Materials Science and Engineering Program
The Materials Science and Engineering major qualifies the student to master the concepts and techniques related to the structure, properties, and performance of materials, techniques for their synthesis, and methodologies for testing and characterization. This includes polymeric, ceramic, glass, metal, and composite materials of all kinds and nanomaterials. Besides, the student will have the ability to synthesize new materials or modify known materials, and characterize them.
The program consists of a set of interrelated courses with prerequisite relationships, integrated from the perspective of meeting the intended learning outcomes. The program spans five years and consists of two consecutive phases:
- Foundation Phase
- Specialization Phase
Aims
The Foundation Phase aims to provide students with the following:
- A solid foundation in mathematics, physics and chemistry that allows them to continue their education and acquire the knowledge and skills targeted in the specialization phase within the framework of preparing them as engineers in the field of materials science and engineering.
- A set of general techniques and skills that support their qualification as future engineers, with good knowledge of two foreign languages, especially English, which enables them to deal easily with foreign references.
The Specialization Phase aims to qualify engineers who are:
- Proficient in the concepts and techniques related to the structure of materials (polymeric, ceramic, glass, metal, composites of all types, nanomaterials, ...), their properties and performance, their synthesis techniques, and their testing and characterization methodologies, and they have the ability to synthesize new materials or modify known materials and characterize them, which makes them capable of working in the field of related industrial applications.
- Distinguished by their ability to develop innovative product designs and introduce innovative improvements to work methods. They are also characterized by their ability to understand the work environment with its administrative and economic dimensions and deal with and adapt to it in a way that supports their subsequent career path as leading engineers through effective dealing with this environment.
Intended learning outcomes
The student who successfully completes this program will be able to:
- Understand the structure of materials in their various types and properties in a deep and integrated manner. Understand the performance of materials and study their applications in their various types.
- Be familiar with materials processing and shaping technologies.
- Learn about methods of material synthesis.
- Learn about methods of testing, analyzing and characterizing materials.
- Learn about a range of modern and emerging materials (nano-materials, functional materials, bio-materials, composites, and environmentally friendly materials, etc.).
- Learn about the basic concepts and methods that will help him understand his work environment in its administrative and economic dimensions.
- Design and implement the experiments necessary to study the description, analysis, and measurement of materials performance and understand them using scientific methods in formulating hypotheses and designing experiments to test these hypotheses.
- Design innovative materials or processing methods to modify materials in order to meet specific needs according to economic, environmental, ethical, health and sustainable manufacturing controls.
- Linking a scientific phenomenon related to matter with the structure of matter and the theoretical concept of the phenomenon.
