Materials Science
Transport | Energy | Sport | Health | Environment
The aim is to train executives and engineers who are capable of working in a business environment where there is a need for widely-used materials (polymers, metal alloys) or high added-value materials (composite materials, ceramics, biomaterials, micro-electronic materials).
An engineer trained in this program is capable of using scientific, technical and managerial resources in order to meet the specific needs of companies in the areas of quality, ageing, sustainability, recyclability and innovation, irrespective of the materials used.
The classes taught enable the student to acquire the fundamentals of the chemistry and physics of materials. These fundamentals are necessary in the understanding of phenomena at the microscopic level which have an influence on the usage properties of materials.
Solid managerial and linguistic competences are transmitted in class during the program in order to allow engineers from this program to find their place in the business world rapidly and efficiently.
The department trains students in numerous professions in the area of materials and offers students the opportunity to perfect their competences in their final year.
During the program, student engineers get to grips with the world of business through visits of industrial sites and interaction with the many professionals who intervene in the program.
Classes are taught in French.
Activity sectors
- Metallurgy
- Plastic and composite materials
- Semi-conductors and components
- Automobiles and aeronautics
- Ceramics / Glass
- Electricity / Nuclear energy
- Biomedical sector
Links with research units
Associated research unit :
- IEMN - Electronics, microelectronics and nanotechnology
- UMET - Materials and transformations
- CNRS - French national research body
Program
5.1 Tools for Engineering
- Goals to be achieved :
- The materials science engineer must be able to discuss with programmers in order to elaborate an application.
- He must know the possibilities and limits of computers, networks and algorithms.
- He must be able to adapt to new software tools and hardware. - Course details :
The course introduces C programming in a Linux environment. Using a relatively low-level language like C requires the student engineer to understand how the hardware works (microprocessor, memory, inputs/outputs, etc.).
This course is associated with the computer science practical courses in UE 5.3.
- Reading list :
Polycopié fourni aux élèves et page Moodle associée.
16 h Practical
1 h DS
- Prerequisites :
Good level of mathematics from license 2.
- Goals to be achieved :
Consolidate and acquire mastery of mathematical objects useful to engineering professions. - Course details :
Matrix operations. Linear systems. Linear applications. Differential equations. Functions of several variables. - Reading list :
Les Matrices Théorie et pratique Denis Serre chez Dunod
Equations Différentielles De Fonctions De Variable Réelle Ou Complexe - Jean-Marie Arnaudiès chez Ellipse
Fonctions De Plusieurs Variables Et Integration - Deug Sciences, Rappels Du Cours Et Exercices Résolus - Francine Delmer chez Dunod
26 h Tutorial
3 h DS
- Goals to be achieved :
- To know how to find scientific and technical documents and informations (patents, papers, standards...)
- To know how to write a scientific or technical document. - Course details :
- Scientific data growth.
- Linguistic tools.
- Artificial intelligence tools.
- Technological intelligence.
- Search engines.
- References writing.
- Bibliographic databases.
- Bibliometry.
- Books and Ph. D. Theses.
- Materials databases.
- Technical standards.
- Intellectual property and patents.
- Copyright, licenses.
- Classifications: ISBN, International Patent Classification, standards classification... - Reading list :
Polycopié fourni aux élèves et page Moodle associée.
6 h Practical
6 h Project
5.2 Fundamentals of Materials
5.3 Projects on Materials Engineering 1
5.4 Soft Skills and Sport
Unit Languages
6.1 Materials and Phase Transformations
- Goals to be achieved :
Using the phase diagrams when cooling materials
Introduction to steels elaboration (steels and cast iron) - Course details :
Binary diagrams calculations : colligative properties (tonometry, cryometry, melting point, osmotic pressure), the binary systems (calculation of the liquidus curve, the solidus curves, the solvus curves, binary diagram with an intermetallic compound)
Ternary phase diagrams
Transformation with phase modification : nucleation and growth, TTT curves, cooling considering equilibrium, cooling considering non-equilibrium, segregation
The Fe-C system : iron properties, the solid solutions of iron, the stable and metastable diagrams, cast iron and non alloyed steels (study of cooling and microstructures)
The martensitic transformation
- Reading list :
10 h Tutorial
1 h DS
- Prerequisites :
611220|612110
- Goals to be achieved :
Ability to read an equilibrium ternary phase diagram, to obtain the crystallization path and acquiring notions about diffusion paths.
- Course details :
Skills to acquire during the course:
* Knowledge, understanding and ability to analyze and synthetize in this specific field.
Course details:
* Dimension of a phase diagram.
* Spatial diagram, isothermal section (notion of tie-lines), isopleth section, polythermic projection.
* Reading of a diagram, composition of a ternary mixture, nature and proportion of phases in biphased and triphased mixtures.
* Alkémade’s theorem, Alkémade’s lines, cotectic lines.
* Crystallization paths in systems with and without solid solutions.
* Diffusion paths.
- Reading list :
4 h Tutorial
- Prerequisites :
611220
- Goals to be achieved :
Know how to represent a process in the form of block diagram and make material and enthalpy balances (energy).
SDG: 12.2 - Course details :
- Introduction to Materials Process Engineering
- Presentation of my block diagram formatting
- Writing of material balance sheets in the presence or not of chemical reaction(s)
- Writing of enthalpy balances and presence or absence of chemical reaction(s)
- Implementation of these balance sheets through a mini-project focusing on metal production processes
- Awareness of environmental impacts
- Reading list :
6 h Tutorial
- Prerequisites :
Basic elements of crystallography, Elasticity, points defects
- Goals to be achieved :
Imperfections in crystals are present in all crystalline solides. They are at the origin of various changes which modify material properties. The goal of the course is to teach the concepts of defects in crystals (new for them) and illustrate in simple cases changes in materials, based on external solicitations (temperature or mechanical stress). - Course details :
- Dislocations: Geometry of the line defect, Burgers vector, Edge, screw and mixed dislocations, stress field around a dislocation, stored elastic energy, force on a dislocation (Peach et Koelher), displacement (glide and climb), yield strengh, multiplication of dislocations (Frank-Read sources), interaction between dislocations
- Surfaces and interfaces: grain and subgrain boundaries, twins, staking faults - Reading list :
* Dislocations et plasticité des cristaux, par J.L.Martin, Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 1999
20 h Tutorial
1 h DS
- Prerequisites :
Basics in chemistry
- Goals to be achieved :
Acquire the fundamentals of electrochemistry in aqueous solution and metal corrosion. Faraday's, Nernst's and Butler-Volmer's laws.
Use this knowledge to find solutions to situations giving rise to corrosion. - Course details :
1- Introduction and general points
2- Elements of electrochemistry: Law of balance (Faraday), Law of equilibrium (Nernst). Kinetic law (Butler-Volmer).
3- Corrosion of metallic materials: protective potential. Galvanic effect.
4- Uniform corrosion
5- Localised corrosion: pitting, crevice corrosion.
6- Atmospheric corrosion
7- Combating aqueous corrosion - Reading list :
Métallurgie, du minerai au matériau, J. Philibert, A. Vignes, Y. Bréchet et P. Combrade, Editeur Masson
12 h Tutorial
1 h DS
- Prerequisites :
612230|612310
- Goals to be achieved :
- know the typical behavior of amorphous and semi-crystalline polymers deformed in the glassy state.
- know the typical behavior of amorphous and semi-crystalline polymers deformed in the rubbery state.
- understand the main types of mechanical testing.
- understand the relationship between (micro)structure and mechanical behavior of polymers.
SDG: 12.2 - Course details :
- Introduction to mechanical testing
- Description of the main types of mechanical testing
- Main mechanical properties of polymers
- Analysis of curves
- time-temperature equivalence
- deformation of amorphous polymers
- deformation of semi-crystalline polymers
- Polymer plasticity - Reading list :
4 h Practical
6.2 Projects on Materials engineering 2
6.3 Physics of Materials
6.4 Soft Skills
Unit Languages
7.1 Quality, Health, Safety and Environment
- Goals to be achieved :
Acquire basics en Quality Management and the basics necessary for the understanding and the coverage on economy challenges and the respect of quality (indicators, processes...).
Acquire knowledge on informatic tools related to quality processes.
Acquire knowledge on regulations and norms, especially ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.
SDG: 9 - Course details :
- Presentation of quality and management systems
- Personal work on the principles of quality management
- Presentation of personal work - Supplements
- Process approach - Description, management
- Indicators and dashboards - Process control
- Basic tools of quality
- Basics of Lean Manufacturing : principles and tools - Reading list :
4 h Tutorial
- Prerequisites :
611130|611210|611220|612310|612320
- Goals to be achieved :
- Understand the basics on sustainable conception
- Understand and identify the interest of eco-conception
- Understand the different methods of environmental evaluation
- Know the Life Cycle Analysis methodologies
SDG: 9.4, 12.2, 13 - Course details :
I - Sustainable development
a. History and definitions
b. Environment
c. Main phenomena
d. Impacts categories
II - Sustainable conception of products
a. Basics
b. Improvements
c. Concrete examples
III Environmental Evaluation
a. Different approaches
b. Tools and methods
IV Environmental display
a. Marketing
b. Communication
c. In France
V. Life Cycle Analysis
a. Regulations
b. Impacts and Indicators
c. Attribution
d. Methods and softwares
e. Actual tendancies - Reading list :
4 h Tutorial
4 h Practical
- Prerequisites :
613110
- Goals to be achieved :
Acquire knowledge on the basics of professional risks prevention, and challenges of security at work.
Acquire knowledge on technical, security and environmental norms, in order to be capable of managing or developing an industrial process related to a need.
Role-playing allowing to understand the capacity to design a quality approach in the field of materials.
SDG: 8 - Course details :
Definitions
* Work injury
* Accident while travelling
* Occupational disease
Consequences
* Human
* Financial
* Penal
Organization of prevention in France
* Labour inspectorate
* CARSAT
* Occupational Health
* ANACT/ARACT
* CHSCT
General principles of prevention
* Law 31/12/1991
* Causality of the accident
* Information sources
Risk assessment
* Posterior
* Accident analysis
* Root-cause analysis
* Prior
* risk evaluation
* Single document - Reading list :
4 h Tutorial
- Goals to be achieved :
Conferences and visit of industrial sites in connection with the modules of the semester - Course details :
variable depending on the year - Reading list :
7.2 Metallurgy and Processing
7.3 Processes and Applications
UE 7.4 Projects on Materials Engineering 3
Social Sciences
Unit Languages
8.1 Projects on Materials Engineering 4
- Prerequisites :
Elasticity and Material's resistance notions studied during previous semesters: S5, S6 & S7.
- Goals to be achieved :
Understanding in a very simple and practical way how to reliably use a basic Finite Elements Analysis program.
To have a first practical contact with Finite Element Method (FEM) before the industrial training period (S8) and much more theoretical FEM lesson coming on S9.
G1: Knowledge and comprehension of a wide array in fundamental sciences and associated analysis and synthesis abilities.
G2: Ability in summoning up the resources of a scientifical and technical domain.
G3: Mastering the engineer's methods and tools: Identification, modelling and solving of problems even unusuals and non totally defined ones.
G4: Mastering of experimentation technics and rules in a research context.
G9: Ability to integer an organisation, responsability exercising, team spirit, project management.
I1: Ability to develop new materials or to improve already existing ones.
I2: Ability to choose and to make use a material whose properties perfectly fit an application.
I3: Ability to characterize a material in order to qualify it or to check it's dependability.
- Course details :
Application of FEM to some Elasticity/material's resistance problems already analytically and experimentally studied during previous semesters.
Problem definition; Geometry; Grid choice; Boundary conditions; Critical analysis of results; Parameters influencing the results quality and reliability; Comparison between different approaches of a same problem: Analytical, experimental and FEM. - Reading list :
Les documents PDF relatifs au logiciel RDM6 mis en ligne par le professeur Yves Debard de l'IUT/Université du Mans: http://iut.univ-lemans.fr/ydlogi/documentation.html
24 h Practical
- Goals to be achieved :
o Knowledge:
- Understanding CAD Principles: Gain theoretical knowledge of CAD concepts, including 2D/3D modeling, sketching techniques, and geometric constraints.
- Acquire knowledge of an open source CAD software, including the features, tools, and workbenches.
- Learn about best practices in CAD design and optimize designs to the aimed construction tool.
o 2. Know-How:
- Practical Application: Apply theoretical knowledge to real-world design projects, demonstrating proficiency in creating 2D sketches, 3D models, and assemblies using CAD software.
- Problem-Solving Skills: Develop the ability to troubleshoot design issues, optimize designs for performance and manufacturability, and adapt to changing project requirements.
- Efficiency Techniques: Master time-saving techniques and simplify models .
o 3. Competences:
- Technical Skills: Develop technical skills in CAD software usage, including proficiency in sketching, modeling, dimensioning, and rendering.
- Communication Skills: Enhance communication skills to effectively convey design ideas and concepts through sketches, 3D designs.
- Collaboration Skills: Collaborate with team members, demonstrating competences in sharing and reviewing CAD files, incorporating feedback.
- Course details :
This course aims to understanding CAD principles. The student will master the software and design real-workd itemps with proficency. The student will develop technical skills and optimise its design. Various workbenches are prenseted to adapt the routine design to the objective. Parametric design is mastered to adapt to changes.
24 h Practical
- Prerequisites :
612230|612310|613420|613440|613220|613210|613330
- Goals to be achieved :
Know how to implement an experimental approach to illustrate a theoretical metallurgical or polymerical phenomenon. Part 2: Practice
SDG: 9.4, 12.2 - Course details :
- Choice of means and operating conditions in relation to the work carried out in Part 1: Theory
- Implementation of experiments (coatings, diffusion treatments, heat treatments, casting, polymer shaping etc.)
- Characterization of the samples obtained (optical microscopy, SEM, mechanical characterizations, electrochemical corrosion measurements, etc.)
- Interpretation / analysis of results, if applicable, modification of operating parameters…
- Valuing work, taking a step back on the correspondence between theory and experience
- Reading list :
Solidification – the separation theory and its practical applications, A. Ohno, springer verlag, 1987
Physical metallurgy second edition, William F. Hosford, CRC Press 2010
Introduction to the physics and chemistry of materials, Robert J. Naumann, CRC Press 2008
Métallurgie du minerai au matériau, Jean Philibert, Alain Vignes, Yves Bréchet, Pierre Combrade, Ed. Masson, 1998
Welding Metallurgy and Weldability, John C. Lippold, Wiley, 2014
Trace-Elements-and-Graphite-Shape-Degeneracy-in-Nodular-Graphite-Cast-Irons, J. Lacaze, CIRIMAT
2-D nucleation-growth model of sheroidal graphite, Lacaze et coll, Acta Materialia 134 (2017) 230-235
Fundamentals of solidification Fourth revised edition, Kurtz and Fischer, TTP ed. 2005
Techniques ingénieur BM7510
- Emboutissage des tôles - Aspect mécanique, Alain COL, 2011
- Emboutissage des tôles - Importance des modes de déformation , Alain COL, 2011
Physical metallurgy second edition, William F. Hosford, CRC Press 2010
Introduction to the physics and chemistry of materials, Robert J. Naumann, CRC Press 2008
Métallurgie du minerai au matériau, Jean Philibert, Alain Vignes, Yves Bréchet, Pierre Combrade, Ed. Masson, 1998
Welding Metallurgy and Weldability, John C. Lippold, Wiley, 2014
Study of Selective Oxidation by means of Glow Discharge Optical Emission Spectroscopy, OLLIVIER-LEDUC A., GIORGI M.-L., BALLOY D., GUILLOT J.-B.Corrosion Science, Vol. 53 (2010) 1375-1382.
Composites Bimétalliques Architecturés obtenus par un procédé hybride : fabrication additive - fonderie - métallurgie des poudres, David Balloy, Rodolphe Astori, Philippe Quaegebeur, Denis Le Picard, Matthieu Touzin, Franck Béclin, Journée Annuelles de la SF2M 2017.
Métallurgie en mise en forme à chaud, Frank MONTHEILLET, Techniques de l’Ingénieur M3031, 2009.
Métallurgie générale, Bénard Michel Philibert et Talbot, Masson, 1984
SINDO KOU - Welding Metallurgy - Wiley
- Prerequisites :
Scientific basis of the third year of the engineering cycle (crystallography, crystal defects, structure of polymers, metallurgy, ...)
- Goals to be achieved :
Know how to establish a methodology for characterization of materials (structural, mechanical, chemical) leading to the acquisition of the desired properties.
Ability to characterize a material to qualify it, in relation with its properties, reliability and durability (choose a characterization method, perform tests, analyzes or observations characterize defects, control a measurement system ...)
Knowledge of the major material characterization techniques.
Know how to interpret the results (statistical measurements, calibration, associated uncertainties, ...). - Course details :
- Characterization of mechanical properties
- Thermal Analysis
- Particle-matter interactions
- Spectroscopic Techniques
- X-rays (diffraction, radiography, tomography)
- Optical Microscopy
- Scanning Electron Microscopy
- Transmission electron microscopy
- Near-field microscopy
- Methodology, quantitative analysis, calibration, uncertainty, limit of detection, statistics... - Reading list :
- Prerequisites :
- Basic knowledge of metallurgy.
- Goals to be achieved :
• • Explain the functionality of the main NDT methods comparing their advantages and disadvantages when applied to welded constructions.
• • Interpret weld defects, relating their causes and avoidance.
• • Explain in detail the principles of NDT interpretation
• • Justify the suitability of particular NDT methods for the detection of a specific defect.
• • Apply the requirements for qualification of NDT personnel.
• • Undertake laboratory application of relevant NDT methods to welded joints.
- Course details :
- Fundamentals of NDT methods (visual, dye penetrant, magnetic particle, eddy current, acoustic emission, radiography, digital RT, ultrasonic, etc.)
- Field of application and limitations
- Design in respect of NDT
- Calibration
- Correct selection of the NDT methods versus application (e.g. CEN/TR 15135)
- Qualification and certification of NDT personnel (EN ISO 9712)
- NDT procedures
- Automation of NDT (computer aided evaluation, etc.)
- Use of standards and specifications
- Health and safety aspects..
- Review of documents and protocols from NDT test sites
Demonstrations and practical laboratory work
6 h Practical
- Prerequisites :
614220
- Goals to be achieved :
Know how to search and find adequate informations to answer to specifications of the targeted application field.
Know how to find innovative solutions.
Know to present informations in a synthetic and pedagogical manner.
SDG: 3, 12 - Course details :
Thematics developed according to specifications (problematic, proposed solution, materials used, challenges/evolutions):
- surface treatment of biomaterials
- effect of physiological medium of metallic and polymer materials
- sterilization processes
- 3D printing
- mechanical properties of implants
- materials used in various applications (tissue engineering, ocular implants, wound dressings, biosensors, prostheses...) - Reading list :
8.2 Materials and Applications
8.3 Materials and energy
UE Languages
8.5 Assistant Engineer placement : From 10 a 13 weeks from mid-april
9.1 Advanced courses in materials engineering
- Goals to be achieved :
Notions developed in the courses Criteria for choosing materials, Solving an industrial problem, Industrial property. - Course details :
See corresponding courses.
- Prerequisites :
611120|611130|611210|611220|611230|611240|612110|612120|612140|612150|612160|612220|612310|612320|612330|612350|613120|613210|613220|613230|613240|613310|613320|613330|613340|614110|614120|614210|614220|614230|614240|614310|615121|615122|615123
- Goals to be achieved :
* To determine the functions of a product, the constraints applied on it and the aims to optimize so as to establish the specifications.
* To use a software database in order to compare the materials and processes performances and to deduce the most suitable ones for one application.
SDG: 12.2
- Course details :
Skills to acquire during the course:
* Knowledge, understanding and ability to analyze and synthetize in this specific field.
* Identification, analysis and solving of problems.
* Collecting and interpretation of data for an innovating aim.
* Project management.
* Ability to develop new materials or to improve materials properties.
* Ability to select and to use a material whose properties meet the specifications required by the application.
* Ability to select an industrial process which enables to meet specifications required by the application.
Course details:
* Conception procedure.
* Materials families and properties.
* Materials used in the various industrial fields.
* Ashby maps.
* Selection strategy and performance factors.
* Material and geometry selection.
* Multicriteria selection (processes feasibility, multimaterials, design, cost criteria, ability to recycling).
* Ecoconception.
* Methods and software of selection.
* Study of cases.
- Reading list :
12 h Practical
- Prerequisites :
All the knowledge acquired during the first two years of the engineering cycle
- Goals to be achieved :
- Analyze and understand an industrial problem in all its complexity (technical, normative, financial, security, customer relations, etc.)
- Work in groups
- Evaluate technical solutions taking into account financial, security, normative constraints, etc.
- Synthetically write the solution(s) proposed to the industrialist
- Defend their analysis of the problem and their solution(s) to the industrialist concerned.
- Course details :
Students analyze, describe and propose a draft solution to a current industrial problem. This is not a purely scientific project, but an industry-wide study of all or some of the facets that need to be taken into account (technical, normative, budgetary, human resources, etc.). The students work in project groups, implementing a group dynamic to achieve their objectives by dividing up the work according to the different themes. - Reading list :
Dépend des sujets abordés.
4 h Tutorial
20 h Project
- Goals to be achieved :
To acquire the basics of intellectual property and know the implications for a company - Course details :
- Introduction to intellectual property
- copyright
- scientific survey
- know how to analyze a patent
- case study - Reading list :
4 h Project
2 h DS
- Goals to be achieved :
Understanding the field of cybersecurity and its implications
- Course details :
Learn more about cybersecurity and its potential impact on you.
Know the most common threats, attacks and vulnerabilities.
Find out how businesses protect their businesses from attacks.
Find out about the latest employment trends and why cybersecurity is gaining ground. - Reading list :
- Goals to be achieved :
Notions acquired in the Welding-Bonding-Assembly, Coatings and Paints, Surface Treatments and Recycling courses, providing knowledge and skills in the development of multi-material objects. - Course details :
See the different courses.
- Prerequisites :
611220|611230|611240|612110|612120|612140|612310|613210|613230|613340|613460|614140|614150|614210|614230
- Goals to be achieved :
To acquire knowledge in the fields of mechanical assemblies, soldering, brazing and welding.
Ability to consider problematics linked to dissimilar joining and to multimaterials.
SDG: 12.2 - Course details :
Skills to acquire during the course:
* Knowledge, understanding and ability to analyze and synthetize in this specific field.
* Identification, analysis and solving of problems.
* Ability to develop new materials or to improve materials properties.
Course details:
- Mechanical assemblies.
- Soldering and brazing (Notions of capillarity, wettability; principle of soldering and brazing; properties of the joints).
- Welding (Processes; principle and metallurgy of welding; joints defects; non destructive test techniques of joints).
- Dissimilar joining: problematics, possible solutions and examples.
- Reading list :
4 h Tutorial
20 h Practical
- Prerequisites :
611210|611220|611230|612110|612120|612140|612150|612320|613210|613230|614140|614150|614210|614230
- Goals to be achieved :
Global view of surface treatments used in the industry.
SDG: 12.2, 12.4 - Course details :
Skills to acaquire during the course:
* Knowledge, understanding and ability to analyze and synthetize data in this specific field.
* Identification, analysis and solving of problems.
* Ability to develop new materials or to improve materials properties.
* Ability to characterize a material for its qualification and to qualify its reliability and its life duration.
* Ability to select an industrial process which enables to meet specifications required by the application.
Course details:
* Definition of a surface.
* Surface properties.
* Principles of various surface treatments (by chemical, physical, thermal, mechanical, thermomechanical way, by diffusion etc) and applications.
* Characterization techniques of surfaces.
* Surface defects.
- Reading list :
- Prerequisites :
611210|612310|613210|613220
- Goals to be achieved :
To have notions on the different types of recycling concerning plastics and metals
SDG: 12 - Course details :
- physical recycling
- chemical recycling
- overview of the existing processes
- issues related to recycling - Reading list :
- Goals to be achieved :
Conferences and visit of industrial sites in connection with the modules of the semester - Course details :
variable depending on the year - Reading list :
