The programme, which requires a solid grounding in any area of industrial engineering for admission, provides training in the phenomena underlying the behaviour of materials and their transformation processes (chemistry, physics, computational mechanics, transport phenomena, physical chemistry). Alongside these disciplines, technological in-depth studies enable students to measure the properties of materials, design new ones and devise and develop the related transformation processes, in particular those involving physical and/or chemical transformations.
Throughout the programme, particular emphasis is placed on the complex structure-property-process relationships of materials: only a thorough knowledge of these relationships, for each class of materials, makes it possible to understand and solve highly complex problems in materials engineering.
A highly significant aspect of the training is the interdisciplinarity of the programme: the characterising subjects are typical of chemistry, physics, industrial engineering and the mechanics of materials. This feature allows continuous cross-fertilisation between different disciplinary areas, encouraging students to approach problems comprehensively, to analyse them from several points of view and to consider their complexity through different approaches.