The main research strengths of aerospace materials, environmental materials and steel technology, Swansea University provides an excellent base for your research as a PhD student in Materials Engineering. The internationally leading materials research conducted at Swansea is funded by prestigious organisations. These industrial research links provide excellent opportunities for research. Recent PhD thesis supervised in the area of Materials Engineering at Swansea University include: bioinspired investigation via x-ray computed micromography; characterisation of Compressor Abradable Systems; validation of a high integrity/repair process for aerospace materials; constitutive behaviour in turbine disc alloys; investigating the dwell crack growth and creep resistance behaviour of next generation nickel disc alloys; addressing the scale up challenges of solid state mesoscopic solar cells; low cost dye sensitized solar cells on metal substrates; role of environment and its effects on high temperature corrosion-fatigue life in nickel based superalloys; non destructive inspection techniques for additive material structures; constitutive relationships and the prediction of notched specimen behaviour under TMF loading.