Students who are interested in a technology and science may find this program and career right up their alley! Please read this email that we received from Sarah Johnson :
As the Enrollment Manager for the School of Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) at Georgia Tech (GIT), I welcome you to the wonderful and exciting world of materials. I’m eager to partner with you in educating your students about MSE, and exploring their potential to become the next wave of Ramblin’ Wrecks!
We are pleased to invite you to our MSE Spring Open House event to learn more about our program and student opportunities on Saturday, March 9th, 2013. The program will be held in the J. Erskine Love building on the GIT campus, and will run from 10am – 2pm (including lunch). Please let me know via email if you’d like to attend.
The deadline to apply for Fall 2013 has passed as it was Thursday, January 10, 2013. I hope you had students apply to GIT!
MSE at GIT is one of the leading materials programs in the country in terms of faculty numbers and diverse research expertise focusing on all classes and forms of both hard and soft materials, including metals, ceramics, polymers, fibers, composites, nanostructures, and bio-enabled/biomimetic materials. The MSE research portfolio addresses a multitude of functionalities from structural load-bearing applications to energy storage and harvesting, and from electronic, photonic, and opto-electronic devices to drug delivery platforms and body implants. As a world leader in educating the next generation of materials scientists and engineers, MSE continues to define the future of our discipline through academic excellence and research innovations aimed at overcoming societal challenges in energy, environment, health and human welfare, infrastructure, security, and transportation.
The GIT MSE program is the largest and most diverse such school in the country, uniquely focused on the creation and development of novel materials required by the exploding technologies of the 21st century. We are the 5th ranked undergraduate MSE program by U.S. News & World Report (USN&WR), and the 11th ranked program in the world by QS World University, all imbedded in the #5 ranked “Best Undergraduate Engineering Program” by USN&WR.
The world-class, flexible undergraduate curriculum offers diversity and flexibility, incorporating a College of Engineering core, a MSE core and three concentrations to choose from: Polymer and Fiber Materials, Structural and Functional Materials and Biomaterials.
MSE graduates are employed by a wide and diverse host of industries and companies, such as Kimberly Clark, TenCate, General Electric, Boeing, Caterpillar, Johnson & Johnson, Halliburton, NASA, ExxonMobil, Lockheed-Martin, Honda, Shaw Industries, Solvay Advanced Polymers, Michelin, Honeywell, DuPont, Newell Rubbermaid, Night Vision and Electronics, U.S. Customs Laboratory, etc. Starting salaries are extremely competitive (average of > $60,000/year).
Specific Career areas for MSE graduates include:
· Research and Development of new materials for, among others, the nanotechnologies, energy production, bio-technologies, aviation, transportation and microelectronics industries · Process and Production Engineering to design unique solutions for increasing materials’ production, decreasing their costs and trouble-shooting undesirable process conditions
· Field Engineering to use engineering intuition and basic principles to perform related tasks in highly technical fields
· Consulting to solve complex problems for companies involved in the broader materials industries
· Sales and marketing of new and existing materials
· Environmental Issues
Please note that MSE has a very generous in-school scholarship program, with considerable funds available for freshman awards (see attachment). Faculty research areas along with other general undergraduate MSE information including our world-class curriculum can be found at http://www.mse.gatech.edu/
Here are some links to actual testimonials from students in our program that you can share with your students:
I look forward to hearing from you and helping you connect your students with our program. If you’d like to speak to me personally, please email (sarah.johnson@mse.gatech.edu) or call 404.894.2430 (toll-free: 1.800.533.7815). Thank you for relaying the GIT MSE story to your students, and we hope to greet you at the MSE Spring Open House event on March 9th!
Sarah Johnson
