Study environment

It is a nice and exciting experience from start to finish, both professionally and socially. A lot of social arrangements take place during your first weeks as a student. This will help you to get acquainted with your fellow students, the study program, the teaching staff, your institute and faculty, the city of Trondheim, and so on. These arrangements are organized either by the International Section at NTNU or by the student fraternities. As a student of Light Metals Production you are affiliated to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and its Inorganic Chemistry section, so that you really have two student fraternities to frequent.

Høiskolens Chemikerforening is the fraternity of the chemistry students, and De Høylegerte the fraternity of the materials technology students.

Both fraternities take good care of parts of your social life through various arrangements (parties, sports, excursions, etc.) and also organize industry meetings. And last, but not least, the approximately 50/50 mix of female and male students at both chemistry and materials technology also ensures an excellent study environment.

Teaching
At NTNU we teach our courses through lectures, exercises and project assignments. However, since you are one of the selected few students at the Light Metals Production programme, teaching will be more of a continuous conversation with your teachers, both when theory is presented and during exercises and laboratory courses. Project assignments are closely connected to current research projects in our research groups. Many project and thesis assignments are carried out in cooperation with leading industrial companies in Norway. This way of learning gives a thorough theoretical understanding and excellent insight into practical and industrial applications of your curriculum.

You will perform all your project assignments in our research laboratories guided by our scientific staff and the technical personnel of our Department. Our research laboratories are well equipped for all kinds of experimental work and we also have modern analytical instruments for characterization of chemical and physical properties of materials.

Our MSc students are placed together in open-plan offices in our newly renovated laboratory building. This provides a good working environment and close contact with other students. You will have access to modern equipment in auditoriums and offices, and we have an outstanding science library.