Tufts University - School of Engineering MSc in Materials Science and Engineering
Tufts University - School of Engineering

Tufts University - School of Engineering

MSc in Materials Science and Engineering

  • Medford, Verenigde Staten
  • Boston, Verenigde Staten

MSc (Master of Science)

1 max.

2 jaren

Engels

Full time, Deeltijd

15 Mar 2026

Sep 2026

USD 1.799 / per credit

Op de campus

Materials scientists study how the history of a material influences its structure and properties, advancing understanding in research areas that include metallurgy, solid-state physics, and biomaterials.

Tufts faculty have strengths in soft, structural, electronic, computational, and nanomaterials. From drug delivery to semiconductors to nano-enabled membranes for water treatment, materials science and engineering at Tufts offer graduate students a wide array of opportunities to study and develop materials that will change the world.

Materials Science and Engineering M.S. Program

The master’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering is an interdisciplinary program, with students pursuing classes across multiple departments to achieve mastery in the field.

Tufts Interdisciplinary Advanced Materials (TIAMAT) Center

The Tufts Interdisciplinary Advanced Materials (TIAMAT) Center unifies more than four dozen Tufts faculty members whose technical interests include materials science. They come from nine departments across the Schools of Engineering and Arts & Sciences. While materials research has been a long-time significant strength at Tufts, the lack of a unifying center has caused it to fly under the radar. With the launch of TIAMAT, we are now able to pursue the fruits of our shared strength.

De missie van het centrum is om de materiaalfaculteit van Tufts te verenigen in een gemeenschappelijk doel: 1) Tufts internationale erkenning geven voor uitmuntendheid in materiaalonderzoek en -onderwijs; 2) Het opleiden van de volgende generatie materiaalonderzoekers in een programma dat excellentie cultiveert, en 3) Het produceren van nieuw en zeer innovatief onderzoek dat fundamentele en toegepaste kennis op het gebied van materialen bevordert.

De materiaalkunde is van nature een interdisciplinair vakgebied dat zijn oorsprong dankt aan het tijdperk van de Verlichting, toen wetenschappers de instrumenten van het analytisch denken uit de scheikunde, natuurkunde en techniek begonnen te gebruiken bij hun studie van metallurgie en mineralogie. In de moderne tijd zijn de belangrijkste studieonderwerpen voor materiaalwetenschappers en -ingenieurs uiteraard uitgebreid tot de materialen van onze huidige technologische basis – dat wil zeggen halfgeleiders, nanotechnologie en biomaterialen – en kijken ze ook naar de materialen van de toekomst.

In recent years, there has been considerable growth and excitement in several areas of materials science, all of which are already represented by research here at Tufts. These areas include:

  • Nanomaterials: The study of material in which the common descriptive unit of size is 1-100 nm. Materials with nanometer-scale features tend to have unique mechanical, catalytic, and electro-optical properties. A wide variety of aspects of this topic are of interest to the researchers in the center. Applications vary from nano-enabled membranes for water treatment to nanostructured devices for novel electronic devices.
  • Soft-materials and bio-materials: This area includes any bulk material, construct, or surface that interacts with or is composed of a biological system. While this field is young, it has seen explosive growth and includes overlap with medicine, tissue engineering, biology, and chemistry. Biomaterials are used today for drug delivery, surgery, and dental applications.
  • Fotonische en elektromagnetische materialen: Een archetypisch voorbeeld van deze categorieën zijn halfgeleiders, die ten grondslag liggen aan al onze moderne computergestuurde en lichtabsorberende/emitterende apparaten. Dit vakgebied heeft een sterke overlap met natuurkunde en elektrotechniek en omvat onderwerpen als supergeleiders, spintronica, metamaterialen en topologische isolatoren. Er is nog een overstap naar het gebied van geavanceerde fluorescerende materialen voor labeling en detectie, met name in biomedische toepassingen.
  • Computational materials science: With the vast improvements in computing power over the last several decades, simulating complex materials systems has become possible. This allows for the modeling of materials at all length scales using methods such as kinetic Monte Carlo, density functional theory, and molecular dynamics.

TIAMAT seeks bright young minds to join us in our M.S. and Joint-Ph.D. programs and to help us take the lead in establishing the next chapter in materials research.