The intellectual origins of materials science stem from the Age of Enlightenment, when researchers began to use analytical thinking from chemistry, physics, and engineering to understand ancient, phenomenological observations in metallurgy and mineralogy.
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Materials engineering scientists emphasize understanding how the history of a material influences its structure, and thus the material's properties and performance.
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Materials engineering science has driven, and been driven by, the development of revolutionary technologies such as rubbers, plastics, semiconductors, and biomaterials.
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Materials engineering research covers a broad range of topics, following non-exhaustive list highlights a few important research areas.
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Efforts surrounding integrated computational materials engineering are now focusing on combining computational methods with experiments to drastically reduce the time and effort to optimize materials properties for a given application.
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Materials engineering science evolved, starting from the 1950s because it was recognized that to create, discover and design new materials, one had to approach it in a unified manner.
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Field of materials science and engineering is important both from a scientific perspective, as well as for applications field.
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Materials engineering are of the utmost importance for engineers because usage of the appropriate materials is crucial when designing systems.
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Materials engineering physics is the use of physics to describe the physical properties of materials.
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Materials engineering physics is considered a subset of condensed matter physics and applies fundamental condensed matter concepts to complex multiphase media, including materials of technological interest.
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