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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