Current areas of active research within the Department of Materials Science and Engineering include:
• amorphous and nanocrystalline metals
• astrophysics and space sciences
• biomaterials
• coatings
• computational materials science
• CVD of electronic materials
• diffusion
• electrochemistry and corrosion
• electron microscopy
• electronic and magnetic materials
• environmental cracking

• fatigue and fracture
• laser-material interactions
• light metals
• materials processing
• nanotechnology
• phase transformations
• structure and properties of interface
• surface science
• thermodynamics and kinetics
• wear of electrical contact materials