Objectives

From the engineering point of view, matter and materials play a central role in industrial activity. The Matter and Materials Teaching Unit covers this particularly broad field, from the constituents of matter to materials engineering.

The MM Unit seeks to provide Centrale Lyon engineers with the basic knowledge needed to be able to play the role of decision-maker in selecting, producing and giving shape to materials.  The Unit also provides extra teaching in physics and chemistry, concentrating on filling in those aspects neglected in the classes préparatoires (such as microscopic physics, or the matter/energy relationship) and reinforcing the kinds of knowledge that are going to find applications in future technologies (e.g., microphysics and optics).

Like in all teaching units, training has a two-level objective:

 The foundation level, indispensable to any general engineer, consists in the three foundation courses and two practical groups of the core syllabus. To make this basic knowledge easier to integrate, two case-study sessions are run at the end of the year.

 The more advanced specialty level is put together by each student themselves, choosing among advanced courses and options during the two years of the core syllabus.

Content

1ST YEAR
Basic modules 
MMb1.1 - Structural materials
MMb1.2 - Microscopique physics
MMb1.3 - Chemistry and matter
MMb1.4 - Synthesis

Advanced modules
MMa1.1 - Natural materials
MMa1.2 - Mechanical physics
MMa1.3 - Non condensed matter
MMa1.4 - Materials and damaging
MMa1.5 - Characterisation of materials
MMa1.6 - Quantum physics
MMa1.8 - Molecular chemistry

Practical modules
MMt1.1 - Matter - Photons
MMt1.2 - Metals

Examination