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Job Description
Evaluate materials and develop machinery and processes to manufacture materials for use in products that must meet specialized design and performance specifications. Develop new uses for known materials. Includes those engineers working with composite materials or specializing in one type of material, such as graphite, metal and metal alloys, ceramics and glass, plastics and polymers, and naturally occurring materials. Includes metallurgists and metallurgical engineers, ceramic engineers, and welding engineers.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 17-2131.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 97,050.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 46.00
- Currently, there are 26,800 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Materials Engineers”.
Also Known As…
- Materials Engineers
- Test Engineer
- Research Engineer
- Process Engineer
- Metallurgist
- Metallurgical Engineer
- Materials Research Engineer
- Materials Engineer
- Materials Development Engineer
- Materials Branch Chief
- Materials and Processes Manager
- Welding Engineer
- Testing Engineer
- Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE)
- Stress Engineer
- Smelting Engineer
- Refining Engineer
- Project Engineer
- Plating Engineer
- Plastics Engineer
- Physical Metallurgist
- Nanotechnologist
- Metallurgical Specialist
- Metallographer
- Material Analyst
- Green Building Materials Designer
- Glass Science Engineer
- Foundry Process Engineer
- Foundry Metallurgist
- Forensic Materials Engineer
- Failure Analysis Technician
- Extractive Metallurgist
- Design Engineer
- Corrosion Engineer
- Ceramics Test Engineer
- Ceramic Research Engineer
- Ceramic Design Engineer
- Automation Engineer
Tasks for “Metallurgist”
- Conduct or supervise tests on raw materials or finished products to ensure their quality.
- Plan and evaluate new projects, consulting with other engineers and corporate executives as necessary.
- Perform managerial functions, such as preparing proposals and budgets, analyzing labor costs, and writing reports.
- Supervise production and testing processes in industrial settings, such as metal refining facilities, smelting or foundry operations, or nonmetallic materials production operations.
- Plan and implement laboratory operations for the purpose of developing material and fabrication procedures that meet cost, product specification, and performance standards.
- Replicate the characteristics of materials and their components with computers.
- Design and direct the testing or control of processing procedures.
- Evaluate technical specifications and economic factors relating to process or product design objectives.
- Supervise the work of technologists, technicians, and other engineers and scientists.
- Monitor material performance and evaluate material deterioration.
- Design processing plants and equipment.
- Modify properties of metal alloys, using thermal and mechanical treatments.
- Analyze product failure data and laboratory test results to determine causes of problems and develop solutions.
- Review new product plans and make recommendations for material selection based on design objectives, such as strength, weight, heat resistance, electrical conductivity, and cost.
- Guide technical staff engaged in developing materials for specific uses in projected products or devices.
- Write for technical magazines, journals, and trade association publications.
- Solve problems in a number of engineering fields, such as mechanical, chemical, electrical, civil, nuclear, and aerospace.
- Teach in colleges and universities.
- Determine appropriate methods for fabricating and joining materials.
- Conduct training sessions on new material products, applications, or manufacturing methods for customers and their employees.
Related Technology & Tools
- Calorimeters
- Servohydraulic test machines
- Ultrasonic dismembrators
- Vacuum furnaces
- Injection molding machines
- Laboratory vacuum pumps
- Rod mills
- Digital cameras
- Safety gloves
- Safety glasses
- Slurry blenders
- Twin screw extruders
- Laboratory sample splitters
- Electrometers
- Friction and wear testers
- Accelerated weathering machines
- Isodynamic separators
- Lapping wheels
- Microwave tube furnaces
- Screw-driven test machines
- Benchtop centrifuges
- Oscillating water tunnels
- Etching equipment
- Cement mixers
- Gas detectors
- Drying ovens
- Specific gravity balances
- Turbidimeters
- Laboratory glove boxes
- Masonry cutters
- Rotating furnaces
- Microscope photo attachments
- Fiberscopes
- Solvent dryers
- Permeability measuring devices
- Current versus voltage IV curve tracers
- Band saws
- Computerized numerical control CNC lathes
- Adhesion testers
- Kneading compactors
- Accelerometers
- Stabilometers
- Hardness testers
- High tension separators
- Energy dispersive x-ray spectrometers EDS
- Diffractometers
- Attritors
- Melt spinners
- Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectroscopes
- Twin-screw extruders
- Sample presses
- Mass spectrometers
- Laboratory test sieves
- Film thickness measurement systems
- Electronic toploading balances
- Flotation columns
- Reflectometers
- Sonometers
- High temperature material testing systems
- Sanding machines
- Laboratory microwave ovens
- Tensile testers
- Ammeters
- Electron microprobe analyzers EMPA
- Water burets
- Gel permeation chromatographs GPC
- Micromanipulators
- Graphite element furnaces
- Porosity indicators
- Liquid conditioners
- High-vacuum tensile testing chambers
- Ball mills
- Gauss meters
- Laboratory blenders
- Jar mills
- Ultrasonicators
- Hot blenders
- Particle size analyzers
- Differential scanning calorimeters
- Deionizers
- Differential thermal analyzers
- Adiabatic bomb calorimeters
- Steam autoclaves
- Spectrophotometers
- Infrared cameras
- Optical compound microscopes
- Laser Doppler velocimeters LDV
- Filter presses
- High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
- Laminators
- Temperature regulated shaking water baths
- Laboratory pulverizers
- Wind tunnels
- Plasma-arc furnaces
- Microwave autoclaves
- Acoustic impediography equipment
- Mechanical sieve shakers
- Hydraulic presses
- Ultraviolet UV exposure units
- Microwave sintering furnaces
- Abrasion testers
- Heated walk-in environmental chambers
- Molecular pumps
- Infrared monitors
- X ray fluorescence XRF analyzers
- Balling drums
- Polishing machines
- Compression testing machines
- Extensometers
- Muffle furnaces
- Digitizing oscilloscopes
- Impact testers
- Dataloggers
- Stereo microscopes
- Charpy impact testers
- Magnetic susceptibility balances
- Drop weight impact towers
- Coordinate measuring machines CMM
- Water-cooled saws
- Freeze-thaw test units
- Jaw crushers
- Pit depth gauges
- Strain gauges
- Analytical balances
- pH testers
- Vacuum coating systems
- Computer numerical controlled CNC milling machines
- Tension gauges
- Solar simulators
- Load frames
- Solid state laser systems
- Thermal analysis systems
- Gyratory crushers
- Durometers
- Vacuum evaporators
- X ray fluorescence XRF spectrometers
- Inert atmosphere box furnaces
- Roll crushers
- Concrete test hammers
- Atomic absorption AA spectrophotometers
- Ultrasound inspection equipment
- Ultrasonic baths
- Binocular compound microscopes
- Optical emission spectrometers
- Pycnometers
- Holding jigs
- Atomic force microscopes
- Electrostatic separators
- Fume hoods
- Spectrometers
- Colorimeters
- Counter-current mixers
- Magnetic separators
- Linear variable differential transformers LVDT
- Tube furnaces
- Lathes
- Spectrocolorimeters
- Gas chromatographs GC
- Viscosity meters
- Scanning electron microscopes SEM
- Personal computers
- Thermogravimetric analyzers
- Flame photometers
- Vibration analysis equipment
- Polarizing microscopes
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Microsoft SharePoint
- National Instruments LabVIEW
- Formula translation/translator FORTRAN
- PTC Creo Parametric
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- C++
- SAP
- Graphics software
- Dassault Systemes CATIA
- Minitab
- Web browser software
- Stereolithography SLA rapid prototyping systems
- QMC CM4D
- IBM Notes
- Data entry software
- Microsoft Visual Basic.NET
- Image analysis systems
- Microsoft Word
- MTS Testworks
- Fused deposition modeling FDM rapid prototyping systems
- Digital image correlation DIC software
- Fault detection isolation and recovery FDIR software
- Word processing software
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- Presentation software
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office
- Computer aided design CAD software
- ANSYS Multiphysics
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Visio