Materials scientists seek to understand the connections between the structure of materials and their properties, how particular properties can be achieved by suitable processing, and the applications of materials to modern technologies. The Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins is highly interdisciplinary, bringing together students and faculty with diverse interests to address urgent technological needs. Particular areas of strength include biomaterials,  nanomaterials, organic semiconductors, metallic glasses, materials characterization and thin films. The department is home to 14 tenured or tenure track faculty, approximately 60 graduate students and approximately 20 post-doctoral scholars. Our research expenditures total about three million dollars annually.  In the most recent 2010 National Resource Council Rankings of Graduate Schools in Materials Science and Engineering our department was ranked amongst the top 10 over-all and the top 5 in research productivity (see below).

We also have a dynamic and growing undergraduate program, currently enrolling about 70 students, graduating about 15 students annually. Many undergraduates choose to focus their studies by enrolling in one of two tracks, emphasizing either biomaterials or nanomaterials - two areas of emerging importance in our discipline. In addition, most undergradates participate directly in research projects in the department, working in small collaborative research groups with the faculty, graduate students,  and post-docs.

We invite you to explore our department using this website.  General inquiries about the department may be addressed to us at materials@jhu.edu.

 

NRC 2010 MSE Rankings by Overall Quality	NRC 2010 MSE Rankings by Research Productivity
1- Univ. of California, Santa Barbara	1- Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
2- California Institute of Technology	2- California Institute of Technology
3- Univ. of Massachusettes, Amherst	3- Univ. of California, Berkeley
4- Univ. of California, Berkeley	4- Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
5- Massachusetts Institute of Technology	5- Johns Hopkins University
6- Rice University	6- Univ. of Massachusettes, Amherst
7- Northwestern University	7- Univ. of California, Davis
8- Stanford University	8- Univ. of Texas, Austin
9- Johns Hopkins University	9- Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
10- Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	10- Massachusetts Institute of Technology