To train integral engineers who apply their knowledge and give continuity to the development of the Metallurgical and Materials Industry, through sustainable processes, with a high social commitment, scientific and technological knowledge, and with competencies that allow them to develop in the socio-economic environment of the country.
Desirably, for the Metallurgy and Materials Engineering program it is required that the student has a set of knowledge, skills, and values that will help him/her in the course of the study program, and that will be a basis for the reception of new knowledge that together will form certain competencies in know-how. Likewise, the student must have the following characteristics:
- Willingness and ability to develop: their communication and self-learning skills.
- Open attitude for the development of creativity and teamwork.
- Ability for practical work.
- Ability for abstraction, analysis, and synthesis tasks.
Knowing how to know
- Mathematics: differential and integral calculus algebra, plane trigonometry, and analytical geometry.
- Physics: mechanics, electricity, and magnetism.
- Chemistry: structure of matter, nomenclature, stoichiometry, states of aggregation.
Know-how
- Descriptive graphic construction.
- Oral and written communication.
- Reading texts in English.
- Self-study.
- Use concepts and notations.
- Analysis and problem- solving.
- Working in teams.
- Creativity and initiative.
Knowing how to be and live together
- Interest in the study that provides self-training.
- Responsibility, perseverance, and discipline.
- Manifest civic, national and social conduct.
The graduate will develop activities related to obtaining, processing, characterization, and evaluating minerals, metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites; will have solid knowledge in the basic sciences of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, with broad handling of computer systems, including simulation, with the possibility of developing technology focused on engineering, processing, and handling of new materials, with knowledge and skills that allow him/her to design and operate metallurgical processes mainly and with a level of English that allows him/her to communicate in a global context. They will develop skills such as leadership, organizational capacity, ability to integrate and analyze information, high capacity to adapt to changing situations, strategic thinking, initiative, entrepreneurship, analytical skills, teamwork, communication skills, and values such as ethics, honesty, and responsibility, which will allow them to contribute to the development of the national industry and to assume positions of high responsibility.
Knowledge
- Physical and chemical properties of the three states of aggregation of matter.
- The theoretical foundations and bases of the operation of the different materials characterization techniques.
- The fundamentals of the different materials processes, combined with a strong background basic engineering, allow them to influence their improvements or in the design of novel alternatives.
- The management of metallurgical processes, taking into account aspects such as: safety, and economy, environmental care.
Skills
- Associates and applies the principles, theories, and laws governing the phenomena of transformation of matter.
- Evaluates the processes or unit operations of concentration, extraction, refining, and adaptation of metals and/or minerals.
- Operates, establishes, and designs processes of mineral beneficiation and extraction and refining of metals and materials, under principles of sustainability.
- Studies and applies current technologies in metallurgical and materials processes.
- Interprets metallurgical and material characterization results.
- Supervises, operates, and maintains metallurgical processes or unit operations.
- Operates, optimizes, establishes, and designs competitive manufacturing processes of metals and engineering materials, considering their impact on the structure-properties-performance relationship.
- Applies fundamentals of structure-process-properties-performance relationships of engineering materials, as a basis for their design and selection, considering costs, quality and safety.
- Understands, analyzes, modifies, and innovates metallurgical and materials processes, using energetic and kinetic concepts, and employing advanced computational and simulation tools.
- Applies quality management systems through process control and administration for quality assurance in the metallurgical and materials industry.
- Integrally manages metallurgical and materials processes.
- Researches and develops alternatives that allow the best use of mineral resources.
- Controls corrosion of materials.
- Proposes, identifies, analyzes, and solves situations that represent risks for workers.
- Analyzes and develops sustainable processes in the metallurgical and materials industry.
Attitudes and Values
- Promotes individual and collaborative work in a methodical, effective, and efficient way.
- Interprets with ethical criteria the results of physical and chemical analysis, a product of metallurgical and material processes.
- Performs with responsibility and ethical criteria the formulation, development, and evaluation of engineering projects.
- Acts at all times under principles of sustainability and environmental care.
- Cares for and maintains the polytechnic principles of service to the country and its inhabitants.
- Maintains awareness of their incursion and capacity in a globalized world.
- Applies ethical and moral principles in their professional and personal performance.
