University Catalog 2026-2027

Materials Science and Engineering (PhD)

Degree Requirements

Required Courses27
Select a minimum of 9 credit hours of 500- to 700-level MSE courses approved in conjunction with the academic committee
Select a minimum of 18 credit hours of 700-level courses approved in conjunction with the academic committee
Seminar
Additional Courses45
"Additional Courses" are approved in conjunction with the academic committee
Seminar
Doctoral Supervised Research
Doctoral Supervised Teaching
Doctoral Dissertation Research
Total Hours72

Faculty

Professors

  • Harald Ade
  • Aram Amassian
  • David Aspnes
  • Veronica Augustyn
  • Salah M.A. Bedair
  • Donald Brenner
  • Ramon Collazo
  • Jerome Cuomo
  • Jan Genzer
  • Reza Ghiladi
  • Ola Harrysson
  • Douglas Irving
  • Jacob L. Jones
  • Djamel Kaoumi
  • Frederick Kish
  • Thomas LaBean
  • James D. Martin
  • John F. Muth
  • Korukonda Murty
  • Jagdish Narayan
  • Roger Jagdish Narayan
  • Gregory N. Parsons
  • Melissa Pasquinelli
  • Zlatko Sitar
  • Franky So
  • Richard Spontak
  • Martin Thuo
  • Joseph B. Tracy
  • Daryoosh Vashaee
  • Yaroslava Yingling
  • Xiangwu Zhang
  • Yong Zhu

Associate Professors

  • Rajeev Gupta
  • Raymond Unocic
  • Kinga Unocic
  • Nina Balke

Assistant Professors

  • Bharat Gwalani
  • Timothy Horn
  • Yin Liu
  • Martin Seifrid
  • Ruijuan Xu

Research Professor

  • Christopher Rock

Adjunct Professors

  • Barry Farmer
  • John Prater

Adjunct Associate Professor

  • Charles Guarnieri

Practice/Research/Teaching Professors

  • Maude L. Cuchiara
  • Alexey Gulyuk
  • Albert Kwansa

Emeritus Faculty

  • Charles Balik
  • Elizabeth Dickey
  • Carl C. Koch
  • Yuntian Zhu