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Undergraduate students wishing to extend their education can undertake specialized study in a range of fields. These include research in ceramics, polymers, composites, nanostructured materials, high-temperature alloys, solidification, corrosion, deformation processing, welding, high-strength high-modulus materials, biomaterials, electronic materials, surface and molecular kinetics, glass science, and the origin of mechanical and physical properties in many different types of materials. Graduate students, in addition to pursuing classroom courses, conduct research in a variety of areas described below and write their theses based on this research. Extensive laboratories containing modern and sophisticated equipment are available.

ABET Educational Objectives

While certain objectives of an undergraduate education in engineering are common to all programs, there are subtle but important differences that require some subset of objectives specific to ensuring that all graduates have specialized technical knowledge in their chosen field.

Graduates of the materials engineering baccalaureate program who remain within their field, as graduate students or professionals, will have within a few years of their graduation:

• Used their broad knowledge of all classes of materials, and their background in mathematics and science, to contribute effectively to the solution of engineering problems, including problems involving design. 
• Demonstrated expertise in understanding the interdependence of the structure, properties, processing, and performance of materials and have utilized this interdependence in their professional activities. 
• Demonstrated themselves capable of dealing with emerging and continuing engineering problems and their societal consequences. 
• Demonstrated themselves effective in working with multi-disciplinary teams and in communicating clearly and convincingly in a variety of contexts. 
• Demonstrated the capacity for continued learning and an enthusiasm for engagement in such learning.

The Materials Science Engineering degree program at Rensselaer is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org.