Metallurgy is related to the material science whose study gives the information of physical and chemical behavior of elements, compounds and mixtures. Metallurgy is usually studied as a subset of material science within a mechanical engineering or manufacturing engineering degree. So, metallurgical engineering is an important branch of engineering in which an engineer is fully specialized in mining of minerals such as coal, gold, silver, mica, iron, aluminium, nickel etc.
Metallurgical engineer refine, recycle and extract the metals and manufactures the products like steel, petrol, cobalt, nickel etc. Metallurgical engineering can be broadly divided into three sections. They are 1. Physical metallurgy 2. Extractive metallurgy 3. Mineral processing In physical metallurgy, the engineers generally try to solve the problem of industries by preparing different types of alloys required for different types of manufacturing and construction work. Extraction metallurgy involves the extraction of metals from their respective ores. While in case of mineral processing , we process the minerals by using different types of advanced technology after it is extracted from Earth crust.
The eligibility for a career in metallurgical engineering, one need to have a bachelor’s degree of four years or five years in metallurgical engineering, metallurgy or material science with at-least 60% marks. To study metallurgical engineering, the candidate should have at-least 60% marks in XII standard with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. The candidate should have a vast knowledge of chemical science by which they can complete their bachelor’s degree with good marks.
