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Metallurgical Engineering
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Also Known As Metallurgy
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Metallurgical engineering studies the extraction of metals from ore and the working of those metals into a finished form with the properties an application needs, spanning the pyrometallurgy and electrometallurgy of primary extraction, alloy design, and the casting, forging and heat-treatment processes that set a metal's final grain structure and strength.
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Origin YearMarks the founding of Columbia University's School of Mines in 1864, among the earliest dedicated US mining and metallurgy engineering programs, as the point the practice formalized into an academic engineering discipline; metalworking itself is millennia older. Core ConcernFreeing metal from ore and controlling its internal structure, through smelting, alloying, casting, forging and heat treatment, to obtain the strength, hardness or ductility a specific use requires. 1 Core PrincipleFree metal from ore and control its internal grain structure through smelting, alloying, casting, forging and heat treatment to obtain the strength, hardness or ductility a specific use requires. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Metallurgy (Wikipedia)
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Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys.
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