Materials Science and Engineering, B.S.

Required Major Preparation [36 Units]

All School of Engineering students are required to complete the following lower-division major preparation courses.

Engineering Fundamentals Requirement [18 Units Specified]

The following fundamentals courses are required:

Materials Science and Engineering Core [25 Units Specified]

The MSE core consists of courses designed to give all students a common foundation of core knowledge and skills specific to the discipline:

Additional Degree Requirements [10 Units Specified]

Technical Electives Requirement [At Least 12 Units]

Technical electives should be selected in a manner that is complementary to, yet integrated with, your major area of study, and should be determined through close interaction with your major area advisor.

At least 8 units of these 12 units must be upper division courses. At least 6 units of these electives must be selected from those that are “MSE 1xx” or ENGR 170 or ENGR 170L, excluding MSE 195, which may be used insteadto help satisfy the remaining 6 required technical elective units.

The following list has been approved; you may also choose graduate level MBSE courses or technical electives from others offered in the School of Engineering, subject to prior approval by the MSE faculty and the satisfaction of any prerequisites on a case-by-case basis:

Additional Degree Recommendations [1-8 Units]

Transfer Students

To be admitted to the Materials Science and Engineering major transfer students must meet the following requirements:

Applicants will, at the time of admissions have completed at minimum each of the following courses (or their equivalent) with a “C-” or better: