Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Chemical Vapor Deposition

Graduate student Tony Jefferson working on Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) system for growing Graphene.

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Our website highlights the key areas of our activities, strengths, and accomplishments.  You will read about how we are shaping an influential global Department engaged in innovative world-class interdisciplinary engineering research and education programs with an entrepreneurial economic development perspective through industry, government, academic and community partnerships.

I hope that you will be excited by the forward-looking and optimistic vision developed by this Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

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News

MSE Student Stephen Budy won an NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute Fellowship

Budy awardThe fellowship will support his research visit to The University of Auckland in New Zealand this summer. 

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Prof. Raghavan appointed Chevron Chair Professor at IIT Madras

IIT MadrasProfessor Srini Raghavan has been appointed as a Chevron Chair Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of technology-Madras in Chennai, India. 

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MSE Student Wins First Prize for Poster

Lance Hubbard with AwardLance Hubbard, a Masters student, won First Prize in the Graduate Student Poster Competition held during the Materials Challenges in Alternative and Renewable Energy (MCARE) 2012 Conference in Clearwater, FL. 

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Forging Tomorrow

forging tomorrowErica Corral , Ph.D., professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Arizona, uses a special furnace – a plasma sintering furnace – to study how nanoengineered materials perform at ultra-high temperatures.

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Special MSE Feature

Areas of Study

  • Optical Materials
  • Computational Materials Science & Engineering
  • Materials Synthesis, Processing & Fabrication
  • Materials for Energy
  • Heritage Conservation

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The School of Sustainable Engineered Systems (SSES)

The department of MSE is a founding member of The School of Sustainable Engineered Systems (SSES). The University of Arizona SSES will be a leader in the improved design of linkages between our natural and engineered systems to sustainably provide material resources, water, energy, infrastructure, and manufactured products through innovative education, research, and outreach.

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