Historical grades cover up to five years through the selected term. Grade sorting prioritizes courses with at least 100 letter grades.
Small lectures
CHEM/MS&E 421 covers polymeric materials, focusing on polymer chemistry, physics, structure-property relationships, and synthesis for optoelectronic applications.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
3 . 2 5 3.25 historical GPA · 1 8 6 186 grades
Spring 2022–Fall 2025 Small lectures
ME/MS&E 431 is a technical study and laboratory investigation into metal casting manufacturing processes.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
MS&E 1 is a cooperative education program where students apply engineering theory in a professional workplace setting.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
Highly rated instructor
MS&E 260 provides an overview of Materials Science and Engineering, focusing on the societal impact of materials and hands-on design, synthesis, and fabrication skills.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
3 . 9 1 3.91 historical GPA · 5 8 58 grades
Fall 2022–Fall 2025 · limited sample Highly rated instructor
MS&E 299 is an independent study course conducted under faculty supervision.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
3 . 9 9 3.99 historical GPA · 7 9 79 grades
Spring 2022–Fall 2022 · limited sample MS&E 330 introduces the thermodynamics of materials, covering equilibrium constants, solutions, heterogeneous equilibria, and electrochemistry.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
2 . 9 5 2.95 historical GPA · 1 0 4 104 grades
Spring 2022–Fall 2025 Covers macroprocessing of materials including iron/steel production, electrolytic metal production, alloy solidification, and single crystal growth.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
3 . 2 8 3.28 historical GPA · 1 2 0 120 grades
Fall 2022–Fall 2025 Highly rated instructor Large lectures
Introduction to the structures and properties of solid materials, covering phase equilibria, mechanical behavior, and selection.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
3 . 2 2 3.22 historical GPA · 1 , 8 1 4 1,814 grades
Spring 2022–Spring 2026 Introduction to materials science focusing on structure-property relations in solids.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
3 . 0 0 3.00 historical GPA · 1 0 6 106 grades
Fall 2022–Fall 2025 Highly rated instructor Small lectures
MS&E 360 is a laboratory course teaching sample preparation and application of quantitative microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and properties measurement for structure-property relationships.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
3 . 6 3 3.63 historical GPA · 9 6 96 grades
Fall 2022–Fall 2025 · limited sample Small lectures
MS&E 362 is a laboratory course focusing on the synthesis and characterization of materials, including experiments on mechanical and electronic properties, computer instrument control, and data analysis.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
3 . 6 5 3.65 historical GPA · 1 0 5 105 grades
Fall 2022–Fall 2025 Small lectures
MS&E 401 covers special topics in materials science and engineering.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
3 . 8 8 3.88 historical GPA · 4 4 3 443 grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026 Small lectures
This course covers crystallography and X-ray diffraction, focusing on crystal symmetry, projection methods, and X-ray studies of structural problems in the solid state.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
3 . 7 8 3.78 historical GPA · 6 0 60 grades
Fall 2022–Fall 2025 · limited sample Small lectures
Introduction to ceramic materials covering crystal structure, phase equilibria, defects, transport phenomena, and processing technologies.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
3 . 4 6 3.46 historical GPA · 1 0 4 104 grades
Fall 2022–Fall 2025 Small lectures
MS&E 456 covers the quantitative description of electronic, optical, and magnetic structure-property relationships and strategies for developing new materials.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
3 . 4 0 3.40 historical GPA · 1 3 9 139 grades
Fall 2022–Fall 2025 Small lectures
Covers the design, properties, processing, and selection of high temperature materials for structural applications.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
3 . 4 6 3.46 historical GPA · 2 8 28 grades
Fall 2022–Fall 2025 · limited sample Small lectures
MS&E 470 is a capstone course focusing on materials design, selection, and application through creative problem solving and experimental analysis.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
3 . 9 7 3.97 historical GPA · 1 1 2 112 grades
Fall 2022–Fall 2025 Small lectures
Introduction to inorganic-organic hybrid materials, focusing on polymeric and framework structures like MOFs.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
Small lectures
MS&E 530 covers the thermodynamics of condensed matter as applied to materials science and engineering.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
3 . 6 3 3.63 historical GPA · 9 0 90 grades
Fall 2022–Fall 2025 · limited sample Small lectures
MS&E 550 is an accelerated introduction to materials fundamentals, focusing on the materials paradigm for problem solving and research.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
3 . 5 0 3.50 historical GPA · 2 0 20 grades
Fall 2023–Fall 2024 · limited sample Highly rated instructor
MS&E 699 is an independent study course in Metallurgical Engineering requiring consent of the instructor.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
4 . 0 0 4.00 historical GPA · 1 9 19 grades
Spring 2022–Fall 2022 · limited sample MS&E 702 is a Graduate Cooperative Education Program offering work experience combining theory and operations practice for MS students.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
Small lectures
MS&E 748 introduces structural analysis of materials using transmission electron microscopy, covering imaging, diffraction, and microanalysis.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
3 . 3 7 3.37 historical GPA · 3 0 30 grades
Fall 2022–Fall 2025 · limited sample MS&E 758 is a laboratory course introducing transmission electron microscopy (TEM) practice and sample preparation through hands-on training.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
Small lectures
MS&E 760 teaches hands-on experience in modern atomic and molecular modeling tools for materials.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
3 . 6 2 3.62 historical GPA · 3 0 30 grades
Fall 2024–Fall 2025 · limited sample Highly rated instructor
MS&E 790 is a master's research or thesis course conducted under faculty supervision.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
MS&E 803 covers varying special topics in Materials Science.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
3 . 9 3 3.93 historical GPA · 1 2 1 121 grades
Spring 2022–Spring 2025 Highly rated instructor
MS&E 890 is a supervised research course for pre-dissertator students.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
MS&E 900 introduces graduate students to the breadth and practices of materials research at UW and in the professional community.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
Highly rated instructor
MS&E 990 is a research and thesis course for Ph.D. students under faculty supervision.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history