Metallurgical Engineering Schools

University of Alabama

• The Metallurgical and Materials Engineering department at the University of Alabama offers a master's and doctoral degree in metallurgical engineering. The master's degree has a thesis or a non-thesis option, and students must complete research and academic work in both programs. Research opportunities are available in chemical metallurgy, corrosion phenomena, micromechanical behavior in solidification and micromechanical behavior in cast materials. The PhD. program is affiliated with the University of Alabama, Birmingham and takes at least three years to complete. The program is divided into three areas: structure and properties, thermodynamics and processing, and characterization and testing.

  University of Alabama
  739 University Blvd.
  Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
  205-348-6010
  ua.edu

University of Montana

• The University of Montana's metallurgical engineering program teaches students to process metals, produce products, separate minerals, create materials and purify metals from ores. The 136-credit bachelor's degree program offers specializations in mineral processing, welding, materials science, physical metallurgical engineering and extractive metallurgical engineering. These specializations require students to take core metallurgical engineering courses in electrical circuits, mass transfer, fundamentals of materials, professional engineering and polymeric materials.

  The University of Montana
  1300 W. Park St.
  Butte, MT 59701
  406-496-4158
  mtech.edu

Colorado School of Mines

• The Colorado School of Mines offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in metallurgical and materials engineering. The undergraduate program combines academic and laboratory work and focuses on the properties, structures and performance of materials. The laboratory portion of the bachelor's degree program teaches students about the forming and testing of ceramic materials, welding and joining, foundry science and optical microscopy and image analysis. The graduate program offers both master's and doctoral degrees in the field. The master's degree is 24 hours in length and requires students to complete an original scientific research project. The doctoral degree program is 42 hours in length, and students must pass an oral and written examination and successfully defend a thesis in front of a committee. Both the master's and doctoral degrees offer specializations in physical and mechanical metallurgy, ceramic engineering and physico-chemical processing materials.

  Colorado School of Mines
  1500 Illinois St.
  Golden, CO 80401
  303-273-3000
  mines.edu