Department of Materials Science and Engineering

In the Materials Science and Engineering department, we are interested in materials at different scales: from atomic arrangement to macroscopic behavior. In particular, we study the relationships between microstructures and macroscopic properties.

Among the three main classes of materials – metals and alloys, polymers, ceramics – we group together the so-called structural materials, which are selected for their mechanical characteristics and service life, and the so-called functional materials, which perform non-mechanical functions. After a common core in which the two groups of materials are approached in a balanced way, we propose two differentiated pathways that are partially separate.

The aim is to give future engineers the general skills they will need for a career in any industry to develop, produce or market materials with functional properties in all classes of materials.

The department prepares you to…

The department prepares students for various roles involving materials. Material engineers are found in: research (basic or applied), development, design, production, marketing, recycling.

Sectors:

Study/consulting/audit,
Energy,
Information technology,
Finance/banking/insurance,
Construction and public works,
Audit/patent firms,
Teaching/research,
Transport,
Chemicals,
Metallurgy and metal processing,
Plastics processing,
Eco-industry,
Environment and planning,
Media,
Design.

Roles: engineers design, model, test, assemble and optimise products made with materials. They also develop innovative materials: so-called “smart” components, taking economic and environmental criteria into account.

Opportunities: materials engineers work in R&D, production, design, etc. within multidisciplinary teams.

Educational team

Sébastien Allain, Professor, Mechanical Properties of Metallic Materials
Silvère Barrat, Professor, Surface Treatments
Christophe Candolfi, Lecturer, Thermal and Electrical Properties of Materials
Franck Cleymand, Lecturer, Biomaterials
Abdesselam Dahoun, Professor, Physical and Mechanical Properties of Polymers and Composites
Lucile Dezerald, Lecturer, Ab Initio Calculations for Metallic Materials
Emilie Gaudry, Professor, Ab Initio Modelling – Complex Quasicrystals and Intermetallics
Bertrand Lenoir, Professor, Thermal and Electrical Properties of Materials
Alexandre Nominé, ATER,
Jean-François Pierson, Professor, Surface Treatments
Marc Ponçot, Lecturer, Physical and Mechanical Properties of Polymers and Composites