Degrees Offered

The Department of Metallurgical Engineering is part of the College of Mines and Earth Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, and offers
  • Master of Engineering (M.E.),
  • Master of Science (M.S.), and
  • Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees.

It typically takes two years to complete a Master's degree and four years to complete a Ph.D.

Academic Advising


Office: CME 304

General Areas of Research

Faculty and students are typically engaged in the following general areas:

  • Mineral processing: fracture characteristics of particles, comminution, mathematical modeling of specific processes, fluid dynamics of specific operations, flotation, surface chemistry, and novel designs.
  • Hydrometallurgy: metal extraction, concentration, purification, electrodeposition, and corrosion.
  • Pyrometallurgy: thermodynamics, kinetics and modeling of high-temperature chemical processes.
  • Physical metallurgy: powder metallurgy, nondestructive metal failure detection, magnetic materials, rapid solidification.
  • Synthesis and processing of advanced inorganic materials: nanosized and nanostructured materials, magnetic materials.

Specific research topics vary every year. See faculty for individual research specialties and current projects. 


Research

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Graduate Requirements

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