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MATERIALS DEPARTMENT
OF MINES NANCY

Short presentation of the department

In a world where needs are growing but resources are limited and societal demands are contradictory, materials must be used in a rational and efficient way. They are also an indispensable support for the development of new technologies, new energies and new health devices: materials are at the center of the material economy, today and tomorrow.

The department's engineers must face many challenges: those of design (nanotechnology, multifunctionality, bio-inspiration, shaping, additive manufacturing, etc.), processes (extraction, rare metals, recycling, multi-materials, etc.), properties (new dimensionality, surface, durability, degradation, lightening, etc.) and also modelling (multi-scale, multi-physics, industry of the future, etc.) The department prepares its students, future engineers in the discipline, for all these challenges.

A discipline at the heart of societal issues

The department offers a generalist and high-level scientific education in the field of Materials Science and Engineering. Above all, it prepares them to become the engineers of tomorrow, capable of developing, producing or marketing new materials that are ever more efficient and that have integrated all the major transitions such as those of Digital, Industry 4.0, Engineering for Health and that of Sustainable Development. Courses are given in FICM, FIGIM and FIIC .

In FICM, the courses are divided into three options that cover a very wide range of materials and applications:

The three main classes of materials, metals and alloys, polymers and ceramics (and all their composites) are treated from the point of view of both structural properties (mechanical) and functional properties (physics/chemistry of surfaces and solids). The applications addressed respond to the major societal challenges of today, such as those of energy, health, the environment and transportation.