2 0 Y E A R S O F M AT E R I A L S S C I E N C E
A BRIEF HISTORY 1960
ROOTED IN METALLURGY UD offers courses in physical metallurgy through the Department of Chemical Engineering. UD’s first Ph.D. and master’s degrees in Metallurgy are awarded in 1965.
1986
THE EARLY DAYS OF MATERIALS SCIENCE Materials and Metallurgy faculty are hired into all departments of the College of Engineering. The Metallurgy and Materials Program is renamed as the Materials Science Program. The Program operates college-wide electron microscope and x-ray diffraction facilities.
1998
A NEW DEPARTMENT FOR ENGINEERING The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is established– the first new department in the College of Engineering since 1914.
1999 to 2016
2018
EXPANSION AND GROWTH The department continues to recruit world-class faculty and outfits labs with top-of-the-line technology and equipment. The Patrick T. Harker Interdiciplinary Science and Engineering Laboratory–home to the Advanced Materials Characterization Lab and the Keck Center for Advanced Microscopy and Microanalysis–opens in 2013, and the UD Nanofabrication Facility opens in 2016. POISED FOR THE FUTURE Celebrating 20 years of Materials Science & Engineering at UD
JOIN US
20th Anniversary Celebration Saturday, May 12, 2018