• Physicochemistry
• Numerical methods
• Characterization of materials
• Research Seminar I
• Research work I

• Elective III
• Elective IV
• Research Seminar III
• Research work III

• Research Seminar IV
• Research work IV

One Research Seminar will be held per semester during the four semesters. These seminars will have the function of: to elaborate and critically present the progress of the thesis work at the end of each semester, as well as to learn about the research work developed and presented by researchers from the program or from other research centers with similar lines of research.

• Biomaterials
• Ceramics
• Advanced ceramics
• Electrochemistry
• X-ray diffraction spectroscopy
• Physics and chemistry of surfaces
• Advanced physical chemistry
• Polymer physicochemistry
• Hydrometallurgy
• Mechanics of materials
• Metallics
• Powder Metallurgy
• Scanning electron microscopy
• Mathematical modeling
• Nanostructures
• Polymers
• Organic semiconductors
• Process simulation
• Spectroscopic techniques in materials
• Ceramic technology

Didactic strategies are proposed for the development of learning such as the following:

Cooperative Learning: Its main objective is to make students learn among themselves. In this didactic strategy that maximizes individual work and at the same time the learning of all, since the active role of the student and the high responsibility that they assume in the task allows significant learning and the achievement of common objectives.

Collaborative Learning: The intention of this strategy is to turn the class into a forum open to dialogue between student/student and student/teacher; therefore, passive students now actively participate in interesting and demanding situations, managing to acquire meaningful learning.

Case Studies: Intensive and complete analysis of a fact, problem or real event with the purpose of how to interpret it, solve it, generate hypotheses, contrast data, reflect, complete knowledge, diagnose it and, sometimes face the possible alternative solution procedures.

Problem-based learning: It is based on the idea that problems involving some difficulty are best solved in collaboration with other people. Such collaboration facilitates learning because it requires the student to expose and argue their points of view or solutions and discuss them with others.

Project-oriented learning: Project-oriented learning aims to make students take greater responsibility for their own learning, as well as to apply, in real projects, the skills and knowledge acquired in their training.

LEARNING ASSESSMENT
The evaluation of the students' learning in each subject comprises a continuous process, through the systematic evaluation that will be carried out during the development of each work session as follows:

• Attendance, punctuality and permanence.
• Participation in the work to be developed in class.
• Analysis of the readings and synthesis of the same by means of reports or reports, on the dates and forms agreed upon for their delivery.
• Exposition, critical analysis and discussion based on the topics addressed.
• Presentation of a final written work, in which the contents analyzed during the development of the course are recovered and integrated.
• Presentation of the indicators of the seminars foreseen in the annexes.

The Seminars will be evaluated by the subject holders with the support of the student's Tutorial Committee, who will assign the corresponding grades to these seminars in the formats established by the Academic Committee of the Master's Program in Materials Science. The evaluation of the seminars implies an oral and written semester report of the progress of the research work and the defense of the results obtained.

The student must report in writing to his Tutorial Committee every semester the progress of his Research Project five working days before his presentation in the seminar. The report must contain an introduction, background, objective, experimental development, results and discussion, conclusions, bibliographical references and work schedule (indicating activities carried out and to be carried out).

The grade for the Research Seminar subjects will be expressed as Accredited (A) and Not Accredited (NA), while the grade for the other subjects will be expressed on a numerical scale from 0 to 10 and with whole numbers, and a minimum passing grade of 8.0 must be obtained.