PhD Materials Science and Engineering at University of Pennsylvania

Materials science is a highly versatile discipline that enables innovations across a wide variety of technologies from cell phones to solar energy to bioimplants to airplanes. Applying insights from the basic sciences, this discipline designs new materials and fabrication methods to continually expand the scope and combination of mechanical, electrical, optical and transport properties available in materials. The newer fields of nanotechnology, biomaterials and quantum materials are providing materials scientists with an entirely new palette of atomic, molecular, organic, biological and inorganic building blocks to engineer materials with unique functionalities.

Faculty: School of Engineering and Applied Science  |  Duration: 19.5 course units  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Philadelphia, PA, United States

What you will study

Requires 19.5 course units in total. Listed required courses include MSE 5200 Structure of Materials; MSE 5400 Kinetics of Materials Select; MSE 5060 Failure Analysis of Engineering Materials or; MSE 5070 Fundamentals of Materials or; MSE 5150 Mathematical Methods for Engineering Applications; ESE 5250 Nanoscale Science and Engineering.

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