Tufts University - School of Engineering

MSc in Materials Science and Engineering

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.

该中心的使命是团结塔夫茨大学的材料系教员，实现以下共同目标：1）使塔夫茨大学在材料研究和教育方面的卓越表现获得国际认可；2）通过培养卓越的项目，培养下一代材料研究人员；3）开展新颖且极具创新性的研究，推动材料领域的基础和应用知识的发展。

材料科学天生就是一门跨学科领域，其起源可追溯到启蒙时代，当时科学家开始使用化学、物理和工程学的分析思维工具来研究冶金学和矿物学。在现代，材料科学家和工程师的主要研究课题自然而然地扩展到包括我们当前技术基础的材料（即半导体、纳米技术和生物材料）以及未来的材料。

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.
• 光子和电磁材料：这些类别的一个典型例子是半导体，它是我们所有现代计算机化和光吸收/发射设备的基础。该领域与物理学和电气工程有很大的重叠，包括超导体、自旋电子学、超材料和拓扑绝缘体等主题。此外，该领域还涉及用于标记和传感的先进荧光材料领域，特别是在生物医学应用中。
• 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.