| ABET | Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology |
| AFRL | Air Force Research Laboratory |
| AI | artificial intelligence |
| AM | additive manufacturing |
| ASEE | American Society for Engineering Education |
| CLiPS | Center for Layered Polymeric Systems |
| CMS | computational materials science |
| CMU | Carnegie Mellon University |
| DEI | diversity, equity, and inclusion |
| DoD | U.S. Department of Defense |
| DOE | U.S. Department of Energy |
| EFRC | Energy Frontier Research Center |
| EPFL | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne) |
| EWD | education and workforce development |
| HBCUs | historically Black colleges and universities |
| HEMI | Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute |
| ISN | Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies |
| ITAR | International Traffic in Arms Regulations |
| MEDE | Materials in Extreme Dynamic Environments |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| MRS | Materials Research Society |
| NSB | National Science Board |
| NTU | Nanyang Technological University |
| R&D | research and development |
| S&T | science and technology |
| UCAH | University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics |
| UNCAGE-ME | Center for Understanding and Control of Acid Gas Induced Evolution of Materials for Energy |