Materials engineering
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$142,431
Average salary (Genium360)
4 years
Duration of the bachelor’s degree in materials engineering
90%
Of everyday objects come from metals and minerals
They’re everywhere around you
Materials engineering is the science behind your phone, your car, the walls of your home: it’s the science behind all of it.
Ultra-lightweight wheelchairs
Thanks to advanced materials: lighter, stronger, freer.
Materials that don’t exist yet
Recyclable plastics, advanced ceramics, composites: the materials of the future are created here.
What you will actually do
As a materials engineer, you’ll develop and optimize the materials that make up the industrial world.
- Study and improve methods for processing ores to extract metals.
- Coordinate the stages of metal production and refining, including smelting and foundry operations.
- Analyze and improve manufacturing processes to reduce costs and environmental impact.
- Create new materials (plastics, ceramics, powders) that will have new properties once recycled.
- Develop recycling or disposal processes that comply with environmental standards.
Source: REPÈRES, the official school and career information website (in French)
Where do you see yourself?
Materials engineers work in sectors as varied as aerospace, the mining industry, and research.
- Engineering consulting firms
- Metals sector
- Composites sector
- Aerospace sector
- Railway industry
- Industrial machinery manufacturing plants
- Universities and higher-education institutions
- Federal and provincial government
- Steel industry
- Copper rolling, molding, and extrusion industry
- Mining and quarrying industry
- Testing and analysis laboratories
DOZENS OF METALS IN YOUR POCKET
Gold, lithium, cobalt: welcome to your phone.
Every phone is a concentration of materials engineering. Engineers determine which materials to use, how to process them, and how to recycle them.
40 metals
In your phone alone
FEWER GHGs IN THE SKY
A sustainable aviation fuel that reduces GHGs by 80%.
The eco-friendly fuel (“e-fuel”), developed thanks to materials engineering, is an alternative to fossil kerosene. Over an aircraft’s entire life cycle, it reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 80%.
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