<p>Hi Everyone</p>
<p>I want to study Material Engineering, however the university only have Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, and Civil Engineering Majors. Which one of those is most similar to Material Engineering and most easy to transfer to other school's Material Engineering program or to enter Material Engineering Graduate Program?</p>
<p>In my materials grad program I have friends that were mechanical, electrical, and chemical for undergrad. For the most similar it’s going to be either chemical or mechanical, depending on what sort of thing you want to focus on in materials. If you like nucleation and growth, kinetics, phase transformations, etc, then chemical engineering is closer. If you’re into mechanics of materials, then mechanical engineering is closer.</p>
<p>to be quite honest with you, in the top university of Israel for materials engineering (The Technion, the nobel prize winner of 2011 in chemistry works in that department), you are forced to double major in either physics or chemistry with the materials degree, they say that the scientefic base is important for understanding the material, physics focuses on the properties while chemistry also deals with manufacturing, and so I’d advise starting out in physics and move to materials</p>
<p>@ RacinReaver. Thank you very much. But what is the mechanics of materials? The main reason why I want to study material engineering is because there are many new and interesting materials such as the Smart materials and nanotechnology that I would like to research into. Which path would bring me closer to this?
@Kartos. That is quite interesting, but I already applied as engineer and I can only transfer between engineering majors.</p>