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WELCOME TO DEPARTMENT OF
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING,

part of the Faculty for Engineering and Technology.

Materials Science and Engineering

Hi and welcome to the Wikiversity School of Materials Science and Engineering. A hope is to create a resource that can help individuals learn and apply principles of Materials Science. This site can serve as a forum to ask questions, discuss ideas, read notes, and participate in courses.

Wikiversity's Department of Materials Science and Engineering is part of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology.

School news and current events

Looking for contributors.
18 December 2006: New home page of the department of materials science:

Related news

March 22, 2007 - Scientists create "super lense" using meta materials capable of seeing objects smaller than wavelengths of light.
February 26, 2007 - Scientest research direction conversion of water and sunlight to hyrdogren receives 3 million dollar federal grant.

School history

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is a developing school. There is an attempt to form a framework on this page to assist in the organization of content.

There is currently an introductory text to the field of Materials Science and Engineering being developed at wikibooks.

Selected biography

Thomas Young, English scientist

Thomas Young (*June 14, 1773 – †May 10, 1829) was an English scientist, researcher, physician and polymath. He is sometimes considered to be "the last person to know everything": that is, he was familiar with virtually all the contemporary Western academic knowledge at that point in history. Clearly this can never be verified, and other claimants to this title are Gottfried Leibniz, Leonardo da Vinci, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Francis Bacon, among others. Young also wrote about various subjects to contemporary editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica. His learning was so prodigious in scope and breadth that he was popularly known as "Phenomenon Young."

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Quote

"It is by no means an idle game if we become practiced in analysing long-held commonplace concepts and showing the circumstances on which their justification and usefulness depend..."
— Albert Einstein