Materials Science Engineering is some cool stuff. Virginia Tech defines Materials Science Engineering as having five main categories: Ceramics, Composites, Electronics, Polymers and Metallurgy. Naturally, my favorite part is the Electronics.
So far, MSE has consisted of physics and chemistry. We started at the atomic level and examined the interaction between atoms in a crystal. This is where physics and chemistry collide. There are basic physics properties that underlie all chemistry. Then we take what we know as chemistry and use it to explain macroscopic physical properties. Complicated, no?
What can you do with it, you might ask. Someone needs to make a stronger steel, a longer lasting tire, smaller integrated circuits, lighter synthetic materials, etc, etc, etc. Basically, anything a chemical engineer can do, materials science engineers can do, only in a more applied, hands-on sense.