Materials Engineering

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<p>I am a sophomore currently heading towards Engineering school and career. I am really good in Math and Science. I just started to look at the Engineering specializations. Came across Materials Engineering which sounded interesting. I also like Nanotechnology. Perhaps a combo of these two would be nice and give me plenty of opportunities in employment in future. I see lots of discussions about Mechanical, Electrical, Petroleum, Chemical, etc, but what do you guys think about Materials Eng and Nanotech? What schools are well known for these two? Besides, the usual high school requirements of Physics, Chemistry, Biology what else should I take? Thanks for your time.</p>

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<p>Nano-materials is a subset of MSE. While not every engineering school offers an MSE major, many that don’t do provide it as a minor within the Mechanical Engr. major. If your preferred College of Engineering doesn’t have an MSE department, find out if the Chemistry Department has much in the way of nano-materials courses in the Materials Chemistry sub-discipline. Materials is also very integrated with the chemical engineering major at some schools.</p>

<p>I’m no engineer (Lake Jr. just started his chemical engineering major) but I understand that the following schools are strong in MSE;</p>

<p>U Minnesota-Twin Cities
Cornell
U Pennsylvania
Northwestern U
U California Irvine
U Wisconsin-Madison</p>

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<p>By the way, any out-of-state schools (and most privates) will be pricey, so you should give ample consideration to your home state engineering schools. Prestige is a very different animal in the engineering field. Most of the best engineering schools are public institutions and the hiring of engineering graduates by employers is in large part very regionally based. Sure, clearly there are engineering schools with national reputations, but ABET accreditation is the important thing.</p>

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<p>UC San Diego is plowing tremendous resources into their new NanoEngineering department: <a href=“Department Overview | NanoEngineering”>http://nanoengineering.ucsd.edu/about-us/overview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;