<p>I was just wonder a couple things about Materials Engineering and Material Science. How difficult is Materials Engineering in comparison to other engineering majors and what is the big differece in far as actual area of study and jobs between material science and materials engineering. Any help or information would be helpful and apriciated</p>
<p>Well.. most programs group them together into a discipline called "Material Science and Engineering." I have yet to see any programs where they specifically separate the science from the engineering part. </p>
<p>I am an aerospace engineering person, but have taken about 7-8 MSE courses during my undergrad. I am no expert, but hopefully can shed a little insight. </p>
<p>Notice how just about every program puts science before engineering. I have found that to be the case. Much of the material taught is more science than engineering. Compared to aerospace engineering, I find MSE to be much easier. It is much less math intensive and more concept based than problem based. That is not necessarily the case. If you enter into a field such as fracture mechanics or mechanics of materials, you will see plenty of math. And I don't mean to imply that MSE people don't study the same level of math as other engineers. They are expected to get through differential equations just like everyone else. </p>
<p>But, personally, I found MSE to be analogous to something like chemistry in terms of difficulty and level of math required.</p>
<p>is there a pretty wide array of options for someone with a material science and engineering degree or is it kind of a smaller sector, it seems like it would be pretty large because every thing uses materials :)</p>