材料 & Metallurgical Engineering

椅子: Dr. P. Fuierer

的re are approximately 40 undergraduate and 30 graduate students in the program.

材料 Engineering is the development, analysis and implementation of speciality materials (metals, polymers, ceramics, etc.) Examples include the epoxy composites of the Boeing Dreamliner, the metal alloy used in GE's 3D printed LEAP jet engine; and the ultrathin glasses used in all cell phones.

材料 Engineers invent new materials, improve existing materials, develop manufacturing techniques for materials, analyze materials properties and determine what causes materials to 失败.  If it weren't for us, your cars and computers would be made out of rocks and 棒.

材料 Engineering is a research and design driven program. Our undergraduate students make important contributions to the department's research effort by working on projects with professors. Student research frequently results in publications in professional journals or presentations at conferences.

材料 Engineering contributes to the benefits from advances in many fields including chemistry, condensed matter physics, molecular biology, mathematics, computer science and related engineering disciplines. 

Nearly half of the graduates from 材料 Engineering continue to graduate school. Some enter our combined BS/MS program while others directly enter doctoral programs at top-ranked universities across the country (examples include Purdue, Stanford, Berkeley, and Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). 的 other half of our graduates find employment with industry (examples include Intel, Lockheed-Martin and Boeing) and national / government labs (examples include Sandia, Los Alamos and NavAir).

的 材料 Engineering program at New Mexico Tech offers the Bachelor of Science (BS), the Master of Science (MS), the Master of Engineeing, (ME) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees.

历史:  Metallurgy was one of the first courses offered at New Mexico School of Mines when the doors officially opened in 1893.  的 school was founded to support the local mining industry.  的 original emphasis of metallurgy was on extractive metallurgy, the science of winning the metal from the ore.  Later metallurgy 扩大ed to encompass physical metallurgy, the science of alloying, thermal-mechanical processing, and strengthening. 的金属.  In the 1990's the decision was made to depart from extractive metallurgy, and broaden into other engineering materials, including polymers, ceramics, composites, and electronic materials.  的 catalog abbreviation for the courses has evolved from MET, to MAT, to METE and MATE, and is currently, MTLS.