Material Science
Materials scientists make the materials that make everything better!
Everything is made of something. Materials scientists investigate how materials perform and why they sometimes fail. By understanding the structure of matter, from atomic scale to 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, smaller electronics, threat-detecting sensors, renewable energy harvesting devices and better medical devices. MS is the field that leads in the discovery and development of the stuff that makes everything work. Materials scientists even work in museums, helping to analyze, preserve and restore artifacts and artwork.
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, additive manufacturing, coating, evaporation, plasma and radiation processing, artificial intelligence, and computer simulations).