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PhatZounds · 1 month

From another thread, abridged:

I graduated 2 years ago with a BS/MS in Materials Science & Engineering.

Fundamentally, materials scientists/engineers work to understand the relationship between structure and properties in solids. As uperclassmen, MSEs generally lean towards an intended specialty, such as metallurgy, ceramics, polymers, composites, biomaterials, or semiconductors. Most materials engineers work in large companies, doing things related to research and development, including:

-Assist mechanical engineers by selecting materials, coatings, and heat treatments for new parts

-Perform failure analysis (this broke in the field or during our durability test; can you tell us why?)

-Answer general questions about materials (what chemicals are compatible with what chemicals?)

-Make sure the materials selected by your company comply with environmental regulations

toastie · 2 months

Is this a picture you were given, or is it a sample you etched? If it's something you etched, what did you etch it with?

thatguy847 · 4 months

I graduated 2 years ago with a BS/MS in Materials Science & Engineering.

Fundamentally, materials scientists/engineers work to understand the relationship between structure and properties in solids. As uperclassmen, MSEs generally lean towards an intended specialty, such as metallurgy, ceramics, polymers, composites, biomaterials, or semiconductors. Most materials engineers work in large companies, doing things related to research and development, including:

Assist mechanical engineers by selecting materials, coatings, and heat treatments for new parts
Perform failure analysis (this broke in the field or during our durability test; can you tell us why?)
Answer general questions about materials (what chemicals are compatible with what chemicals?)
Make sure the materials selected by your company comply with environmental regulations

Materials science is a good field if any of the following apply to you:

You like Physics and Chemistry (math is not highly important to MSE at the undergraduate level, but depending on if you go to grad school, etc, MSE can have some very challenging math associated with it)
You aspire to go to grad school (absolutely not required, but MSE is a better bachelors degree to go to grad school with than say, mechanical)
You find yourself generally interested in what things are other than answers like "metal" or "steel" or "ceramic"

I am not a PhD, so I can't really speak first-hand to what a PhD materials scientist does, but I spent some time assisting PhD students in a research lab. To overgeneralize a bit, it's a lot of looking extremely closely at the structure-property relationships for an extremely small subset of materials of your choosing.

megoleynik · 5 months

I agree with what everybody else is saying to an extent - having internship experience is very important for getting hired when you first get out of college (also for networking, as others have pointed out). But saying that it's an important experience is a little bit misleading. From personal experience and what I've gathered from many friends and colleagues, internships are a crapshoot. Some people learn a lot about their profession, but many (in my opinion, a majority) sit at a desk and try to look busy.

The typical scenario is this: everyone is very busy, but you don't have enough knowledge/responsibility to help out. No one has time to deal with you, so you kind of get passed around among the department. This happened in my post-sophomore summer internship, and it's a story I heard from many others. A few did have good internships (where they were actually given real work to do and/or learned a lot), but that did not appear to be the norm. I graduated a few years ago, and I've been working in industry since. I now see that the company I work for (which is not the company I interned for) has the exact same problem.

Let me reiterate, you do need to find an internship, because it will help your resume` tremendously, but it's not like you are that much worse off skill-wise if you don't have one. It's just that everybody expects you to have one. Also, it's of paramount importance that you are able to talk about your internship and what you learned in your first round of job interviews.

pricklypete · 5 months

I can't believe it. This is unreal: Victor Martinez in catcher's gear?

Bornhuetter · 5 months

Welp

Zanizelli · 6 months

I have asked people this before and been scolded, so thank you. Deep down, I knew it was true.

AParanoidEmu · 9 months

Materials Science

CatholicGuy · 9 months

Where can I find statistics like this?

r2002 · 9 months

I thought she was Britta for a second :(

hyperforce · 10 months

Because the top post in AskReddit is about this subreddit

cizzop · 10 months

Every time it comes on, I say "WE ARE!" in sync with him.

Raidenbobalay · 10 months

This would only work in very dry areas. Having to potentially reschedule 2 games from one day due to a rainout would be very difficult.

gsamov2 · 10 months

Materials Engineer here. For me, it's online databases like the ASM handbook rather than google. I know a lot about the most common materials I get questions for, but if I need to know how the temperature resistance of EPDM rubber compares with silicone rubber, I can't just google it.

If a mechanical engineer asks me a materials question, chances are they've already googled it unsuccessfully. Occasionally, I'll come across something by doing a web search, but it's not like what you're implying.

It's hard to describe how you use your education at work, but you do. The most important things I learned were the basic principles of materials science (stuff from the first 2 materials classes) and how to handle stress/complex problems/groups in all the other classes (but not so much the actual content of all the other classes). If I had just read the ASM handbooks and not gone to college, I wouldn't have come out of school with at least some experience solving real problems.

mightychicken · 10 months

Thanks!

notBrit · 11 months

One time I asked a bank robber and turns out he's a redditor! [pic-from-that-day]

9Mile · 11 months

Al is still relatively inexperienced in the major leagues, so I think Leyland would prefer putting him in "easier" situations until Leyland gains more confidence in him.
The 8th inning isn't always the most important situation to use a good reliever. What if the starter puts 2 runners on in the 6th and has to come out (and let's say the tigers are up by 2)? You want one of your best relievers to come in.
Sometimes Al is asked to throw 2 or more innings in one game (most of our relievers can't do that well), so he isn't available to pitch at all on some nights
Joaquin Benoit has been good (not great) as our 8th inning guy, so he will probably stay in that role unless he has a really bad stretch.

Down the stretch I think you'll see Al settle into a 7th inning set-up role.

mightychicken

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