Materials Engineering always struck me as something very interesting. Are there many big employers in this space nowadays? How does one break into the field?
I work in the Steel industry doing process metallurgy work. A lot of people I graduated with ended up similar places (Mining industry, Copper/Aluminum Smelters etc). I know a few people who got involved with Non-Destructive testing (NDT) industry and places like that. I know one person who ended up in Nuclear sector.
At the time I was studying nanotechnology was the projected next big thing in materials science but that industry never really took off like people were expecting it to (there was certainly no nanotech jobs boom like people were projecting). I was personally interested in electrochemistry, battery technology etc but I was about 10 years too early for the Renewables/EV boom, so timing wasn't really right.
I think nowadays Hydrogen energy sector and Renewables more broadly are the big growth areas.
Metallurgy for the steel industry sounds like a cool experience. If its not too much of an ask, can you talk a little more about what kind of stuff you do for it? Daily tasks, favourite recent projects, etc?
