Professor Alivisatos is selected as the recipient of the 2021 Priestley Medal American Chemical Society names Professor Paul Alivisatos 2021 Priestley medalist, the society’s highest honor. Read news story here. Contact Us Department offices are located in 210 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, in the Northeast corner of campus. Address: Department of Materials Science and Engineering…

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Berkeley MSE Undergraduate Program ranks #2 Best in 2021 U.S News Rankings! The 2021 US News and World Reports rankings have been released and UC Berkeley’s Materials Engineering program has been ranked number 2 in the nation! The complete rankings and link to more details can be found here. Contact Us Department offices are located…

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GRADUATE ADMISSIONS Graduate Program Deadlines General Admissions RequirementsApplication RequirementsLetters of RecommendationGRE/TOEFL/IELTSFinancial AssistanceFrequently Asked QuestionsContact Degree/Program Online Application Deadline (Application available early September) All materials must be submitted by the deadline. Doctor of Philosophy (MS/Ph.D., Ph.D.) December 4, 2023 8:59 pm, Pacific Standard Time Masters of Engineering Program (M.Eng) January 8, 2024 8:59 pm, Pacific Standard…

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Department of Materials Science and Engineering Professor Kristin Persson was a panelist in a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) session at a national investigators meeting speaking about the ever more important role that data science has to play in basic-science research. Professor Persson, who leads the Materials Project, is a world-leading expert on how open…

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Research from Prof. Minor’s and Prof. Ritchie’s groups led to the creation of pure titanium with a nanotwinned structure that demonstrated both ultrahigh strength and ductility. By using a processing method called cryo-forging, they demonstrated for the first time a nanotwinned structure in a bulk metal. This method is potentially cost-effective, scalable for commercial production…

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MSE 2022-2023 Awards   Each year the MSE department selects recipients for our various undergraduate and graduate awards many based on nominations gathered from MSE students, faculty and staff.   Corrosion Award Mackinzie Farnell Bella Crouch Benjamin Lam   Departmental Citation Award Ayush Gupta   Elaine Shen Award Aishwarya Jayadeep Ayush Gupta Daniel Hawthorne  …

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Professor R. Ramesh has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The NAI Fellows Selection Committee noted that Prof. Ramesh has “demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development, and welfare of society.”  He will be officially…

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MSE’s own Professor Ting Xu was selected as the recipient of the 2022 Faculty Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring. As part of National Postdoc Appreciation Week, Prof. Xu was recognized at PostdocFest – an event organized by the Berkeley Postdoctoral Association (BPA) in collaboration with the campus’s Visiting Scholars and Postdoc Affairs (VSPA) program and the Vice Chancellor for Research – for her efforts in fostering…

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