具有新颖和可控制的电子，光学和磁性特性的材料得到了广泛的应用，包括计算机，照明，传感器，医学和可持续性。电子，光学和磁性材料的研究包括用于获得具有受控成分和结构的材料，特征以及这些材料的应用的加工技术。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
Materials with novel and controlled electronic, optical, and magnetic properties have widespread applications, including computers, lighting, sensors, medicine, and sustainability. Research in electronic, optical, and magnetic materials includes processing techniques for obtaining materials with controlled compositions and structures, characterization, and applications of these materials. 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.