Engineering Colleges Like Duke

RacinReaver
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:31:39 +0000

Wow, well, color me surprised. I wonder why Rice hasn’t gotten their MSE program ABET approved yet. Though I suppose at least they put the word Materials in the name of the department. It’s probably similar to EECS or ECE departments out there. Thinking about it I could swear I also remember seeing some ChemE/MSE departments, as well. Actually, my own department is now Applied Physics & Materials Science, so there’s yet another version you can get!

(Generally the only difference between Materials Science, Materials Engineering, and Materials Science & Engineering is the focus of the classes. Generally, materials is considered to be based on four basic parts: structure, performance, properties, and processing. Engineering programs tend to be focused more on performance and processing, while science ones do the other two.)