Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering

www.mtm.kuleuven.be

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• Founded in 1425• > 33.000 students• 3 groups:

– Humanities– Biomedical sciences– Science, Engineering and Technology

• Faculty of Science• Faculty of Engineering• Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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• Civil engineering• Architecture• Metallurgy and

Materials Engineering (MTM)

• Chemical engineering• Electrical engineering• Mechanical

engineering• Computer Science

Faculty of Engineering - Departments

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The MTM philosophy

Operates as one large research group

– one budget with one departmental manager

– equipment is accessible to all

– organisation in flexible research teams and technical work groups

– departmental facilities: see www.mtm.kuleuven.be/Research/Equipment/index.html

Driving force of Leuven MRC

www.kuleuven.be/mrc

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The MTM triangle

ProcessingProperties

Structure

A logical relationship between processing, structure and properties, and guarantee of success in new material development

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Organisation

Chairman(Prof. P. Wollants)

DepartmentCouncil

DepartmentManager

(D. Hoeyberghs)

ATC(Technical co-

ordination group)

Group 1: Physical Materials Techniques

Group 2: ChemicalMaterials Techniques

Group 5ITC and Logistics

Group 4Secretarial services

ZAP-council(Academic Staff)

Thermodynamics inMaterials Engineering

SurfaceEngineering

DeformationProcessing and

MechanicalBehaviour of Metals

Advanced Alloys andProduction Processes

MaterialsPerformance andNon-Destructive

Evaluation

Composites andCeramics

Group 3: Mechanical Materials Techniques

Education Programme Director (Prof. B. Blanpain)

POC

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Employees

Persons employed: 153 (114 externally financed)

Professors (14 full time 9 part time) (3 e.f.)Ph. D. students (69 e.f.)Post-Docs (25 e.f.)Technical (16 e.f.)Administration (1 e.f.)

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Education

Master of Engineering: Materials EngineeringMaster in de Ingenieurswetenschappen: Materiaalkunde

• Master programme (2 year programme in Dutch)

• Bachelor programme (3 year programme in Dutch)

Bachelor of Engineering: Materials Engineering Bachelor in de Ingenieurswetenschappen: Materiaalkunde

• International Master programme (2 year programme in English)

Master of Engineering: Materials Engineering

Learning agreement with USTB (Beijing, China)

Studeer Materiaalkunde (link)

Study Master of Engineering: Materials Engineering (link)

Master brochure

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Master of Engineering: Materials Engineering

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Transition courses from bachelor (12 stp)Common courses (33 stp)

General educative courses (3 stp)P&O (6 stp)

Polymers & Composites (6 stp)Metals & Ceramics (6 stp)

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Common courses (6 stp)Stage (optional) (6 stp)

General educative courses (6 stp)

Master thesis (24 stp)

Polymers & Composites

Mandatory (9 stp) & Choice (9 stp)

Metals & Ceramics Mandatory (9 stp) & Choice (9

stp)

Option Polymers & Composites Metals & Ceramics

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Master of Engineering: Materials Engineering

Options:

Polymers and Composites

Metals and Ceramics

MME Master Flyer (Link)

www.mtm.kuleuven.be/MME

International programme

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Students (2008-2009)

Students : 101 Bachelor, 37 Master, 10 Socrates/Erasmus (total 148)

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Bachelor 2 - Minor

Bachelor 3 - Major

Bachelor 3 - Minor

Master 1 MTM

Master 1 MME

Master 2 MTM

Master 2 MME

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1st money flow = structural budget given by the University

1.8 M Euro/year

75 % for education25 % for research.

2nd and 3rd money flow = budgets obtained through project applications on a competitive basis

6.2 M Euro/year 34 % from governmental agencies for fundamental research (IWT, FWO)20 % from European Union (applied research, EU, ESA)12 % from Flemish industry

34 % K.U.Leuven (own resources, BOF, LRD-equipment)

Salaries of professors, administrative staff andkey technicians

Projects, doctoral scholarships, fellowships

Framework agreement with Bekaert, Arcelor-Mittal and Umicore

Financing

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• Thermodynamics in materials engineering (Thermo)

• Surface engineering (SURF)

• Deformation processing and mechanical behaviour of metals (ASTRO)

• Advanced alloys and production processes (A2P2)

• Materials performance and non-destructive evaluation (NDT)

• Composites and Ceramics (C2)

• Associated IMEC team

6 MTM Research groups

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re-oxydation

sintering

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agglomeration

1. Thermodynamics in Materials Engineering

Prof. P. WollantsProf. B. BlanpainProf. J. Roos

Website (link)

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2. Surface Engineering

Prof. J. P. CelisProf. M. De BonteProf. J. Fransaer

Website (link)

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Experimental FE simulation based on measured texture

3. Deformation Processing and Mechanical Behaviour of Metals

Prof. B. VerlindenProf. P. Van HoutteProf. M. Seefeldt

Website (link)

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4. Advanced Alloys and Production Processes

Prof. J. Van HumbeeckProf. L. FroyenProf. M. Seo

Website (link)

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5. Materials Performance and Nondestructive Evaluation

Prof. M. WeversProf. W. Bogaerts

Website (link)

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6. Composites and Ceramics

• Polymers and Composites

Prof. I. VerpoestProf. S.V. Lomov

Prof. O. Van der BiestProf. J. Vleugels

• Ceramics

Website (link)

Website (link)

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7. Associated IMEC team

Prof. I. De WolfProf. M. Heyns

Website link

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Other MTM activities

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More information:

http://www.mtm.kuleuven.be