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作为中国第一所引进以色列优质高等教育资源的中外合作大学，广东以色列理工学院针对21世纪人类社会面临的环境污染、人类健康、资源匮乏三大挑战开设了以下专业：
化学工程与工艺
生物技术与食品工程
材料科学与工程
高考志愿填报从来都是
是一门“大学问”
专业研究方向有哪些？
有何特别之处？
师资力量怎么样？
就业前景如何？
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近期，我们请师生分别详解广以开设的三个本科专业。本期带你走进的是材料科学与工程专业~
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课程介绍
什么是材料科学与工程？
材料科学与工程涉及新材料的研发、设计和合成。材料可依其性质和属性分为冶金材料（例如铜）、无机非金属材料（例如氧化铝）、高分子材料（例如环氧树脂）、半导体材料（例如硅）。通过加工，它们可以变成致密且多孔的材料，例如薄膜和复合材料。就材料的尺寸而言，它可以是从埃米、纳米、微米一直到肉眼可视的大型物体。
材料是现代世界中各种设备、组件、模块甚至系统的构件。例如，我们可以轻易地在汽车和智能手机中找到各种材料和产物。本专业的学生需要学习关于材料、晶体结构、加工和性能的基本原理及其应用的课程。
材料科学与工程专业以物理、化学和工程学为基础，旨在了解加工和构成如何影响材料的结构、性质和性能。人们还可以通过计算来了解材料的行为、机制和设计。因此，材料科学与工程是多学科知识与技能的交叉融合。
广以的材料科学与工程专业有何特别之处？
1. 与其他大学一样，广以的材料科学与工程专业也设置了有关现代材料学及其基本法则的课程，但我们同时希望学生理解控制和影响材料合成、组织结构、性质和性能之间相互关系的科学原理。因此，广以的课程涵盖了晶体结构和微观结构分析、材料加工、电化学、扩散和相变、动力学和热力学、高分子性质等内容。学生们有机会参与前沿的科学研究，并到海外读研。
2. 材料科学与工程专业要求学生获取充足的、关于材料和合成的知识。广以的材料科学与工程专业要求学生在打好扎实的理论基础之后，尽快进入教学实验室和科研实验室，并参与教授的科研项目。在此过程中，他们既获得了课堂上的知识，也获得了科研所不可或缺的动手实践能力。
3. 广以的教师都在北美或欧洲国家接受本科或者研究生教育。在教学过程中，他们不仅教授书上的内容，还会将自己在发达国家获得的先进经验分享给学生，带领他们进一步探索科学前沿。
职业发展
自20世纪40年代以来，科技的发展推动了对本专业的人才需求。总体来说，本专业的学生拥有许多工作机会，特别是在中国等新兴经济体和欧美国家。
相关行业包括：可再生能源，电力转换和热管理，运输和电动车，半导体和微电子，数据存储和传感器，塑料、陶瓷和体育产业，过滤和分离，腐蚀和涂料工业，微波和通信，等等。学生在广东可以找到很多相关公司的就业机会，如比亚迪、华为等。
世界上几乎所有知名大学都开设材料科学与工程的研究生课程。相比之下，广以的学生在读研、进入学术机构和海外进修方面具有很强的竞争力。
研究领域
本专业研究生和博士课程的主要目标是提供材料科学与工程方面的知识，并培养学生处理现代技术中关于材料问题的能力。我们有广泛的研究领域供学生选择，主要分为四个方向：能源材料，纳米电子，金属材料和功能纳米复合材料。具体来说，学生可以在薄膜传感器、多铁性薄膜传感器、储能装置、能量转换材料、量子束科学和超快材料行为、表面腐蚀和改性、计算材料设计、纳米复合材料和5G材料等领域开展研究。
老师建议
1. 找出你的激情所在。材料是21世纪三大重要课题之一。这是一个跨学科的技术领域。学生需要学习专业的材料学知识，熟悉跨学科技术，并建立自己的知识储备。
2. 将大学教育当成培养职业深造精神和技能的关键平台。用正确的态度探索未来。
3. 无惧口头交流，用英语向自己和演讲者提问。若如此，则致远。
4. 放飞想象，投身于小组、团队和项目。创新使你与众不同。
5. 成就学业，道德为先。诚实、责任感和宽容，乃群体生活所需。
感谢GTIIT材料科学与工程系谭启教授供稿
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Program introduction
Materials Science deals with the design, processing and discovery of new materials. In terms of properties and nature, materials are classified into metallurgy like Copper, ceramics like aluminum oxide, polymers like epoxy and semiconductor like Silicon. By processing, they may exhibit in dense and porous materials, thin film, and composites. On the length scale, it examines from atomic scale (Angstrom), to nanostructure (<100nm), to microstructure (<cm) and all the way up to the macro scale (<meter).
Materials are building blocks for variety of devices, components, modules, and even systems in modern world. For example, various materials and products can be easily found in an automobile and a smart phone. Students need to learn some courses about fundamental principles of materials, crystalline structures, processing and properties, as well as their applications.
Materials science incorporates elements of physics, chemistry, and engineering. The theme is to understand how the processing and compositions influence the structure, properties and performance of a material. Computation also enables the understanding of behaviors, mechanisms, and design of materials. So, materials science requires multidisciplinary knowledge and skills.
Chemical engineering is about combination of chemistry/biochemistry knowledge with engineering tools to provide best solutions for mankind, in particular, the goods that one uses every day and raw materials leading to production of the goods. Aside from such traditional chemical engineering such as oil refinery, new development in chemical engineering includes health and wellbeing, food and nutrition, water and energy, climate change and resources. Through learning and practicing in chemical engineering, ones can make much better contributions to our societies and improvement in the quality of living.
1. Materials science designs the courses about modern materials and basic laws behind like other universities, but we expect students to understand the scientific principles governing the interrelation among processing, structure, properties, and materials performance. For example, the courses include: Crystal structure and microstructural analysis, processing of materials, Electrochemistry, Diffusion and phase transformation, Kinetics and thermodynamics, Property of polymers, etc. As a result, students will be able to participate in leading researches and continued graduate school overseas.
2. Acquiring adequate knowledge about materials and processing experience are what a student in Materials science should do. Material science program actively involves college students into teaching lab, research lab and professors' projects as early as possible. So, they will gain in-class knowledge, hands-on skills, and practical interaction with real materials.
3. Our faculty members all received college and/or graduate education from North America and Europe. We know what is important and useful in educating students. We not only deliver the knowledge in textbook, we also bring over the practical information that developed countries acquired.
Career Prospects
Since 1940s, technology development demands more material science students. Relatively speaking, these students easily find job opportunities particularly in emerging economies like China, as well as in the US and Europe.
The related industry includes: Renewable energy such as battery; Power conversion and thermal management; Transportation and electric vehicles; Semiconductor and Microelectronics; Data storage and sensors; Plastic, ceramic and Sports Industry; Filtration and separation; Corrosion and coating industry; Microwave and communication. Students can find many Guangdong companies as their future employers. For instance, BYD and Huawei.
Now, almost all major universities in the world offer graduate programs for material science. GTIIT students will have strong competitiveness for graduate school, academic institution and oversea exploration.
Research Area
The principal objectives of the MSc and PhD programs in Materials Science are to provide knowledge in materials science and engineering and to develop the capability for dealing with materials problems in modern technology. We have a broad scope of research areas for graduates to select, which belongs to 4 different categories: energy materials, nano-electronics, metallurgy and functional nanocomposites. Specifically, a student can pursue his/her research on thin film transducers, multiferroic thin film sensors, energy storage device, energy conversion materials, quantum beam science and ultrafast material behavior, surface corrosion and modification, computational materials design, nanocomposites, and 5G materials, etc.
Advice
1. Find out where your passion is. Material is one of the three important subjects in 21st century. This is a technical area that spans across a broad spectrum. It is imperative to gain specialized materials knowledge, to be familiar with cross-disciplinary technologies, and to build up your expertise.
2. Take college education as a critical platform for a learning spirit and skills for your continued learning for your career. There will be more to explore in the future, and you got to prepare a right attitude.
3. Deal with your fear in oral communication, ask questions to yourself and speakers in English. This can lead you to a far distance.
4. Use your imagination when participating in group meeting, team work and project execution because innovation differentiate you.
5. Pay attention to morality build-up such as honesty, responsibility, and tolerance beside academic achievement because you live in a social community.
Prof. Daniel Tan contributed substantially to this introduction
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