Our alumnus from our undergraduate Materials Science and Engineering program, 2011, Gorkem Soyumer has founded a start-up, Enerwhere, based on work he did for a Master of Science in Management of Energy and Sustainability (MES) from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland.
He built one of the first solar-diesel hybrid smart grids in the Middle East as part of his master thesis research at CSEM-UAE. Now he holds the position of Innovation Engineer. I think he's fantastic advertisementon what one can do with a B.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering.
If you need more information on his company's activities, here's a link: http://enerwhere.com/