Metallurgy and Materials Engineering is an interdisciplinary field of science that studies ceramic, metallic, polymeric and composite materials and is strongly interrelated with the basic sciences of physics, chemistry and biology as well as chemical and mechanical engineering. The courses offered in the Metallurgy and Materials Engineering program especially emphasize the microstructure-property-performance relationships as well as factors that affect the materials behaviour in service. Materials are critical to all fields of engineering since design is often constrained by their limited availability. Furthermore, innovations in materials may lead to new design criteria and result in emergence of new products.