MSE News 2009

Table of Contents MSE Department Welcomes Engineering Fundamentals Chair MSE Department Welcomes New Professor Steel MSE Program Shines in US News Rankings MSE Alumnus Excelled in Mining Industry Student News Staff News Faculty News Alumni Newshttps://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/materials-annualreports/1001/thumbnail.jp

MSE News 2011

Table of Contents New Fund and Center: a Challenge, an Opportunity, and an Appeal from Chair Mark Plichta MSE Scientist: Positioned for Success with Unique Program Student Accomplishments and Awards Department News Alumni Updateshttps://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/materials-annualreports/1003/thumbnail.jp

MSE Annual Report 2016

Table of Contents Faculty and Staff News Faculty Research Student News Senior Design Teams Graduate Student News Outreach Alumni News MSE by the Numbers Scholarshipshttps://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/materials-annualreports/1009/thumbnail.jp

MSE News 2008

Table of Contents MSE Department Welcomes New Assistant Professor Lee Retires Peter Moran Michigan Tech Honors Levy for Research Efforts in Magneto-Photonics Student Accomplishments Awards and Honors Alumni Newshttps://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/materials-annualreports/1000/thumbnail.jp

MSE Annual Report 2018

Table of Contents Faculty and Staff News STEM Feature Student News Senior Design Teams Graduate Student News Outreach Alumni News By the Numbers Michigan Tech Foundry Fundhttps://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/materials-annualreports/1011/thumbnail.jp

Materials Science in Ancient Rome

Two books, the "De Architectura" by Vitruvius and the "Naturalis Historia" by Pliny the Elder, give us a portrait of the Materials Science, that is, the knowledge of materials, in Rome at the beginning of the Empire. Here, I am reporting some very attractive contents that we can find in these books. The reader will see the discussion proposed in fours case studies: concretes, coatings, amorphous materials and colloidal crystals, to describe them in modern word