Program Overview

Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D.

Program Overview

The Doctor of Philosophy degree in Materials Science and Engineering represents the highest level of scholarship and achievement in independent research that culminates in the completion of a dissertation of original scientific merit.

Program Type

• Doctoral Degree

Format

• On Campus

Estimated Time to Complete

• 4-5 years

Credit Hours

• 42 (with prior M.S.)
• 72 (with prior B.S.)

Program Description

The program provides strong collaborative links with other universities and industries in the Dallas-Fort Worth region and research organizations throughout the country and the world. The department addresses the educational and technological challenges of creating, applying and characterizing new materials for manufacturing products in the 21st century.

Marketable Skills

• Identify knowledge gaps in materials science and engineering
• Expertise with advanced materials characterization techniques
• Material data analysis using computational tools
• Material design and property predictions
• Scientific report writing and communication

Program Highlights

• Small class sizes with nationally recognized faculty members
• State-of-the-art lab and research facilities
• Concentrations in Mechanical and Energy Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
• Research efforts span size scales from the microscopic to aircraft wings and from atomically precise manufacturing to assembly of hip implants

Career Opportunities

• Aerospace
• Automotive
• Biomedical Microelectronics
• Characterization
• Chemical Energy
• Environmental
• Modeling and simulations
• Nanotechnology
• Power

Sample Courses

• Bonding, Structure and Crystallography (3 hrs)
• Mechanical Properties of Materials (3 hrs)
• Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (3 hrs)
• Deformation Mechanisms in Solid Materials (3 hrs)
• Phase Transformations (3 hrs)
• Thermodynamics of Materials (3 hrs)