This course covers the atomic and molecular structure of crystalline and noncrystalline materials as well as selected analytical techniques for structural interrogation. Selected topics include, basic ... view course details
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Examines the electrical and optical properties of materials. Topics include the mechanism of electrical conduction in metals, semiconductors and insulators; tuning of electrical properties in semiconductors, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.Choose one lecture and one laboratory.
Combined with:
ENGRD 2620
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits
Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
4770MSE 2620 LEC 001
Meeting Pattern
MWF
Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
Instructors
Cha, J
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Class Number & Section Details
5005MSE 2620 LAB 401
Meeting Pattern
R
Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
Instructors
Cha, J
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Class Number & Section Details
5208MSE 2620 LAB 402
Meeting Pattern
S
Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
Instructors
Cha, J
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Phenomenological and atomistic theories of diffusion in metals, alloys, ionic compounds, semiconductors and polymers. Introduction to general transport theory and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Kinetic ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.Choose one lecture and one discussion.
Combined with:
MSE 5840
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits
Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
4829MSE 3040 LEC 001
Meeting Pattern
MWF
Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
Instructors
Dshemuchadse, J
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Enrollment limited to: undergraduate students; graduate students by permission of department, Michele Conrad (mmc2).
Class Number & Section Details
5045MSE 3040 DIS 201
Meeting Pattern
M
Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
Instructors
Dshemuchadse, J
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Introduces design in the context of real-world materials challenges as explored through reverse engineering. Students examine the materials, design, and cost constraints of a variety of technological products ... view course details
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Practical laboratory covering the characterization of material, analysis of data, and proper presentation of results. Labs are based on materials from courses in kinetics, diffusion and phase transformations ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.Choose one lecture and one laboratory.
Credits and Grading Basis
2 Credits
Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
6620MSE 3120 LEC 001
Meeting Pattern
M
Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
Instructors
Wagner, K
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Class Number & Section Details
4831MSE 3120 LAB 401
Meeting Pattern
W
Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
Instructors
Wagner, K
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Department Consent Required (Add)
Class Number & Section Details
4832MSE 3120 LAB 402
Meeting Pattern
F
Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
Instructors
Wagner, K
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Second semester of two-semester senior thesis sequence. See MSE 4050 for thesis project requirements. Continued research in individual faculty groups with periodic oral and written updates. In class discussion ... view course details
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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This course emphasizes entrepreneurial driven materials enabled designed through the understanding of early stage product development complexities. These complexities include staging invention and innovation ... view course details
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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This course is intended for an individual student, or small group of students, to pursue a particular project, analytical investigation, or experimental investigation outside of regular courses. The course ... view course details
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
Department Consent Required (Add)
Syllabi:
none
Project Session Full.
Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits
Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
17967MSE 4900 IND 603
Meeting Pattern
Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
Instructors
Robinson, R
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
Department Consent Required (Add)
Syllabi:
none
Project Session Full.
Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits
Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
17968MSE 4900 IND 604
Meeting Pattern
Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
Instructors
Singer, A
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
Department Consent Required (Add)
Syllabi:
none
Project Session Full.
Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits
Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
17969MSE 4900 IND 605
Meeting Pattern
Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
Instructors
Zhong, Y
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
Department Consent Required (Add)
Syllabi:
none
Project Session Full.
Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits
Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
17973MSE 4900 IND 606
Meeting Pattern
Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
Instructors
Donnelly, E
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
Department Consent Required (Add)
Syllabi:
none
Project Session Full.
Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits
Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
17975MSE 4900 IND 607
Meeting Pattern
Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
Instructors
Tian, Z
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
Department Consent Required (Add)
Syllabi:
none
Project Session Full.
Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits
Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
17986MSE 4900 IND 608
Meeting Pattern
Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
Instructors
Cha, J
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Supervised independent research project in association with faculty members and faculty research groups of the department. Students design experiments, set up the necessary equipment, and evaluate the ... view course details
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Gives credit to students who help in the laboratory portions of select MSE courses. The number of credits earned is determined by the teaching load and is typically 1-3. view course details
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Development of leadership skills and application to problem solving, forming and working on teams, project management, and networking. Development of graphical, verbal, and written communication skills. ... view course details
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Master of Engineering research project. Integration of technical, teamwork, and leadership skills to achieve a specific technical project goal defined by a project sponsor. MSE 5010 is for students who ... view course details
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Master of Engineering research project. Integration of technical, teamwork, and leadership skills to achieve a specific technical project goal defined by a project sponsor. MSE 5011 is for students who ... view course details
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Soft materials have unique properties, exploited widely by nature and industry. They are made from a variety of building blocks, including small molecules, macromolecules, and particles. These ... view course details
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Advanced course covering synthesis of high molecular weight polymers and their structure-property tradeoffs. Introduction to basic physical characterization and the influence of molecular weight, molecular ... view course details
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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This survey course is designed for senior undergraduates and graduate students in the fields of MSE, CBE, and MAE. Previous experience in particulate systems is not required. The course will focus on recent ... view course details
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Instruction Mode: In Person
S/U not allowed if using toward Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) graduation requirements.
This course provides an introduction to nanofabrication technologies with emphasis on Si-based integrated circuits manufacturing as well as modern electronics based on GaN, 2D materials etc. The lab, primarily ... view course details
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Surface and interface phenomena play a critical role in the processing and performance of advanced materials. Students and the instructor will identify topics of joint interest that build on the fundamentals ... view course details
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Instruction Mode: In Person
Enrollment limited to: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Master of Science (MS), and Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) seniors; others by permission of instructor.
Examine the fundamental theories of materials processes and manufacturing techniques, focusing on relevant process-structure-property relationships. Design processing routes and perform materials selection ... view course details
3 Credits
Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
Class Number & Section Details
9508MSE 5530 LEC 001
Meeting Pattern
MWF
Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
Instructors
Wagner, K
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Instruction Mode: In Person
Materials based kinetics at the level of MSE 3040.
This course will examine the wide variety of mineralized materials made by biological organisms including mollusk shells, sea urchins, mammalian bone and teeth, siliaceous sponges and diatoms, and magnetotactic ... view course details
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Course is intended for first year graduate students in MSE, or graduate students in other fields, needing a solid foundation in the relationships between structure and mechanical properties in materials ... view course details
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Phenomenological and atomistic theories of diffusion in metals, alloys, ionic compounds, semiconductors and polymers. Introduction to general transport theory and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Kinetic ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.Choose one lecture and one discussion.
Combined with:
MSE 3040
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits
Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
4830MSE 5840 LEC 001
Meeting Pattern
MWF
Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
Instructors
Dshemuchadse, J
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Class Number & Section Details
5057MSE 5840 DIS 201
Meeting Pattern
M
Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
Instructors
Dshemuchadse, J
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Chemistry of materials with an emphasis on concepts of general applicability and modern developments in the materials field. The transition from atoms to molecules is developed by applying group theoretical ... view course details
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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This course aims to provide a comprehensive understanding on the concepts of statistical thermodynamics in materials science and engineering. Topics include fundamental statistical thermodynamics concepts ... view course details
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Covers basic solid state and semiconductor physics relevant for understanding electronic and optical devices. Topics include crystalline structures, bonding in atoms and solids, energy bands in solids, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.Choose one lecture and one discussion.
Combined with:
ECE 4070, ECE 5350
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits
Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
5383MSE 6050 LEC 001
Meeting Pattern
MWF
Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
Instructors
Jena, D
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Instruction Mode: In Person
Class Number & Section Details
6683MSE 6050 DIS 201
Meeting Pattern
M
Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
Instructors
Jena, D
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Covers introductory concepts in tissue engineering, including polymeric biomaterials used for scaffolds, mechanisms of cellbiomaterial interaction, biocompatibility and foreign body response, cell engineering, ... view course details
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Lectures by visiting scientists, Cornell staff members, and graduate students on subjects of interest in materials sciences, especially in connection with new research. view course details
0.5 Credits
S/U NoAud(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory (no audit))
Class Number & Section Details
4965MSE 8010 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
R
Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
Instructors
Singer, A
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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