We’re celebrating the end of a successful school year and are looking forward to exciting opportunities in the year ahead. As the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering (MME), we are always looking for new ways to connect our two disciplines.
Big news for us is the start of our Ceramics Center Cooperative Agreement with the Army Research Lab, “Accelerated Discovery, Design, and Development of Ceramic Materials (Cer3D)” which involves 10 of our MME faculty from both disciplines, and focuses on key areas of ceramics processing, additive manufacturing, computational methods, and property and microstructural characterization of ceramic materials for extreme environments.
On the education side, we have transitioned our PhD program in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) back to MME from its previous interdisciplinary administration, and are finding new ways to cross-pollinate with our graduate programs in Mechanical Engineering. Our curriculum changes to the undergraduate MSE program are well underway, preparing our students for the interdisciplinary nature of modern engineering organizations.
We continue to focus our inquiries in research into clean energy technology, robotics and automation, biosystems, and advanced materials. We continue to refine our relevancy to our students to prepare them for careers in growing areas including autonomous systems, nuclear energy, hydrogen economy, biomedical materials, semiconductor industries, and advanced manufacturing.
As always, it is great to be a Coug.
– JSM