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I. Gebeshuber, M. Roy (ed.):
"Advanced Materials Engineering: Selected Papers from the Indo-Austrian Symposium 2010";
SAGE Publishing, London, 2012, ISSN: 0954-4062; 103 pages.

http://pic.sagepub.com/content/226/2/299.full.pdf

Advanced Materials Engineering is a highly multidisciplinary field that offers exiting opportunities for engineers, physicists, chemists, materials scientists, applied mathematicians as well as researchers from the life sciences. Materials of a quality and functionality unheard of just a few decades ago can now be calculated, synthesised, produced, characterised and tailored. Designed materials such as functional micro- and nanostructures, hierarchical materials and integrated materials are made from metals, ceramics, polymeric materials, and combinations of these in form of structured or unstructured composites.
In the field of Engineering Science, Advanced Materials Engineering has made significant progress in recent years. Once a kind of "black art", Advanced Materials Engineering nowadays allows application of causal knowledge and the understanding of structure-function relationships over various levels of hierarchy in the development of new materials for our technology. To a certain degree the understanding of complex materials, structures and processes as used by living nature has been achieved, and a regular transfer of knowledge from biology to engineering becomes a realistic scenario [1,2,3]. The current materials engineer is a person with broad knowledge and interest, and the ability to bridge gaps across fields and applications.
The Nonferrous Materials Technology Development Centre (NFTDC) in Hyderabad, India has close relations to research centres and universities in Austria, especially in the area of materials science and engineering, and in tribology. There are joint projects and active exchange of students and researchers. In December 2010, NFTDC organised the two-day "Indo-Austrian Symposium on Advanced Materials Engineering", with Krishnamurty Balasubramanian as chairman, Andreas Pauschitz as co-chairman and Manish Roy as convener.