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The Department of Materials Science and Engineering presently the only academic body in Sri Lanka offering undergraduate studies in materials science and engineering, began as Department of Materials Science, a division of School of Applied Science, which was established in April 1974 with the assistance of British Government under a link-arrangement between the University of Moratuwa and University of Leeds. In January 1981 the name of the department was changed to Department of Materials Engineering as it was absorbed into the faculty of Engineering. The department received French government aid from 1981 to 1984. The student intake was raised to ten from its initial figure of five. More Mechanical Engineering subjects were also introduced and the students were given the option to select either the Materials Engineering course or the Materials Engineering with Mechanical Engineering bias course. Later in 1984 and in 1992, the curriculum was revised so as to provide a more balanced course on the three main classes of engineering materials; metals, ceramics and polymers. The intake of students was further increased to twenty in 1992. The curriculum was again revised in 2000 with the introduction of semester system of education in the university. Simultaneously a minor specialization in polymer engineering was started and the student intake was increased to its present figure of fifty. In June 2009 the name of the department was changed to its present name viz Department of Materials Science and Engineering. |