| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2024-09-25 | - |
| 2024-09-01 | - |
Program Overview
It equips students with a deep understanding of their physical principles and applications, offering a combination of theoretical knowledge and practical skills through cutting-edge research, collaborations with industry leaders, and a dedicated research project. This prepares graduates for successful careers in diverse sectors where innovative material properties play a crucial role, particularly in sustainability and energy-related fields.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The MSc in Advanced Materials at the University of Exeter aims to equip students with the skills necessary to become successful materials scientists and engineers.
Objectives:
- Enhance knowledge of the physical principles of advanced materials and metamaterials.
- Gain practical insights into contemporary real-world problems and how innovative solutions can be facilitated through novel material properties.
- Benefit from Exeter's interdisciplinary research expertise, industrial partners, and connections with the wider metamaterials community.
Outline:
The MSc Advanced Materials program is designed to provide a well-balanced understanding of the physics of advanced materials across various regimes, including electromagnetism, acoustics, elasticity, and quantum. It also incorporates an engineering perspective on their applications.
Course Structure:
The program is a 12-month full-time course. It consists of compulsory and optional modules.
Compulsory Modules:
- PHYM016 Physics of Advanced Materials: 15 credits
- PHYM502 Frontiers in Physics Research: 15 credits
- PHYM017 Modelling for Advanced Materials: 15 credits
- ENGM016 Metamaterials: 15 credits
- PHYM018 Design and Application of Metamaterials: 15 credits
- ENGM017 Composite Materials: 15 credits
- PHYM019 Research Project: 60 credits
Optional Modules:
Students can choose 30 credits from the following:
- PHY3064 Nanostructures and Graphene Science: 15 credits
- ENGM026 Design, Innovation & Entrepreneurship: 15 credits
- ENGM002 Advanced Communication Systems: 15 credits
- ENG3004 Engineering Electromagnetics: 15 credits
- ENG3022 Finite Element Analysis for High Value Manufacturing: 15 credits
- ENGM023 Sustainable Manufacturing: 15 credits
- PHYM003 Condensed Matter II: 15 credits
- PHYM015 Quantum Optics and Photonics: 15 credits
- PHY3071 Soft Matter: 15 credits
- ENGM010 Data-Centric Engineering: 15 credits
- ENGM001 Additive Manufacturing: 15 credits
- PHY2037 Nonlinear Optics and Imaging: 15 credits
Assessment:
The assessment methods for each module may vary. The program includes a significant research project component, which allows students to contribute to ongoing research within the Centre for Metamaterials Research and Innovation (CMRI).
Teaching:
The program is taught by research-active academics leading in the advanced materials and metamaterials field. Students benefit from a dynamic teaching and research environment, engaging with academics and industry leaders through seminars, workshops, and tutorials. They also attend departmental, national, and international colloquia.
Careers:
The MSc Advanced Materials program prepares students for a range of impactful roles in the private and public sectors. The program emphasizes the transformative potential of advanced materials and metamaterials, particularly in areas related to sustainability, energy efficiency, storage, generation, harvesting, and conversion.
Industry Connections:
The program benefits from the CMRI's extensive links with regional and national employers. Graduates have secured successful careers in various industries and organizations, including QinetiQ, Snap Inc, Quantum Brilliance, Diabetes UK, Dstl, Institute of Cancer Research, COMSOL, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, GALGUS, BAE Systems, and academic institutions worldwide.
Careers Support:
Students receive support from the Career Zone team, which provides career guidance, one-on-one support, and access to business and industry contacts. The Career Zone also hosts training events, workshops, and lectures to enhance enterprise acumen.
Other:
The program is part of the Centre for Metamaterials Research and Innovation (CMRI) at Exeter, a community of academic, industrial, and governmental partners that harness research excellence from theory to application. The CMRI enables simulation, measurement, and fabrication of metamaterials and metamaterial-based devices. Their academic expertise spans electromagnetism, acoustics, and fluidics, with applications in imaging, sensing, spectroscopy, acoustic and RF signature reduction, energy storage and harvesting, passive cooling, low-power computing, lightweighting in aviation, and waste heat recovery.
2024/25 entry UK fees per year: £12,100 full-time International fees per year: £27,500 full-time
Entry Requirements:
- **Applicants are required to have a 2:1 degree in Physics, Natural Science, Engineering, Materials Science, Maths or Chemistry (with a significant component of Physical Chemistry).
- **Applications will also be considered from candidates with a 2:2 in these subject areas or if they have additional industrial experience.
- Prerequisite experience needed:
- Basic mathematics for physics: single and multi-variable calculus (differentiation and integration), trigonometry, complex numbers, vectors, vector calculus, Taylor and Fourier series, Fourier transforms.
- Introductory scientific computing: data handling, simple statistics (computing means and variances), plotting functions and histograms, writing simple programs in a general-purpose programming language e.g. Python or C++.
- **International students may require an ATAS certificate.
