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MSE's COVID-19 plan

For the fall 2022 quarter, MSE will be following the guidelines and recommendations set by UW Environmental Health & Safety.

Fall 2022 COVID Guidelines

Get your master's in MSE

Our applied master's students perform cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research on a wide variety of fields and applications.

Our Applied Master's Program

Introducing CSSAS 2.0

Center focused on bio-inspired materials synthesis enters new phase of research.

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Schoenholz takes third at SAMPE URS

The Ph.D. student's prizewinning paper described a new tool to improve efficiency in aerospace manufacturing.

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Tomorrow’s clean energy leaders

A multi-disciplinary course is training students across the scales of clean energy — from materials and devices to storage and power grid integration.

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Three MSE faculty included on Highly Cited Researchers 2022 list

Guozhong Cao, Di Xiao and Xiaodong Xu were named on Clarivate’s annual list of Highly Cited Researchers.

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Feb

Thu

MSE Special Seminar: Jung-Ho Yu

3:30 pm - 4:20 pm

Electrical and Computer Engineering Building (ECE) - 045

Feb

Mon

MSE Seminar: Kenji Yasuda

3:30 pm - 4:20 pm

Bagley Hall (BAG) - 154

Feb

Thu

MSE Special Seminar: Shih-Ting Wang

3:30 pm - 4:20 pm

Electrical and Computer Engineering Building (ECE) - 045

Feb

Tue

MSE Special Seminar: Dane deQuilettes

3:30 pm - 4:20 pm

Electrical and Computer Engineering Building (ECE) - 045

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