What is Materials Engineering. History of Materials Engineering.

Materials engineering is a discipline that deals with the study of characteristics of the materials being used. Other sub disciplines of materials engineering are nanotechnology, crystallography, materials characterization, and microtechnology. The purpose of materials engineering is to obtain knowledge about the materials so that alternate materials with the desired characteristics may be produced. The basics of materials engineering relate the requisite properties of the materials with the structure of atoms in that material. The structure of a material and its properties depend upon the chemical elements of the material. The science of materials engineering examines the connection between the structures of materials at molecular scales a