EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Micro- and NanoMaterials and Technologies

我们生活在一个被人造材料所包围的世界里，这些材料被设计用于实现特定的目的，从剃须刀和移动的手机等日常用品的许多组件到用于保护军事人员的高性能装甲和用于减轻雷击影响的飞机涂层。这些成就是通过深刻理解材料的制造方式、结构（在一系列长度尺度上）、性能以及所有这些因素最终如何决定材料在特定应用中的性能（无论是几分钟还是几十年）之间的联系而实现的。通常选择最合适的材料，然后设计其微观结构，并以具有成本效益和可持续的方式对其进行加工，从而优化其性能，这对于新技术的“实现”至关重要;反之，如果不了解材料的重要作用，就会错失商机。目前，在满足英国工业需要的材料方面，具有所需专业水平的人才短缺。微型和纳米材料与技术工业博士中心（IDC在MiNMaT）旨在满足这些需求，为英国提供材料科学和工程博士毕业生，结合知识，可翻译的研究专业知识，人际交往能力和信心，使他们能够解决最具挑战性的材料问题，并对英国工业的表现和国际存在产生真实的影响。这将通过建立在材料科学与工程的国际卓越基础上，世界领先的表征专业知识以及在提供高度重视的工程博士学位（EngD）课程方面的良好记录来实现。这是一个为期四年的研究学位，包括教学元素和研究元素，虽然在MiNMaT IDC内，它们相互交织，形成一个连贯的计划，而不是不同的部分。研究工程师（因为学生被称为）是基于他们的工业赞助商，在他们的处所为整个计划的研究问题。他们的重点是解决学术上具有挑战性和工业相关的加工-微观结构-性能-性能关系问题。在所有四年中，精心整合的强化短期课程（通常为一周，在大学）形成了教学部分。这些课程相互建立，并加强研究。通过使用一套核心课程，从一些物理科学/工程学科的毕业生可以获得必要的材料背景。这种能力是必不可少的，因为对材料科学家和工程师的需求无法满足，而不增加在本科阶段学习材料的学生人数。因此，MiNMaT中的IDC为英国对“就业就绪”，全面发展的毕业生的需求提供了解决方案，这些毕业生具有优秀的材料科学和工程研究证书。

We live in a world surrounded by man-made materials that have been engineered to fulfill a specific purpose, from the many components of everyday articles such as razors and mobile phones to the high performance armour used to protect military personnel and the coatings applied to aircraft to mitigate the effects of lightning strikes. These achievements have been made possible through a profound understanding of the linkages between how a material is made, what structure it has (over a range of length scales), what properties result and how all of these factors ultimately determine the performance of the material in a specific application, be it for a few minutes or many tens of years. Often selecting the most suitable material, then designing its microstructure and processing it in a cost-effective and sustainable manner such that it is optimised for performance, is crucial to the 'enablement' of a new technology; conversely, failure to understand the vital role of materials can lead to missed business opportunities.Currently, there is a shortage of people with the required level of expertise in materials to meet the needs of UK industry. The Industrial Doctorate Centre in Micro- and NanoMaterials and Technologies (IDC in MiNMaT) aims to meet those needs by providing the UK with materials science and engineering doctoral graduates, with the combination of knowledge, translatable research expertise, interpersonal skills and confidence to enable them to tackle the most challenging materials problems and make a real impact on the performance and international presence of UK industry.This will be achieved by building on a foundation of international excellence in materials science and engineering, world-leading expertise in characterisation and a proven track record in delivering a highly regarded Engineering Doctorate (EngD) programme. This is a four-year research degree comprising a taught element and a research element, although within the MiNMaT IDC they are interwoven to form a coherent programme rather than being distinct parts. The research engineer (as the student is known) is based with their industrial sponsor, working on their research problems at their premises for the whole programme. Their focus is the solution of academically challenging and industrially relevant processing-microstructure-property-performance relationship problems. Taking place over all four years, carefully integrated intensive short courses (normally one week duration, at the University) form the taught component. These courses build on each other and augment the research. By using a core set of courses, graduates from a number of physical science/engineering disciplines can acquire the necessary background in materials. This capacity is essential as demand for materials scientists and engineers cannot be met without adding to the numbers of students who have studied materials at undergraduate level. Thus, the IDC in MiNMaT offers a solution to the UK's need for 'employment-ready', well-rounded graduates with excellent materials science and engineering research credentials.