Materials Science and Engineering

Materials science is an interdisciplinary field of researching and discovering materials.

Materials engineering is an engineering field of finding uses for materials in other fields and industries.

The intellectual origins of materials science stem from the Age of Enlightenment, when researchers began to use analytical thinking from chemistry, physics, and engineering to understand ancient, phenomenological observations in metallurgy and mineralogy.

<p>Materials science incorporates elements of physics, chemistry, and engineering.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Materials science began to be more widely recognized as a specific and distinct field of science and engineering in the 1940s.</p> Signup and view all the answers