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Application Deadlines
Fall:
February 15 for financial assistance
July 1 for fall session (April 1 recommended for fall session) Spring:
December 1 for spring session Summer:
Not open for admissions
Application Requirements
Test Scores: GRE
Special Instructions: None New England Regional:
MS only:
Massachusetts, Rhode Island
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Materials Science
Parsons Hall Room G216
Phone: 603-862-2526
Email:
Web Address:
http://www.unh.edu/materials-science/
Degree Offered (MS, PHD):
The materials science program offers a master of science in materials science
and a materials science option for the Ph.D. in engineering. The program offers
research opportunities over a broad range of areas including synthesis and
characterization of thin films, fullerenes and nanotubes, molecular templates,
self-organizing manostructures, polymers and polymer nanoparticles, using
scanning probe microscopy, physical and chemical vapor deposition methods,
micromechanics, molecular beam mass spectrometry, and computational methods.
Admission Requirements
Admission to the master of science and the doctor of philosophy degrees is based
upon a strong undergraduate record. A minimum G.P.A. of 3.0 is required, but
undergraduate students with exceptional experience or other mitigating factors
will be considered. Except under special circumstances, applicants must submit
current scores (within five years) from the general test of the GRE. Since
materials science is an interdisciplinary field, students from mechanical
engineering, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, chemistry,
mathematics, physics and other engineering- and science-related disciplines will
be considered. A suitable undergraduate program should contain: multivariable
calculus and differential equations, two semesters of university
(calculus-based) physics, one semester of thermodynamics or physical chemistry,
one semester of computer programming, one semester each of fluid mechanics and
heat transfer or two semesters of solid mechanics, and one semester of materials
science. Members of the faculty are available to evaluate each student’s
undergraduate curriculum. A series of appropriate courses will be required for
those students with deficiencies in their undergraduate program.
Degree Requirements
M.S. Degree Requirements
A student will meet the Graduate School’s requirements for the master’s degree
(30 credits). There is a thesis option and a project option. In both options,
the student is required to take MS 860, Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Materials
I; MS 961, Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Materials II; one course each
satisfying the areas of synthesis and processing, characterization, and
structure-property relationships, and two semesters of MS 900, Materials Science
Seminar. For the thesis option, the student will take one additional course (24
course credits) and 6 credits of MS 899, Master’s Thesis. For the project
option, the student will take two additional courses (27 course credits) and 3
credits of MS 898, Master’s Project. All students are expected to take at least
6 course credits at the 900 level.
Ph.D. Option Requirements
Students must complete 39 postbaccalaureate course credits. The student is
expected to take MS 860, Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Materials I; MS 961,
Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Materials II; one course each satisfying the
areas of synthesis and processing, characterization, and structure-property
relationships, and two semesters of MS 900, Materials Science Seminar. In
addition, the student must take five additional courses with at least 12 total
credits at the 900 level (including those courses taken at the master’s level).
The student will be advanced to candidacy after he or she has completed an M.S.
degree or 24 credits of graduate courses with at least 6 credits at the 900
level and the qualifying examination. The qualifying exam shall consist of two
parts. The student must present a written proposal adhering to NSF guidelines,
followed by an oral defense of that proposal. In addition, the student must
submit a substantive review paper and an oral presentation on that paper. A
materials science program faculty committee will determine the subject of the
paper. A substantive record of publication in conjunction with an oral
presentation at a conference may substitute for the review paper. A materials
science program faculty committee will decide whether the previous publication
record is substantive. The committee will evaluate the paper, the proposal, and
the two oral presentations to determine whether the student is suitably prepared
for graduate research at the Ph.D. level. The proposal and paper for the
qualifying exam should normally be completed within six months of completing 24
credits of coursework.
Upon the successful completion of the qualifying examination, the student is
advanced to candidacy and, upon the recommendation of the graduate coordinator,
a doctoral committee is appointed by the dean of the Graduate School. The
doctoral committee conducts an annual review of the student’s progress,
supervises and approves the doctoral dissertation, and administers the final
dissertation defense.
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