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Materials Science & Engineering
Jeannine Hall, Program Assistant
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Cook Hall, Room 2036
Evanston, Illinois 60208-3108
web site: www.matsci.northwestern.edu
e-mail: matsci@northwestern.edu
  phone: 847-491-7896
fax: 847-491-7820

Program Description
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering was founded as the first such department dedicated to principles spanning all classes of materials. The department offers graduate work leading to the MS and PhD degrees in diverse areas of materials science dealing with metals, ceramics, polymers, electronic materials, biomaterials, surface science, and nanostructured materials.

Applicants should contact the program or see Web site www.matsci.northwestern.edu/ to learn about program-specific requirements for admission.

Faculty

Professors:

Scott A. Barnett, Michael J. Bedzyk, Stephen H. Carr, Robert P. H. Chang, Yip-Wah Chung, Buckley Crist, Jr. (Emeritus), Vinayak P. Dravid, David C. Dunand, Katherine T. Faber, Morris E. Fine (Emeritus), Mark C. Hersam, Laurence D. Marks, Thomas O. Mason, Masahiro Meshii (Emeritus), Gregory B. Olson, Monica Olvera de la Cruz, David N. Seidman, Kenneth R. Shull (Associate Chair), Samuel I. Stupp, Peter W. Voorhees (Chair), Johannes Weertman (Emeritus), Julia R. Weertman (Emerita), Bruce W. Wessels, Chris Wolverton

Assistant Professors:

Jiaxing Huang, Derk Joester, Lincoln Lauhon

Joint Appointments:

Hamlin M. Jennings (Civil and Environmental Engineering), John M. Torkelson (Chemical Engineering)

Affiliated Faculty:

Zdenek P. Bazant (Civil and Environmental Engineering), L. Catherine Brinson (Mechanical Engineering), Wesley R. Burghardt (Chemical and Biological Engineering), Arthur J. Freeman (Physics and Astronomy), Tobin J. Marks (Chemistry), Phillip B. Messersmith (Biomedical Engineering), Chad A. Mirkin (Chemistry), Teri Odom (Chemistry), Mark Ratner (Chemistry)

 

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