WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:22.960 Welcome everybody, my name is Nicolas Vogel from the Department of Chemical and Biological 00:22.960 --> 00:27.400 Engineering and what I want to tell you today is why you should study advanced materials 00:27.400 --> 00:28.800 and processes. 00:28.800 --> 00:34.280 So this is our international and interdisciplinary program that is jointly hosted by the Department 00:34.280 --> 00:40.240 of Chemical and Biological Engineering and also the Department of Materials Science. 00:40.240 --> 00:42.960 So all of you of course know that materials are important. 00:42.960 --> 00:47.120 You see this pretty much every day if you wear functional outdoor clothes that are very 00:47.120 --> 00:52.240 lightweight and still very functional, keep rain from you and so on. 00:52.240 --> 00:56.920 Or if you use non-stick frying pans, where you can make your fried egg without having 00:56.920 --> 01:01.680 to scratch it off the pan or if you compare the very old wooden records that Boris Becker 01:01.680 --> 01:07.120 used to win Wimbledon to a tennis racket that you can nowadays buy in a supermarket or a 01:07.120 --> 01:08.320 sports shop. 01:08.320 --> 01:13.920 But what is maybe less intuitive is that materials are also enabling technologies and what this 01:13.920 --> 01:15.760 means can be seen here. 01:15.760 --> 01:19.960 So without a semiconductor you cannot have a computer chip and without a computer chip 01:19.960 --> 01:25.280 you cannot have a smartphone or the internet or any of our digital societies that we live 01:25.280 --> 01:26.280 on. 01:26.280 --> 01:28.320 Listen to what I'm saying right now. 01:28.320 --> 01:32.360 Without composite materials you cannot build lightweight and without lightweight materials 01:32.360 --> 01:37.840 you cannot build these huge wind turbines that you need to produce renewable energies. 01:37.840 --> 01:42.520 And without biocompatible polymer materials you cannot do 3D printing of these materials 01:42.520 --> 01:48.520 and you cannot implant personalized medical devices or implant materials and therefore 01:48.520 --> 01:53.240 really help people with a personalized approach to medicine. 01:53.240 --> 01:59.560 So these enabling aspects of materials are often in a sense underappreciated. 01:59.560 --> 02:05.360 And now as you've seen materials have been and in my opinion will be at the very basis 02:05.360 --> 02:10.040 of a lot of innovations that are required to solve global challenges that we have faced 02:10.040 --> 02:13.480 and that we are facing in this century. 02:13.480 --> 02:18.440 And maybe to state the obvious but materials do not appear from nowhere. 02:18.440 --> 02:23.600 It requires process technologies and typically if they are complex advanced process technologies 02:23.600 --> 02:26.760 to really make such tailored materials. 02:26.760 --> 02:32.240 So an obvious question is if these things are interconnected why should material science 02:32.240 --> 02:36.760 and engineering and process engineering be taught as separate disciplines? 02:36.760 --> 02:40.280 And fact is that is what we are doing nowadays. 02:40.280 --> 02:42.200 Now this is where MAP comes into play. 02:42.200 --> 02:46.840 MAP is a unique interdisciplinary combination of these two worlds. 02:46.840 --> 02:51.960 So this study program directly connects material science and engineering and chemical and biological 02:51.960 --> 02:52.960 engineering. 02:52.960 --> 02:57.960 And why this is important is that you can then connect a process with a certain structure 02:57.960 --> 03:02.680 that's the typical realm of chemical engineers and the structure with a resulting property 03:02.680 --> 03:05.440 which is the realm of material science and engineering. 03:05.440 --> 03:09.400 And once you have this entire process chain you can really tailor your property of the 03:09.400 --> 03:12.600 material right from the choice of the process. 03:12.600 --> 03:16.840 And this is key to develop advanced and complex materials. 03:16.840 --> 03:17.840 So how does this work? 03:17.840 --> 03:22.880 Here you see the MAP study program and this is composed of a range of different things 03:22.880 --> 03:24.920 here especially these four pillars. 03:24.920 --> 03:30.080 So these four pillars are our focus subjects that are at the heart of the MAP course. 03:30.080 --> 03:34.880 And in order to reach these pillars first you will get fundamental lectures in an individually 03:34.880 --> 03:40.120 tailored curriculum and this curriculum is based on your bachelor's background. 03:40.120 --> 03:44.760 So if you're a material scientist you will learn basics or fundamentals in chemical engineering. 03:44.760 --> 03:50.640 If you're a chemical engineer you will get basic knowledge in material science. 03:50.640 --> 03:56.000 Then we follow up with basics lectures that will introduce these four focus subjects in 03:56.000 --> 03:57.200 all depth. 03:57.200 --> 04:02.200 So all students will get a very solid knowledge of these focus subjects throughout these basic 04:02.200 --> 04:03.200 lectures. 04:03.200 --> 04:09.840 Well then we give these focus subjects more depth in the course of the study program and 04:09.840 --> 04:15.160 we allow flexibility so that you can choose two out of these four focus subjects. 04:15.160 --> 04:21.460 This entire experience is then combined with hands-on experiments in mini projects, research 04:21.460 --> 04:26.400 focuses via scientific skills and some soft-scale materials. 04:26.400 --> 04:30.660 And all in all this gives a very flexible curriculum that you can really use to tailor 04:30.660 --> 04:34.880 to your personal interests and specialties. 04:34.880 --> 04:39.080 In addition we have implemented something that we call additional qualifications where 04:39.080 --> 04:44.880 you can do optionally 30 more ECTS points in two focal areas either research focus or 04:44.880 --> 04:49.720 industry focus and that gives you a bit of an add-on and some more qualifications and 04:49.720 --> 04:54.960 aspects related to these different fields. 04:54.960 --> 05:00.280 So at the heart as I said are these four focus subjects that we believe are focusing on really 05:00.280 --> 05:04.040 cutting-edge technologies that a modern engineer will need. 05:04.040 --> 05:09.060 The first one is nanomaterials and nanotechnology and that is as the name suggests the ability 05:09.060 --> 05:14.880 to produce or manipulate or characterize matter on the nanoscale and this is really at the 05:14.880 --> 05:19.240 heart of any functional device and materials that we use nowadays. 05:19.240 --> 05:23.160 Now from a solar cell to a repellent surface and so on. 05:23.160 --> 05:29.280 The second focal topic is biomaterials and bioprocessors and here you learn how to use 05:29.280 --> 05:37.520 biological systems to improve technology or also to use technology to improve biology. 05:37.520 --> 05:42.200 Then we have two additional ones one is computational material science and process simulation and 05:42.200 --> 05:47.280 there I think it's very clear that the cornerstone of modern product design is the ability that 05:47.280 --> 05:53.020 we can nowadays use computers to model to simulate and then to optimize materials and 05:53.020 --> 05:58.360 processes over all scales and this I think one cannot understate the importance of this 05:58.360 --> 06:03.000 ability to really use computers to design our materials. 06:03.000 --> 06:05.240 This is what you will learn in this focus object. 06:05.240 --> 06:09.700 And then finally we have advanced processes and this really gives you modern and sustainable 06:09.700 --> 06:15.920 process technologies towards better materials and products. 06:15.920 --> 06:19.720 One key thing about MAP is that it's truly international so what you see here in this 06:19.720 --> 06:24.720 chart is the nationalities of our students from the starting class in 2020 and you see 06:24.720 --> 06:28.240 this is a whole bouquet of people from all over the world. 06:28.240 --> 06:33.600 We focus on small group sizes it's fully English taught and as I already said it has an individualized 06:33.600 --> 06:38.680 curriculum that we can really pick up anybody from their area of expertise to bring them 06:38.680 --> 06:43.720 all to the same level and then allow you the full study experience of this interdisciplinary 06:43.720 --> 06:45.720 master program. 06:45.720 --> 06:49.560 MAP is also a very selective program and we need to be very selective because we have 06:49.560 --> 06:54.060 these small group sizes and we are very proud of this personalized experience and very 06:54.060 --> 06:56.980 good ratio of professors to students. 06:56.980 --> 07:00.840 And in order to implement the selectivity we have a two-stage admission process where 07:00.840 --> 07:05.800 you first apply in a written application and then we have video interviews where we really 07:05.800 --> 07:10.200 test your interdisciplinary interest, your background knowledge and your motivation to 07:10.200 --> 07:11.800 study the MAP program. 07:11.800 --> 07:16.160 And as you see from the charts right now the application or the acceptance rates from applications 07:16.160 --> 07:19.040 to admissions is round about 10 percent. 07:19.040 --> 07:21.600 MAP is also very research oriented. 07:21.600 --> 07:26.240 We have an academic grant system and best student award so if you want to go to a conference 07:26.240 --> 07:31.000 or present your results or do a soft skill course and so on there's a possibility that 07:31.000 --> 07:34.000 we can fund this for you and support you in your endeavors. 07:34.000 --> 07:39.680 We also have mini projects which give you first-hand research experience in the laboratories 07:39.680 --> 07:45.360 of our constituting institutes and research groups so there you really get exposed to 07:45.360 --> 07:49.240 what these people are doing and this allows you of course to choose your master thesis, 07:49.240 --> 07:51.860 potentially PhD and so on. 07:51.860 --> 07:56.160 But we also deliver important academic skills and these are literature reviews so the ability 07:56.160 --> 08:01.480 to go through the extensive body of literature that exists nowadays to select the most important 08:01.480 --> 08:06.240 one and the most suitable one and the most kind of coherent ones to understand a certain 08:06.240 --> 08:07.240 research topic. 08:07.240 --> 08:11.720 We also have a poster presentation course where you learn how to present your research 08:11.720 --> 08:16.960 in easy language and in beautiful work and a poster competition where you can then train 08:16.960 --> 08:22.320 and practice on how this will be on a conference where you sell and present your research to 08:22.320 --> 08:27.000 other peers and professors and researchers from all over the world. 08:27.000 --> 08:31.960 Just kind of to show you that these two papers are from MAP students that came out recently 08:31.960 --> 08:36.720 so this really has a direct segue into modern research and into the research environment 08:36.720 --> 08:39.560 at our university. 08:39.560 --> 08:44.680 So MAP and then we'll do MAP graduates after successfully graduating where firstly they 08:44.680 --> 08:48.880 find jobs in research and industry and what you can see from this part you see there's 08:48.880 --> 08:54.320 actually a lot of MAP students continue in a PhD either directly at institutes in MAP. 08:54.320 --> 08:57.760 We think this is a consequence of the mini project so that people really get exposed 08:57.760 --> 09:02.240 to a lot of different research ideas within our university but they also go towards a 09:02.240 --> 09:06.380 PhD at other German institutions and also abroad. 09:06.380 --> 09:11.400 And then roughly one third of the students then finds their way into industry either 09:11.400 --> 09:15.920 by staying in Germany or by going abroad or back into their home countries to then implement 09:15.920 --> 09:17.540 what they have learned. 09:17.540 --> 09:22.480 And just to show you who hires MAP students this is a randomly chosen array of companies 09:22.480 --> 09:26.720 that have recently hired MAP graduates so you see there's quite some big players there's 09:26.720 --> 09:31.560 some companies that you may not know so it's a smaller startup and more specialized companies 09:31.560 --> 09:37.000 but all in all of course there's a huge area of expertise within companies that like people 09:37.000 --> 09:42.520 that know how to make materials and how to understand material properties. 09:42.520 --> 09:46.040 So with this I'm at the end of this presentation if you're interested please tune in to our 09:46.040 --> 09:49.160 homepage and there you get the full spectrum of details. 09:49.160 --> 10:16.160 Thank you very much.