The following are brief summaries of what we found. The school participates in the manufacturing systems and engineering and the practice-oriented manufacturing engineering master's degree programs, which encourage close industrial interaction. Nearly all of the graduate students are supported by graduate research associateships or industrial fellowships. The Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department offers M.S. degrees in engineering and metallurgical engineering and Ph.D. degrees in metallurgical engineering. An interdisciplinary Ph.D. degree in materials science is also offered.
Machinists are available for construction of highly specialized equipment.
The Metals and Materials Engineering Department offers courses in casting and solidification of metals, ceramic processes and properties, corrosion, fiber composites, hydrometallurgy and electrorefining, physical metallurgy, pyrometallurgy, remelting processes, thermomechanical processing, and environmental processing. The Mining and Mineral Process Engineering Department offers courses in the fields of mining and mineral processing, including coal preparation. Engineer degrees that may be obtained with specialization in metal, ceramic, polymeric, or electronic materials. Specific areas of concentration include biomaterials, ceramics, corrosion, diffusion, glasses, mechanical behavior, quantitative microscopy, mineral processing, reaction kinetics in the solid state, structural analysis, composites, compound semiconductors, optoelectronic materials, integrated circuit materials, and high-temperature superconductors. The Department of Materials Science and Engineering offers M.S. or Ph.D. degrees.