Advanced Materials Engineering

Are you curious to know how things (sensors, actuators, robots, etc.) work?  Have you been contemplating yourself play with electrons, photons and phonons?  Do you want to explore the fundamental links between sciences and engineering?  Do you wish to be a leader who changed an industry?

We invite you to discover your place and explore your potential in MS MatE at UTSA.

The Interdisciplinary MS in MatE is the only graduate program currently on UTSA campus that offers students a rigorous materials engineering curricular with in depth knowledge in electronic materials or biomedical materials, as well as on business perspective of transforming advanced technology in business practices.

• Interdisciplinary curriculum (taking courses from Materials Engineering, Management of Technology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bio-Engineering, and other science and engineering disciplines across departmental boundaries).
• State-of-the-art technical knowledge and skill training
• Materials Research Graduate Fellowship and Intership opportunities
• Pathways to Doctoral Programs and leadership job opportunities in Materials Science and Engineering

Our graduates appreciated their experience working with highly respected graduate faculty, conducting research in collaborating teams, and the supportive environment provided by the MatE faculty and staff.

Graduates from our MS-MatE program will have the knowledge and skills needed to design, fabrication, and evaluation of advanced materials. They may take on R&D or supervisory roles in many companies especially those in manufacturing, energy, communications, transportation, healthcare, defense, and of environmental emphasis. The graduates will be well qualified to apply PhD programs in EE, BME, or Materials Science and Engineering at UTSA or elsewhere.

Recent alumni of MatE have been hired by USPTO, INTEL, Applied Materials, Union Pacific, L3 Technologies, Boral, FBD, etc., and several graduates have entered doctoral programs at UTSA or elsewhere after graduation.

Research in multifunctional materials and biomaterials are multidisciplinary and translational, with wide range of applications. Examples of current research areas of focus are

• Multifunctional and Multiferroic Sensors and Tunable Sensors;
• Piezoelectric and Ferroelectric Actuators and Energy harvesting schemes;
• Oxides-Based Microwave and Optoelectronic Materials and Devices;
• MetaMaterials (Engineered Composites) Simulation, Fabrication, and Characterization;
• Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies;
• Resonance Enhanced Processes for Energy Transduction and Efficiency;
• Tissue engineering and drug deliveries for bone and cardiovascular applications;
• Bone mechanics and cardiovascular mechanics;
• Dental materials;
• Biosensors;
• Cellular engineering
• Tissue-implant interfaces
• 3D Bioplotter of organic tissues and organs, and
• Hybrid 3D printing of nano-micro-electronic devices
• Semiconductor Materials Fabrication

Faculty Directory

Mark R. Appleford (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design), B.S., M.S., California Polytechnic State University; Ph.D., University of Tennessee Health Science Center/University of Memphis

Arturo Ayon (Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Science) B.S. Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico; M.S. and Ph.D. Cornell University

Amar S. Bhalla (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design), B.S., M.S., Rajasthan University, India; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Chonglin Chen (Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Science), B.S., Huachiao University, M.S. Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Acad. Sci., China; M.S. and Ph.D. Penn State University

Teja Guda (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design) B.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India; Ph.D., University of Texas at San Antonio / University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Ruyan Guo (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design), B.S., M.S., Xi’an Jiaotong University, China; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Jerome A. Helffrich (*Applied Physics Division, Southwest Research Institute) B.S. University of Illinois at Urbana; M.S. and Ph.D. University of California, San Diego

Youngjoong Joo (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design), B.S., M.S., Korea University, South Korea; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology

Jose Lopez-Ribot (Department of Biology, College of Sciences) B.S., Pharm.D./Ph.D., University of Valencia, Spain

Christopher Michael (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design), M.S., Ph.D., The Ohio State University

Joo L. Ong (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design), B.S., University of Iowa; M.S., Ph.D., University of Alabama at Birmingham

Arturo Ponce-Pedraza (Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Science) M.Sc. Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico; Ph.D. Universidad de Cadiz, Spain

Gabriela Romero Uribe (Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design), B.S. University of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, M.S. and Ph.D. Universidad del País Vasco, Spain

Austin Spivey (Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security, College of Business), B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology; M.S., Texas Christian University; Ph.D., University of Houston

Liang Tang (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design), B.S., Jiangsu Polytechnic University, China; Ph.D., University of Louisville

JingYong Ye (Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design) B.S. Optical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China; Ph. D. University of Tsukuba, Japan

Xiaowei Zeng (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design), B.E and M.E., Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China; M.S and Ph.D. George Washington University