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Current and upcoming courses for students enrolled in a Materials Science & Engineering degree program. For more details, view our course descriptions.

Please check with your adviser for course sequencing when planning your course of study, as the information below is subject to change. For all current course offerings, times and locations, refer to the University of Washington's online Time Schedule.

 

Planned MSE Undergraduate Course Schedule
2025 - 2026 Academic Year

CATEGORY COURSE AUTUMN 2025 WINTER 2026 SPRING 2026
CORE 170 X X X
298     X
310 X    
311 X    
312   X  
313     X
321 X    
322   X  
331 X    
333     X
342   X  
351   X  
352     X
362     X
399 X    
431   X  
442 X    
493 X    
494   X  
495     X
 
ELECTIVE 398      
450e      
452ace   X  
462afg     X
463f     X
466c      
471acdefg X    
474acdefg   X  
475afg X    
476ce   X  
477b X    
478b   X  
479b     X
482d   X  
483ad      
484ade X    
486ace     X
487   X  
489g     X
490g     X
498* X   X

 

Planned MSE Graduate Course Schedule
2025 - 2026 Academic Year

CATEGORY COURSE AUTUMN WINTER SPRING
CORE 503 X    
510 X    
520 X X X
525     X
541   X  
570 X    
571   X  
 
ELECTIVE 450      
452   X  
462     X
463     X
471 X    
475 X    
484 X    
486     X
501 X    
502      
539c      
542 X    
543   X  
544     X
550      
561 X    
563     X
565e   X  
566      
574   X  
576   X  
582   X  
583      
587   X  
589     X
590     X
599* X   X

 

*Special topics courses for the 25-26 academic year are as follows:
- Autumn: Introduction to Battery Materials and Battery Chemistry; Imaging at the Atomic Scale
- Spring: Superconductivity; Electrochemical Materials

a Counts toward the Nanoscience & Molecular Engineering (NME) option
b Recommended for the Materials Computation and Data Science concentration
c Recommended for the Energy and Enivronmental Materials concentration
d Recommended for the Materials in Medicine and Biomimetics concentration
e Recommended for the Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials concentration
f Recommended for the Structural Materials concentration
g Recommended for the Materials and Manufacturing concentration