Director’s homepage for
NJIT PhD/MS programs in Materials Science and Engineering – Materials Science
option (MtSE-MtSc)
Director
Prof. Ken Ahn, Department of Physics, NJIT (Email: kenahn@njit.edu)
MtSE-MtSc
committee
Prof. Ken Ahn (Physics, Director)
Prof. Trevor Tyson (Physics)
Prof. Andrei Sirenko
(Physics)
Prof. Omowunmi “Wunmi”
Sadik (Chemistry & Environmental Science)
Prof. Michael Siegel (Applied Math)
Prof. Brooke Flammang (Biology)
Links to useful websites
NJIT Web Catalog for PhD program in Materials Science and Engineering – Materials Science option
NJIT Web Catalog for MS program in Materials Science and Engineering – Materials Science option
NJIT
Office of Graduate Studies
Information
for current students (A tab on NJIT Office of Graduate Studies website)
Academic
Policies and Procedures (degree requirements, MS/PhD thesis, etc.)
Additional information for the
current students
* INTD 799, the 0-credit RCR course, must be taken by all PhD students in their first year of studies.
* MTSE 724 – Tranport. of Electons & Photons substitutes MTSE 603 Intro. to Phys. Prin. of Material for the core course requirement for MS/PhD degrees.
Recent News
* July 2025: Congratulations to Huize Xue, MtSE-MtSc PhD student in Prof. Sadik group, on the new
position as Post-doc at Fudan University in China!
* May 2023: Congratulations to Aire Sadoh, MtSE-MtSc PhD student in Prof. Ravindra group, on the new research scientist position at Fresh Fry, a company creating innovative frying oil solution!
* May 2022: Congratulations to Aneer Lamichhane, MtSE-MtSc PhD student in Prof. Ravindra group, on the new teaching position in Physics at Western Colorado University!
* April 2022: Congratulations to Samar Azizighannad, MtSE-MtSc PhD student in Prof. Mitra group, on the new position at Johnson & Johnson!
* February 2022: Congratulations to Wenting Cheng, MtSE-MtSc PhD student in Prof. Prodan group, on the new position as Post-doc at Univ. of Michigan Ann Arbor!
* November 2021: Congratulations to Cheng Peng, MtSE-MtSc PhD student in Prof. Sirkar group, on the new position as Research Scientist in Newlight Technologies, Inc. in Huntington Beach, CA!
* July 2021: Congratulations to Kai Qian, MtSE-MtSc PhD student in Prof. Prodan group, on the new position as Post-doc at U.C. San Diego!
* May 2021: Congratulations to Sizhan Liu, MtSE-MtSc PhD student in Prof. Tyson group, on the new position as Post-doc at Brookhaven National Laboratory!
* December
2020: Congratulations to Yu-hung Chen, MtSE-MtSc
MS student, on the new position at Taiwan
Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd (TSMC)!
* 2019:
Congratulations to Carley Mollica, MtSE-MtSc PhD
student in Prof. Federici group, on the new position at Lockheed Martin Corporation!
* 2019:
Congratulations to Biao Leng, MtSE-MtSc PhD student in Prof. Ravindra group, on the new
position as Process Engineer at R&D
Altanova in Franklin Park, NJ!
* 2018:
Congratulations to Michael Carr, MtSE-MtSc PhD
student in Prof. Federici group, on the new position at The Boeing Company!
* 2018:
Congratulations to Yan Liu, MtSE-MtSc PhD student in Prof. Ravindra group, on the new
position as R& D Scientist
at Mevion Medical Systems in Littleton, MA!