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Discover Engineering 2017: Breaking in students to careers in MSE
When Discover Engineering students walked into the Van Vlack Lab this summer, they were greeted by the following message sprawled […]
Kim group developed a new way to make heat-conducting plastics
Advanced plastics could usher in lighter, cheaper, more energy efficient product components, including those used in vehicles, LEDs and computers–if […]
Goldman Lab develops nanoparticles that could spur better LEDs, invisibility cloaks
In an advance that could boost the efficiency of LED lighting by 50 percent and even pave the way for […]
Keith Bowman (’87) appointed Dean of UMBC COEIT
MSE alum and External Advisory Board (EAB) member Dr. Keith Bowman (PHD ’87) has been appointed dean of the College […]
Robert D. Pehlke Lectureship in Materials Processing endowed
Summer school provides ‘incredible experience’ for educators learning computational MSE
For two weeks, June 5-16, 25 university educators became students again – taking notes and absorbing concepts like finite difference […]
MSE a part of local – and nation’s largest – elementary Science Olympiad
This past spring, MSE Professors Katsuyo Thornton and Max Shtein captivated elementary students with the physics of light during four […]
‘Xplore’ activities show fun (and delicious) side of MSE
“Whoooooa, that’s so cool!” “Can I touch it? Can I touch it?” “Is my ice cream warm enough to eat […]