George S. Ansell Department of Metallurgical
and Materials Engineering
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Metallurgical and materials engineering plays a role in all manufacturing processes which convert raw materials into useful products adapted to human needs. The primary goal of the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering program is to provide students with a fundamental knowledge-base associated with materials-processing, their properties, and their selection and application.
The emphasis in the department is on teaching and research focused toward materials processing operations which encompass: the conversion of mineral and chemical resources into metallic, ceramic or polymeric materials; the synthesis of new materials; refining and processing to produce high performance materials for applications from consumer products to automobiles, aerospace and electronics; the development of mechanical, chemical and physical properties of materials related to their processing and structure; and the selection of materials for specific applications.
George S. Ansell Department of Metallurgical
and Materials Engineering
Metallurgical and materials engineering plays a role in all manufacturing processes which convert raw materials into useful products adapted to human needs. The primary goal of the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering program is to provide students with a fundamental knowledge-base associated with materials-processing, their properties, and their selection and application.
The emphasis in the department is on teaching and research focused toward materials processing operations which encompass: the conversion of mineral and chemical resources into metallic, ceramic or polymeric materials; the synthesis of new materials; refining and processing to produce high performance materials for applications from consumer products to automobiles, aerospace and electronics; the development of mechanical, chemical and physical properties of materials related to their processing and structure; and the selection of materials for specific applications.
A Welcome Message
Welcome to the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering! Our historic name reflects Mines’ role in shaping metallurgy over the last nearly 150 years. Since the early days of supporting the Colorado gold and silver mining industries, which we still do, we’ve evolved to an internationally recognized faculty in metals in ceramics who run our world-class undergraduate and graduate degree programs in metals and ceramics. Research and education topics span applications like, aerospace alloys, light weight automotive sheet steel, ceramic fuel cells, and transparent armor. We go all the way from atoms to real materials! Our mission is to teach students the fundamentals that enable them to become materials engineers and scientists in an emerging new world that embraces sustainability, diversity, inclusion and access.
If you are one of our esteemed alumni, I welcome you to connect with us if you have not recently. If you are a student who has not yet decided on a major or career, I encourage you to reach out and see what we’re about! You will find a super-friendly and knowledgeable staff, a great group of professors, and some fantastic laboratory facilities.
Please welcome our newest faculty and staff additions: Professor Suveen Mathaudhu came from the University of California at Riverside where he was department chair. Before that Suveen was a program manager at the Army Research Office. He makes and studies new metallic and composite materials. Professor Megan Holtz (beginning as Assistant Professor on August 16th, 2021) was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute for Standards and Technology. She makes and studies energy and electronic materials, including materials for quantum computing. We also hired Sarah Harling as our new hot shop manager where she teaches students how to weld, forge, pour metal, and blow glass.
In my role as interim Department Head during this coming year, I hope to see you on campus. Please stop by Hill Hall!
Ivar Reimanis
Interim Department Head
MINES@150
In 2024, the year of our 150th anniversary, we will celebrate Colorado School of Mines’ past, present and possibilities. By celebrating and supporting the Campaign for MINES@150 you will help elevate Mines to be an accessible, top-of-mind and first-choice for students, faculty, staff, recruiters and other external partners. When you give, you are ensuring Mines becomes even more distinctive and highly sought-after by future students, alumni, industry, and government partners over the next 150 years. We look forward to celebrating Mines’ sesquicentennial with you and recognizing the key role you play in making the MINES@150 vision a reality through your investments of time, talent and treasure.
Department Highlights
- Maximizing steel recycling goal of new $4M Mines-led DOE research project
- Materials science PhD candidate wins DOE Graduate Student Research Program funding
- Colorado School of Mines to launch quantum engineering minor
- Heather Hoffman: "I chose Mines because of the quality education and opportunities it would present."
- Controlling a subtle chemical impurity could hold key to more stable halide perovskite solar materials
- Mines teams up with Pioneer Astronautics to advance sustainable lunar exploration
- 2 students honored at ASM International Student Speaking Symposium
- Triple ionic-electronic conducting oxides show promise for fuel cells, electrolysis
- Five ways Mines researchers and their students are making campus safer during the pandemic
- Mines researchers use neutrons to study weld-induced stress relief in renewable energy infrastructure