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 - Major
Bachelor 2 - Minor
Bachelor 3 - Major
Bachelor 3 - Minor
Master 1 MTM
Master 1 MME
Master 2 MTM
Master 2 MME
Erasmus/Socrates
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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
overgrowth
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