The rapid global transition toward sustainable and renewable energy systems is driving an urgent need for advanced materials that combine high efficiency, ...

From creating lightweight yet durable prosthetics to designing new types of solar panels and batteries, materials engineers combine their expertise in physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering to ...

Depth profiling techniques constitute a fundamental analytical approach in material science, enabling researchers to characterise the composition, structure and interfacial properties of complex ...

Since establishment as the world’s first materials science academic department, Northwestern Engineering has led and defined the frontier of material research, enabling transformative technologies ...

Engineers Week – an event first celebrated in 1951 by the National Society of Professional Engineers – took place on February 20 th-26 th, 2022. The theme of this year’s event was “Reimagining the ...

In the brightly lit MSE Teaching Laboratory inside Cook Hall, teams of Northwestern Engineering students peer into 3D printers, eagerly waiting to see their latest results. The materials they are ...