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MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING,

part of the Faculty for Engineering and Technology.

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Materials Science and Engineering

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

Materials Science and Engineering is an interdisciplinary field involving the properties of matter and its applications to various areas of science and engineering. This discipline involves a study of materials starting with design, followed by synthesis and processing, structure and properties of the materials. This integrated approach distinguishes this discipline from the individual components, such as physics, chemistry, and many others.

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

School news and current events

News

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18 December 2006: New home page of the department of materials science:

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March 22, 2007 - Scientists create "super lense" using meta materials capable of seeing objects smaller than wavelengths of light.
February 26, 2007 - Research into conversion of water and sunlight to hydrogren 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 (*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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Quotation

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