The Department of Materials Science and Engineering has 15 faculty, about 40 graduate students, and about 25 undergraduate students, plus technical and administrative support staff. Offices and laboraties are located in Maryland Hall with additional laboratory space in Krieger Hall. The undergraduate teaching laboratory and the department's surface anlytical laboratory and electron microscope laboratory are all located in Maryland Hall. The Department is one of nine departments in the G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering located on the Homewood campus at Johns Hopkins University. There are about 3700 undergraduate and 2500 graduate students at the Homewood Campus which is located in northwest Baltimore, with easy access to nearby cities such as Washington DC, Philadelphia, and New York.

We pride ourselves in excellence both in research and teaching. Research groups are relatively small, with between 5 and 10 graduate students and post-doctoral associates, which allows for extensive interaction between faculty and students. Participation of undergraduate students in research is an integral part of our program. All of our classes are taught by faculty members and the class sizes are relatively small; most class have about 20 students.

Since materials science is inherently an interdisciplinary subject, many research and teaching activities are conducted jointly with faculty in other departments in the university.

You can find some more general information about our department in Peterson's Guide.