Materials science and engineering

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There are many subfields; do some research and see which ones appeal to you.

Only study it if it appeals to you.

>>8958178
Probably the best idea is to focus on something pragmatic like polymers or metallurgy rather than nanotechnology or something

>>8958173
The interesting thing is that in Materials Sci/Eng

On Graduate Level (PhD, MSc & MEng)
is very prestigious, hard, high IQ & very well paid.

While on Undergrad Level (BSc, BEng)
is generally mocked to be easy.

>>8958173
I'm currently pursuing a career in materials science and engineering. I want to fucking kill myself. But don't let that stop you MS&E is actually pretty great. Consider doing computational materials science.

>>8958193
>>polymers
shit field. Fuck you and your noodly polymers. We could make cheap ass solar cells from polymers, if polymers weren't such a pain in the ass to work with
>>metallurgy
boring as hell
>>nanotechnology
meme field in materials science. Chemist are doing nanotech shit straight out of sci-fi these days.

Materials Science is like: "GUYS! What if we make materials from SMALLER THINGS! It's like super expensive to make these smaller things, so they're totally fucking worthless for fucking anything, but they let us put NANO in the grant title"

Whereas chemistry is like:"We built a wheeled vehicle just for the fucking hell of it"

Anyway I'm gonna go consider gassing myself with the nitrogen tanks again.

>>8960153
when I heard about the nano racecars I was proud of how fucking autistic it was

>being too poor to get helium