MSE at Iowa State University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate MSE coursework.

• MSE 5010Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering Iopens 1 course (1 directly)
• MSE 5100Fundamentals of Structure and Chemistry of Materialsopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate MSE work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 4 MSE and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 29 more MSE courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in MSE. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at MSE 5030

  1. MSE 5010Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering I
  2. MSE 5030Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering III

• 2 courses deep, ending at MSE 6510

  1. MSE 5100Fundamentals of Structure and Chemistry of Materials
  2. MSE 6510Powder Diffraction Methods

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for MSE yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under MSE yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

MSE does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Iowa State campus feed.