Materials Engineering
Master of Applied Science
Department of Materials Engineering
The Materials Engineering Department contributes to this ranking as a world leader in Materials Process Engineering. Our Department belongs to a distinct group of units at UBC that enjoy an exceptional level of research grants and contracts and our strong performance is due to the outstanding quality of our graduates and faculty members
Materials research in the Department emphasizes the development of new processes and process models primarily for novel materials in the transportation sector and biomaterials for medical applications. The Department fosters a strong interaction with industry through their Industrial Research Chairs. Industrially oriented research is combined with fundamental studies to advance understanding of the microstructure mechanisms and resulting properties.
Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Abdin, Yasmine | |
| Amini, Kiana | Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion; Redox Flow Batteries; Fuel Cells In Situ Characterization of Electrochemical Processes; Electrolyte Design and Battery Architecture; Multi-Physics Modeling of Electrochemical Systems |
| Asselin, Edouard | Hydrometallurgy (including leaching, electrometallurgy and residue characterization), Electrochemistry (including high temperature electrochemistry and sensors) |
| 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 industry, iron, copper |
| Kravchenko, Sergii | 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 | Use of sea water in heap leaching; Release of selenium and associated toxic elements from mine waste materials; Heap leach modelling |
| Maijer, Daan | Heat Transfer, Fluid Flow, Stress, Microstructure Materials processing models employed for process control |
| Militzer, Matthias | Multi-scale modelling of microstructure evolution, Physical metallurgy of advanced high strength steels |
| Poole, Warren | Advanced aluminum alloys, High strengths, high formable steels, Metal matrix composites, Microstructure/property models |
| Poursartip, Anoush | Polymer matrix composite materials |
| Sinclair, Chadwick | Predicting the correlation between the structure of alloys, at the microstructural and atomic scale, and their mechanical behaviour |
| Wang, Rizhi | Biomaterials, biomechanics Also, the structure and formation processes of biologically formed materials (eg seashells, silk, teeth) and applies the mechanisms to the design and processing of novel materials |
| Xia, Guangrui | Group IV semiconductors in microelectronics; Si compatible lasers; 2D semiconductors; 3D integration of Ics; Raman spectroscopy |
