Many engineering achievements develop in conjunction with advances in engineered materials. Strong yet lightweight structures for aircraft, automobile components, and high performance racing bikes are a few examples. Increasingly, these engineered materials utilize polymers and fibers. The relationship between the structure, properties, and performance of these materials is critical to advances in technology.
With major input from our industry board and alumni, our faculty has restructured the undergraduate engineering curriculum to meet the changing requirements of the industrial, government, and academic employers of our graduates. The new curriculum, Polymer and Fiber Engineering, reflects the importance of polymers, composite materials, and fibrous materials in such diverse fields as plastics, elastomers (rubber), adhesives, surface coatings (paints), paper, packaging, insulation, filtration, biomedical, automotive, aerospace, marine, construction, environmental, industrial, nonwoven, recreational, and safety materials.
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The Boeing 787 is scheduled to become the first commercial jet to be made with most of its primary structure consisting of composite materials. |
Research and instruction in polymer and fiber engineering includes:
Graduate offerings in the department include the masters degree in polymer and
fiber engineering and the doctoral degree in integrated textile and apparel science,
which is jointly administered with the Department of Consumer Affairs 
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We invite you to explore our website to get the details of the exciting research conducted by our faculty and students, to obtain information about our graduate and undergraduate degree programs and scholarships, and to catch up on the latest news in our department. Feel free to contact us or visit our beautiful campus in Auburn, Alabama.
