Materials Science – Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

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HEDCO (HED) Chemical Engineering Building 216
(213) 740-9338
Email: mfdinfo@usc.edu
chems.usc.edu

Chair: Andrea Hodge, PhD

Associate Chair: Noah Malmstadt, PhD

Director of Petroleum: Iraj Ershaghi, PhD

Director of Graduate Programs: Kristian Jessen, PhD

Faculty

Choong Hoon Cho Chair: Jay Lee, PhD

M.C. Gill Chair in Composite Materials: Steve Nutt, PhD

Ray Irani Chair in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science: Andrea M. Armani, PhD

Zohrab A. Kaprielian Dean’s Chair: Yannis Yortsos, PhD

Philip and Cayley MacDonald Endowed Early Career Chair: Jayakanth Ravichandran, PhD

Omar B. Milligan Chair in Petroleum Engineering: Iraj Ershaghi, PhD, PE

N.I.O.C. Chair: Muhammad Sahimi, PhD*

Robert E Vivian Chair: Theo Tsotsis, PhD

Dean’s Professor in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science: Michael Kassner, PhD

Dean’s Professor in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science: Priya Vashishta, PhD

Flour Professor in Engineering: Andrea Hodge, PhD

Kenneth T. Norris Professor: Anupam Madhukar, PhD

Robert E. Vivian Professor: Charles Zukoski, PhD

N.I.O.C. Fellow: Behnam Jafarpour, PhD

Zohrab A Kaprielian Fellow: Pin Wang, PhD

Professors: Andrea Armani, PhD; Iraj Ershaghi, PhD; Malancha Gupta, PhD; Andrea Hodge, PhD; Behnam Jafarpour, PhD; Kristian Jessen, PhD; Rajiv Kalia, PhD; Michael Kassner, PhD; Jay Lee, PhD; Anupam Madhukar, PhD; Noah Malmstadt, PhD; Steve Nutt, PhD; Richard Roberts, PhD; Muhammad Sahimi, PhD*; Theo Tsotsis, PhD; Priya Vashishta, PhD; Pin Wang, PhD; Yannis Yortsos, PhD; Charles Zukoski, PhD

Associate Professors: Nicholas Graham, PhD; Shaama Mallikarjun Sharada, PhD; Jayakanth Ravichandran, PhD

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science: Lessa Grunenfelder, PhD

Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering Practice: Jincai Chang, PhD

Assistant Professors: Paulo Branicio, PhD; Birendra Jha, PhD; Zhenglu Li, PhD; Yu-Tsun Shao, PhD; Luis Francisco Villalobos, PhD; Wade Zeno, PhD

Senior Lecturer: Ken-Ichi Nomura, PhD

Adjunct Professor: Faruk Civan, PhD

Adjunct Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering Practice: Andrei Popa, PhD

Adjunct Assistant Professor: Nikhil Kar, PhD

Part-Time Lecturers: Virgil Adumitroaie, PhD; Michael Hahn, PhD; Davood Khairkhah, PhD; Andre Kovach, PhD; Robello Samuel, PhD

Joint Appointments: Edward Crandall, PhD, MD (Medicine); Stacey Finley, PhD (Biomedical Engineering); Martin Gundersen, PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering); Rajiv Kalia, PhD (Physics and Astronomy); Terence Langdon, PhD (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering); Jerry S.H. Lee, PhD (Medicine); Brent Merlot, PhD (Chemistry); Surya Prakash, PhD (Chemistry); Ishwar Puri, PhD (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering); Richard Roberts, PhD (Chemistry); Mark Thompson, PhD (Chemistry); Arieh Warshel, PhD (Chemistry)

Emeritus Professors: Elmer L. Dougherty; Ed Kwock Goo, PhD; Katherine Shing, PhD*; Peter Will, PhD (Astronautical Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering)

*Recipient of university-wide or school teaching award

Affiliated Student Organizations: WiSE (Women in Science & Engineering); Chem-E Car, AiChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers); SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers); MRS (Materials Research Society) WChE (Women in Chemical Engineering)

Degree Requirements

Undergraduate Emphasis in Materials Science (Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering)

See the listing under Chemical Engineering, Materials Engineering Emphasis (BS) .

Engineer in Materials Science

Requirements for the Engineer in Materials Science degree are the same as set forth in the general requirements  for graduate degrees.

Graduate Degrees: Masters, PhD

Students with an interest in the characterization, selection and processing of engineering materials, and in materials problems related to engineering design may work toward a Master or PhD degree. This degree is awarded in conformity with the general requirements of the Viterbi School of Engineering. Students may elect to work for this degree in either the Materials Science or Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering departments. The specific courses that constitute an acceptable program must be approved in advance by the administering department.

Programs

Minor

• •  Materials Science Minor

Master’s Degree

• •  Materials Engineering (Machine Learning) (MS)
• •  Materials Engineering (MS)
• •  Materials Science (MS)

Doctoral Degree

• •  Materials Science (PhD)

Courses

Materials Science

• •  MASC 110L Materials Science
• •  MASC 310L Materials Behavior and Processing
• •  MASC 334L Mechanical Behavior of Materials
• •  MASC 350L Nanostructured Materials: Design, Synthesis and Processing
• •  MASC 439 Principles of Semiconductor Processing
• •  MASC 440 Materials and the Environment
• •  MASC 455 Computational Materials I: Introduction to Atomistic Simulation
• •  MASC 456 Computational Materials II: Properties and Processing Simulations​​
• •  MASC 471 Applied Quantum Mechanics for Engineers
• •  MASC 472 Polymer Science and Engineering
• •  MASC 475 Physical Properties of Polymers
• •  MASC 476 Chemical Engineering Materials
• •  MASC 483 Introduction to Machine Learning for Materials
• •  MASC 490x Directed Research
• •  MASC 499 Special Topics
• •  MASC 501 Solid State
• •  MASC 502 Advanced Solid State
• •  MASC 503 Thermodynamics of Materials
• •  MASC 504 Diffusion and Phase Equilibria
• •  MASC 505 Crystals and Anisotropy
• •  MASC 506 Semiconductor Physics
• •  MASC 507 Micro- and Nano-Fabrication Technology
• •  MASC 511 Materials Preparation
• •  MASC 512 Thin Film Science and Technology
• •  MASC 514L Processing of Advanced Semiconductor Devices
• •  MASC 515 Basics of Machine Learning for Materials
• •  MASC 516 Materials Science for Energy Transitions
• •  MASC 520 Mathematical Methods for Deep Learning
• •  MASC 523 Principles of Electrochemical Engineering
• •  MASC 524 Techniques and Mechanisms in Electrochemistry
• •  MASC 534 Materials Characterization
• •  MASC 535L Transmission Electron Microscopy
• •  MASC 539 Engineering Quantum Mechanics
• •  MASC 551 Mechanical Behavior of Engineering Materials
• •  MASC 559 Creep
• •  MASC 560 Fatigue and Fracture
• •  MASC 561 Dislocation Theory and Applications
• •  MASC 562 Failure Analysis
• •  MASC 564 Manufacturing Composites for Sustainability
• •  MASC 570 Introduction to Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion
• •  MASC 575 Basics of Atomistic Simulation of Materials
• •  MASC 576 Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Materials and Processes
• •  MASC 583 Materials Selection
• •  MASC 584 Fracture Mechanics and Mechanisms
• •  MASC 590 Directed Research
• •  MASC 594a Master’s Thesis
• •  MASC 594b Master’s Thesis
• •  MASC 594z Master’s Thesis
• •  MASC 598 Materials Science Seminar
• •  MASC 599 Special Topics
• •  MASC 601 Advanced Semiconductor Device Physics
• •  MASC 610 Molecular Beam Epitaxy
• •  MASC 690 Directed Research
• •  MASC 790 Research
• •  MASC 794a Doctoral Dissertation
• •  MASC 794b Doctoral Dissertation
• •  MASC 794c Doctoral Dissertation
• •  MASC 794d Doctoral Dissertation
• •  MASC 794z Doctoral Dissertation