organic electronics education programme for double degrees postgraduates(qmul engineering school, npu)-pg电子模拟器网址

1. programme introduction

the programme of materials science and engineering studies the components and structures, the processing and manufacturing, organisation and properties, as well as application of materials. various directions are included: metallic materials, inorganic non-metallic materials, polymer materials, composite materials, nano materials, the solidification and processing, plasticity shaping and soldering, etc. as the leading technology for hi-tech industries and advanced manufactures, materials science technology is the foundation for the development of any other industries, supporting and guiding the development of economy and the upgrading and reform of industries.

the materials science and engineering programme of northwestern polytechnical university (hereinafter referred to asnpu) was approved to award doctoral degree as a first-level discipline in 1998. based on the frontier of material science, material science and engineering discipline of npu serves the national strategic needs and social and economic development (top 1‰in esi, a level in the moe fourth round of subject evaluation, and the “first-class” discipline in 2017). it is characterised as advanced aerospace materials and their forming technology. dominant researches thereof are ceramic-based composite materials, carbon-carbon composite materials, stealth materials and preparation technology, enhancing manufacture principle and technology, etc. it was evaluated as a national first-level key discipline. there are 9 national and 17 provincial and ministerial level science and education platforms, including national key laboratory of solidification technology, national key laboratory of ultra-high temperature structural composite materials and national material experiment teaching demonstration centre. it has delivered more than 10000 outstanding graduates to the country, including7 academicians of the two academies, 17yangtze riverscholars and winners of the national outstanding youth scientist fund, and leading talents of major national defense models.

queen mary university of london (hereinafter referred to as qmul), founded in 1887, is a member of russell group (a coalition of 24 best universities in research, teaching and social cooperation in the uk). it ranks the 9^thin 2014 research excellence framework (ref) in the uk, and won the silver award for the 2017 teaching excellence framework. it has the accreditation of the top 25 world universities in view of internationalization according to the times and ranks 119^thin 2019 qs world university rankings. as the first university in the uk to establish the subject of materials engineering, materials science is one of the most influential disciplines in qmul, which has been awarded five-star by the british government for many times and ranks first in terms of satisfaction survey sponsored by the national student federation in 2011 in the uk. since 2008, the school of engineering and materials sciences of qmul has always been the top five in the uk in terms of scientific research ability. it provides elite quality education and excellent professional education for students in the whole process of material organization, structure and performance relationship, and material design, shaping and application.

in 2016,approved by the ministry of education of china, npu and qmul have launched a joint educational institutenamed queen mary university of london engineering school, northwestern polytechnical university (hereinafter referred to as qmes) in order to providehigh-quality international undergraduate education. on the basis of undergraduate education, relying on high-level scientific research platforms and the international teaching and research teams such as the school of materials science and engineering and the sino-british joint research institute of advanced materials and structures, qmes deeply integrates the superior educational resources and education philosophies of the two universities in the field of materials to carry out the double masters education programme of materials science and engineering so as to enhance the education level of sino-foreign joint education. the aim is to cultivate students to become the international innovative talents with solid natural science foundation and profound engineering technology knowledge, international perspective and international competitiveness, and innovative thinking and ability, capable of independently doing scientific research or undertaking engineering technology related work in the field of materials science and engineering.

2. educational aims

(1)be equipped to become a qualified builder and reliable successor of the socialism with chinese characteristics in the new era with a strong sense of love for nation and family and social responsibility, good academic ethics and professionalism, physical and mental health, and high comprehensive quality.

(2)be equipped to be proficient in natural science and solid basic theory such as polymer synthesis methodology, polymer aggregation structure and polymer material forming technology; be equipped with the ability to study and prepare polymer materials and independently engage in scientific research and engineering practice

(3)be equipped with the fluently skills in english listening, speaking, reading and writing, global international perspective, strong innovative consciousness and ability, rigorous scientific research style, good spirit of cooperation, and the ability of self-learning and lifelong learning.

3.research interests

research interests	main contents
structural material	1）metallic materials 2）inorganic non-metallic materials 3）ceramic matrix composite 4）carbon/carbon composites
functional materials	1)optoelectronic materials and devices 2)principle and method of crystal growth 3）nanomaterials 4）energy materials 5）biomaterial
structure and properties of materials	1）mechanical properties of materials 2）physical and chemical properties of materials 3）advanced analytical, testing and characterization technique 4）materials genome
advanced manufacture of materials	1) principle and application of additive manufacturing 2) principle and technology of plastic forming 3) principle and application of advanced connection technology

4. qualification and degree certificate

schooling years:3 years including no less than 9 months studying in qmul, at least 28 credits needed.

degree:after completing the whole education process and successfully defensing the dissertation, the postgraduate students will be awarded diploma by npu, meng degree by npu and msc degree by qmul.

5.modules and credits/hours,13modules in total with28 credits

upublic modules (3 modules), 6 credits/108 hours;

ufundamental modules (1 module), 3 credits/60 hours;

utechnical core modules (8 modules), 17 credits/340 hours;

ucomprehensive module (1 module), 2 credits/40 hours;

except for ideological and political theory modules (3 credits), 16 credits taught by qmul and 9 credits taught by npuwith fully english teaching. 7 introduced modules include english for science and engineering,professional engineering methods,advanced polymer synthesis and other 5 technical core modules,satisfying the requirement ofregulations of the people’s republic of china on chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools, which are:

◆numbers of introduced modules (7) take 53.8% of numbers of total modules (13);

◆numbers of introduced major core modules (5) take 62.5% of numbers of total major modules (8);

◆numbers of qmul teaching major core modules (5) take 38.5% of numbers of total modules (13);

◆class hours of qmul teaching major core modules (220) take 40.1% of class hours of total modules (548).

module distribution in details is as below:

(module code reference: modules beginning with code q are taught by qmul. modules beginning with code n are taught by npu in english. modules beginning with code m are the compulsory modules taught by npu in chinese according to moe regulations.)

(1)public modules (3 modules, 6 credits)

(2)fundamental modules(1 module, 3 credits)

(3) technical coremodules(8 modules, 17 credits)

(4)comprehensive module (1 module, 2 credits)

curriculum modules and credits table

module

module code

module name

hours/ credits

exam/assessment

allocation of hours

exam √

assess √

lecture

experiment

sem 1st

sem 2nd

sem 3rd

sem 4th

sem 5th

sem 6th

public modules

public modules

m13g11001

research on the theory and practice of socialism with chinese characteristics

36/2.0

√

36

18/1.0

18/1.0

m13g11002

dialectics of nature

18/1.0

√

18

18/1.0

qxu7111

english for science and engineering

54/3.0

√

54

54/3.0

total

108/6.0

fundamental modules

fundamental modules

nxc7101

matrix theory mathematics

60/3.0

√

60

60/3.0

total

60/3.0

technical core modules

technical core modules

nxc7102

microstructure analysis of advanced materials

40/2.0

√

40

40/2.0

qxu7112

materials selection in design

60/3.0

√

60

60/3.0

nxc7201

first principles simulation

40/2.0

√

40

40/2.0

nxc7202 nxc7203

materials physics (option a) materials science and engineering (option b)

40/2.0

√

40

40/2.0

qlu7301

environmental properties of materials

40/2.0

√

40

40/2.0

qlu7302

plastic electronic materials

40/2.0

√

40

40/2.0

qlu7401 qlu7402

energy materials and devices (option a) advanced mechanical properties (option b)

40/2.0

√

40

40/2.0

qlu7403

optical and electronic materials

40/2.0

√

40

40/2.0

total

340/17

comprehensive modules

comprehensive modules

qxu7211

professional engineering methods

40/2.0

√

40

40/2.0

total

40/2.0

total hours / total credits:548//28.0

reference:modules beginning with code q are taught by qmul. modules beginning with code n are taught by npu in english. modules beginning with code m are the compulsory modules taught by npu in chinese according to moe regulations.

6. education plan

the academic committeeof qmes is in charge of supervising and guaranteeing the education process of double masters degree, teaching quality and the viva examination of the final dissertation/project.

dual tutors mechanism is adopted in this double masters programme. respectively coming from npu and qmul, two tutors play a leading role in the cultivation process and will be decided when postgraduates are registered. the final dissertation/project is co-directed by dual tutors.

schooling years are 3 years including no less than 9 months studying in qmul.

taught modulesenjoy the important part of the education plan for the postgraduates who are required to complete enough credits, satisfying the credit requirements of both npu and qmul, before the viva examination.

1) taught modules

(1)students study public modules, fundamental modules, comprehensive modules and part of technical core modules in npu, and decide their choices on research interests and complete the literature review for their dissertations under the guidance of dual tutors.

(2)students study all the technical core modules in qmul, and start their academic research work and submit their dissertation plans supervised by the dual tutors.

(3)students continue their research work in npu and qmul and complete all the requirements, pass mid-term dissertation assessment, finish writing their dissertations and pass the final viva examination under the instruction of their dual tutors.

(4)the contents of professional engineering methods include: scientific ethics and academic norms, intellectual property rights, problem solving methods, project management, psychology, career planning, academic literature review, academic paper writing guidance and so on.

(5)students should complete the comprehensive industrial/social practice in npu. it focuses on cultivating the comprehensive abilities of postgraduates by means of attending activities such as teaching practice, scientific and technological innovation, social service, cultural training, taking a temporary post and volunteer activities. after the practice students need to complete the form titledfeedback on the industrial/social practice for npu postgraduateswith their npu tutors’remarks and comments from the organizations where students have done their practice, which is kept in their files.

2) project/dissertation scheme

(1) literature review

dual tutors will be decided when postgraduates are registered and supervise students to choose their research interests. students should submit the literature review before the end of the 1^stacademic year.

(2) the opening report review

the final project/dissertation starts with the opening report review which should demonstrate the scientific significance, background, research content, expected objectives, research methods and conditions of the topic. the opening report review should be reported to the academic committee for comments no later than the 3^rdsemester.

those who pass the review shall be allowed to continue the final project/dissertation. those who fail to pass the review shall be warned and asked to revise it within a specified time period. they shall submit the report again for review. those who fail to pass the review again shall terminate the programme or find other cultivating ways.

(3) mid-term review

students should submit a mid-term progress report about 6 months after the opening report passed. the progress report shall include whether the work of the project/dissertation is carried out according to the scheduled content of the opening report and the progress of the project/dissertation plan, the completed research content, the summary of scientific and academic research participated, the existing or anticipated problems, the proposed solutions, subsequent work plan and research content, etc.

during the progress students are allowed to make necessary adjustments to the project/dissertation (title,content, research plan, etc.). however, the main content of project/dissertation should be basically consistent with the content of mid-term progress report when students having the viva examination of the final project/dissertation.

a review team can be established under the consent of the academic committee. it should consist of at least three associate professors and above (excluding tutors) with a team leader to give evaluation opinions on students’submitted projects/dissertations.

those who pass the review shall be allowed to continue the final project/dissertation. those who fail to pass the review shall be warned and asked to revise it within a specified time period. they shall submit the report again and pass the review. those who fail to pass the review again shall terminate the programme or find other cultivating ways.

(4) the final project/dissertation writing

the final project/dissertation is the summary of independent and systematic academic research work completed by postgraduate students under the guidance of tutors. it should have good academic technicality and considerable workload. it solves the scientific problems of the subject by using existing or innovative theories and methods, carries out necessary theoretical analysis and obtains correct results. specific requirements shall be implemented in accordance with theregulations on degree thesis writing of npuandcriteria for master's degree dissertations of qmul.

(5) the viva examination

a viva examination committee shall be established under the consent of the academic committee to evaluate students’projects/dissertations in accordance with the provisions of the academic degree evaluation committee of both npu and qmul.

7. enrollment requirements for double degrees master students

1) participate in the unified national postgraduate entrance examination, reach the basic score line of postgraduate interview of npu, and pass the interview organised by qmes who select the best examinees.

2) candidates who meet the exam-free requirements of npu postgraduates shall apply for their intended programme through moe “national information disclosure and management service system for recommending outstanding undergraduates to study postgraduate programmes” and pass the interview organised by qmes.

3) english requirements: have achieved a score of 6.0 or above in the international english language testing system (ielts) with a score in writing of 5.5 or above; or achieved a score of 60 or above in the test of english as a foreign language (toefl) with a score in writing of 18 or above; or have, within 5 years prior to entry to the jei, graduated from a degree that was studied in english, where the transcript of the degree clearly shows that the degree was taught and examined in english.

8. student management of double degree master students

qmes is responsible for postgraduate enrollment, student registration, student management, academic management and student cultivation. the school of materials science and engineering assist the selection of tutors, academic guidance and to provide research platforms.

teacher list

tutor list

no	tutor’s name	gender	title	research interests
1	li zhen	male	professor	nanomaterials and new photovoltaic devices
2	fan huiqing	male	professor	electronic materials and components
3	zhang chengyu	male	professor	mechanical properties of materials
4	liu yongsheng	male	professor	ceramic and composite materials
5	wang hongqiang	male	professor	new energy materials and devices
6	xie keyu	male	professor	material electrochemistry and cell electrochemistry
7	chen fuyi	male	professor	functional materials
8	guo xiping	male	professor	metal materials
9	shang li	male	professor	nanobiomaterials, fluorescence analysis
10	hongchao kou	male	professor	titanium alloys and their preparation and forming technology
11	chen zhongwei	male	professor	characterisation and control of microstructure of metal materials
12	rui hu	male	professor	advanced metallic structure materials
13	jinshan li	male	professor	advanced metallic materials (ti-based alloys, tial, high-entropy alloys, steels, etc) and precision thermal forming (casting, forging, superplastic forming etc)
14	wang haifeng	male	professor	design, preparation, and properties of metallic materials
15	zhao tingkai	male	professor	nanomaterials and new energy materials
16	chen biao	male	professor	metallic material
17	ma yue	male	professor	multidimensional in situ characterization technology, flexible energy storage devices
18	li xuanhua	male	professor	photoelectric material
19	liu guoqiang	male	professor	friction lubrication material and surface micro-nanostructure processing
20	ye qian	male	associate professor	material table interface modification technology
21	wang yi	male	associate professor	integrated computing materials science and engineering
22	wang jiangan	male	professor	advanced nano energy materials and devices
23	xu fei	male	associate professor	nano energy materials and devices
24	song lin	male	associate professor	high temperature structural materials, intermetallic compounds
25	cao yejie	female	associate professor	polymer conversion ceramics and ultra-high temperature ceramics
26	liu jianxi	male	associate professor	nanotribology, function table/interface construction and optical sensing
27	yu hong	female	associate professor	nanocomposites
28	zeng qingfeng	male	associate professor	material genome/material design
29	du chengfeng	male	associate professor	2d material synthesis, energy conversion and storage devices
30	fu maosen	male	associate professor	structure, performance and application of advanced functional dielectric materials and energy materials, microstructure analysis and phase transition of material structure
31	li yangping	male	associate professor	functional materials
32	liu changyou	male	associate professor	crystal growth and application of ii-vi compound semiconductors
33	wang tao	male	associate professor	semiconductors
34	chen yuzeng	male	professor	microstructure stability of metallic materials
35	liu yuli	female	professor	precise plastic forming and computer simulation, optimization
36	li wenya	male	professor	welding and surface engineering
37	zheng zebang	male	professor	high performance precision plastic forming and deformation mechanism of alloy
38	zhan mei	female	professor	plastic forming
39	li heng	male	professor	precision plastic forming manufacturing and simulation optimization
40	su haijun	male	professor	directional solidification technology and theory and new materials
41	wang jincheng	male	professor	numerical simulation of material microstructure and alloy design
42	hui mei	male	professor	performance and defect control of 3d printed micro-nano composite materials
43	wang zhijun	male	professor	solidification theory, soft matter
44	kang nan	male	associate professor	aluminum alloy additive manufacturing
45	ning yongquan	male	associate professor	plastic forming of metal materials
46	guo lianggang	male	professor	precise plastic forming
47	liu feng	male	professor	preparation, physical and chemical properties of soft materials and functional nanomaterials
48	lin xin	male	professor	additive manufacturing, solidification theory and technology
49	tiehu li	male	professor	preparation, structure and property of graphene and its novel carbon materials
50	fuguo li	male	professor	micro/nano reconfiguration and performance of materials
51	yu jiakang (j.k. yu)	male	professor	electronic packaging materials
52	guo lingjun	male	professor	composites；inorganic nonmetallic material,functional material
53	li shuangming	male	professor	metals solidification theory and technique thermoelectric materials
54	jing chen	female	professor	laser additive manufacturing
55	feng gao	male	professor	advanced functional ceramics such as ferroelectric, piezoelectric, thermoelectric, microwave dielectric ceramics, etc. and devices. ceramics/polymer dielectric composite materials
56	qiangang fu	male	professor	- oxidation/ablation resistant coatings - fabrication and properties of carbon/carbon composites - matrix modification on carbon/carbon composites - synthesis and characterization of uhtc nanomaterials
57	xiaoli fan	female	professor	computational materials, including 2d materials, catalytic materials, energy materials, lubricant materials.
58	li hongwei	male	professor	high-performance precise plastic forming
59	yanli lu	female	professor	multi-scale study on microstructure and properties of advanced materials
60	liping feng	female	professor	functional film materials and optoelectronic devices
61	yadong xu	male	professor	semiconductor crystals and device for nuclear radiation detector
62	weihong qi	male	professor	physics of 2d materials, computational materials science, and nanotribology
63	fan xiaoguang	male	professor	precision plastic forming
64	jun wang	male	professor	solidification, high magnetic field processing of materials, high-entropy alloys
65	li huanyong	male	associate professor	1.advanced synthesis technology for inorganic materials 2.rare-earth chalcogenide optical ceramics. crystal growth of high melting point compound.
66	xiaohong shi	female	associate professor	carbon/carbon composites, high-temperature nanomaterials, 3d printing repair
67	yang changlin	male	associate professor	magnesium alloy and magnesium matrix composites
68	li qinghua	male	associate professor	plastic processing
69	qiang li	male	associated professor	advanced information materials, semiconductor materials, namomaterilas
70	xingang luan	male	associate professor	ceramic matrix composite；composite mechanics in harsh environment；high temperature adhesives
71	qiao yanqiang	male	associate professor	ultrahigh temperature alloy and coating technology
72	jieren yang	male	associate professor	advanced metallic structure materials
73	zhang leilei	male	associate professor	composite materials, biomaterials, carbon materials
74	zhanglong zhao	male	associate professor	plastic forming of difficult-to-deform alloys for aerospace
75	zhang jing	female	associate professor	phase field modeling on microstructure evolution; superalloy/irradiation effect of nuclear materials by multiscale simulation; energy conversion and storage by computer design
76	wenchao yang	male	associate professor	1.ni-basd superalloys and al alloy 2.heterogeneous nucleation and grain growth during solidification microstructure of metal materials using by hrtem and 3dapt
77	bin tang	male	associate professor	rare metals materials and processing
78	jie xu	male	associate professor	colloidal processing of advanced ceramics, porous functional ceramics
79	li-li tan	female	associate professor	supramolecular materials for smart therapy and gas separation/storage
80	xinlei li	male	associate professor	1) solidification technology and controlling of microstructure and property 2)special casting forming process and equipment
81	guo min	female	associate professor	1. nanomaterials and solar cells 2. directional solidification 3. superalloys
82	qing zhou	male	associate professor	tribology and protection technology of advanced materials
83	alei dang	male	associate professor	preparation and property of one and two-dimensional materials and its composites
84	qiang chen	male	associate prof.	biomedical coatings, drug delivery
85	qiuge li	female	associate researcher	high energy beam material processing and laser additive manufacturing
86	minshu du	female	assistant professor	elastic strain engineering, electrocatalytic materials, nanoimpact electrochemistry
87	junjie wang	male	full professor	materials genome, materials informatics, materials design
88	yu xinhong	male	professor	advanced material forming technology and equipment；forming technology of key components of aero engines；preparation and application of intelligent materials。
89	xiao ma	female	assistant researcher	high-temperature alloy；transmission electron microscopy
90	junqin shi	male	associate professor	tribology and lubrication of metallic materials, surface/interface behaviors, computational materials
91	ce zheng	male	associate professor	sic/sic composites in nuclear application; radiation effects of nuclear materials
92	luo xian	male	associate professor	(1)research and development of advanced metal-matrix composites; (2) study on damage and failure of metal materials
93	xu weifeng	male	associate professor	advanced welding technology and service reliability
94	weijia wang	female	associate professor	functional materials（photocatalyst, super capacitor）
95	xiao han	female	associate professor	nanocomposite
96	pengfei gao	male	associate professor	plastic forming
97	xiawei yang	male	associate professor	friction welding and joint integrity
98	shangwu fan	male	prof.	carbon ceramic brake materials, ultra high temperature composites, ebc coating
99	andy bushby	male	professor	micro and nano mechanics of materials and structures
100	elizabeth tanner	female	professor	biomedical materials, mechanical testing
101	glebsukhorukov	male	professor	materials science. multifunctional nano engineering
102	james busfield	male	professor	smart materials
103	julien gautrot	male	professor	synthesis and characterisation of biomaterials, micro- and nano-patterning
104	mike reece	male	professor	ferroelectric and thermoelectric
105	vassili toropov	male	professor	development and application of design optimization technology
106	ana jorge sobrido	female	associate professor	hybrid energy materials
107	colin crick	male	associate professor	novel functional materials development
108	edo boek	male	associate professor	soft matter, energy, flow and complex fluids in confinement (porous media), multi-scale imaging and analog transmission
109	emiliano bilotti	male	associate professor	self-powered sensors, nanomaterials technology
110	haixue yan	male	associate professor	ceramics processing and characterizations, ferroelectrics, thermoelectrics.
111	himadri gupta	male	associate professor	multiscale imaging of hierarchical materials
112	joe briscoe	male	associate professor	nanomaterials
113	karin hing	female	associate professor	bone graft substitute materials, bioceramics processing, biomaterials characterisation
114	lei su	male	associate professor	optics and imaging, optical spectroscopy and microscopy
115	stoyansmoukov	male	associate professor	autonomous material robotics, self-sensing materials, artificial morphogenesis
116	zhe li	male	associate professor	renewable energy materials, solution processed semiconductors, materials engineering
117	dimitrios papageogiou	male	assistant professor	polymer nanocomposites, nanomaterials, graphene, 2d materials
118	han zhang	male	assistant professor	smart materials and composites
119	oliver fenwick	male	assistant professor	thermoelectric, organic electronics, supramolecular, polymer
120	patrick cullen	male	assistant professor	2d materials,fuel cells, electrochemistry.
121	petra agota szilagyi	female	assistant professor	geometry and surface chemistry control of nano-objects, metal-organic frameworks
122	wei tan	male	assistant professor	composite materials, solid mechanics
123	andrewbuchan	male	senior lecturer	nuclear engineering, neutron transport, adaptive methods, uncertainty quantification