Materials Science and Engineering

The master's program in Materials Science and Engineering focuses on science-oriented, interdisciplinary engineering education with a view to materials science. The main objective of the program is to enable you to physically and mathematically model complex technical and physical processes and systems, taking into account the materials used. The current paradigm shift - away from deterministic models towards predictive science - is to be taken into account: Students are taught a probabilistic view of the material properties of physical and engineering systems, and thus the need for stochastic modeling, from the very beginning. This has not yet been consistently incorporated into teaching, so that this approach is one of the unique selling points of the Master's program in Materials Science and Engineering. In response to the new challenges of contemporary society, there is an ever greater intertwining of expertise in the natural and engineering sciences. Modern education in the engineering sciences must, in turn, prepare students not only in classical disciplines, serving the needs of specific industries, but it must also address the need for interdisciplinary training. The master's program in Materials Science and Engineering rises to this challenge by offering a scientific, interdisciplinary education in engineering, involving a total of seven departments (BGU, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Informatics, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics and Physics). Key objectives of the program include, enabling students to physically and mathematically model complex technical-physical processes and systems accounting for the materials to be employed, that is, to theoretically comprehend and apply the fundamental disciplines of engineering and to chemically and physically describe them. Additionally, the program accounts for the current paradigm shift away from deterministic models towards predictive science. It is this that makes the TUM MS&E program unique, as it is designed to give students a probabilistic view of the material properties of physical and engineering science systems from the start and, thus, to convey the necessity of stochastic modeling, which has not yet made its way into the curricula of other programs.