Materials Engineers
Evaluate materials and develop machinery and processes to manufacture materials for use in products that must meet specialized design and performance specifications. Develop new uses for known materials. Includes those engineers working with composite materials or specializing in one type of material, such as graphite, metal and metal alloys, ceramics and glass, plastics and polymers, and naturally occurring materials. Includes metallurgists and metallurgical engineers, ceramic engineers, and welding engineers.
Also called: Materials Engineer, Materials Research Engineer, Metallurgist, Process Engineer
Knowledge:
Engineering and Technology
- product and service development
- computers and electronics
- chemistry
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
Manufactured or Agricultural Goods
- manufacture and distribution of products
Skills:
- reading work related information
- thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
Abilites:
- listen and understand what people say
- read and understand what is written
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- notice when problems happen
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
- add, subtract, multiply, or divide
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.
They do well at jobs that need
- Analytical Thinking
- Integrity
- Attention to Detail
- Initiative
- Dependability
- Achievement/Effort
Technology:
Analytical or scientific software
- Minitab
- The MathWorks MATLAB
Development environment software
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- National Instruments LabVIEW
Computer aided design CAD software
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Dassault Systemes SOLIDWORKS
