专业介绍
Materials engineers design, create, and manufacture materials, which include semiconductors, polymers, ceramics, metal alloys, and composites. Their contributions have led to breakthroughs in many fields, including computing, communications, automobiles, energy, aerospace, buildings/infrastructure, and biomedical devices.
The Materials Engineering curriculum at Brown provides graduates with both the expertise necessary to practice their profession, as well as the interdisciplinary foundation necessary to collaborate with the engineers who will use the materials that they develop. A substantial fraction of Materials Engineering students at Brown participate in research, which allows them to make use of Brown’s state-of-the-art facilities in microscopy, materials characterization, materials processing, and fabrication.
Student Goals
Students in this concentration will:
- Learn the fundamental structure-property relationships and mechanisms underlying materials design and optimization
- Acquire a depth of knowledge in various specialized areas of Materials Engineering
- Complete a substantial project integrating concepts from the Materials Engineering concentration.