Getting into metallurgy...
Getting into metallurgy...
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This may be the wrong forum for this question, but I figure I would get more responses from the more appropriate persons on the matter. I just got my cwi and Im really Really interested in the metallurgy science side of the whole thing. Im not ready to start my move tomorrow or the next day, but over the next year or two I would like to be headed in that direction. I have asked a few local people here at the plant im working, and they tell me Engineering school... Well I'm not interested in going to school for 4-6 years either. I'm extremely busy and I don't have the time to do the full time schooling. What should I look into?





RE: Getting into metallurgy...
One thing that might be an issue with working on a degree is the amount of non-metallurgy class work. Calculus, chemistry (including physical chem), thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid dynamics. After all a metallurgy (or materials science) degree is 40% Mech Eng, 30% Chem Eng, and 30% materials.
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that may be of interest.
Bear in mind, however, that a lot of the material may be rather advanced or complicated. Metallurgy can be even more confusing because much of the "Art" was descovered before the "Science" was understood, so a lot of the terminology is not as straightforward as other disciplines. If fact, it can be downright contra-intuitive. Engineering school is a bear, but it will give you the best background if you really want to understand the science.
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RE: Getting into metallurgy...
I would also recommend membership in the ASM.
RE: Getting into metallurgy...
RE: Getting into metallurgy...
The courses go into the theory about as deep as you can go without getting into the physical sciences.
Due to the amount and completeness of the material presented in some courses I don't believe that you can absorb the information available in a course in one week.
RE: Getting into metallurgy...
Have to decide how deep into metallurgy you want to get (for yourself), and what recognition you want for it. I have to speak with freshmen ENGR students next week - my final slide "what do you want? are you willing to do what is necessary to get it?"...
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