The materials engineering curriculum at Brown provides graduates with both the expertise necessary to practice their profession, as well as the inter-disciplinary foundation necessary to collaborate with the engineers who will use the materials that they develop. A substantial fraction of materials engineering students at Brown participate in research, which allows them to make use of Brown's state-of-the-art facilities in microscopy, materials characterization, and materials processing.

The concentration has the following structure:

• Interdisciplinary core courses for the Sc.B., taken during the first two years 
• Seven upper level engineering courses 
• An advanced science course (usually solid-state physics) 
• Four approved humanities courses