Why materials science and engineering is good for metallurgy

Metallurgy/materials education will continue to evolve to encompass, in an intellectually unified way, the full range of structural and functional mat erials. Computation, information, and other advanced sciences and technolog ies will assume increasing roles in materials education, as will distance a nd continuing education. The advantages of the changes will be many.,, to t he graduates, to emerging industries, and to the traditional metallurgical industries seeking productive, creative young engineers as employees. The n eed for continuing change in our metallurgy/materials departments is now no less if we are to attract the best young people into our field in the numb ers needed and to best serve the needs of industry.