The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is a new graduate department housing the university’s existing Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Program. The academic administration of the department is under the joint supervision of the deans of engineering and science. The department has about 100 graduate students enrolled, most of whom are pursuing Ph.D.s. There are currently seven full-time faculty in the department, and 42 more faculty members jointly appointed. The target for the department is to increase the number of full-time faculty to more than 17 and establish an undergraduate program in the next five years; and increase to 30 faculty, with 750 undergraduate and graduate students by 2025.