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MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING PROGRAM:
FIRST AND SECOND YEARS
SEMESTER I SEMESTER II SEMESTER III SEMESTER IV
MATHEMATICS 1
PHYSICS
(three tracks, choose one)
CHEMISTRY
(three tracks, choose one)
ENGLISH
COMPOSITION
(three tracks, choose one)
REQUIRED
NONTECHNICAL
ELECTIVES
MATH V1101 (3) MATH V1102 (3) MATH V1201 (3) MATH V1202 (3)
and ODE (3)
C1401 (3) C1402 (3) C1403 (3) C1494 (3)
C1601 (3.5) C1602 (3.5) C2601 (3.5) Lab C2699 (3)
C2801 (4.5) C2802 (4.5) Lab W3081 (2)
C1403 (3.5) C1404 (3)
Lab C1500 (2) either semester
C1604 (3.5) C2507 (3)
C3045 (3.5) C3046 (3), Lab C2507 (3) C3545 (3)
C1010 (3)
Z1003 (0) C1010 (3)
Z0006 (0) Z1003 (0) C1010 (3)
HUMA C1001, C0CI C1101, HUMA C1002, C0CI C1102,
or Global Core (3–4) or Global Core (3–4)
HUMA W1121 (3) ECON W1105 (4) and
or W1123 (3) W1155 recitation (0)
REQUIRED TECH
ELECTIVES
COMPUTER
SCIENCE
PHYSICAL
EDUCATION
GATEWAY LAB
(3) Student’s choice, see list of first-and second-year technical electives (professional-level courses; see pages 12–13)
A computer language of the student’s choice at the 1000 level or higher
C1001 (1) C1002 (1)
E1102 (4) either semester
1 Students with advanced standing may start the calculus sequence at a higher level.
ics are key background subjects. The
engineering aspects deal with the design
of materials to achieve desired properties
and the assembling of materials into
systems to produce devices of interest
to modern technology, e.g., for computers
and for energy production and utilization.
Areas of Research
The graduate specialty in solid-state science
and engineering includes research
programs in the Fractional Quantum Hall
Effect and electronic transport (Professor
Stormer, Physics/ Applied Physics and
Applied Mathematics); nonlinear optics
of surfaces (Professor Heinz, Electrical
Engineering/ Physics); semiconductor
nanocrystals (Professor Brus, Chemistry/
Chemical Engineering); optics of semiconductors,
including at high pressure
(Professor Herman, Applied Physics and
Applied Mathematics); chemical physics
of surfaces and photoemission (Professor
Osgood, Electrical Engineering/Applied
Physics and Applied Mathematics);
molecular beam epitaxy leading to semiconductor
devices (Professor Wang,
Electrical Engineering/Applied Physics
and Applied Mathematics); luminescence
in heavily doped wide-band-gap
semiconductors (Professor Neumark,
Henry Krumb School of Mines/Applied
Physics and Applied Mathematics); and
inelastic light scattering in low-dimensional
electron gases within semiconductors
(Professor Pinczuk, Applied
Physics and Applied Mathematics/
Physics); large-area electronics and thinfilm
transistors (Professor Im, Henry
Krumb School of Mines/Applied Physics
and Applied Mathematics); structural
analysis and high Tc superconductors
(Professor Chan, Henry Krumb School
of Mines/Applied Physics and Applied
Mathematics); X-ray microdiffraction and
stresses (Professor Noyan, Henry Krumb
School of Mines/ Applied Physics and
Applied Mathematics); magnetic properties
of thin films (Professor Bailey, Henry
Krumb School of Mines/Applied Physics
and Applied Mathematics); the structure
of nanomaterials (Professor Billinge, Henry
Krumb School of Mines/Applied Physics
and Applied Mathematics); electronic
structure calculations of materials (Professor
Marianetti, Henry Krumb School of Mines/
Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics);
and optical nanostructures (Professor
Wong, Henry Krumb School of
Mines/Mechanical Engineering).
SEAS 2009–2010