Description
The Master in Textile Engineering (MET) results from the need to complement the design, development and production of textile products skills of graduates. Organized in two areas of specialization, Advanced Materials and Technologies and Functional Materials and Finishing, it aims the improvement of specific skills from emerging domains in the area of Textile Science and Technology. With a flexible and multidisciplinary curriculum, integrating a set of elective curricular units, specific and transversal to both specializations, which incorporate the knowledge resulting from the research developed within the scope of the Center for Textile
Science and Technology and the Center for Algorithms, it will provide the graduates advanced knowledge and they will develop their skills with motivation, thus fulfilling the companies’ needs, mainly in the textile area, promoting innovation and development.
Access to higher education
This course gives the technical-scientific ability to access Doctoral degree courses.
Careers
The Textile and Clothing Industry, in its many aspects, is the privileged employability sector of the course. The main employers are companies in the area of most conventional textiles (eg home and home textiles) and technical textiles (eg ropes, airbag and tire fabrics, geotextiles, composite reinforcement, protective clothing, hygiene, etc.). The profile of the masters also allows the insertion in the labor market in important areas complementary to the industrial sector, such as the distribution, manufacturers / representatives of textile machines, textile fibers, dyes and auxiliary products, consultancy, research. and development, laboratories, training and research.
