Undergraduate Graduate
1. Methodology of Materials Research
Curriculum Time: The 1st semester
Course Description: This course will take students into the world of wonderful new materials, helping them to realize that every discovery of a new material, every breakthrough in materials science and technology had pushed humanity’s ability to adapt to and modify nature to a new level. Fundamental methodology of materials research is introduced using simple practical examples.
2. Fundamental of Material Science
Curriculum Time: The 4th semester
Course Description: The course emphasizes the principal and methodology of material science, helping students to master the basic knowledge and fundamental theory of this field. The course will focus on imparting the relationships between material composition, microstructure, preparation process and their applications.
3. Metal materials and heat treatments
Curriculum Time: The 5th semester
Course Description: The course based on material science principle and physical chemistry focuses on the principal and methodology of heat treatment of metallic materials. The aim is to make the students grasp fundamental theoretical knowledge and basic skill of heat treatment as well as the types of metals and alloys suitable for heat treatment and their applications in industry.
4. Powder Metallurgy Principle
Curriculum Time: The 6th, 7th semesters
Course Description: This course, based on Fundamental of Material Science, Heat treatment and Physical Chemistry, mainly aims to provide students with the principal and methodology of powder metallurgy materials. The course focuses on imparting preparation methodology and fundamental of powder metallurgy materials, as well as technology and principal of the progress of preparation of powder metallurgy material.
5. Metals Forming Principle and Process
Curriculum Time: The 6th semester
Course Description: The course is divided into Plastic Forming Principle and Forming Technology. And Plastic Forming Principle includes fundamental theory of mechanics, frictions during plastic forming and fundamental of material science in plastic forming. Forming Technology are consist of Plate rolling theory, rolling technology as well as forming technology of tubes, bars, lines and section bar, including extrusion, drawing and groove rolling.
6. Materials Properties and Testing
Curriculum Time: The 5th semester
Course Description: This course bases on Fundamental of Material Science, Material Physics, Materials Chemistry and Mechanics of Materials. It summarizes the basic physical and chemistry properties of metal materials, ceramic materials and polymer materials. The main objective is to introduce the mechanic properties, corrosion resistance, electrical behavior, magnetic behavior, thermal behavior and optical behavior of these three types of materials to students. Besides, students will also learn the principles of different materials' properties, their testing methods and their application fields.
7. Melting and Casting of Nonferrous Metals
Curriculum Time: The 5th semester
Course Description: This course aims to help students to understand the relationships between the alloy compositions, heat treatment, microstructure and their properties (including mechanical properties, physical properties and engineering application properties etc), it also explains the physical and chemistry evolutions of alloy during melting process and thus presenting the methodology and measures to control the quality of the liquid melt. The history and latest development of nonferrous alloy melt and casting are covered, and the classification and casting ability are covered as well.
8. Design of Powder Metallurgy Process and Equipment
Curriculum Time: The 7th semester
Course Description: This course introduces the students to the design and measure of equipments used in the manufacturing process of the powder metallurgy materials. The Application principle, methodology and design of electric furnaces used in powder metallurgy industry are also provided. The aims are to make students master basic steps and methods of processing design and equipment design of manufacturing powder metallurgy materials. New equipments and technologies in powder metallurgy industry are covered to broaden the students’ scope of knowledge, and to improve their capability of solving the practical issues that they will face in future work.
9. Mold Design in Powder Metallurgy
Curriculum Time: The 7th semester
Course Description: This course primarily introduces the design for the traditional single axis compaction mould and finishing mould for sintered parts. Besides, the mould design for metal injection moulding, powder compact extrusion and powder compact forging are systematically introduced. As well as the introduction for the principles and methodology, this course focuses on the production practice, through large amount of mould designs, aiming to improve the students’ capability for mould design.
10. Solid State Physics
Curriculum Time: The 4th semester
Course Description: This course is a critical basic professional course for undergraduates related to materials science. Students will learn how to understand the principles and research methodology of solid state physics from a view point of materials science, which requires a great deal of fundamental knowledge with respect to materials physics. The objective of this work is to make the students grasp the basic knowledge of quantum mechanics and statistical physics. They will learn the basic knowledge of solid state physics, and more important, how to analyse the basic issues in materials science by using these knowledge. They will have a solid basis for the further study of solid state physics and research of materials science.
11. Material Thermodynamics
Curriculum Time: The 5th semester
Course Description: This course is divided into two sections: the basic principles of thermodynamics and their basic applications in material science. In the basic principles of thermodynamics, the first, second and third law of thermodynamics, the conception of free energy, Maxwell's equations and their applications are introduced. In the application section, the phase equilibrium of single component system, free energy and phase equilibrium of binary system, phase diagrams thermodynamics, phase transition thermodynamics, chemical equilibrium thermodynamics, thermodynamics explanation for some physical phenomenon in materials are covered.
12. Introduction of Macromolecule Materials
Curriculum Time: The 5th semester
Course Description: This course bases on High Polymer Physics and High Polymer Chemistry. It aims to expand students’ view, inspire their innovation consciousness and cultivate their innovation ability. It further broadens the basic knowledge of High Polymer Physics and High Polymer Chemistry of undergraduates and promotes their comprehensive quality in materials sciences.
13. Inorganic Nonmetallic Materials
Curriculum Time: The 6th semester
Course Description: This course aims to help the students to have a comprehensive understanding of inorganic nonmetallic material and to recognize their influences in the economic development. The research progress in this field will be introduced, providing a solid professional foundation for further study and research. Furthermore, this course will expand students’ views, promote their capability for analysing and dealing with practical problems.
14. Model Functional Materials
Curriculum Time: The 6th semester
Course Description: The course aims to introduce some important function materials, such as energy materials, electric functional materials, magnetic material, fine functional ceramics, porous material and shape memory material. It focuses on the preparation, application and mechanism of these materials. Students will grasp the functional principles, characteristics, preparation methods and application of different types of functional materials. The new development of functional materials will be introduced.
15. Corrosion and Protection of Metals
Curriculum Time: The 5th semester
Course Description: The course, based on Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Physical Metallurgy, mainly impart the fundamentals of high temperature chemical corrosion and electrochemical corrosion, to enable the students to come up with effective corrosion prevention methods by utilizing the corrosion principals to analyze the corrosion process. It aims to give the students a thorough understanding of corrosion and corrosion prevention, and to understand the important role of research in this field in the development of new materials.
16. Superhard Materials and Cemented Carbide
Curriculum Time: The 7th semester
Course Description: The course is divided into two sections: superhard materials and cemented carbide. Suprhard materials consist of preparation of superhard tool materials, the preparation and application of superhard coating. And the cemented carbide part consists of key raw materials preparation, cemented carbide blende preparation, forming technology and sintering technology. The review of current and future development in cemented carbide and its processing methodology is also introduced.
17. Science of Powder Metallurgy material
Curriculum Time: The 7th semester
Course Description: Powder Metallurgy material is generally divided into P/M antifriction material, P/M porous material, P/M structure material, P/M friction material, P/M tool and mould material, P/M function material and P/M high-temperature material. The course introduces the porosity characteristic and its influence of P/M materials, the methodology of improving P/M material properties, P/M new technology and high performance P/M material. The correlations between processes and properties are covered as well.
18. Polymer Chemistry and Physics
Curriculum Time: The 5th semester
Course Description: The course consists of two major parts: polymer chemistry and polymer physics. The main contents of polymer chemistry include free radical polymerization reaction, stereospecific polymerization, ionic polymerization, radical copolymerization and polymerization implementation method etc. In polymer physics, it is required to master the fundamental content and theory development of polymer physics, to understand polymer conformation, polymer crystalline structure, the three mechanical states of polymer, the macromolecule transition and relaxation from molecular motion, and polymer mechanical property and rheology behavior.
19. Analysis and Testing Technology of Modern Materials
Curriculum Time: The 6th semester
Course Description: The course is divided into three sections: X-ray analysis, SEM analysis and spectrum Analysis. The students will be introduced to the fundamentals, basic structure and characteristic methodology of modern material properties and structure characterization. The features and testing range of these analytical instruments, the factors in testing or analysis process, which affect the accuracy of the results are also covered so the students can select the suitable method for testing and master the methods for analyzing the test results.
20. Surface Science and Engineering
Curriculum Time: The 6th semester
Course Description: The course, based on Physical Chemistry, Material Science Principal/ Physical Metallurgy, Inorganic Chemistry and Organic Chemistry, aim to help the students to grasp the basic methodology and fundamental of surface science and engineering and to utilize these knowledge to solve the practical issues.
21. Composite
Curriculum Time: The 6th semester
Course Description: The course mainly imparts the definition and classifications of composites, the types of strengthen phase and matrix and their related characteristic, analysation of the interface and different interface theory and their molding technology. The course aims to make the students master the conception of strengthen phase and matrix and grasp the major manufacturing technology.
Doctor Curriculum:
1、Powder Metallurgy Science
2、Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics
Graduate Curriculum：
3、Solid state physics
4、Fundamentals and new technologies in powder metallurgy
5、Mechanical Behavior of Materials
6、New material design and corresponding thermodynamics and kinetics
7、Special Ceramic
8、Mechanical metallurgy
9、Biomaterials Science
10、Carbon/carbon composites
11、Technologies and Fundamentals of Powder-Plastic Near Net Shaping
12、Functional PM materials
13、Polymer materials science and applications
14、Functional Polymers
15、Introduction of Granular Matter
