Materials engineers combine a solid fundamental knowledge of the structure and properties of materials with a creative spark and all the engineering skills necessary to create new materials and improve those that already exist.
They work with any type of material: metals, ceramics, polymers and composites. As you have read in our welcome page, in our department we deal with all of them and use them to make coatings for airplanes, prosthetics for bone replacement, nano-sized sensors, and much more.
Our Bachelor of Engineering program is a Co-op program, which means that students work for up to 12 months in an industry, and complement their study in the classrooms with applied research. Students in our program have been employed by companies such as the following during co-op and upon graduation: ArcelorMittal, Bombardier, Canadian Space Agency, GE, Hatch, National Research Council, Natural Resources Canada, Novelis, Pratt and Whitney Canada, Rio Tinto, Teck, Vale Inco and Xstrata. For general information about the materials engineering field, click here. Students may also participate in the SURE program and do summer research in one of our research labs.
Financial support is available for our undergrad students. For more information, please click here.
Finally, our department has the lowest student-to-professor ratio within the Faculty of Engineering and a world class research program with more than 100 graduate students supported by state-of-the-art laboratory equipment. But since life is not only work, we often organize extra-curricular activities just to have fun! Keep looking around on this website for more information, and come visit us in person in the Wong building.
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