanding applications, analyze and avoid materials failure, develop new
materials, improve processes and conduct research.
- Six credit hours are applied to a Capstone
Project course or a Master's Thesis. The project option is intended mainly
for students whose objective is to work in industry after graduation. An
option of an industrially funded project will prepare the student for the
job and help them integrate the knowledge from the course to real-life
applications. The thesis option can serve both the students who are more
inclined towards research and those opting for an industrial job. Students
opting to go for a Ph.D. will benefit from the thesis research experience.
Also, engineers with MS degrees are often expected to conduct an applied
research.
- Eight credit hours are available for
elective course-work. This provides enough flexibility to suit the
interests and needs of individual students. A graduate advisor will assist
students in tailoring and approving a course program to fit their
interests and backgrounds.
- In some cases, when a student lacks too
many of the prerequisites, additional courses must be taken with no credit
towards the master's degree.
- ME 573 Engineering Materials
- ME 652 Mechanics of Composite Materials
- ME 654 Composite Materials
- ME 655 Advanced Materials Science
- CMD 566 Ceramics: Structure and Properties
- CMD 559 Physical and Mechanical Properties
of Polymers
- CMD 651 Corrosion Science and Engineering
- CMD 653 Advanced Physical Metallurgy
- CMD 658 Structure of Polymers and
Composites
- CMD 657 Analysis of Metal Forming
- CMD 695 Advanced Topics in Materials
Science
- GEOL 611 Mineral Analysis (XRD & XRF)
In addition: 6 hours of CMD 697 Problems in
Materials Science and Engineering, or CMD700 Master's Thesis
- CHEM 506 Chemical Laboratory Safety (1
hr.)
- CHEM 510 Inorganic Chemistry (4 hrs.)
- CHEM 535 Introduction to Physical
Chemistry (3 hrs.)
- CHEM 570 Polymer Chemistry (3 hrs.)
- CHEM 633 Chemical Thermodynamics (3 hrs.)
- ECE 520 Solid-state Devices (3 hrs.)
- IME 550 Advanced Plastic Processing (3
hrs.)
- IME 656 Materials Selection and Processing
(3 hrs.)
- IME 681 Process Monitoring and Control (3
hrs.)
- MATH 506 Scientific Programming (3 hrs.)
- ME 560 Engineering Analysis (3 hrs.)
- ME 561 Finite Element Method (3 hrs.)
- PHYS 563 Solid State Physics (3 hrs.)
- PHYS 615 Mathematical Physics (3 hrs.)
- PHYS 672 Condensed Matter Physics (3 hrs.)
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