Program Overview

Introduction to Materials Engineering

The Materials Engineering program is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the properties and applications of various materials. Approximately 70% of all technological innovations are directly or indirectly linked to materials, spanning applications in electronics, biotechnology, and energy. Cars, airplanes, computers, televisions, mobile phones, sports equipment, biomedical devices, among others, rely on the development of materials and manufacturing processes to achieve the required properties and functionalities.

Education Objectives

The program aims to provide students with multidisciplinary and hands-on training, enabling them to work across diverse fields and create innovative solutions that contribute to sustainability. The program also offers above-average employability with international opportunities.

Career Opportunities

Graduates of the Materials Engineering program can pursue careers in various industries, including:

• Industry: Pharmaceutical and Food Industries, Biotechnology, Toxicology, Environmental Control, and Diagnostic Media Technology
• Healthcare: Chemical-biological analysis laboratories, toxicological analysis
• Research: Fundamental and Applied Research Centres in Life Sciences, Health, Biotechnology, and related fields
• Teaching: Higher Education, Polytechnic, and Secondary Education

General Characterization

Program Details

• DGES code: 1056
• Cycle: Bachelor (1st Cycle)
• Degree: Licenciado
• Access to other programs: Access to 2nd cycle
• Coordinator: Maria Margarida Rolim Augusto Lima
• Opening date: September
• Vacancies: 23
• Fees:
  • Portuguese students: 697 euros/year
  • Foreign students: 7000 euros/year
• Schedule: Daytime
• Teaching language: Available soon

Degree Pre-requisites

• Duration: 3 years
• Credits: 180 ECTS
• Scientific Area | Acronym | ECTS | Optional ECTS
  • Materials Engineering | EMt | 57 | 3
  • Materials Science | CMt | 42 | 0
  • Mathematics | M | 30 | 0
  • Physics | F | 18 | 0
  • Chemistry | Q | 6 | 0
  • Informatics | I | 6 | 0
  • Human and Social Sciences | CHS | 3 | 0
  • Materials Science / Chemistry / Informatics / Human and Social Sciences | CMt / Q / I / CHS | 0 | 6
  • Transferable Skills | CC | 3 | 0
  • Any Scientific Area | QAC | 0 | 6 (a)
• Total: 165 | 15

Conditions of Admittance

• Specific exams: 07 Physics and Chemistry + 19 Mathematics A
• Admission formula: 60% of the final grade obtained in secondary school, 40% of the final grade of the specific(s) exam(s)
• Minimum grade of the specific(s) exam(s): 95
• Minimum grade of the application: 95

Evaluation Rules

• The evaluation of all UCs is continuous for all the components that integrate it, and it must be completed by the last day of the school term of the academic semester.
• The continuous evaluation of a UC must include a minimum of two elements in the set of evaluation components, on dates adequately spaced throughout the period of classes.
• All UCs with a theoretical-practical evaluation component must provide, in addition, a form of evaluation of this component by exam, to be carried out after the period of classes (Examination of Appeal).
• All requirements and conditions related to the evaluation of the UC, namely the minimum weights and classifications, if any, of each component, as well as the Frequency conditions, are defined a priori and, mandatorily, published in the Discipline Form.
• For each UC, combinations of three evaluation components are allowed: (i) Theoretical-practical evaluation; (ii) Laboratory or project evaluation; (iii) Summative assessment.

Structure

1.ｺ Semester

• Code | Name | ECTS
  • 11505 | Linear Algebra and Analytic Geometry | 6.0
  • 13493 | Calculus I D | 6.0
  • 10352 | Soft Skills for Science and Technology | 3.0
  • 10406 | Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering | 3.0
  • 12767 | Mechanics | 6.0
  • 10407 | Chemistry B | 6.0

2.ｺ Semester

• Code | Name | ECTS
  • 13497 | Calculus II D | 6.0
  • 10408 | Crystal chemistry | 6.0
  • 11149 | Informatics for Science and Engineering E | 6.0
  • 10363 | Introduction to Probability, Statistics and Operations Research | 6.0
  • 12692 | Thermodinamics of Processes | 6.0

3.ｺ Semester

• Code | Name | ECTS
  • 7544 | Mathematical Analysis III D | 6.0
  • 10413 | Computer Aided Technical Drawing | 3.0
  • 12768 | Electromagnetism M | 6.0
  • 1897 | Physical Metallurgy and Metallography | 6.0
  • 12512 | Society, Sustainability and Digital Transformation | 3.0
  • 7474 | Instrumentation Tecniques | 6.0

4.ｺ Semester

• Code | Name | ECTS
  • 12803 | Mechanical Behavior of Materials | 6.0
  • 7464 | Ceramic and Glass Materials | 6.0
  • 12693 | Polymeric Materials I | 6.0
  • 7471 | Physical Properties of Materials | 6.0

4.ｺ Semester - Op鈬o 1

• Code | Name | ECTS
  • Options
    • 7321 | General Biochemistry B | 6.0
    • 10653 | Biosafety and Bioethics | 3.0
    • 11509 | Photonics for Materials | 6.0
    • 10996 | Contemporary Thought | 3.0
    • 12570 | Programming for Data Science and Engineering | 6.0
    • 11195 | General Organic Chemistry B | 6.0
    • 10506 | Socio-Economics of Innovation | 3.0
    • 10508 | Sociology of Organizations | 3.0
    • 7494 | Surfaces and Interfaces | 6.0
    • 12509 | Technologies and Chemical Processes | 3.0
• The student must obtain 6.0 credits in this option.

5.ｺ Semester

• Code | Name | ECTS
  • 12695 | Composite Materials | 6.0
  • 12694 | Polymeric Materials II | 6.0
  • 1849 | Semiconductor Materials | 6.0
  • 11057 | Techniques of Characterization and Nondestructive Testing | 6.0

6.ｺ Semester

• Code | Name | ECTS
  • 12696 | Microelectronics: Processes | 6.0
  • 12697 | Project in Materials Engineering | 9.0
  • 7436 | Rheology of Materials | 6.0
  • 7490 | Heat Treatment and Mechanical Treatment | 6.0

6.ｺ Semester - Op鈬o PIIC/PIPP

• Code | Name | ECTS
  • Options
    • 10593 | Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program | 3.0
    • 10592 | Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program | 3.0
• The student must obtain 3.0 credits in this option.