Materials and Manufacturing Technology
Welcome to the Materials and Manufacturing Technology (MMT) graduate concentration at The Henry Samueli School of Engineering (note: listed in 2006-07 catalog as “Interdisciplinary Concentration in Materials Science and Engineering”). This school-wide graduate program leads to an M.S. degree or Ph.D. degree in Engineering with a concentration in MMT. It also offers a part-time study option for students pursuing an M.S. degree. Currently, there are 25 faculty members from five departments (CEE, BME, ChEMS, EECS, and MAE) participating in this interdisciplinary program.
Materials and Manufacturing Technology (MMT) is concerned with the generation and application of knowledge relating the composition, structure, and processing of materials to their properties and applications, as well as the manufacturing technologies needed for production. During the past two decades, MMT has become an important component of modern engineering education, partly because of the increased level of sophistication required of engineering materials in a rapidly changing technological society, and partly because the selection of materials and the technology to put these materials together in the designed structure have increasingly become an integral part of almost every modern engineering project.
Background Suggested:
Given the nature of Materials and Manufacturing Technology as an interdisciplinary program, students having a background and suitable training in either Materials, Engineering (Biomedical, Chemical, Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical), or the Natural Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geology) are encouraged to participate. Recommended background courses include an introduction to materials, thermodynamics, mechanical properties, and electrical/optical/magnetic properties. A student with an insufficient background may be required to take remedial undergraduate courses following matriculation as a graduate student.
Admissions Information:
Use the following list as a guideline of documents needed for a complete application.
__________ Application
__________ Application Fee
__________ Statement Of Purpose
__________ Official Copy of GRE
__________ Official Copy of TOEFL (International Applicants Only)
__________ Official Copy of Transcripts (Bachelors and Masters, if applicable)
__________ 3 letters of recommendation
Please send the above items to the following address:
The
Graduate Student Affairs Office
101 Engineering and Computing Trailer
Questions about the application process? Contact Sonja Dietrich, director of Graduate Student Affairs, at sonja.dietrich@uci.edu or 949-824-3562.
Interdisciplinary Research Activities Include:
Subjects of interest in Materials and Manufacturing Technology cover a wide spectrum including metals and alloys, electronic and optical materials, ceramics, advanced composites, polymers, biomaterials, electronic packaging, solder technology, microfabriaction, semiconductor processing, various sensors, lifechips, and nanotechnology. The emerging new research and technological areas in materials and manufacturing technology are in many cases interdisciplinary. Accordingly, the principal objective of the graduate curriculum is to integrate a student’s area of emphasis—whether it be chemical processing and production, electronic and photonic materials and devices, electronic packaging and manufacturing, or materials engineering —into the whole of materials and manufacturing technology. Such integration will breed familiarity with other disciplines and provide students with the breadth they need to face the challenges of current and future technology.
Career Fields Include:
The field of MMT ranks high on the list of top careers for scientists and engineers. The services of these engineers and scientists are required in a variety of engineering operations dealing, for example, with design of semiconductors and optoelectronic devices, development of new technologies based on composites and high-temperature materials, biomedical products, performance (quality, reliability, safety, energy efficiency) in automobile and aircraft components, improvement in nondestructive testing techniques, corrosion behavior in refineries, fabrication of steels, and construction of highways and bridges.
Degree Requirements:
Visit the 2008-09 UCI General Catalogue for more course and degree information about the Materials and Manufacturing Technology Concentration. Please note that the concentration is listed in the current catalog as the Interdisciplinary Concentration in Materials Science and Engineering.
Participating Faculty:
Mark Bachman: Microfabrication technology, integrated microsystems, sensors, biomedical microdevices
Ozdal Boyraz: Silicon photonics, nonlinear optics in silicon, cascaded cavity silicon Raman lasers
Peter J. Burke: Quantum electronics, high-speed semiconductor technology
Zhongping Chen: Optical sensor and imaging, MEMS and biophotonic system, and biomedical devices
James C. Earthman: Fatigue behavior and cyclic damage, automated materials testing, high-temperature fracture, biomaterials, cellular networks
Franco De Flaviis: Microwave materials and devices, MEMS devices and fabrication processes
Noo Li Jeon: Biomaterials
John C. LaRue: Fluid mechanics, micro-electrical-mechanical systems (MEMS), turbulence, heat transfer, instrumentation
Abraham Lee: Micro and nanofluidic chips, droplet-based reactors for bioassays and materials synthesis, cell and biomolecular based sensors, nanoparticles and vesicles for drug delivery and targeted therapeutics
Chin C. Lee: Electronic packaging, thermal management, semiconductor devices, and microwaves
Henry P. Lee: Optoelectronic materials, growth, and devices
Guann Pyng Li: Optoelectronic devices, integrated circuit fabrication and testing, high-speed semiconductor technology
Marc J. Madou: Fundamental aspects of micro/nano-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS), biosensors, nanofluidics, biomimetics
Martha L. Mecartney: Electron microscopy, ceramics, interfacial engineering
Farghalli A. Mohamed: Mechanical properties, creep, superplasticity, correlations between property and microstructure
Daniel R. Mumm: Thermo-mechanical behavior of materials, interfaces and microstructure, materials for power and propulsion, cellular materials, morphing structures, micro/nano-mechanics
Richard Nelson: Applications: MEMS, nanosystems; materials: structural, mechanical, electrical, and optical properties of materials for the construction of new devices and integrated systems
Andrew A. Shapiro (Adjunct): Electronic properties of materials; electronic packaging materials, processes, and characterization
Andrei M. Shkel: Design, advanced control, diagnostics, and fabrication of integrated microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), applications in inertial, optical, and biomedical systems
Frank G. Shi: Optoelectronics packaging, packaging materials, photonic glass and nanocomposites
Lizhi Sun: Micromechanics and nanomechanics, dislocation dynamics, composites and thin films, multiscale modeling, elastography
Chen S. Tsai: Integrated optic devices, circuits, materials; acoustic microscopy with applications to materials, device characterization
Lorenzo Valdevit: Multifunctional sandwich structures, thermal protection systems, morphing structures, active materials, MEMS, electronic packaging, cell mechanics
Albert Yee: Nanofabrication of soft materials, physics of polymer thin films, nanomechanical properties of polymers, ultra-low k dielectrics, fracture and toughening of polymer nanocomposites
