Materials Science & Engineering Concentration
Welcome to the Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) graduate concentration at The Henry Samueli School of Engineering. This school-wide graduate program leads to an M.S. degree or Ph.D. degree in Engineering with a concentration in Materials Science & Engineering. It also offers part-time study for an M.S. degree. Currently, there are 26 faculty members from five departments (CEE, BME, ChEMS, EECS, and MAE) participating in this interdisciplinary program. Each student has a home department that is also their advisor’s primary department.
Interdisciplinary Research Activities Include:
- Microelectronic and photonic devices and packaging
- Electronic and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)
- Thin film deposition, characterization, and applications
- Spraying and deposition of particles including nano-particles
- Nanotechnology and biomedical devices
- Materials with appropriate benign environmental impact
- Intelligent materials for sensor applications
[Visit the 2005-06 UCI General Catalogue for more information regarding the Interdisciplinary Concentration in Materials Science & Engineering]
Note: The Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (ChEMS) offers an MSE undergraduate program, and a degree program that leads to Ph.D. or M.S. degree in MSE.
Participating Faculty:
Mark Bachman (adjunt, EECS): Microfabrication technology, integrated microsystems, sensors, biomedical microdevices
Ozdal Boyraz (EECS): Silicon photonics, nonlinear optics in silicon, cascaded cavity silicon Raman lasers
Peter J. Burke (EECS): Quantum electronics, high-speed semiconductor technology
Zhongping Chen (BME): Optical sensor and imaging, MEMS and biophotonic system, and biomedical devices
James C. Earthman (ChEMS): Fatigue behavior and cyclic damage, automated materials testing, high-temperature fracture, biomaterials, cellular networks
Franco DeFlaviis (EECS): Microwave materials and devices, MEMS devices and fabrication processes
Noo Li Jeon (BME): Biomaterials
Ghassan S. Kassab (BME): Experimental and computational vascular engineering, coronary circulation in health and disease, vascular tissue remodeling, tissue engineering, simulation of complex biological systems
John C. LaRue (MAE): Fluid mechanics, micro-electrical-mechanical systems (MEMS), turbulence, heat transfer, instrumentation
Abraham “Abe” Lee (BME): micro and nanofluidic chips, droplet-based reactors for bioassays and materials synthesis, cell and biomolecular based sensors, nanoparticles and vesicles for drug delivery and targeted therapeutics
Chin C. Lee (EECS): Electronic packaging, fluxless bonding technology, thermal design and management, semiconductor devices, and microwaves
Henry P. Lee (EECS): Optoelectronic materials, growth, and devices
Guann Pyng Li: Optoelectronic devices, integrated circuit fabrication and testing, high-speed semiconductor technology
Jia Grace Lu (ChEMS/EECS): Nanostructured materials, nanoscale electronics
Marc J. Madou (MAE): Fundamental aspects of micro/nano-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS), biosensors, nanofluidics, biomimetics
Martha L. Mecartney (ChEMS): Electron microscopy, ceramics, interfacial engineering
Farghalli A. Mohamed (MAE/ChEMS): Mechanical properties, creep, superplasticity, correlations between property and microstructure
Daniel R. Mumm (ChEMS): Thermo-mechanical behavior of materials, interfaces and microstructure, materials for power and propulsion, cellular materials, morphing structures, micro/nano-mechanics
Richard Nelson (adjunct, EECS): Applications: MEMS, nanosystems; materials: structural, mechanical, electrical, and optical properties of materials for the construction of new devices and integrated systems
Melissa E. Orme (MAE): Fluid mechanics of materials synthesis, netform manufacturing
Regina Ragan (ChEMS): Self-assembly, nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, chemical and biological sensors, organic/inorganic interfaces and nanofabrication
Andrew A. Shapiro (Adjunct, EECS): Electronic properties of materials; electronic packaging materials, processes, and characterization
Andrei M. Shkel (MAE): Design, advanced control, diagnostics, and fabrication of integrated microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), applications in inertial, optical, and biomedical systems
Frank G. Shi (ChEMS): Optoelectronics packaging, packaging materials, photonic glass and nanocomposites
Lizhi Sun (CEE): Micromechanics and nanomechanics, dislocation dynamics, composites and thin films, multiscale modeling, elastography
Chen S. Tsai (EECS): Integrated optic devices and circuits, ferromagnetic materials; device and fabrication, ultrasonic nozzle technology for nanoparticles
Research Laboratories:
Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility (INRF)
