Where was your first job as a metallurgist? And what is your job now?

Well, I actually only graduated from college a couple of years ago, so my first job is still my current job. I work at an independent materials testing laboratory, so basically any company that doesn’t have the resources to certify their own materials can send them to us. 

I deal mainly with metals (lots of steel, a fair bit of titanium and aluminum alloys and some other things every now and again including additive manufacturing parts and powders), but we also get the rare ceramic (the other half of the company deals with polymers and chemical analysis). The company I work for can handle a good number of different tests – tensile, Charpy, hardness, metallography, grain size, and failure analysis as well as SEM analysis, among others. 

Thanks for asking, let me know if I didn’t answer the question as well as you hoped for!

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