Master in Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology
Lecce, Italy
Master degree
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: This Master in Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology at the Università del Salento links processing, structure and properties of metals, polymers, ceramics, composites, biomaterials and semiconductors and studies nanomaterials for electronics. Year one covers materials chemistry, physics and transport phenomena; later courses cover fabrication technologies. Year two focuses on materials for sustainability and nanotechnology for electronics. The programme blends engineering, chemistry and physics and includes visits and internships.
Career Outcomes: Graduates find jobs in aeronautic fabrication; metal, ceramic, polymer and composite processing; textile, chemical and pharmaceutical industries; research centers; and technical consultancy. Roles include materials engineer, process engineer, R&D engineer and production engineer.
The course will focus on the relationship among processing, properties, and structure of all materials of industrial interest, i.e. metals, polymers, ceramics, composites, biomaterials, and semiconductors. Nanomaterials and their applications in electronic and other fields are also objects of the courses.
During the first year fundamentals of chemistry and physics of materials and of transport phenomena are provided. Then the course will focus on fabrication technologies and properties of polymers, metals, ceramic, composites, biomaterials and nano structured materials. In the second year specific courses are devoted to materials for sustainability and nanotechnology for electronics.
While maintaining the connotation of an engineering degree, it has chemistry, physics, and electronics, as well as industrial and materials engineering among its teachings. The "cross-fertilization" between different disciplinary fields, which, pushes the trainees to embrace the problems in an organic and complete way, teaches them to analyse new problems using different approaches. Visits to industrial plants are usually performed during courses. Stages and master thesis are also possible.
Internships in companies and research centeres and visits to company and internationals fairs are organized
Visit to JEC compoisite materials show
1st Year
- Chemistry 2 (CHIM/07)
- Electrochemical Technologies (ING-IND/23)
- Physical Metallurgy and Metals Processing (ING-IND/21)
- Physics of Matter Mod. I (Int) and Physics of Matter Mod. II (FIS/03)
- Science, Technology, and Sustainability of Polymers (ING-IND/22)
- Transport Phenomena II (ING-IND/24)
2nd Year
- Composite and Nanocomposite Materials (ING-IND/22)
- Final Exam (PROFIN_S)
- Heat and Mass Transfer Phenomena in Composites and Polymers (ING-IND/24)
- Metallic Materials: Properties and Applications (ING-IND/21)
- Nanotechnologies for Electronics (ING-INF/01)
- Semiconductor Physics and Technology (FIS/03)
- Sustainable Materials for Structural and Non-Structural Applications (ING-IND/22)
- Training Period (NN)
The final exam consists in a thesis typically developed either during the internship or in the labs of university. Students are required to develop autonomous experimental work and mathematical modelling of properties, processing or mechanical behaviour. The thesis consists of a written paper organised into sections agreed by the student and supervisor. The thesis will be defended in a public exams and evaluated by a commission of 7 professors.
All international students are entitled to the same student assistance services as Italian students and can apply for scholarships, student loans, housing assistance, canteen meal tickets, and so on.
The program Unisalento4talents provides 4 scholarships each year for students of Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology (https://international.unisalento.it/admission/scholarships-grants/unisalento4talents)
Erasmus scholarships can be used to give exams in other EU countries and for internship in companies and universities abroad, in EU
GKN Fokker manufactured the horizontal tail plane of helicopter AW169 (Leonardo Helicopters) using thermoplastic matriìx composites. Emilo De Gaetani, Unisalento Erasmus student of Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology participated to development activities (Source JEC Magazine)
This highly interdisciplinary degree has been started since 1990, and allows to find high qualified jobs in companies operating in different sectors, such as aeronautic fabrication, transformation of metallic, ceramic, polymeric and composite materials, textiles, chemicals, pharmaceutical and many others. In addition to this, the possibility of operating in research centers and technological consultancy companies, exploited by a smaller but significant percentage of graduates, must be mentioned. Materials engineers, compared to the more traditional specialization of industrial engineering, has a high ability to adapt to design with traditional and innovative materials and has a deeper knowledge of materials processing.
Students with bachelor degrees in industrial engineering area (materials, metallurgy, mechanical, chemical etc.) as well as in chemistry and physics are welcome.
