Question

What should I prepare for study master degree in material engineering? My bachelor degree in chemical engineering?

Answer 1

Material Engineering is a multidisciplinary course designed for providing students comprehensive and specialised learning in:

• behaviour of materials, their development, and production.
• investigating the structural, electrical, and magnetic properties of particular materials, such as:
• ceramics
• metals
• electronic and magnet materials
• semiconductors
• nanomaterials
• biomaterials
• aerospace materials
• nuclear materials, etc.
• physical and chemical aspects pertaining to understanding of materials at the nano, micro, and macro levels.
• manufacturing and making materialistic discoveries for advancement of sectors such as health care, transportation, communication, etc.
• customization of properties of materials for creation of new products.
• fabrication of materials according to purpose and demand.
• creation of specialized synthetic materials for use in:
• Microtechnology
• Biotechnology
• Aerospace Science
• Transport
• Infrastructure
• Sports
• Energy Domains.

The multidisciplinary course has been designed to adequately equip candidates with:

• an advanced understanding of the chemical properties and structures of the various materials used as inputs for producing a variety of synthetic items.
• a firm academic foundation in Physical, Chemical, and Engineering Sciences.
• expert knowledge of the different specifications of particular applications and quality requirements of physical goods.
• skills needed in making materialistic discoveries to contribute to fields of healthcare, communication, transportation, recreation, etc.
• specialization in:
• Biomaterials
• Chemical and Electrochemical Material Science and Engineering
• Computational Materials Science and Engineering
• Electronic, Magnetic, and Optical Materials
• Structural Materials.
• professional expertise needed for operating in manufacturing and production units of industries such as:
• Aerospace
• Microtechnology
• Biotechnology
• clothing and household goods, etc.

Material science deals with both the macroscopic properties of materials (how they behave) and also the microscopic properties (why they behave the way they do). All of these have distinct importance in chemical engineering. Suppose you want to build a heat exchanger for a highly acidic process. Which material would you use, and why? Stainless steel? Aluminum? Teflon? Suppose you were designing a production plant, and you needed a gigantic storage tank. Which materials might corrode over time? Which will react with your product? Which are the cheapest? Simply knowing how large to make a reactor and what temperature and pressure isn't enough. You need to know what material will be the best choice as well. On the micro side a very large part of industry is discovering new materials to do a specific task better than anything else currently marketed. If you don't know your material science then you won't know WHY certain materials might be a bad starting point. And you won't know how or why to modify existing structures to behave as you'd like. Do you know WHY Teflon is so chemically resistant? Do you know what you can do to make it harder and stronger without losing that resistance? Material science will tell you.

As graduate in chemical engineering you should know basic subjects like Heat transfer , Fluid Mechanics & Fluid particle mechanics, Mass transfer etc for doing master material engineering