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Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Design. Discovery. Impact.

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DISCOVER YOUR PATH TO SUCCESS

Your journey starts here, with our undergraduate or graduate programs in materials science and engineering.

Tania Roy and her student

Undergraduate Program

Chuck Didier in lab

Graduate Programs

Student in lab

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EDUCATION THROUGH RESEARCH

The UCF Department of Materials Science and Engineering is distinguished by offering an outstanding selection of courses taught by excellent instructors, and by providing students with real and state-of-the-art research opportunities, working with faculty mentors who are active in wide range of sponsored research. The result is education through research.

No. 49

UCF is ranked the 49th best graduate school for materials science and engineering education

60+

Years of faculty experience in both industry and government organizations

No. 31

UCF is ranked the 31st best graduate school for materials science and engineering education among public schools

13

Number of MSE faculty, including affiliated faculty, who have received NSF CAREER awards

Congratulations to the Summer Grads!

M.S.
Erica Drobner – Advisor Yongho Sohn
Brandt Cameron

Ph.D.
Dylan Colvin – Kris Davis
Nathalia Diaz Vallejo – Yongho Sohn
Supriya Koul – Akihiro Kushima
Deepak Pandy – Jayan Thomas
Kowsik Sambath Kumar – Jayan Thomas

NEWS

Research

AI-Based Screening Method Could Boost Speed of New Drug Discovery

Developing life-saving medicines can take billions of dollars and decades of time, but University of Central Florida researchers are aiming to speed up this process…
Research

UCF Researchers Prove that COVID Disinfectant Works in Latest Research Paper

A team of UCF researchers have proven the efficacy of a nanomaterial-based disinfectant they developed to combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Through their…
Faculty

Leon Receives 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award

Assistant Professor Lorraine Leon has been named a recipient of the 2022 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award. This honor is given to early career faculty in…
Alumni

Benafan Named ASM International Fellow

As an undergraduate student in Professor Raj Vaidyanathan’s Structures and Properties of Materials course, Othmane Benafan ‘08, ‘09MS, ‘12PhD became fascinated with the concept of…
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LAB DIRECTORY

The materials science and engineering faculty is conducting world-class research on metals and alloys, ceramics, soft materials, biomaterials and much more. Learn about the innovative ideas produced in our faculty’s labs.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

MSE Distinguished Seminar Series
Join the Department of Materials Science and Engineering for the latest lecture in the Distinguished Seminar Series. Dr. JC Zhao of the University of Maryland will discuss "High-Throughput Experimentation and Holistic Integration with Computational Data for Accelerated Alloy Design." Zhao…