SCiMAN is an anual symposium organized by the Centro de Investigación en Ciencia e Ingeniería de Materiales (CICIMA), or the Materials Science and Engineering Research Center, belonging to the  Universidad de Costa Rica. It represents an effort to provide to the local and regional scientific and engineering community a place to share results obtained from the research activity in materials science and engineering as well as nanotechnology. Most of the presenters are scientists, engineers and students belonging to local universities or laboratories, although international speakers are also invited to attend. The topics usually covered by past symposia were, among others, hot topics like soft condensed matter, biomaterials, composites, nanostructured semiconductors, polymers, ferroelectrics, and graphene. Besides local public universities (Universidad de Costa Rica, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica), speakers from other international institutions are invited to give state-of-the-art lectures in different topics.