麻省理工学院的材料科学与工程系欢迎那些对细微差别和复杂性感到满意的大学生，他们能够指导他们的学术旅程，并且不怕冒险走熟悉的道路以追求个人和职业目标。教职员工为学生提供了对影响材料特性的机制，结构和过程的身临其境的理解，以及更多：他们向学生提出挑战，要求他们自己成为创新者。DMSE学生每学期在实验室中，他们将设计自己的项目，分析结果并计算其解决方案将如何影响整个世界。
MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering welcomes undergraduates who are comfortable with nuance and complexity, capable of directing their academic journey, and unafraid of venturing off the familiar path in pursuit of their personal and professional goals. Faculty members provide students with an immersive understanding of the mechanisms, structures, and processes that affect material properties, and much more: They challenge students to become innovators in their own right. DMSE students are in the lab every semester, designing their own projects, analyzing the results, and calculating how their solutions will affect the wider world.