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.
Materials Engineering
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.
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Materials Engineering
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.