Presentation

The 2022 class was sponsored by L'Oreal.

This master’s degree aims at offering an educational background connecting the laboratory environment and the living world while responding to the ecological and sustainable transition challenges. Mimicking strategies elaborated by Nature represent infinite scientific and technological challenges. These challenges will be taken up through bioinspiration and biomimicry angles keeping in mind environmental awareness and ethics.

We offer our students a unique opportunity to explore and get inspired from living systems to develop novel materials. Our biomimetic approach focuses on cross-disciplinary courses that will make students reconsider how they elaborate syntheses, formulations and processing of tomorrow’s materials as needed by the industrial partners to build our future society

In both the first and the second year of the master, the students will be trained to draw inspiration from Nature through a biomimetic approach. This multidisciplinary approach, which resorts to both fundamental science and materials engineering, is based on the observation and comprehension of living organisms within their ecosystems. To succeed in this course, students will have to grasp abstract concepts to design biological models adapted to scientific and technological developments.

The teaching program, comprising lectures, supervised and practical work and case studies, is primarily centered around student-based teaching strategies including Project-based learning. Entirely in English, teaching is performed by university lecturers and researchers as well as socio-professional stakeholders. The practical works and case studies take place in the laboratories of the Multidisciplinary Research Institute for the Environment and Materials (IPREM CNRS UMR 5254), using high-performance and cutting-edge equipment. Lectures are scheduled at the beginning of the training course to harmonize the basic knowledge of students originating from various educational backgrounds (biology, physics and chemistry). Through this approach, we wish to develop the student’s soft skills to encourage autonomy, stimulate curiosity, creativity and emotional intelligence. The primary objective is to train future young researchers with a special know-how in collaborative thinking and able to drive bio-inspired research projects.

Objectives

• Prepare students at an advanced specialized level to meet present and future challenges adopting the biomimicry philosophy
• Obtain basic and requisite knowledge in physics, chemistry and biology
• Awake curiosity and inspire respect for living systems
• Develop environmental awareness
• Develop collaborative and open working skills
• Adhere to the principles of the living world in their scientific approach
• Adopt a biomimetic approach with materials from concept to development
• Develop engineering research skills to engage in quality and successful research,
• Prepare students for leading positions in industry and government Research and Development departments

Knowledge and skills

At the end of this program, the students in the «Materials Science and Engineering: Bio Inspired Materials master’s degree” will be able to:

● Prepare innovative bio inspired materials,
● Use surface and volume analytical techniques to achieve a sound command of materials characterization,
● Validate, interpret and model experimental results,
● Write a report and communicate appropriately with experts,
● Produce quality research,
● Carry out a research project.

Additional information

Scholarships

• Region Aquitaine Scholarships for non-EU students
• E2S Talents’ Academy Scholarships for all students
• EIFFEL Scholarship of Excellence
• Specific Master's scholarship

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