Introduction

Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Curriculum has been designed to provide graduates with carefully balanced needs covering ‎basic science, engineering principles, and contemporary techniques. The first year of the program is ‎designed to build competency in the basic sciences and to introduce engineering as a ‎profession. The following two years are intended to allow the student to learn the essential elements ‎of the field using experimental, computational, and statistical methods. The final year shall allow the ‎students to get specialized in an area of interest by selecting appropriate elective courses in ‎addition to two-semester capstone senior design project. The four elective courses offer an opportunity to ‎satisfy a concentration requirement in line ‎with ‎the KSA vision and ‎industry needs. This enables students to tackle materials related ‎challenges in the petroleum, gas, ‎petrochemical and basic industries‎‏.‏‎ The MSE elective courses ‎ ‎are grouped in five areas: Computational Materials Design, Corrosion and Degradation, ‎Nonmetallic, Metallurgy ‎and Mining, Energy and Water.‎ The program offers mandatory digital enabling courses like artificial ‎intelligence (AI) and data ‎‎sciences/analytics as well as a business course to introduce students to the ‎basics of business ‎and ‎entrepreneurship for possible spin-off companies.

Program Educational Objectives

The educational objectives of the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Undergraduate Program are for the graduates to attain the following within a few years of graduation:

1. 1. Attain employment in governmental or private sector, or engage in entrepreneurship.
   2. Pursue their professional development through self-learning or pursue advanced degrees.
   3. Advance their careers by demonstrating leadership and interpersonal skills including teamwork and communication skills.

Requirements

Every student of Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering program must complete the following curriculum: