MS Program
Courses
For current course scheduling, please visit the Student Link. For course descriptions, please visit the BU Search Course Descriptions page.
| Courses | Title |
|---|---|
| CORE (4 courses) | |
| MS 577/EC 577* | Electrical, Optical and Magnetic Properties of Materials OR |
| MS 543/PY 543* | Introduction to solid state physics |
| MS 505/ME 505 | Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics |
| MS 503/ME 503 | Kinetic processes in materials |
| MS 574/EC 574 | Physics of Semiconductor Materials OR |
| MS 504/ME 504 | Polymers and soft materials OR |
| MS 582/ME 582 | Mechanical behavior of materials OR |
| MS 508/ME 508 | Computational methods in materials science |
| CONCENTRATION (2 courses from any one concentration area) | |
| Biomaterials | |
| MS 506/BE 506 | Physical Chemistry of Cell Structure and Machinery |
| MS 521/BE 521 | Continuum Mechanics for Biomedical Engineers |
| MS 523/ME 523/BE 523 | Mechanics of Biomaterials |
| MS 524/ME 524/BE 524 | Skeletal Tissue Mechanics |
| MS 533/BE 533 | Biorheology |
| MS 726/ME 726/BE 726 | Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering I |
| MS 727/ME 727/BE 727 | Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering II |
| MS 736/BE 736 | Biomedical Transport Phenomena |
| MS 742/ME 742 | Bio-fluids and Structural Mechanics |
| MS 744/PY 744 | Polymer Physics |
| MS 771/PY 771 | Biophysics |
| Materials for Energy and Environment | |
| MS 527/ME 527 | Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing |
| MS 532/ME 532 | Atomic Structure and Dislocations in Materials |
| MS 535/ME 535 | Green Manufacturing |
| MS 545/ME 545 | Electrochemistry of Fuel Cells and Batteries |
| MS 779/ME 779 | Solid State Ionics and Electrochemistry |
| MS 781/ME 781 | Advanced Ceramics |
| Electronic/Photonic Materials | |
| MS 560/EC 560 | Introduction to Photonics |
| MS 575/EC 575 | Physics of Semiconductor Devices |
| MS 578/EC 578 | Fabrication Technology for Integrated Circuits |
| MS 770/EC 770 | Guided-wave Optoelectronics |
| MS/EC 774 | Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Photonic Devices |
| MS 776/EC 776 | Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics |
| MS 777/EC 777 | Nanostructure Optics |
| Nanomaterials | |
| MS 530/ME 530 | Introduction to Micro and Nanomechanics of solids |
| MS 555/ME 555 | MEMS Fabrication and Materials |
| MS 718/ME 718 | Advanced Topics in Nanotechnology |
| MS 777/EC 777 | Nanostructure Optics |
| MS 778/ME 778 | Micromachined Transducers |
| OTHER COURSES | |
| MS 507/ME 507 | Process Modeling and Control |
| MS 526/ME 526 | Simulation of Physical Processes |
| MS 534/ME 534 | Materials Technology for Microelectronics |
| MS 579/ME 579/EC 579 | Microelectronic Device Manufacturing |
| MS 580/ME 580 | Theory of Elasticity |
| MS 783/PY 783 | Advanced Characterization of Materials |
| MS 784 | Topics in Materials Science |
*Only one of these two courses may be taken for credit.
