Introduction
The need for the development of Science and Engineering is a long-term struggle for the humanity in order to improve the life and conditions i.e. well being for the better future for all living subjects. It is almost an obligatory duty for all to fulfill the desire and curiosity as to learn and apply for the matter of technology which is a collective title for the result of advancing science and its application put into the use of humanity.
Technology was and is the only means of advancement in carving through science and climbing up the ladders of perfection to a complete knowledge driven community. Applied sciences bases itself in the heart of student or scholars who has the affinity for knowledge; where there is no desire for such there will be no advancement in driving force in related scientific community. In the mean time, science evolves and adapts itself into the necessity from interacting subjects i.e. humans, particularly the ones applying science into practice that is industry.
One of the most technologically advanced subjects is the materials science and its applied branch, Materials Engineering in addition to Metallurgy, being the oldest technological profession on earth, which changed the destitute of living beings. However, being a driving force and engulfing the variety of basics and applied sciences together, Materials Science and Engineering is in decline in preference to newly spiked professions which also utilize its products. This is not the indication of contempt in those branches of science and technology but it is the finding a new role in Materials Science and Engineering in newly reforming or reshuffling scientific medium. As previously said, where there is no desire, there will be no well paced advancement but rather ill paced and slow growth tends to be observed.
In order to maintain the interest and further research in Materials Science and Engineering field, and to reveal its potential in developing scientific world, a step forward is a must in this field, by either sustain existing interesting features of materials science and engineering or speak of its broadness in the development of almost all technological branches.
“Materials Science Ma(s)ters – developing a new master’s degree program” is a project co-funded by the European Union within the scope of Erasmus + program KA220 HED and is a collaboration between the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland), the University of Zilina in Zilina (Slovakia), Afyon Kocatepe University in Afyonkarahisar (Turkey) and Ivan Franko National University of Lviv in Lviv (Ukraine). The goal of this initiative is to develop an industrial-oriented a materials engineering master’s program. As a requirement of this project, ideas are taken from businesses and institutions of different sizes about the lessons to be offered and the topics to be covered.
The Aim
Awareness of the growing relationship between education and the labor market requires educational activities to shape students’ competencies as closely correlated with the labor market requirements. In order to prepare students to compete in the labor market, it is necessary to know the expectations of employers in the scope of the relevant competencies of potential job candidates. Materials Science and Engineering graduates are able to work in many sectors when it comes to manufacturing in the broadest sense.
Thus, this project section, “The market and science environment needs analysis” was aiming to identify knowledge and skills desired by employers and students’ expectations as well as reveal the problems relating to the gap between the expectations and the actual state. In order to meet the project requirements, the ideas/opinions in the form of surveys were collected from students, companies, and institutions of different sizes about problems in the education of Materials Science and Engineering. The identified problems and sources of differences will find their complement in the form of prospective topics/modules that will be offered in the newly developed master’s program.
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