A detailed investigation of a topic of current significance in engineering and materials science such as: biomedical synthetics, electronic properties of materials, advances in metal working, history of materials technology, quantitative metallography. Theory of disclinations, scanning electron microscopy. May be repeated to a maximum of eight credits, but only four credits can be earned under the same title. A particular topic may be offered at most twice under the MSE 599 number.

A detailed investigation of a topic of current significance in engineering and materials science such as: biomedical synthetics, electronic properties of materials, advances in metal working, history of materials technology, quantitative metallography. Theory of disclinations, scanning electron microscopy. May be repeated to a maximum of eight credits, but only four credits can be earned under the same title. A particular topic may be offered at most twice under the MSE 599 number.