Metallurgical Engineering
Formerly: Faculty of Metallurgical Engineering (Founded in 1735)
The first materials engineer in Hungary graduated from the Faculty of Materials
and Metallurgical Engineering of the University of Miskolc and it is the only
faculty in Hungary which is entitled to issue degrees for qualified
metallurgical engineers and PhD titles in the academic field of metallurgy. The
palette of undergraduate training has been widening since the very beginning
aiming to give a sufficient grounding about the structure, properties and
processing of materials.
Currently, 330 students are taking part in full-time undergraduate training at
the Faculty of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering and 25 PhD students are
working on their theses. The training is provided by 12 departments of 5
institutes. The number of teaching staff is 50. The wide spectrum of engineer
education ensures our graduates a wide range of job opportunities. Our
undergraduate programmes are divided among three specialisations:
Materials engineering: The main objective of the specialisation is to train
engineers well-versed in every branch of material sciences, i. e. in the
structure of materials, in the physics of solid bodies, as well as in material
testing and material technologies. Sub-specializations: Materials design,
Materials technology and Materials diagnostics (in cooperation with the Faculty
of Mechanical Engineering).
Metallurgical engineering: Here engineers are trained who are experts in every
branch of metallurgical sciences and technologies. Sub-specializations:
Metallurgy, Casting and Metalworking.
In the materials engineering and metallurgical engineering specialisations
students get specialised integrated training in the fields of materials
information technology, materials testing, automatization, energy management,
waste management, industrial marketing management, environment protection and
quality assurance.
Engineering physics: In the framework of this joint programme of the University
of Miskolc and the Eötvös Lóránd University of Arts and Sciences (Budapest),
experts are trained to become capable of carrying out experimental research in
natural laws (as these manifest themselves in the phenomena of material
sciences) and of applying them in practice. The main objective of the programme
is to train engineers to have an advanced-level scientific knowledge (above the
level of an average engineer) and to possess thorough technological knowledge
based on it.
Miskolci Egyetem Anyag- és Kohómérnöki Kar
Faculty of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering
Miskolc-Egyetemváros, H-3515
Telephone: +36 46 565-090, 565-091
Fax: +36 46 565-408
E-mail: rekkdzbm@gold.uni-miskolc.hu
Homepage:
http://www.mak.uni-miskolc.hu/
In the history of mankind the production of metals, glass, brick, ceramics and
later plastics and polymers has developed in complicated ways on the basis of
empirical observations, independent of one another. It is a development only of
recent decades that education has adopted the scientific finding that the
behaviour and the production potentials of the different materials can be
studied on a common theoretical basis. That is the reason why, since the 1980s
and the 1990s, there has been an `epidemic' sweeping metallurgical faculties all
over the world from the USA through Japan to Western Europe, urging these
institutions to change their names along with their profiles. Nowadays at the
faculties of materials sciences (previously those of metallurgical engineering)
in the technologically advanced countries, students study the production
technologies of ceramics and polymers alongside metals on a common theoretical
basis. This world trend justified the renaming of the Faculty of Metallurgical
Engineering with a 200-year history as the Faculty of Materials and
Metallurgical Engineering.Besides mastering materials sciences the future engineers should possess a wide
range of skills - they must acquire a fluent knowledge of English, they must be
able to handle the computer with confidence and must also have the necessary
legal, economic, management and PR knowledge enabling them to work as company
leaders. Beyond all these, as modern Europeans they are required to have a
professional way of thinking fully imbued with the demand for quality control
and environment protection.
In co-operation with the uniquely varied expertise of its sister faculties, the Faculty is able to provide its students with opportunities to become engineers capable of fully meeting the above mentioned demands of the third millennium.
Dr. György Kaptay
Dean
