Master in Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology

The course will focus on the relationship among processing, properties, and structure of all materials of industrial interest, i.e. metals, polymers, ceramics, composites, biomaterials, and semiconductors. Nanomaterials and their applications in electronic and other fields are also objects of the courses.

During the first year fundamentals of chemistry and physics of materials and of transport phenomena are provided. Then the course will focus on fabrication technologies and properties of polymers, metals, ceramic, composites, biomaterials and nano structured materials. In the second year specific courses are devoted to materials for sustainability and nanotechnology for electronics.

While maintaining the connotation of an engineering degree, it has chemistry, physics, and electronics, as well as industrial and materials engineering among its teachings. The "cross-fertilization" between different disciplinary fields, which, pushes the trainees to embrace the problems in an organic and complete way, teaches them to analyse new problems using different approaches. Visits to industrial plants are usually performed during courses. Stages and master thesis are also possible.

Internships in companies and research centeres and visits to company and internationals fairs are organized

Visit to JEC compoisite materials show

This is a young dynamic university, keen to expand and to prove itself at a national and international level. Since 1955 the Università del Salento has had the aim of promoting knowledge, skill, and merit and has offered a large range of educational opportunities. From law to science, economics to engineering, and humanities to media studies, the university provides academic pathways to a range of professions as well as post-graduate and specialist courses tailor-made to meet the needs of the workplace.

Eight Departments provide services and information for students, as well as thirty-three Research Centres throughout the Salento area. The Università del Salento has grown rapidly in recent years, consolidating and reinforcing its role as the keystone of the local cultural and social system. It also has a Phd. School and Post-graduate schools for Cultural Heritage and for the Legal Professions. The prestigious ISUFI Grandes écoles school offers high-level undergraduate and postgraduate courses for scholarship students to promote excellence.

Mission

The University of Salento is a community, made up of students, teachers, and technical-administrative staff, which recognizes itself in the free promotion of research and teaching as tools for human development, the affirmation of pluralism, and the pursuit of equal social dignity, in full independence from any ideological, political, religious or economic orientation. Within the university community, no one may be discriminated against, in any way or form, due to their study, research, and teaching choices.

The University of Salento guarantees its students equal opportunities and equal dignity by promoting merit and enhancing excellence and supports applied and basic research by recognizing the principle of evaluation.

Alongside the two fundamental objectives of training and research, the University of Salento pursues a third mission, that is, it works to encourage the direct application, valorization, and use of knowledge to contribute to the social, cultural, and economic development of the territory in which it operates.

On an international level, the University of Salento pursues all forms of collaboration aimed at promoting knowledge and mutual enrichment between cultures, the circulation of knowledge, and the exchange of students and staff.