From creating lightweight yet durable prosthetics to designing new types of solar panels and batteries, materials engineers combine their expertise in physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering to ...

This study of materials science and engineering has produced a picture of remarkable contrasts. On the one hand, the study has revealed a field of great vitality—rapidly emerging scientific ...

In the pursuit of materials with properties that don’t exist in nature, UC Santa Cruz researchers devised a new method for materials engineering that incorporates novel mathematical and deep learning ...

When engineers look to nature for inspiration, they often turn to living systems. The flight of birds has influenced aircraft design, gecko feet inspired new adhesives and lotus leaves led to the ...

Researchers have found that adding just the right amount of disorder to the structure of certain materials can make them more than twice as resistant to cracking. Cut open a bone and you'll see a ...

Meet NASA Materials Engineer, Erick Ordoñez. Meet Materials Engineer, Erick Ordoñez. NASA materials engineer Erick Ordoñez explains how he makes sure that the materials NASA sends into space are ...

Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

Members of a multifunctional thin film research group have published two landmark studies that explain how to engineer and enhance the stability of ferroelectric hafnium oxides, which are compatible ...

This Committee will examine the impact of the National Science Foundation’s program 'Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer Our Future.' is having. The goal is to further the Nation's ...

Across industries, organizations are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to find ways to make their operations more productive and efficient. Marketers are brainstorming ideas for new campaigns ...

After decades of intense research, surprises in the realm of semiconductors—materials used in microchips to control electrical currents—are few and far between. But with a pair of published papers, ...

UWM's outgoing Chancellor Mone plans to close the Materials Engineering program despite its importance to the region and national defense. The author argues that materials engineering is a vital field ...