Materials Science & Engineering

 

Graduate Education Program

MATERIALS SCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY


Faculty and graduate students of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Washington are active participants in the interdisciplinary research opportunities in Nanotechnology. During the past few  years, graduate students from Materials Science and Engineering have formed one of the largest groups of students to receive fellowships from this program.  If your research interests are in this area, then we would like to bring to your attention the following opportunities:

  • The Early Bird Summer Research Award in Nanotechnology for starting graduate students, pays newly admitted graduate students to do research in the lab of a participating Nanotech faculty member during all or part of the summer before you start classes, and provides a travel voucher to attend a national symposium in nanotechnology during the first year.   The application is automatic with a regular application to the Materials Science and Engineering graduate program, provided you let the Department know you are interested in nanotechnology by checking the appropriate box on the Application Form (pdf).   
  • First-year grad students can compete for full 3-year Nanotechnology Research Fellowships, which also include $3000 per year for research expenses.  The call for applications will come out in May of each year.
  • Courses and seminars in nanotechnology are also offered.
  • Training in the use of AFMs, STMs and electron microscopes is also available in the Nanotech User Facility (see description of university-wide instrumentation facilities below).

Further details on these opportunities can be found by visiting the University of Washington's Center for Nanotechnology website.

In addition, other facilities are available for research in the field of nanotechnology:

 

UNIVERSITY-WIDE INSTRUMENTATION FACILITIES

A number of university-wide facilities offer use and training in other major equipment such as: