Exploring the Field of Metallurgical Materials Engineering
The success of modern technologies is dependent on the availability of a variety of materials. Materials scientists and engineers design new materials with specific physical properties to serve engineering functions such as energy production, construction and protection, transportation, biomedical applications, and electronics. This field of engineering combines expertise in science fields like physics and chemistry with engineering techniques to develop, produce, and test new materials for technological use. The metallurgical field of materials science and engineering includes extracting minerals from their natural sources, making refined metal products, designing processes to make these materials in an environmentally responsible manner, and testing the performance of these advanced materials. This interdisciplinary field of study merges with other disciplines like glass and ceramic technology, mineralogy, inorganic and solid-state chemistry, and polymer science to encompass all stru...