Science & Technology : Engineering : Materials & Metallurgy : Institutes & Universities
The Materials Laboratory of Technology of Helsinki University
focus.hut.fi/
The Materials Laboratory at Helsinki University of Technology is outlined here. Researchers and prospective students can read up on the lab's research projects and find a listing of its recent publications. In Finnish and English.

Materials Research Society
dns.mrs.org/
The Materials Research Society home page provides info about that organization, which conducts research on materials of technological importance. Publications, courses and corporate participation program are detailed.

Materials Science and Component Technology Directorate
www.nrl.navy.mil/nr l/direct/code.6000.html
Looking for new materials, developing new uses for old materials and studying material behavior lies behind the U.S. Navy's Web site on materials science and component technology. The directorate concentrates on fluid mechanics and hydrodynamics, nuclear
weapons effect simulations and interaction of materials with radiation.

MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering
tantalum.mit.edu/
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology defines "materials science" and offers a departmental overview at this site. Find links to news, research and academic programs, student groups, courseware and more.

National Research Institute for Metals Home Page
www.nrim.go.jp/
Japan's National Research Institute for Metals describes the institute's research activities here. The site includes information on computer modeling workshops and a link to the institute's anonymous FTP archive. In English.

NCSU College of Textiles
www.tx.ncsu.edu/
The College of Textiles at the North Carolina State University maintains this site to introduce its academic program, one of two accredited textile engineering programs in the United States. Visit here for project overviews and course offerings.

Purdue's Materials Engineering Home Page
mse.www.ecn.purdue.edu/MSE/
The School of Materials Engineering at Purdue University maintains this home page. Visitors are invited to find out more about the school and its programs.

University of Queensland's Mining and Metallurgical Engineering
www.minmet.uq.oz.au/
Students thinking about a career in mining may want to visit the University of Queensland's Mining and Metallurgical Engineering department. In addition to finding out about the Australian program requirements, visitors may review the department's facilities and see students at work.

University of Tokyo's Concrete Materials and Structures
concrete.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
The University of Tokyo's Concrete Materials and Structures Laboratory is devoted to the study of concrete-based construction. To find out what happens to concrete structures over time, consult the research reports and review study curricula offered at this site.