Are there a lot of job openings for materials engineers?
Overall I think that there are lots of opportunities. When I have tried to find Materials Engineers for certain jobs in our company in the past I have often found that there are not enough to go around! And that is Europe wide, no just in the UK. The magazine that I get every month from The Materials Institute (the professional organisation that lots of Materials Engineers belong to) always has several jobs listed. Also, lots of companies take on new graduates for their graduate training schemes e.g. Corus, Rolls Royce, the government. Most university and college departments have close links with companies and can help people find jobs when they are finishing with their studies. 9) What types of projects have you worked on? Lots! After university I spent some time working on a research project, looking at how the properties of steel change when you weld them. This involved lots of experiments and analysis of the results. It was quite a long project (three years) but the number of peopl
