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The Materials Tetrahedron!

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Aerospace/ Defense

10%Biomedical

10%

Semiconductor17%

Energy6%Energy:

Sustainable

Fabrication/ Processing

22%

Other (Law, Teaching, etc.)

28%

Vision: Our vision is to collaboratively address the grand challenges of our time, especially sustainability and transformative learning, through our materials engineering program.

Mission: Our mission is to be a vibrant, creative, and effectual learning community that cultivates the unique capabilities of each member of our community to thrive in a complex, interconnected, technological, and ever-changing world.

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Materials Engineering Departments

Undergrad-focused Departments

MATE is Small but Mighty!

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Cal Poly MATE is the largest Bachelor’s granting M.S.E. program in California and the 9th

largest in the U.S.

And yet, we are the smallest engineering department at Cal Poly!

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Female and URM Representation in MATE

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67.6%

32.4%

Gender Distribution of Admitted MATE Students

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Female

42.3%

57.7%

Under-represented Minority Distribution of Admitted MATE Students

Majority URM

Senior project

Tech Electives

Breadth Electives

DepthBasicsWelcome Aboard!

Materials Engineering has the highest 4-year Graduation Rate in the College of Engineering!

At least 55% of required MATE courses have labs!Berkeley Materials Lab Courses

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Materials Characterization: microscopes, SEM, AFM, XRD, DSC, FTIR, TGA, DMA

Materials Processing and Testing: hardness, corrosion, rapid prototype, chemical synthesis, heat treating

Microsystems Technology Cleanroom: transistors, MEMS, thin films

Renewable and Biodegradable

Materials

Multi-Principal Element

Alloys

Engineering Education

Multi-scale Computational

Modeling of Materials

Nano Ceramics for

Carbon Sequestration

Conductive fibers