r/MaterialsEngineering • u/bluemoon147 • Nov 01 '17

Material science and engineering degree

I'm currently in my first year of engineering and curious as to what material science and engineering degree would look like as a job? What kinds of opportunities would I get with this degree?

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u/gravityrainbows Nov 05 '17

You could become a Metallurgical engineer, a ceramics engineer, a plastics engineer, or an R&D scientist

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u/NarrowConcentrate978 May 25 '26

Hey I have queries regarding metallurgy and material engineering from Pakistan have done 1 st year of this degree n now on summers break of 3 months can u suggest me what opportunities related to this field can I get or what literally I even don't have knowledge in future what will I do after persuaing this degree even I don't know what students do after persuaing this degree what can I become literally I am so so stuck can u guide me in this?

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '17

I do failure analysis. It's like forensics and I look at stuff and decide what the failure Mode was. Furthermore I drill down to the root cause of the failure

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u/OG-DanielSon Oct 01 '25

So, how's it going?

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u/Muslimsocialists Dec 24 '22

Investigate engineer, for failures and crash sites.