PhD Programs

Professor Wong, Cellular and Subcellular Mechanics Laboratories.

Post-bachelor's PhD

As is true for all doctoral programs currently offered by College of Engineering, the MS requirements for the Materials Science and Engineering degree comprise the structured coursework portion of the PhD program.  The remaining required PhD credit hours remain unstructured and can be chosen, with advisor approval, to meet an individual students’ academic and research needs.

Doctoral students must satisfy a residency requirement of at least two consecutive academic-year semesters of full-time graduate study at Boston University. Students must pass comprehensive examinations covering basic knowledge in materials and demonstrate sufficient competency in mathematics.

Postbachelor’s Ph.D. students are required to complete a minimum of 64 credits, of which 32 credits must be the structured courses required for the M.S. degree.

Doctoral students must maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.00 to remain in good academic standing and to graduate. All graduate courses are counted in the GPA. Only grades of “B­-" or better fulfill Ph.D. curricular requirements.

A minimum of 16 credit hours of research/dissertation is required.

Post-bachelors doctoral students will be awarded M.S. degrees upon completion of the 32 credit hours of structured coursework and the Ph.D. Prospectus Exam.


Math Requirement for post-BS students:

Complete with grade B+ or better one of:

  1. ENG ME 512 Engineering Analysis
    Fourier transformations, PDEs, Complex variables, Variational and perturbation methods

  2. ENG EK 501 Mathematical Methods I
    Fourier transformations, Linear algebra, Vector analysis, Complex variables, Algorithms

  3. ENG MS/EC 574 Physics of Semiconductor Materials
    ODEs, Fourier series and Fourier transformations, PDEs, Functional spaces

  4. ENG MS 508 Computation Methods in Materials Science
    ODEs, Fourier transformations, PDEs, Linear algebra, Complex variables, Probability and statistics, Algorithms, Optimization, Functional spaces
  1. ENG MS/ME 527 Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing
    ODEs, Vector analysis, PDEs, Linear algebra, Complex variables

All Ph.D. students are required to fulfill the Math Requirement no later than the end of their fourth academic semester.

The list of courses will be reviewed periodically by the MSE Graduate Committee.

 
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