Overview
A degree in Materials Engineering at UBC will provide you with the opportunity to join our exciting and vibrant research activities, which extend across materials extraction, materials processing, and materials performance. As a graduate student in the program, you will conduct independent and collaborative research within one of our research groupings. Researchers in the Department are actively investigating materials engineering challenges that span across the lifecycle of materials, and include a range of material systems. We have graduate students using a range of techniques and approaches, which encompass the development and application of ideas that extend the full range of theory, simulation and experiment. Research programs in our department mix fundamental know-how with real-world impact, often working directly with a range of industrial and academic partners from around the world.
What makes the program unique?
Our research-focussed masters programs provide our students with a core grounding with graduate course in materials engineering and related engineering disciplines, together with an exciting research project in one of many dynamic research groupings. Our research blends fundamental know-how with real world impact, to create and sustain change in the world around us through the development and use of materials that underpin our everyday lives.
Recent research developments in our department are helping to reduce the environmental impact in the mining industry, developing lightweight and sustainable transportation, new forms of materials essential for the low-carbon energy transition, state-of-the-art materials characterization approaches, and the next generation of manufacturing technologies (including additive manufacturing/3D printing).
We have a long history of providing excellence in education and offer one of the top-rated materials programs in North America. Graduates of our program are enjoying rewarding careers locally and internationally in a wide range of industries from mining to advanced electronics, health care and aerospace. Many of our Masters graduates also continue onto further study, e.g. in PhD programs at UBC and beyond.
The Masters of Applied Science (MASc) and Masters of Science (MSc) are very closely related programs, which typically recruit from applied science/engineering (MASc) and science (MSc) backgrounds respectively.
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Students in research-based programs usually require a faculty member to function as their thesis supervisor. Please follow the instructions provided by each program whether applicants should contact faculty members.
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Advice and insights from UBC Faculty on reaching out to supervisors
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This list shows faculty members with full supervisory privileges who are affiliated with this program. It is not a comprehensive list of all potential supervisors as faculty from other programs or faculty members without full supervisory privileges can request approvals to supervise graduate students in this program.
- Abdin, Yasmine (Materials engineering)
- Amini, Kiana (Materials engineering, n.e.c.; Carbon capture engineering; Chemical engineering, n.e.c.; Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion; Redox Flow Batteries; In Situ Characterization of Electrochemical Processes; Electrolyte Design and Battery Architecture; Multi-Physics Modeling of Electrochemical Systems)
- Asselin, Edouard (Hydrometallurgy; Materials engineering, n.e.c.; Electrometallurgy; Inorganic chemistry, n.e.c.; Corrosion; Coatings; Electrochemistry)
- Britton, Ben (Metals and alloy materials engineering; Manufacturing engineering; Materials characterisation & microstructure; Metallurgy; Electron diffraction & microscopy; Deformation; Microstructure/property models; Manufacturing)
- Cockcroft, Steven (Clean Energy Research, Physical phenomena in non-ferrous casting, hot tearing, Optimization of industrial casting processes, Mathematical modeling)
- Dixon, David (Fixed-bed leaching)
- Dreisinger, David (Hydrometallurgy; Leaching)
- Kravchenko, Sergii (Composite and hybrid materials; Polymers and plastics engineering; Aerospace materials; Aerospace structures; Polymers and polymer composites; Multi-functional composites; High-throughput manufacturing process modelling of composites; Multi-scale, multi-physics, probabilistic computational modelling of composites; Manufacturing-informed performance simulation of composites; Machine learning methods in composites manufacturing and performance analysis; Composite structures for renewable energy & unmanned vehicles; additive manufacturing)
- Liu, Wenying (Hydrometallurgy; Extractive metallurgy; mine waste management)
- Maijer, Daan (Metals and alloy materials engineering; Liquid metal processing; Casting processes; additive manufacturing; Directed Energy Deposition; Powder Bed Fusion; Light Metals Processing; Aluminum Alloys; Titanium Alloys; Mathematical Process Modeling: Heat Transfer, Fluid Flow, Mechanical Deformation)
- Militzer, Matthias (Multi-scale modelling of microstructure evolution, Physical metallurgy of advanced high strength steels)
- Noder, Jacqueline
- Poole, Warren (Metals and alloy materials engineering; Physical and Mechanical Metallurgy; Aluminum Alloys; Steels; Magnesium alloys; ICME)
- Poursartip, Anoush (Polymer matrix composite materials)
- Sinclair, Chadwick (Materials engineering)
- Wang, Rizhi (Functional materials in materials engineering sciences; Regenerative medicine (including stem cells and tissue engineering); Orthopaedic implants, drug delivery biomaterials, anti-infection solutions.; Additive manufacturing, 3D structural designing.; Bone structure, mineralization and mechanics, bone metastasis, hip fracture and prevention.)
- Xia, Guangrui (Elemental semiconductors; Semiconductor devices; SiGe materials, processing, modeling, and devices, Si photonics, Ge-based lasers, and Ge lasers)
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