The "Composite Materials Engineering" educational program is about creating "supermaterials" that defy the laws of nature. Today, a composite engineer is a Composite Architect who combines the uncombinable to achieve the strength of steel with the weight of a feather. The objects of activity for our students include carbon-fiber aircraft fuselages, next-generation Kevlar protection, ultra-light Formula 1 car frames, and graphene structures that are changing the game in the aerospace and defense industries.
The goal of education is to turn you into a "designer of properties," capable of engineering hybrid structures for the most extreme conditions. We will teach you vacuum infusion technologies, nano-reinforcement methods, and computer simulation of internal stresses in laminated plastics. It is the perfect balance between high-level chemistry, applied physics, and advanced engineering. You will learn to create "smart" composites that sense loads and adapt to them, becoming the creator of the material foundation for the fourth industrial revolution.
Your superpower: In a world where every gram of weight costs thousands of dollars (such as in rocket building), you will possess Material Synergy and Structural Integrity — skills to create the most efficient structures on the planet. Your professional tech stack will include:
- Advanced Polymer Engineering: development of polymer matrices with specified thermal resistance and elasticity.
- Automated Fiber Placement (AFP): programming robots to lay up composite fibers into complex aircraft parts.
- Nondestructive Testing (NDT): mastery of ultrasonic and X-ray "vision" to detect internal flaws without destroying the product.
- Eco-Composites & Recycling: designing biodegradable and recyclable composites that save the planet's ecology.
Our graduates are key design engineers in aircraft manufacturing (Antonov, Boeing, Airbus), developers of world-class sports equipment, armor protection specialists, and leading experts in the production of wind turbines, where the ability to create light, strong, and everlasting structures is highly valued.
The objects of activity for Bachelor's students include technological processes for manufacturing products from polymer, metal, and ceramic composites; mechanical property testing methods, as well as mathematical modeling of heterogeneous media and designing tooling for additive manufacturing of composites.
Field of study: G Engineering, Manufacturing and Construction
Specialty: G8 Materials Science
Educational program: Composite Materials Engineering
Competitive offer: Composite Materials Engineering
Accreditation certificate: The educational program was introduced in 2026.
Faculty: Faculty of Rocket and Space Technology
Graduate department: Department of Composite Structures and Aviation Materials Science (403)
Availability of part-time study mode: none
Possibility of training foreign citizens: none