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Lehigh University graduates in materials science pursue careers across research, development, operations, management, manufacturing, and sales. They explore how atomic or molecular structures influence materials' large-scale characteristics. Typically, these scientists enhance products or processes with current materials or create new ones and their fabrication techniques, frequently tied to nano-, bio-, structural, and optical engineering and electronics. Their expertise is applied in diverse sectors like chemicals, electronics, transportation, communications, aerospace, as well as financial, educational, and legal aspects within these industries. Lehigh's materials science and engineering curriculum includes a foundational set of courses on various material types, with options for students to specialize in areas such as nanotechnology. Learners collaborate with distinguished, leading professors in a program that blends theoretical insights with hands-on experience.