Profile Materials

Master of Chemical and Materials Engineering: Profile "materials"

Common Core I: compulsory courses (master year 1)

Molecular structural characterization and analysis
5 ECTS
Electrochemistry
4 ECTS
Parameter Estimation and Modelling
5 ECTS
Microstructural design and characterization of inorganic materials
6 ECTS
Surface treatment: Processing and Analysis
4 ECTS
Organic Chemistry: Reactions and Mechanisms
4 ECTS
Polymer Materials
6 ECTS
Unit operations
7 ECTS

Common Core I: project (master year 1)

You select one of the following projects.

Development Cooperation Project
5 ECTS
Hands-on learning: project manager (chef de projet)
5 ECTS
Research project on sustainable chemical processes and materials
5 ECTS

Common Core II: compulsory courses (master year 2)

Environmental Technology
3 ECTS
Biotechnology: from biomolecules to biofabrication
3 ECTS
Reliability and risk analysis of industrial installations
4 ECTS

Specific Courses Profile Materials

Profile Materials I: compulsory courses (master year 1)

Ceramics
4 ECTS
Mechanics of Materials
3 ECTS
Production of Metals
3 ECTS
Advanced materials
4 ECTS

Profile Materials II: compulsory courses (master year 2)

Forming of Metals
4 ECTS
Polymers: rheology and processing
4 ECTS
Sustainability of Materials (incl. Corrosion)
5 ECTS

Profile Materials II: electives (master year 2)

You select one course from two options.

Experimental techniques for characterization of construction materials
3 ECTS
Materials Selection
3 ECTS

Master Thesis

Master Thesis Chemical and Materials Engineering
24 ECTS
Master Thesis Chemical and Materials Engineering ULB
24 ECTS

Electives

You select one of three options (and in total 10 ECTS).

Option 1: Internship

Internship (60 days)
10 ECTS

Option 2: Elective courses

Sustainable Chemical Processes
4 ECTS
Environmental Engineering: Current Methods and Practices
3 ECTS
Recycling of inorganic materials
5 ECTS
Fuel Cells and Batteries
4 ECTS
Internship (40 days)
6 ECTS
Manufacturing Technology I
3 ECTS
Manufacturing Technology II
3 ECTS
Engineering aspects of circular economy
5 ECTS
Industrial Techniques for Water Management
3 ECTS
Heterogeneous catalysis
4 ECTS
Micro- and Nanofabrication
3 ECTS
Experimental techniques for characterization of construction materials
3 ECTS
Materials Selection
3 ECTS
Biocompatible and nanostructured materials
5 ECTS
Advanced Thermal Analysis
3 ECTS
Micro- and Nanobiotechnology
3 ECTS
Molecular and Biomolecular Engineering
3 ECTS

Option 3: Entrepreneurship

It is not allowed to enroll for both 'Technological Business Development Project' and 'EUTOPIA Learning Unit - Technological Business Development Project'.

Business Management and Entrepreneurship
3 ECTS
Innovation Strategy
5 ECTS
Management and sustainable development: constraints and opportunities
5 ECTS
Seminar of emerging technologies
5 ECTS
Enterpreneurial Ecosystems
5 ECTS
English for Professional Purposes
5 ECTS
Entrepreneurship
3 ECTS
Logistics and Quality Engineering
5 ECTS
Business Aspects of Technology: Factory of the Future
3 ECTS
Technological Business Development Project - EUTOPIA Learning Unit
3 ECTS
Technological Business Development Project - EUTOPIA Learning Unit
6 ECTS
IP Management and Technology Transfer (Chaire Solvay)
5 ECTS
Total number of ECTS
120