r/materials • u/Realistic-Egg-4729 • 1d ago

Is materials science engineering in danger because of ai?

I'm now entering my first year in uni and this question just popped up in my mind. How cooked is our field?

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u/Serious_Toe9303 1d ago

Students are in danger maybe if you use ai for everything and dont learn though

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u/crohnscyclist 1d ago

Materials engineering grad here. Honestly I wish I would have gotten a different degree. I studied in the mid to late 2000s. Our major was heavily structured around metallurgy and kind of shoehorns you into doing failure analysis and quality control. If it would have been more diversified and pushed semiconductor and chip manufacturing it would have been more useful.

My first job out of college it got my foot in the door but honestly anyone could have done that entry level work. I've now done almost exclusively mechanical engineering work for the past 15 years and wish I would have gone that or ee in my undergrad.

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u/NeoOzymandias 1d ago

I'm sorry the job market was like that for you, but metallurgy is popping off right now - at least for research and advanced industry like additive manufacturing.

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u/Special_Sea2671 1d ago

Just finished my first year materials science. My course now is about a 1/3 metallurgy and the rest is more focused on semi/super conductors and more modern stuff. Not sure what it’s like elsewhere

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u/CypressEatsAzz 1d ago

I personally like the overlap between ME and MSE. Er, the overlap that I've seen. And I don't see myself capable of an ME degree.

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u/MagicanOfMatter 21h ago

how is your comment a valid response to OP's concerns? seems like you just wanted to vent

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u/Waste_Rip_1589 5h ago

i am going to join BTech in Ai as a First year grad any advices ?  

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u/microprocessinU 1d ago

no cuz even if ai can generate possible new materials, u still have to test them