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Job Description
Research and study the structures and chemical properties of various natural and synthetic or composite materials, including metals, alloys, rubber, ceramics, semiconductors, polymers, and glass. Determine ways to strengthen or combine materials or develop new materials with new or specific properties for use in a variety of products and applications. Includes glass scientists, ceramic scientists, metallurgical scientists, and polymer scientists.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 19-2032.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 101,570.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 48.00
- Currently, there are 7,750 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Materials Scientists”.
Also Known As…
- Materials Scientists
- Vice President Research
- Technology Officer
- Staff Scientist
- Staff Research Scientist
- Senior Materials Scientist
- Research Scientist
- Research and Development Scientist (R and D Scientist)
- Micro Electrical/Mechanical Systems Device Scientist (MEMS Device Scientist)
- Materials Scientist
- Polymer Specialist
- Polymer Materials Consultant
- Plastics Scientist
- Nanotechnologist
- Metal Alloy Scientist
- Accelerator Systems Director
Tasks for “Polymer Materials Consultant”
- Prepare reports, manuscripts, proposals, and technical manuals for use by other scientists and requestors, such as sponsors and customers.
- Test individual parts and products to ensure that manufacturer and governmental quality and safety standards are met.
- Devise testing methods to evaluate the effects of various conditions on particular materials.
- Recommend materials for reliable performance in various environments.
- Supervise and monitor production processes to ensure efficient use of equipment, timely changes to specifications, and project completion within time frame and budget.
- Research methods of processing, forming, and firing materials to develop such products as ceramic dental fillings, unbreakable dinner plates, and telescope lenses.
- Determine ways to strengthen or combine materials or develop new materials with new or specific properties for use in a variety of products and applications.
- Visit suppliers of materials or users of products to gather specific information.
- Plan laboratory experiments to confirm feasibility of processes and techniques used in the production of materials having special characteristics.
- Perform experiments and computer modeling to study the nature, structure, and physical and chemical properties of metals and their alloys, and their responses to applied forces.
- Test material samples for tolerance under tension, compression, and shear to determine the cause of metal failures.
- Conduct research on the structures and properties of materials, such as metals, alloys, polymers, and ceramics, to obtain information that could be used to develop new products or enhance existing ones.
- Teach in colleges and universities.
- Confer with customers to determine how to tailor materials to their needs.
- Test metals to determine conformance to specifications of mechanical strength, strength-weight ratio, ductility, magnetic and electrical properties, and resistance to abrasion, corrosion, heat, and cold.
Related Technology & Tools
- Pore sizers
- Screw injection molding machines
- Scanning Kelvin probes
- Contact angle goniometers
- Optical profilometers
- Ultrasonic analyzers
- Muffle furnaces
- Microcalorimeters
- Gamma ray spectrometers
- Safety glasses
- Swaging tools
- Scanning probe microscopes SPM
- Interferometric microscopes
- Shaker ball mills
- Nanoscope atomic force microscopes
- Multisample autoclaves
- Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectrometers
- Diamond wafering saws
- Semiautomatic grinders
- Hot isostatic presses
- Rotational viscometers
- Tube furnaces
- Mossbauer spectroscopes
- Box furnaces
- Charge-coupled device CCD cameras
- Safety goggles
- Metal evaporation chambers
- Annealing ovens
- Fume hoods
- Field emission scanning electron microscopes
- Electrode furnaces
- Extruding machines
- Secondary ion mass spectrometers SIMS
- Ultra microbalances
- Freeze dryers
- Servohydraulic test machines
- Imaging ellipsometers
- Accelerometers
- Ellipsometers
- Tape casters
- Peltier cooled solid-state detectors
- Backscatter detectors
- Macrohardness testers
- Potentiostats
- Cold isostatic presses
- Capillary rheometers
- Computerized numerical control CNC machining centers
- Ball-on-disk tribometers
- Stylus profilometers
- High-vacuum manifolds
- Sedigraphs
- Salt spray chambers
- Titanium autoclaves
- Induction furnaces
- Laser interferometers
- Quartz crystal microbalances
- Blungers
- Load cells
- Static actuators
- Semi-microbalances
- Ultra high temperature furnaces
- Theta-theta diffractometers
- Manual grinders
- Stereo microscopes
- Thermal gravimetric analyzers
- High vacuum evaporation systems
- Raman scattering spectroscopes
- UV exposure chambers
- Scanning electron microscopes SEM
- Laptop computers
- Dynamic actuators
- Ultrasonic cleaners
- Transmission electron microscopes TEM
- Programmable logic controllers PLC
- Atomic absorption AA spectroscopes
- Gas chromatograph mass spectrometers GC-MS
- Ion analyzers
- Electrolytic etching machines
- Digital oscilloscopes
- Scratch testers
- Sonic modulus testers
- Microscope digital cameras
- Impact testers
- Sputter deposition systems
- High-speed cutoff saws
- Laboratory water purification systems
- Differential scanning calorimeters
- Optical compound microscopes
- Pulverizers
- Profilometers
- Petrographic microscopes
- Hot mounting presses
- Grinding spindles
- Auger electron spectrometers
- Neutron reflectometers
- Linear variable differential transformers LVDT
- X ray diffractometers
- Thermal spray torches
- Spectrofluorimeters
- Reactive ion etchers RIE
- Plate viscometers
- Dynamic light scattering equipment
- Slurry abrasion testers
- Scanning tunneling microscopes STM
- Hydraulic presses
- Spectrophotometers
- Ultraprecision lathes
- Capacitance manometers
- Laboratory analytical balances
- Creep testing equipment
- Nitrogen furnaces
- Dilatometers
- Dielectric spectrometers
- Quartz crystal thickness monitors
- Plasma arc melting furnaces
- Crystal growers
- Atomic force microscopes
- Spectrum analyzers
- Cone viscometers
- Dynamic mechanical analyzers DMA
- Vibratory polishers
- Mobile mass spectrometers
- Horizontal tube furnaces
- Injection molding machines
- Personal computers
- Double push rod dilatometers
- Function generators
- Vibrating sample magnetometers
- Desktop computers
- Glove box systems
- Industrial computed tomography CT scanners
- Erosion testers
- Differential thermal analyzers
- Ball mills
- Metallographic microscopes
- X ray generators
- Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers ICP-MS
- ESM Software CrystalMaker
- Bruker AXS EVA
- VAMP/VASP
- Web browser software
- General Structural Analysis System GSAS
- Advanced Chemistry Development Analytical Laboratory
- Dassault Systemes Abaqus
- Bruker AXS TOPAS
- Maplesoft Maple
- Accelrys Materials Studio
- Materials Data Incorporated Jade
- Email software
- RIETAN
- Microsoft Excel
- National Instruments LabVIEW
- Bruker AXS LEPTOS
- GAMESS-US
- ANSYS Multiphysics
- Stewart Computational Chemistry MOPAC
- Multichannel microelectrode analyzer MMA software
- Wolfram Research Mathematica
- International Centre for Diffraction Data ICDD DDView
- R
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Olympus Image Analysis
- PANalytical X'Pert Data Collector
- Microsoft Word
- ANSYS LS-DYNA
- SolidWorks COSMOSWorks
- Chempute Software HSC Chemistry
- PWscf
- PANalytical X'Pert Epitaxy
- Microsoft PowerPoint