Advanced materials processing and design / Procesarea și designul avansat al materialelor

The master program proposed the following general objectives: (a) Specialization and improvement of bachelor graduates in the field of processing, characterisation and testing of the materials. The following candidates are eligible for admission:

• engineers, especially chemical, materials science, medical engineers, bioengineers, etc.

• chemists from different topics including analytical chemists, environmental chemists, etc which are extensively using materials in their activity;

• biochemists

• medical doctors, both human and veterinary divisions,

• biologists

• pharmacists

• experts in the above enumerated categories. (b) Empowering and improving the need of undergraduate/ graduates of Bologna cycle for carrying out research, to search quality consultancy and expertise in the field of processing and testing the quality of the developing materials and devices. With the proposed courses - which include teaching, practice and research – the master program ensures both fundamental and applied training in materials processing, design, characterisation and testing of materials and derived devices in the field of industrial, medical, environmental, energy, electric or electronic applications. The program is mainly focused on developing knowledge and skills to enable graduates to identify current problems/challenges and especially to propose solutions and to manufacture materials appropriate to the desired application. The master program brings together basic and applied sciences disciplines. The structure of the study plan is especially developed to assure one semester of mainly basic disciplines while the most of the second semester of the first year is devoted to the main processing techniques to manufacture 0-3D materials according to their envisaged applications. The first semester of the second year will be devoted to the discovery of the most important characterization and testing techniques and such, allowing in the second semester full-time involvement for research activities and finalizing the dissertation. In the context of European and Global Requirements related to development of novel or improved materials, with increasing standards and diversity, with an accentuated degree of decentralisation it is important to learn young master students to develop materials with imposed characteristics and performances. Currently, by our knowledge, in Romania there is no such master fully devoted to processing and design of materials and absolvents can easily find positions in existing SMEs or, with the aim of the Start-up Nation or other programs to develop their proper business. This program aims to combine chemistry, engineering, materials science with biomedical, environmental, energy, electric or electronic applications.