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Materials for Manufacturing & Infrastructure

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Materials Engineers design processes and materials for the automotive, aerospace, energy and infrastructure industries.

  • Be a part of exciting changes such as 3D printing and Industry 4.0.
  • Tackle the clean energy challenge by identifying sustainable approaches for producing and recycling material. 

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Careers in Materials for Manufacturing & Infrastructure:

  • Material Production, Processing and Heat-treating
  • Manufacturing
  • Corrosion & Failure Analysis

Where you’ll go: automotive, aerospace, energy and infrastructure sectors. 

Courses

Bonding, crystallagraphy, mixing of materials and equilibrium (MATLS 2A04, 2B03, 2D03)

Low temperature processing of functional and biomaterials (MATLS 3B03)

High temperature processing (MATLS 3F03, 4C03)

Sustainable Materials Production (MATLS 4I03)

Strength, Deformation & forming of Materials (MATLS 3M03, 3MF3)

Alloy Design and Microstructure manipulation (MATLS 3C03, 3T04)

Aerospace and Automotive alloys (MATLS 4LA2, 4LS2, 4T03)

Corrosion (MATLS 4D03)

 “The Manufacturing stream of Materials Engineering allows me to have an impact on the industry and society by making cars safer, more fuel efficient and more corrosion resistant.”
Chris Thomsen, Materials Engineering

Related Faculty

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Dr. Nabil Bassim

Professor

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Dr. Neslihan Dogan

Associate Professor

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Dr. Joseph McDermid

Professor, Associate Chair – Undergraduate

Dr. Nana Ofori-Opoku

Dr. Nana Ofori-Opoku

Assistant Professor

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Dr. André Phillion

Professor, Director of Experiential Learning

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Dr. Leili Tafaghodi

Associate Professor

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Dr. David Wilkinson

Distinguished University Professor (Emeritus)

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Dr. Igor Zhitomirsky

Distinguished Engineering Professor

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Dr. Hatem Zurob

Professor, Chair

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CHEM ENG 724 Graduate Materials Characterization by Electron/Ion Microscopy [FALL 2022]  
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CHEM ENG 724 Graduate Materials Characterization by Electron/Ion Microscopy [FALL 2022]  
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MATLS 2A04 Undergraduate Introduction to Materials Engineering  
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CIV ENG 716 Graduate Seismic Behaviour and Design of Reinforced Concrete Systems  
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MECH ENG 3A03 Undergraduate Engineering Mechanics  
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MECH ENG 3C03 Undergraduate Manufacturing Engineering  
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MECH ENG 4DD3 (NOT OFFERED 2022-2023) Undergraduate Introduction to Surface Engineering in Manufacturing  
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SFWRTECH 4AI3 Undergraduate Artificial Intelligence