Technological advances dominate the world in which we live and well-qualified materials engineers are needed to cope with them. Their areas of concern are wide and varied. Whether it is production of a light but strong material for an aircraft wing or of a material for an artificial hip with all the properties of a bone, we need the expertise of a material engineer. He/she collaborates with engineers of other specializations to investigate problems such as the analysis of the structural failure of a bridge, the amount of wear of an engine component, or the corrosion of deep-sea oilrigs.
The engineer of tomorrow must be technically competent, market-conscious, commercially adept, environmentally sensitive and responsive to human needs. The curriculum of the department aims at producing such a multi-dimensional engineer. It provides a broad range of fundamental courses at the earlier stages and progressively leads the students to areas of their specializations. It includes the principles that govern the properties of metals, polymers, ceramics and composites, and the whole range of technologies which produce these materials and nanomaterials.
The Department offers 4 year BS program in Materials Engineering which deals with a broad understanding of materials and the manufacturing of components. It offers following streams:
The mission of the department of materials science and engineering is to develop and disseminate the understanding of structure, property, processing and performance of materials so that our graduates can excel in academia, research, business and industry.
Graduates in Materials Science and Engineering will:
There is a set of twelve Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs) of Materials Engineering program which describe what students are expected to know/perform/attain by the time they graduate from Department of Materials Science and Engineering. The program learning outcomes (PLOs) are given bellow: