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Courses Offered
- The department of Materials Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur offers following degree programmes.The post graduate programme leading to Master of Technology (M. Tech.) degree has been designed to help students pursue their career options in industry, research & development, as well as in academia. The 22-month program is divided into four full semesters in addition to the summer semester. The students can choose their thesis guide(s) within first semester of entering the program and can start working on their research topic leading to the M. Tech. thesis. During the research work, a student has to get hands-on training on various processing and characterization instruements as necessary. Generally, the students complete their course work in the first year. The nature of courses is multifaceted which equip the students with fundamental understanding of various topics and their applications that can further help them to choose a particular area for their professional career. Midway through the program, students may apply for switch-over to the PhD programme, subject to meeting necessary academic requirements. The program is designed for the students with background in metallurgical engineering, materials science and/or engineering, other appropriate engineering disciplines, polymers, ceramics, physics and chemistry.CourseworkA student registered in the M. Tech. program has to do four compulsory courses:First semester compulsory courses:*MSE 615(Structure and Characterization of Materials) and*MSE 626(Heat and Mass Transfer)Second semester compulsory courses:*MSE 616(Thermodynamics of Materials) and*MSE 617(Mathematical and Computational Methods)Remaining two courses in each of the first two semesters will be chosen by the candidate him/herself to fulfil the minimum credit requirement.MORE DETAILS :-(http://www.iitk.ac.in/mse/data/MSE_PG_Courses.pdf)