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Study Details: MSc: 12 months full time
For graduates from a science, mathematics, technology or another engineering discipline, this course provides you with the knowledge and skills to specialise in materials science and engineering or metallurgy.
Taught by leading researchers in world-class facilities, you’ll study topics such as materials structures, processing-structure-property relationships, characterisation and failure analysis. You’ll also choose optional modules to focus your specialism to suit your own career plans and interests.
This Masters degree has been designed to meet the present needs and future challenges of advanced materials and manufacturing. You’ll gain the skills to thrive in a growing and fast-changing field, to help prepare you for a rewarding career.
A bachelor degree with a 2:2 (hons) in engineering, a physical science or mathematics discipline.
Applicants must have strong marks across a breadth of relevant modules, including mathematics and physical sciences.
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There is an increasingly high demand for qualified materials scientists, materials engineers and metallurgists. Career prospects are excellent and cover a wide range of industries concerned with the research and development of new and improved materials, materials synthesis and commercial production, and materials exploitation in cutting-edge applications in engineering and technology.
Compulsory modules
Research Project (MSc) 60 credits
Interdisciplinary Design Project 15 credits
Phase Transformations and Microstructural Control 15 credits
Materials Modelling 15 credits
Structure-Property Relationships 15 credits
Materials Selection and Failure Analysis 15 credits
Materials Structures and Characterisation 15 credits
Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)
Metals and Alloys 15 credits
Materials for Electronic Applications 15 credits
Ceramics, Polymers and Composites 15 credits
Nanomaterials 15 credits
Extractive Metallurgy 15 credits
Soft Matter Physics: Polymers, Colloids and Glasses 15 credits
Physics of Biological Systems 15 credits
Nanomagnetism 15 credits
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