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DMSE brings together engineering, physics, and chemistry to understand and design materials that tackle real-world challenges in energy, health, computing, and more.

DMSE Degrees

Why Choose DMSE?

Materials science explores what things are made of and why they behave the way they do. Materials engineering applies these scientific principles to create better materials and improve how they’re made. Together, materials science and engineering drives innovation across fields—from aerospace and computing to energy, medicine, transportation, food science, and beyond.

Research and education initiatives in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE)

Faculty Spotlights

All DMSE Faculty

Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli

Associate Professor

  • Title

    Paul M. Cook Development Professor

  • Department
  • Research Area

    Uses computational tools to tackle design of materials in complex combinatorial search spaces, such as organic electronic materials, energy storage polymers and molecules, and heterogeneous (electro)catalysts.

Tania Lopez-Silva

Assistant Professor

  • Department

    Materials Science and Engineering

  • Lab
  • Research area

    Health and Medicine; Soft Matter; Computation and Design; Characterization; Synthesis and Processing

Aristide Gumyusenge

Assistant Professor

  • Chair

    Henry L. Doherty Career Development Professor

  • Department

    Materials Science and Engineering

  • Lab
  • Research area

    Manufacturing; Computing and Data Science;
    Soft Matter; Device Fabrication; Synthesis and Processing; Semiconductors

Rodrigo Freitas

One of the world’s most renowned makers of hand-forged knives, Bob Kramer of Kramer Knives teaches a class at MIT on the art of bladesmithing at the Forge.

Class Highlights

  • 3.000 Coffee Matters: Using the Breakerspace to Make the Perfect Cup
  • 3.001 Science and Engineering of Materials
  • 3.008 Atoms to Devices: Sustainable Semiconductor Engineering
  • 3.042 Materials Project Laboratory
  • 3.091 Introduction to Solid-State Chemistry