MSE at Virginia Tech

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 2044Fundamentals of Materials Engineeringopens 40 courses (12.2 directly)
• MSE 3314Materials Laboratory Iopens 7 courses (3 directly)
• MSE 4424Materials Laboratory IIopens 7 courses (3 directly)
• CEE 3684Civil Engineering Materialsopens 6 courses (0.7 directly)
• MSE 3204Fundamentals of Electronic Materialsopens 5 courses (3 directly)
• MSE 4034Thermodynamics of Materials Systemsopens 5 courses (3 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 71 MSE and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 38 more MSE courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on MSE, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

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.

• 6 courses deep, ending at MSE 4076

  1. CHEM 1035General Chemistry
  2. MSE 2044Fundamentals of Materials Engineering
  3. MSE 3314Materials Laboratory I
  4. MSE 4644Materials Optimization Through Designed Experiments
  5. MSE 4075Senior Design Laboratory
  6. MSE 4076Senior Design Laboratory

• 5 courses deep, ending at MSE 5064

  1. CHEM 1035General Chemistry
  2. MSE 2044Fundamentals of Materials Engineering
  3. MSE 4034Thermodynamics of Materials Systems

• 5 courses deep, ending at MSE 5504

  1. CHEM 1035General Chemistry
  2. CEE 3684Civil Engineering Materials
  3. ESM 3054Mechanical Behavior of Materials

• 4 courses deep, ending at MSE 3114

  1. CHEM 1035General Chemistry
  2. MSE 2044Fundamentals of Materials Engineering
  3. MSE 2114Math Programming MSE I

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 Virginia Tech campus feed.