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Smart Materials & Devices

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Materials Engineers discover new materials and modify existing ones in order to achieve desired electronic, magnetic and optical properties. 

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  • Learn about nanomaterials, thin-films, coatings and microfabrication.
  • Tackle the world’s pressing challenges by developing new materials for solar cells and batteries.

Careers in Smart Materials & Devices:

  • Sensors and microdevices
  • Reverse Engineering and Failure Analysis
  • Material Processing

Where you’ll go: telecommunications, energy and microelectronic sectors. 

Courses

Bonding, crystallagraphy, mixing of materials and equilibrium (MATLS 2A04, 2B03, 2D03)

Semiconductors (MATLS 2Q03, 3Q03)

Polymers (MATLS 4P03)

Thin-Film Laboratory (MATLS 4LF2)

Sensors (MATLS 4Q03)

Nanomaterials (MATLS 4G03, 4FF3)

“Materials Engineering has given me the opportunity to access state-of-the-art facilities for the development of advanced functional materials for electronics and energy storage devices.”
Ryan Poon, Materials Engineering

Related Faculty

Nabil Bassim - Headshot

Dr. Nabil Bassim

Professor

Gianluigi Botton - Headshot

Dr. Gianluigi Botton

Professor

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Dr. Kathryn Grandfield (Bernar)

Associate Professor, Associate Chair – Graduate

Dr. Maureen Joel Lagos

Dr. Maureen Joel Lagos

Associate Professor

Dr. Anthony Petric

Dr. Anthony Petric

Professor (Emeritus)

Dr. Kyla Sask

Dr. Kyla Sask

Assistant Professor

Dr. Igor Zhitomirsky - Headshot

Dr. Igor Zhitomirsky

Distinguished Engineering Professor

Related Courses

Code Title Instructor Outline Info
CHEM ENG 724 Graduate Materials Characterization by Electron/Ion Microscopy [FALL 2022]  
Nabil Bassim - Headshot Nabil
CHEM ENG 724 Graduate Materials Characterization by Electron/Ion Microscopy [FALL 2022]  
Nabil Bassim - Headshot Nabil
MATLS 2A04 Undergraduate Introduction to Materials Engineering  
Dr. Hatem Zurob - Headshot Hatem
MECH ENG 4Q03 Undergraduate Mechanical Vibrations  
Dr. Stephen C. Veldhuis - Headshot Stephen C.
SFWRTECH 4AI3 Undergraduate Artificial Intelligence