PROGRAM CRITERIA FOR
MATERIALS1, METALLURGICAL2,
AND SIMILARLY NAMED ENGINEERING PROGRAMS
Lead Society: Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS)
1Cooperating Societies for Materials Engineering Programs: National Institute of Ceramics Engineers, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2Cooperating Society for Metallurgical Engineering Programs: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration
These program criteria apply to engineering programs including "materials," "metallurgical," "polymer," and similar modifiers in their titles. All programs in the materials related areas share these criteria, including programs with materials, materials processing, ceramics, glass, polymer, metallurgical, and similar modifiers in their titles.
1. Curriculum
The program must demonstrate that graduates have: the ability to apply advanced science (such as chemistry and physics) and engineering principles to materials systems implied by the program modifier, e.g., ceramics, metals, polymers, composite materials, etc.; an integrated understanding of the scientific and engineering principles underlying the four major elements of the field: structure, properties, processing, and performance related to material systems appropriate to the field; the ability to apply and integrate knowledge from each of the above four elements of the field to solve materials selection and design problems; the ability to utilize experimental, statistical and computational methods consistent with the goals of the program.
2. Faculty
The faculty expertise for the professional area must encompass the four major elements of the field.
Program Criteria for Materials-related Engineering degree programs as specified by TMS, (above, from http://www.abet.org/criteria_eac.html) are expressed in Program Objectives 1, 2, and 4.
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