Administrative Structure
Students will be administrated by the Faculty of Engineering through the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. It is envisaged that Department will have its own administrative set-up to administer its research students, similar to that of the other departments in the Faculty of Engineering.
Admission Requirements
The prevailing requirements for admission to research degrees shall apply.  The minimum requirement for admission is a Bachelor’s degree with honours (at least 2nd Class Lower) or its equivalent. Candidates applying for direct admission to the PhD programme are expected to obtain at least a Bachelor’s degree with honours (at least 2nd Class Upper) or its equivalent.
International candidates are expected to submit their TOEFL and GRE test scores in support of their applications. Candidates are also expected to have the ability to pursue research in the candidate’s proposed field of advanced study.
For more information on application, fees, graduate scholarship, please refer to Graduate, Faculty of Engineering (https://cde.nus.edu.sg/graduate/).
Candidature
The minimum and maximum periods of candidatures of the regular MEng and PhD programmes shall also apply to students of this discipline.
Programme Requirements
The PhD degree requires:
- completion of at least 24 Modular Credits (MC) technical modules; &
- Students must obtain a Cumulative Average Point (CAP) of 3.5; &
- a satisfactory grade in the Graduate English Course (Basic & Intermediate Level), for students who do not qualify for wavier of English Language requirement; &
- a satisfactory grade ES5101 Technical Communications for Engineers. Compulsory for PhD students admitted Academic Year 2017/18 Semester 1 onwards
- obtain a satisfactory grade for Faculty module EG5911 Research Methodology & Ethics (Compulsory, to be completed in first semester)
- pass Comprehensive and Oral PhD Qualifying Examinations within first 2 years into candidature;
- pass PhD thesis and Oral Defense
Module Requirements:
Each MEng student is required to complete 16 modular credits (MC), equivalent to 4 modules (assuming 4 MC per module), before graduation. Among these 4 modules, the 3 Core modules are compulsory. The remaining 1 module can be from the Elective modules list, or with maximum 1 non-core non-elective (NCE) modules.
Each PhD student is required to complete 24 modular credits (MC), equivalent to 6 modules (assuming 4 MC per module), before graduation. Among these 6 modules, the 3 Core modules are compulsory. The remaining 3 modules can be all from the Elective modules list, or with maximum 1 non-core non-elective (NCE) modules.
Core Modules:
| MLE5104 | Physical Properties of Materials |
| MLE6101 | Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Materials |
| MLE6103 | Structures of Materials |
Elective Modules:
| BN5201 | Advanced Biomaterials |
| CE5604 | Advanced Concrete Technology |
| CM5212 | Crystal Engineering |
| CM5237 | Advanced Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging |
| CM5262 | Contemporary Materials Chemistry |
| CM5268 | Advanced Organic Materials |
| CN5161 | Polymer Processing Engineering |
| CN5162 | Advanced Polymeric Materials |
| CN5251 | Membrane Science and Technology |
| CN6163 | Inorganic Nanomaterials for Sustainability (offered to MEng and PhD students only) |
| EE5431 | Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics (offered to MSc and MEng students only) |
| EE5434 | Microelectronic Processes and Integration (offered to MSc and MEng students only) |
| EE6435 | Advanced Concepts in Nanoelectronics |
| EE6437 | Advanced Semiconductor Devices |
| EE6438 | Magnetic Materials and Devices |
| ME5161 | Optical Techniques in Experimental Stress Analysis |
| ME5506 | Corrosion of Materials |
| ME5513 | Fracture and Fatigue of Materials |
| ME5516 | Emerging Energy Conversion and Storage Technologies |
| ME5611 | Sustainable Product Design & Manufacturing |
| ME6303 | Advanced Fluid Dynamics |
| ME6504 | Defects and Dislocations in Solids |
| ME6505 | Engineering Materials in Medicine |
| ME6604 | Modelling of Machining Processes |
| MLE5003 | Materials Science &Engineering Project |
| MLE5004 | Innovation & Translation Research Project in MSE |
| MLE5211 | Nanomaterials |
| MLE5212 | Energy Conversion & Storage |
| MLE5213 | Magnetic Materials |
| MLE5214 | Advances in Polymeric Materials |
| MLE5215/CN5215 | Atomistric Modelling of Molecules and Materials |
| PC5204 | Special Topics in Physics |
| PC5204A | Soft Materials and Flexible Devices |
| PC5204B | Selected Topics in Physics: Analytic Approximations |
| PC5205 | Topics in Surface Physics |
| PC5212 | Physics of Nanostructures |
Non-Core Non-Elective (NCE) Modules::
Only postgraduate modules (Levels 5000 and 6000 modules) within Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Science can be considered as NCE modules. Level 4000 modules, strongly needed for the students research project, can be considered as NCE module upon special request by students’ research advisor.
For module descriptions, please refer to NUS Bulletin (http://www.nus.edu.sg/nusbulletin/search-modules/)
For module timetable every semester, please refer to NUS Timetable Builder (https://webrb.nus.edu.sg/ctt/builder.aspx)
Contacts:
Handbook for current students, useful information and application forms needs available at MyPortal@ NUS (https://myportal.nus.edu.sg/studentportal/eng/gd/).
Program Manager: Professor Ding Jun (msedj@nus.edu.sg)
Staffs assisting Admission, PhD Qualifying Examinations and Oral Defense: Ms Lin Suting (mselins@nus.edu.sg) and Ms Serene Lee (mseleesn@nus.edu.sg)
Staff assisting Leave, Progress Report and GAP, Conversion, Change of Supervisor, Nomination of Thesis Examiners and Thesis Submission form: Dr Liyanage Chamila Nishanthi (mselcn@nus.edu.sg)
Staff assisting Timetable scheduling: Dr Lee Wee Siang Vincent(mseleew@nus.edu.sg)
Staff assisting Special Considerations submission: Ms Karen Ho (msehslk@nus.edu.sg)
Staff assisting Module Registration, Examination Processing, S/U option and Thesis Submission to internal examiners: Dr Kong Hui Zi (msekhz@nus.edu.sg) and Mr Javier Ang (zwjang@nus.edu.sg)
Registration for English module and test, DET/ES5000/ES5001A/ES5101 is directly at Centre for English Language Communication (CELC) (http://www.nus.edu.sg/registrar/events/registration/registration-for-det.html and http://www.nus.edu.sg/celc/programmes/graduatemodreg.html)
Course materials for each module upon successful registration available at LumiNUS system (https://luminus.edu.sg). Previous site, Integrated Virtual Learning Environment (IVLE) will cease operation from AY2019/20 Semester 1.
Academic Records available at Education Records System:
https://myedurec.nus.edu.sg/ (for current students)