Szczecin, Poland

Materials Science and Engineering

Bachelor's - engineer
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Materials Science and Engineering study

⇑Materials Science and Engineering at ZUT

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: engineering and engineering trades
Kind of studies: full-time studies

⇑Test: Is Materials Science and Engineering the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. Your phone screen cracked when you dropped it, but the case wasn’t even scratched. What do you wonder?

2. How do you feel about chemistry and physics at school?

3. Imagine a lab class where you test how much force a metal rod can take before it snaps. How does that sound?

4. You see a bicycle frame made of carbon fibre. What interests you?

5. Lectures, lab reports and project work will be in English, with students from different countries. How does that sound?

6. How patient are you when an experiment doesn’t work the first time?

7. Engineers are developing materials that can be fully recycled or that break down naturally. How do you feel about that kind of work?

8. Would you enjoy examining the inner structure of metals or plastics under a microscope?

9. During a summer job at a factory making metal parts, you notice some parts keep cracking. What do you do?

10. What motivates you most to study Materials Science and Engineering?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Engineering
Engineering is the creative application of science, mathematical methods, and empirical evidence to the innovation, design, construction, operation and maintenance of structures, machines, materials, devices, systems, processes, and organizations. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied mathematics, applied science, and types of application. See glossary of engineering.
Materials Science
The interdisciplinary field of materials science, also commonly termed materials science and engineering is the design and discovery of new materials, particularly solids. The intellectual origins of materials science stem from the Enlightenment, when researchers began to use analytical thinking from chemistry, physics, and engineering to understand ancient, phenomenological observations in metallurgy and mineralogy. Materials science still incorporates elements of physics, chemistry, and engineering. As such, the field was long considered by academic institutions as a sub-field of these related fields. Beginning in the 1940s, materials science began to be more widely recognized as a specific and distinct field of science and engineering, and major technical universities around the world created dedicated schools of the study, within either the Science or Engineering schools, hence the naming.
Science
Science (from Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
Engineering
A man should build a house with his own hands before he calls himself an engineer.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1963), One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, p. 98
Engineering
Incorrigible humanity, therefore, led astray by the giant Nimrod, presumed in its heart to outdo in skill not only nature but the source of its own nature, who is God; and began to build a tower in Sennaar, which afterwards was called Babel (that is, 'confusion'). By this means human beings hoped to climb up to heaven, intending in their foolishness not to equal but to excel their creator.
Dante Alighieri, De vulgari eloquentia, Chapter VII
Science
Within the short span of a human life and with man's limited powers of memory, any stock of knowledge worthy of the name is unattainable except by the greatest mental economy. Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought.
Ernst Mach, The Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Account of Its Development (1893) p. 490, Tr. Thomas J. McCormack.
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