As product development teams face increasingly complex challenges — including the need for greater sustainability — there’s a growing awareness of the critical contributions made by materials. Many of ...

In October 2015 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop of experts from diverse communities to examine predictive theoretical and computational approaches for ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering share a strong history of interconnected research activities, established research centers, and ...

At Northwestern University, our first-of-its-kind materials science department collaborates extensively with our leading mechanical engineering department, resulting in a strong history of ...

How additive manufacturing advanced the development of functionally graded materials. Why compositionally graded materials present a greater challenge to materials engineers. How computational ...

Materials informatics sits at the intersection of experimental science, computation, and data analytics. The aim is simple: use data and models to make discovering, designing, and deploying new ...