Materials Science and Engineering is an inter-disciplinary field that has developed from solid state physics, physical and organic chemistry, and engineering disciplines. Related research investigates the inter-relationship between the structure, properties, processing and performance of engineering materials. In the last century, materials science has evolved into one of the key engineering subjects that has triggered important technological developments.

The Research Group (Lehrstuhl) for Materials Science and Engineering at the Ruhr-University Bochum offers courses for both undergraduate and graduate degrees.  Research is performed in five areas: structural materials, functional materials, reactions in solids and at interfaces, materials characterization, and modelling.  The research focuses mainly on the microstructural aspects of engineering materials.  Students can familiarize themselves with all of the structural material groups; metals, glass and ceramics, polymers and composite materials.  In addition to a Center for Shape Memory Technology and other projects supported by federal funds, we collaborate with our industry partners on a number of different R&D projects.

The Research Group (Lehrstuhl) for Materials Science and Engineering is part of the Institute of Materials in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Ruhr-University Bochum.