1. Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering

2. Founded in 1425 > 33.000 students 3 groups:
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Founded in 1425
> students
3 groups:
Humanities
Biomedical sciences
Science, Engineering and
Technology
Faculty of Science
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

3. Faculty of Engineering - Departments
Civil engineering
Architecture
Metallurgy and Materials Engineering (MTM)
Chemical engineering
Electrical engineering
Mechanical engineering
Computer Science

4. 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 ipment/index.html
Driving force of Leuven MRC

5. The MTM triangle Structure Properties Processing
A logical relationship between processing, structure and properties,
and guarantee of success in new material development
Structure
Properties
Processing

6. Education Programme Director
Organisation
Chairman
(Prof. P. Wollants)
Department
Council
Manager
(D. Hoeyberghs)
ATC
(Technical co-
ordination group)
Group 1: Physical
Materials Techniques
Group 2: Chemical
Group 5
ITC and Logistics
Group 4
Secretarial services
ZAP-council
(Academic Staff)
Thermodynamics in
Materials Engineering
Surface
Engineering
Deformation
Processing and
Mechanical
Behaviour of Metals
Advanced Alloys and
Production Processes
Materials
Performance and
Non-Destructive
Evaluation
Composites and
Ceramics
Group 3: Mechanical
Education Programme Director
(Prof. B. Blanpain)
POC

7. 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.) 25 28 69 23 8

8. Post-docs and Ph.D. students
Researchers
Post-docs and Ph.D. students 14
Belgium: 51
Rest of the world: 54 12 10 8 6 4 2
China
India
Iran
Italy
USA
Algeria
Congo
France
Spain
Germany
Libanon
Ukraine
Poland
Russia
Pakistan
Romania
Slovenia
Vietnam
Bangladesh
The Netherlands

9. Studeer Materiaalkunde (link)
Education
Bachelor programme (3 year programme in Dutch)
Bachelor of Engineering: Materials Engineering
Bachelor in de Ingenieurswetenschappen: Materiaalkunde
Master programme (2 year programme in Dutch)
Master of Engineering: Materials Engineering
Master in de Ingenieurswetenschappen: Materiaalkunde
Studeer Materiaalkunde (link)
Master brochure
International Master programme (2 year programme in English)
Master of Engineering: Materials Engineering
Learning agreement with USTB (Beijing, China)
Study Master of Engineering: Materials Engineering (link)

10. Bachelor of Engineering: Materials Engineering
Major (36 stp)
Civil Engineering
Geotechnics/mining
Chemical technology
Computer sciences
Materials Science
Electrotechnical engineering
Mechanical engineering
Minor (24 stp)
Choice from 6
Majors or
Company
management
Supporting
courses (9 stp)
avv ( 9 stp)
P&O (12 stp)
Year 3
Bachelor
Year 2
Common (90 stp)
Matter and energy (33 stp)
Information (12 stp)
Mathematics (25 stp)
Problem solving & design (P&O) (12 stp)
General educative courses (avv) (8 stp)
Year 1

11. Master of Engineering: Materials Engineering
Year 4
Master
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)
Year 5
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
Metals & Ceramics

12. International programme
Master of Engineering: Materials Engineering
International programme
Options:
Polymers and Composites
Metals and Ceramics
MME Master Flyer (Link)

13. Students ( )
Students : 101 Bachelor, 37 Master, 10 Socrates/Erasmus (total 148) 17 37 12 35 10 7 3
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

14. Financing 1st money flow = structural budget given by the University
 M Euro/year
75 % for education 25 % for research.
2nd and 3rd money flow = budgets obtained through project applications on a competitive basis
 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 and key technicians
Projects, doctoral scholarships, fellowships
Framework agreement with Bekaert, Arcelor-Mittal and Umicore

15. 6 MTM Research groups 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

16. 1. Thermodynamics in Materials Engineering
re-oxydation
sintering
overgrowth
agglomeration
Prof. P. Wollants Prof. B. Blanpain Prof. J. Roos
Website (link)

17. 2. Surface Engineering
Prof. J. P. Celis Prof. M. De Bonte Prof. J. Fransaer
Website (link)

18. FE simulation based on measured texture
3. Deformation Processing and Mechanical Behaviour of Metals
Prof. B. Verlinden Prof. P. Van Houtte
Prof. M. Seefeldt
Website (link)
Experimental
FE simulation based on measured texture

19. 4. Advanced Alloys and Production Processes
Prof. J. Van Humbeeck Prof. L. Froyen
Prof. M. Seo
Website (link)

20. Prof. M. Wevers Prof. W. Bogaerts
5. Materials Performance and Nondestructive Evaluation
Prof. M. Wevers Prof. W. Bogaerts
Website (link)

21. Polymers and Composites
6. Composites and Ceramics
Polymers and Composites
Prof. I. Verpoest Prof. S.V. Lomov
Website (link)
Ceramics
Prof. O. Van der Biest Prof. J. Vleugels
Website (link)

22. Prof. I. De Wolf Prof. M. Heyns
7. Associated IMEC team
Prof. I. De Wolf Prof. M. Heyns
Website link

23. Other MTM activities

24. More information: