Today, three technologies are widely recognized as key to the future prosperity of developed nations and as important drivers of global economic growth. These are: information technology, biotechnology and materials science technology. The latter in turn enables the development of the other two and affects our lives directly in many ways; lowering the cost and improving the performance of manufactured goods, enabling the development of new structures and mechanisms based on new materials, and providing the means for ecological protection and remediation.
Modern materials science has been characterized by the understanding of the properties of matter, and by the consequent ability to develop and prepare materials for particular applications, mainly because materials have been central to human growth, prosperity, security, and quality of life. Without new materials, we would not have such diverse equipment as computers, airplanes, communication equipment, automobiles, medical devices, among others.
The broad field of materials science and engineering seeks to explain and control one or more of the four basic elements into which it can be divided:
1. The structure and composition of a material, including the type of atoms and their arrangement across the full range of scales (nano, meso, micro and macro).
2. The synthesis and processing, by which the particular arrangement of atoms is achieved.
3. The properties of the resulting material from the atoms and their arrangement, which make the material useful and interesting.
The performance of the material, that is, the measure of its usefulness in real conditions, taking into account the economic and social costs and benefits.
The elements that characterize flexibility in the curriculum of the Doctoral Program in Materials Science are grouped in two fundamental directions:
The flexibility of this curriculum makes it possible to complete the educational program in a minimum of 4 years for students with a bachelor's degree background and in 3 years for students with a master's degree background.
Overall objective
To train professionals of high academic level with skills in scientific and technological research for the design, development, processing and characterization of metallic, ceramic and polymeric materials and the combination of these, called composite materials.
Specific objectives:
The lines of knowledge generation and application associated with the PhD in Materials Science are:
These are linked to the disciplinary areas of Metals, Ceramics, Polymers and Composite Materials.
We have 16 full-time researchers with Ph.D. degrees.
Productivity of PhD students in Materials Science Direct
Articles Published or Accepted in Journals Indexed in the JCR in the last 5 years:
Productivity of PhD students in Materials Science Traditional
Articles Published or Accepted in Journals Indexed in the JCR in the last 5 years:
Productivity of Postdoctoral Stays Linked to the Strengthening of the Ph.
Productivity of Traditional Materials Science Ph.D. Students
Name of Postdoctoral Fellow | Teacher in charge of the stay |
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Adriana Rodríguez Torres | María Aurora Veloz Rodríguez |
Miguel Ángel García Castro | Ana María Herrera González |
Venkata K. karthink Tangirala | Ventura Rodríguez Lugo |