Undergraduate Programs

Make Way for Unimpeded Progress

From Molecular Understanding to New Technology

High tech wouldn’t exist without polymers, ceramics, metals, composites and semiconductors. MSE is linked to every field of science and engineering, with applications ranging from computer chips and consumer electronics to building materials and solar power.

The University of Arizona’s MSE curriculum for undergraduates is inherently multidisciplinary, flexible and career oriented.

For nearly three decades, the UA Materials Science and Engineering Department has prepared students not only for jobs in industries such as aerospace and defense, information technology, health care and energy, but also for some of the best grad programs in the world.

Join UA MSE, and learn to shape the materials nature cannot provide!

Set Your Own Academic Course

MSE programs emphasize the exchange of ideas and expertise through experiential interactions across many disciplines. With its low student-faculty ratio, MSE offers small classes and provides individual attention.

The BS degree in materials science and engineering couples fundamental scientific principles of mathematics, chemistry, physics and biology with the application-based principles of engineering

A multidisciplinary curriculum allows you to focus on your interests: materials properties, failure analysis, thermodynamics and object-oriented computer programming. And, hands-on experience includes material characterization using industrial microscopy and spectroscopy equipment.

Strengthen Your Skills Outside the Classroom

MSE students do research and internships and participate on senior design teams, where they transform concepts in to actual products.

Expand your training and hands-on materials experience even further in the college’s design, build and compete clubs, and chapters of professional organizations such as the Society for the Advancement of Materials and Process Engineers, Keramos and Material Advantage.

Graduates Ready for the Workforce

UA MSE graduates are working in several industries for a variety of companies. For example:

• Aerospace and defense at Honeywell, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and Boeing
• Semiconductor manufacturing at Texas Instruments, Samsung and Intel
• Optics at Spectra-Physics, NP Photonics, and Edmund Optics
• Energy at Sion Power, General Plasma and Tucson Electric Power
• Mining, minerals and metallurgy at CLIMAX, Phelps Dodge and Steel Dynamics
• Biomedical at W. L. Gore & Associates and C. R. Bard Inc.
• Engineering service firms at Aker Solutions and Kleinfelder

Graduates also work in all branches of the U.S. military and in federal research facilities, including Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories.

Why MSE?

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