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Integrated B.S.-M.S. Program
Undergraduates have
the opportunity to receive simultaneously or sequentially
awarded B.S. and M.S. degrees in MSE by taking
an additional 96 units (nominally eight 12 unit
courses) of coursework at CMU. The primary purpose
of the Integrated Masters/Bachelor Degree Program
is to provide students with superior breadth and
depth in technical material which will better
prepare them for careers in industry. The Integrated
Masters/Bachelor Degree Program normally requires
an additional academic year of coursework beyond
the B.S. Degree Requirements. However, students
interested in pursuing the Integrated M.S./B.S.
Degrees are encouraged to begin taking some of
the required graduate courses before their last
year.
Degree Requirements The
following are the additional requirements for
the Integrated M.S./B.S. Degrees over and above
the requirements for the B.S. Degree. Note that
no course can be counted as satisfying more than
one of the requirements listed below and no course
used to satisfy the B.S. Degree requirements can
be used to satisfy one of the requirements listed
below. The requirements total 96 units (nominally
eight 12 unit courses.) The 96 additional units
needed to satisfy the M.S. degree component of
the Integrated Program can not be used to satisfy
any other requirements such as a double major
or minor.
One must take the following required courses:
27-780 Thermodynamics (12 units)
27-788 Defects in Materials (6 units)
27-766 Diffusion in Materials (6 units)
27-796 Structure of
Materials (6 units)
27-797 Bonding of Materials (6 units)
and 60 units of MSE 500 and 700 level courses
or,
An additional 30 units of 500 or 700 level MSE
courses and an MSE Graduate Research Project (30
units) 27-756 Masters Project (usually taken in
the summer of the fourth year)
The Integrated M.S./B.S. Degree Program is available
to all undergraduates who maintain a cumulative
QPA of 3.0 or better, including the freshman year.
Students must also maintain a QPA of 3.0 in courses
used to satisfy the requirements of the M.S. degree.
No course with a grade lower than C will be counted
toward the Master's Degree requirements (those
over and above the requirements for the B.S. Degree).
Students (with a cumulative QPA of 3.0 or higher)
become eligible to apply to the program during
the spring semester of their junior year, or the
semester in which they accumulate 280 or more
units, whichever is earlier. Interested students
should apply to the Department Head of Materials
Science and Engineering prior to February 15 of
their junior year.
As with all M.S. Degrees in the Department of
Materials Science and Engineering, students must
pass the master's comprehensive examination which
should be taken near the end of the Spring semester
of the fourth year. Although some specific graduate
courses are required above, substitutions are
permitted within the freedom of the normal requirements
for the M.S. degree.
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