The subject Materials Engineering aims that the Graduated in Mechanical Engineering acquire the knowledges and the skills related with the foundations of the science, technology and chemical of materials, that allow the student to know the main material families (metallics, polymeric and ceramic), including materials for tools and construction and all this related with their properties, behaviour in service and which basic treatments must be employed to modify them. Given the narrow relation between microstructure and properties, it will be of great importance that the student knows the main mechanisms to modify the constitution and structure of the materials and, with this, to achieve the optimisation of their properties. The learning results form part of the specifically assigned technologies to a graduated in Mechanical Engineering.
When finalising this subject the student has to be able of:
1. To know the main forming and transformation processes used in the industry.
2. To know the characteristics of the materials more commonly employed in Engineering.
3. To argue the selection of a material for simple applications in the field of the industrial engineering.
4. To know the different thermal, thermochemical and thermomecanical treatments that can be applied both to materials for tools or construction.
5. To use the union processes more suitable, in function of the material.
