Does Anyone Here Do Materials Engineering?
As you know I am always on the hunt for great posts on Mechanical Engineering, understanding that a Mechanical Engineering is
necessary for the knowledge.
I discovered a really excellent article that talks about Mechanical Engineering from a different light. Make sure you go over this article and let me know what you think. Today’s article is titled title and you can find the entire article published below for convenience:
What is materials engineering? What does the job entail? Is it a lucrative career now? Is there any cool jobs out there for this?
Plus, I would like to learn how to make gadgets like Luscious Fox in the Batman movies and some other zany contraptions, like cool comic book costumes and accessories
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Material science is interested in how to optimize the properties of materials for a particular application. Hardness, tensile strength, elasticity, creep, conductivity. Crystal structure and grain boundaries
You will find them altering the recipe for metal alloys, plastics, composites and in semiconductors manufacture.
Its a bit more specialized and so tends to pay more. The caveat being there are less positions to fill.
Less about the contraption more about the material.
Machine design is in the domain of the Mechanical Engineer.
Mechanical engineering is the subject that deals with ‘gadgets’. However, something like reactive body armor would be more in the realm of materials engineering.
As a materials engineer, you would learn about the molecular, atomic, and possibly subatomic features that determine a material’s properties. For example, why is steel stiffer than aluminum? Why is aluminum a better conductor of heat than steel? Why does cornstarch and water form a non-Newtonian fluid? These are the kinds of things you would learn about as a materials engineer (though there’s far more to it than that).
Mechanical engineering, on the other hand, is more about taking existing materials and figuring out how to assemble them into strong, light, and cheap mechanisms.
i would recommend you go chemical engineering instead,