Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes are used in evaluating students and the department’s undergraduate program. The department expects undergraduate majors in the program to be able to demonstrate the following:

• Utilize the relationships between structure, properties, and processing to engineer materials with desired performance.

• Understand the relationship between characterization, synthesis, and prediction in materials design and properties.

• Deliver focused and practical materials solutions to satisfy design requirements for critical challenges in sustainability, medicine, technology, or other disciplines.

• Methodically design numerical and physical experiments and apply their knowledge from our courses to analyze and interpret data to obtain insights to identified challenges.

• Leverage the strong communication skills (written, oral, visual) we teach to effectively engage with a broad range of audiences about their science.

• Act as creative independent thinkers who have sufficient confidence in their skills as materials scientists to apply themselves to their chosen field (broad or narrow) as they choose their professional paths.

• Have a baseline understanding of the fundamentals to be inspired to continue to acquire and apply new knowledge.