对可持续，安全和高效能源的需求是当今时代的重大工程挑战之一。材料是几乎所有先进能源技术的局限性组成部分。该领域的研究集中在对诸如太阳能电池和锂离子电池等应用的材料的结构，特性和加工的理解上。材料科学与工程学科一直在迅速变化，随着探索材料结构和特性动力学的实验工具，高通量多尺度计算方法和材料信息学的最新进展。同时，我们变得越来越跨学科和协作，使社区能够寻求和回答针对我们的全球挑战的更具创新性和复杂性的解决方案。这些发展不仅改变了我们的研究方式，而且改变了我们对待研究生教育的方式。NCSU的MSE不断对我们的
The need for sustainable, secure, and efficient energy is one of the great engineering challenges of our time. Materials are the limiting components of nearly all advanced energy technologies. Research in this area focuses on the understanding of structure, property, and processing of materials for such applications as solar cells and lithium ion batteries. Materials science and engineering continues to change rapidly as a discipline, with recent advancements in experimental tools for probing the dynamics of material structure and properties, high-throughput multiscale computational methods and materials informatics. At the same time, we become increasingly interdisciplinary and collaborative, allowing the community to seek and answer more innovative and complex solutions to our global challenges. Not only do these developments change how we do research, but they change how we approach graduate education. MSE at NCSU continuously modernizes our graduate training paradigm, with the goal of providing a supportive environment, leading educators and state-of-the-art resources to create outstanding scientists, engineers and global leaders. While an innovative graduate curriculum and graduate-research mentorship continue to underpin the graduate program, we also emphasize leadership skills, global engagement and entrepreneurialism. Through programs such as the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship on the Science and Engineering of Atomic Structure, we take a leading role in changing the global paradigm for interdisciplinary graduate education.