• Mode: research and professional
• Duration (in credits): between 60 and 120
• Qualification awarded:  Master's Degree in Materials Science and Engineering
• Places available: 20
• Cost per credit
• Admission to doctoral programmes
• Contact

• Participating institutions
• Presentation
• Admission requirements
• Contents
• Modes
• Pre-registration

Participating institutions

Rovira i Virgili University

Compulsory student mobility: no

Presentation

The topics dealt with are, among others, the modern techniques of discovering and optimizing new materials, the design, synthesis and evaluation of systems for structural characterization in a multidisciplinary team, and advanced applications of thermal and magnetic materials. At the same time, the Master's Degree teaches students to understand, plan and supervise RDI projects.

Admission requirements

The Master's Degree courses are open to anybody with an official university qualification, even Spanish or foreign (this foreign degree must enable you to be admitted to postgraduate studies in the country where you obtained it).

In addition, universities in charge of the organization of a Master can establish those procedures and requirements considered necessary to be finally admitted to the Master. Therefore, as well as having a previous official degree, you should get informed about additional conditions and selection criteria which may have been addittionally established by each Master.

Contents

Course taught in: Catalan

First year

• First and second semesters: 60 ECTS credits 

- 52 ECTS credits are obligatory (among which are 10 ECTS credits for work experience in companies or 10 ECTS credits for work experience in a research laboratory, depending on the profile).

- 8 optional ECTS credits.

Second year

• Third semester: 60 ECTS credits 

- 15 obligatory ECTS credits common to both profiles
- 6 ECTS credits specific to each profile
- 6 ECTS work experience credits in a research centre (for the research profile) or in industry (for the professional profile)
- 3 optional ECTS credits 

 

• Fourth semester: 60 ECTS credits 

- 17 ECTS credits for the final master's project
- 10 ECTS credits for a period spent at the laboratory of any of the centres or companies that take part in the master's degree. The students who have opted for the research profile will be supervised by a University specialist, and those who have opted for the professional profile will be supervised by specialists from both the University and the company
- 3 optional ECTS credits 

 

Subjects

• First year  

- Materials Science
- Symmetry and Characterization of Solids
- Crystal Nucleation and Growth
- Heterogeneous Catalysis
- Inorganic solids
- Polymer chemistry
- Physics of Polymeric Materials
- Optics and Spectroscopy of Materials
- Characterisation of Materials
- Electronic Materials
- Work Experience in Industry I / Research Laboratory I 

• Second year

- Characterisation of Crystals, Nanocrystals and Nanostructured Materials using X-ray Methods
- Techniques of Polymer Characterization
- Sensor Devices of the Solid State
- Computational Chemistry (research profile)
- Business Organization and Administration (professional profile)
- Master's Project I
- Master's Project II
- Work Experience in Industry II (professional profile)
- Research Laboratory II (research profile)

Modes

- Professional
- Research

Official Master's degrees offer specific Modes which will be effectively initiated -or not- depending on the number of students finally admitted.

Pre-registration

The preregistration period (1st phase) will begin on 1st March and end on 30th April.

If all the places available are not taken within this period, a new preregistration period shall be opened (2nd phase) between 1st and 30th June.

The preregistration must be done on the Internet. The computer application will become operative on the first day of the preregistration period. preregistration application.

For academic questions, please get in touch with the coordinator of the Master's Degree; for administrative information, get in touch with the secretariat of the faculty/school that teaches the Master's Degree; if you have been given a place on the course on the strength of a foreign qualification, the Postgraduate and Doctoral School will inform you of the documents you will need.

Pre-registration on-line

Academic contact (coordinator)
Dr. Francisco Manuel Díaz González   Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry (Faculty of Chemistry)  977 559 517  f.diaz(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Administrative contact (secretary)
Secretariat of theFaculty of Chemistry  977 559 516. Fax: 977 559 516  secquim(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Postgraduate and Doctoral School
Edifici del Rectorat - Escala C, 1st floor - c/ Escorxador, s/n (Tarragona)   Tel: 977 558 478. Fax: 977 558 847   mastersoficials(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat  Office hours  Mornings: Mondays to Fridays from 8.30 to 14.30 Afternoons: Wednesdays and Thursdays from 15.30 to 18.00  July and August: Mondays to Fridays from 8.00 to 15.00

Further information

• Schedule for procedures involving students
• Admission regulations
• Programme:  

  - Professional

- Research 

• Educational Guide
• Faculty/school for registration
• Administrative procedure
• Pre-registration on-line
• Documentation required for preregistration 
• Requirements for foreign documents 
• Frequently-asked questions
• Payment of fees from abroad