What's metallurgical and materials engineering?

Answer 1

Metallurgy is the science of metals and metallurgical engineering includes every aspect of metals, from how they are dug out of the ground, converted to metallic form, melt, cast, forge, roll, draw, extrude, made into powder, strengthened, softened, tested, analyzed, how they behave when you stretch them, squeeze them, subject them to high temperature, low temperature, acids, bases, sea water.

Most of the elements on the periodic table are metals.

Materials engineering is similar but it covers plastics and ceramics.

It is all quite fascinating if you happen to be interested in it.

Answer 2

I hear so many cool things about materials science and metallurgical engineering. You get to learn all sorts of things about how materials behave and react, and the lab work, from what I understand, is fascinating and FUN.

Answer 3

The ones I know work in semiconductor factories. They figure out how to change and modify materials in specific ways to get whatever they want out of the material.

Metallurgists specifically work with metals including creating different flavors of metals for different purposes. The ones I know work very hard to make metals that should not stick together do so by controlling the reaction very closely.

On the materials side, the once Ive know designed processes to create semiconductor materials that 10 year old physics said should/could not exist in order to make lasers for telecom. Similar research and technology is used to make different colored LEDs and insanely fast (45 Ghz) transistors.

Overall, it is very tedious, and requires a lot of memorization and a very deep knowledge of chemistry and particle physics (which on a certain level are actually the same thing), and to be good at it in industry you need to be able to take that knowledge and think outside the box. It is def not for everyone, but for a person with the right interests and personality it is a very interesting (and profitable) career. For everyone else, they become lab techs in factories.

Answer 4

It is not fun. I was once a materials science engineer major, but lucky I changed to mechanical engineering after I took a few materials classes.

You analyze different types of materials,mixtures of different materials, their strength due to different elements addes, their chemistry make up, their lattice structures, different lattices due to different temperatures and so on. It may sound fun for the average person, but once you start studying it, it gets very boring in my opinion.

Answer 5

the study of materials (metal/plastic/wood ect...) they test material properties and for material defects. they usally work in a steel mill or do (non)destructive testing (inspecting welds in pipelines/buildings ect.)

Answer 6

type career as metallurgist at yahoo search hopefully you will answers there.