The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is one of five Departments of the Technische Fakultät (School of Engineering Sciences) of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. While the latter was founded already in 1743, the School of Engineering Sciences (founded in 1966) is much younger. Till today, the School of Engineering Sciences pursues the goal to train and educate the students to become engineers with a strong foundation in natural sciences and technology (“der naturwissenschaftlich gebildete Ingenieur”).
The five Departments are:
a) Chemical and Bio-Engineering (Chemie und Bio-Ingenieurwesen)
b) Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering
(Elektrotechnik, Elektronik und Informationstechnik)
c) Mechanical Engineering (Maschinenbau)
d) Computer Sciences (Informatik)
e) Materials Science and Engineering (Werkstoffwissenschaften)
The students graduate with the academic degree "Diplomingenieur" or "Diplominformatiker" after a study of 5 years or more. After the Diplom degree, highly qualified graduates can enter the doctorate programme. Until recently, the Diplom degree was the only academic degree conferred by the School. In the last few years, new curricula leading to Bachelor and Master degrees were introduced increasingly.
Structure:
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering consists of 7 Institutes with a staff of 14 professors and two readers (Privatdozent: PD). It is managed by the Board of Directors, which consists of the directors of the individual instituts.
ForschungsschwerpunkteA special feature of the Department is its broad spectrum of research activities and know-how, covering most of the material classes, and extending from material modification, processing and characterization to application in technical devices and systems.
The research activities of the Department will be presented in detail in the subsequent sections by each Institute. Quite a few topics and materials of technological importance combine interest and expertise of more than one of the Institutes and are subjects of co-operation, common projects and common use of facilities.
These topics include:
• composite materials with metallic and ceramic matrices as well as metal-polymer-composites
• ceramic high-temperature materials
• polymer ceramics
• flow behaviour of ceramic suspensions
• metallic and other foams
• ultrafine-grained metals and alloys
• metallic high-temperature materials of the aerospace and power industry
• bio-compatible materials on the basis of ceramics, metals and polymers
• diamond- and diamond-like protection layers
• materials for digital storage devices
• common aspects of crystal growth and directional solidification
• bulk crystals and thin films of large band gap semiconductors
KooperationsbeziehungenInternational Exchange for Students and Scientists
• Alfred University, New York, USA
• Bulgarian Academy of Science, Dept. of Polymer Foams, Institute of Metal Science Sofia, Bulgaria
• Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratoire de Métallurgie Mécanique, Lausanne, Switzerland, Prof. A. Mortensen
• Dept. of Power Engineering, Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague, Czech Republic
• Dept. of General Physics and Chemistry, University Pécs, Hungary, Prof. Dr. G. Nagy
• Dept. of Physics, Lviv National University, Ukraine, Dr. Y. Zorenko
• Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA, Prof. R. Davis
• Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Parma, Parma, Italy, Prof. P. Lottici
• Dyneon Inc., St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
• McGill University, Montréal, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Canada, Prof. Kamal
• Haifa University of Technology, Tribology Institute, Israel
• Institute for Advanced Energy, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
• Institute of Functional Materials Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
• Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
• Laboratoire de Physique des Matériaux, Ecoles des Mines de Nancy, France, Prof. A. George
• Laboratório de Processos Eletroquímicos e Corrosão, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil; Prof. L. F. P. Dick
• LTPCM, Domaine Universitaire de Grenoble, Saint-Martin d'Hères, France, Prof. Y. Bréchet
• Russian Academy of Science, Institute for Petrochemical Synthesis, Moscow, Russia
• Technical University of Azerbaijan Baku, Azerbaijan, Prof. A. Mamaedow, vice chancellor, Prof. A. I. Sadychov, Institute for Repair Technology and Equipment Dependability
• Université de Evry/SNECMA, France, Dr. J.-Y. Guédou
• University of Miskolc, Dept. of Physical Chemistry, Hungary, Prof. Kaptay
• University of Udine, Italy, Prof. F. Miani
• Yamagata University, Yonezawa, Japan
Research Projects with International Co-operation
• Prof. C. Allen, University of Cape Town, South Africa
• Prof. Bressiani, Sao Paulo, Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares (IPEN), Pinheiros, Sao Paulo, Brasilien
• Dr. A. Borbély, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary
• Prof. P. Calvert, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Arizona, Tuscon, USA
• Prof. P. Colombo, University of Bologna, Dipartimento di Chimica Applicate e Scienza die Materiali, Bologna, Italy
• Prof. J.M. Dealy, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
• Dr. V. Dmitriev, A.F. Ioffe-Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
• Prof. P. Gibart, Centre de Recherches sur l'Hétéro-Epitaxie et ses Applications, CNRS, Valbonne, France
• Dr. Th. Graule, Eidgenössische Materialprüfanstalt EMPA, Switzerland
• Prof. C. Humphreys, Department of Materials Science and Metallury, University of Cambridge, UK
• Dr. S.H. Jason Lo, Centre canadien de la technologie des minéraux et de l'energie CANMET, Ottawa, Canada
• Prof. R. Jerome, Université Liège (CERM), Lüttich, Belgium
• Prof. J. Kallitis, JCE/HT-Forth, Patras, Greece
• Prof. P. Komninou, Department of Physics, Section of Solid State Physics, University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Dr. S. Kunsági-Máté, Dept. of General Physics and Physical Chemistry, University Pécs, Hungary
• Dr. P. McEvoy, North Atlantic Fisheries College, Scalloway, UK
• Prof. Mitsoulis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
• Prof. Y. V. Lakhotkin, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Moscow, Russia
• Prof. T. G. Langdon, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
• Prof. S. Luyckx, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Prof. T. Pollock, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
• Prof. R. Pond, Department of Engineering/Materials Science and Engineering, University of Liverpool, UK
• Dr. P. Ruterana, Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Matériaux, CNRS, Caen, France
• Prof. J. Salzmann, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
• Dr. A. Serra, Department Matemática Apöicada III, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
• Prof. Y. Umakoshi and Dr. T. Nakano, Osaka University, Japan
• Prof. T. Ungár, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary
• Prof. R. Valiev, Ufa, Russia
• Prof. A. Vinogradov, Osaka City University, Japan
• ARMINES-CEMEF, Ecole des Mines, Centre for Material Forming, Sophia Antipolis, France
• Dr. Y. Zorenko, Dept. of Physics, Lviv National University, Ukraine
• Argo S.A., Koropi Korydallos, Greece
• Association pour la Recherche et le Développement des Méthodes et Processus Industriel, Paris, France
• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France
• Dept. of Power Engineering, Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague, Czech Republic
• DOW Benelux NV, Terneuzen, The Netherlands
• Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, Paris, France
• Eindhoven University of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven, Netherlands
• National Science Foundation of China, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Academy of Sciences, P. R. China
• Pirelli Pneumatici SpA, Milano, Italy
• Repsol Petróleo SA, Madrid, Spain
• Technical University of Riga, Latvia
• Universidade del Rio Grande do Norte, Dept. de Física CCE, Natal – RN, Brazil
• Université de Pan, Labratoire de Physique de Matériaux industriell, Pan, France
• University of Cambridge, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Cambridge, UK Permanent International Scientific Relations
• Prof. A. Andreev, A.F. Ioffe-Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
• Prof. A. S. Argon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
• Prof. M. Ashby, Cambridge, UK
• Prof. G. Bauer, Institut für Halbleiterphysik, Johannes Kepler Universität, Linz, Austria
• Prof. R. Boukherroub, Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Ecolé Polytechnique, Paris, France
• Prof. R. Carles, Laboratoire Physique des Solides, Université P. Sabatier, Toulouse, France
• Prof. T. W. Clyne, Cambridge, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy, UK
• Prof. J.M. Dealy, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
• Prof. P. Degischer, University of Vienna, Austria
• Prof. T. Evans, Princeton University, USA
• Prof. N. Fleck, Cambridge, UK
• Prof. L. Gibson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
• Prof. J. Gil Sevillano, CEIT, Universidad de Navarro, San Sebastian, Spain
• Prof. M. Graham, Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
• Prof. Hofman, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
• Prof. M.R. Kamal, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
• Prof. A. Kapljaniskii, A.F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
• Prof. M. E. Kassner, University of Oregon, USA
• Prof. Koyama, Yamagata University, Yonezawa, Japan
• Dr. L. P. Kubin, ONERA/CNRS, Châtillon, France
• Prof. C. Laird, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA • Dr. B. Löfgren, Technical University Helsinki, Finland
• Dr. P. Masri, CNRS Montpellier, France
• Prof. F. Meyer, Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale, Université Paris XI, France
• Prof. A. Mortensen, Ecolé Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Prof. M. Mills, Ohio State University, USA
• Prof. F. R. N. Nabarro, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Prof. Y.H. Ogata, Institute for Advanced Energy, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
• Prof. S. Porowski, High Pressure Research Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
• Dr. G. Salviati, Istituto Materiali Speciali per Elettronica e Magnetismo, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR MASPEC), Parma, Italy
• Prof. J. Seppälä, Technical University Helsinki, Finland
• Prof. S. Suresh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
• Prof. H. Wadley, University of Virginia, USA
• Prof. Z.-G. Wang, Chinese Academy of Science, Shenyang, P. R. China
• Dr. Y. Zorenko, Dept. of Physics, Lviv National University, Ukraine
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
• National University of Taiwan, Taiwan
Wissenschaftliche TagungenOn July 6, 2001, the Department held its annual Erlanger Werkstofftag, a Symposium with eight lectures, of which three were held by the recipients of awards for scientific excellence. Another lecture was given by Professor Schmuki, the new head of the Institute IV (Surface Science and Corrosion), who introduced his new fields of research to the audience of some 150 current and former members of the Department.
On September 27 and 28, 2001, the 4th Erlanger Kunststofftage were held in Erlangen. This regular Symposium on Polymers, organized jointly by Institute V (Polymer Materials) of Professor Münstedt and the Institute of Polymer Technology of Professor Ehrenstein in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was attended by about 100 participants from industry and universities.
On October 12, 2001, a special Symposium on Polymers was held in honor of Professor Münstedt on the occasion of his 60th birthday.
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