Materials Engineers

Tools and Technology

Tools Include:

• Abrasion testers
• Ageing ovens (Accelerated weathering machines)
• Accelerometers
• Impedance meters (Acoustic impediography equipment)
• Metal testing instruments (Adhesion testers)
• Calorimeters (Adiabatic bomb calorimeters)
• Ammeters
• Analytical balances
• Spectrophotometers (Atomic absorption AA spectrophotometers)
• Scanning probe microscopes (Atomic force microscopes)
• Grinding or polishing machines (Attritors)
• Laboratory mills (Ball mills)
• Twin screw extruder (Balling drums)
• Power saws (Band saws)
• Benchtop centrifuges
• Binocular light compound microscopes (Binocular compound microscopes)
• Calorimeters
• Plaster or mortar mixers (Cement mixers)
• Impact testers (Charpy impact testers)
• Colorimeters
• Compression testers (Compression testing machines)
• Milling cutters (Computer numerical controlled CNC milling machines)
• Lathes (Computerized numerical control CNC lathes)
• Concrete or cement testing instruments (Concrete test hammers)
• Coordinate measuring machines CMM
• Laboratory mixers (Counter-current mixers)
• Graphic recorders (Current versus voltage IV curve tracers)
• Portable data input terminals (Dataloggers)
• Ion exchange apparatus (Deionizers)
• Calorimeters (Differential scanning calorimeters)
• Thermal differential analyzers (Differential thermal analyzers)
• Diffractometers
• Digital cameras
• Oscilloscopes (Digitizing oscilloscopes)
• Impact testers (Drop weight impact towers)
• Drying cabinets or ovens (Drying ovens)
• Hardness testers (Durometers)
• Electrometers
• Electron microscopes (Electron microprobe analyzers EMPA)
• Electronic toploading balances
• Laboratory separators (Electrostatic separators)
• Spectrometers (Energy dispersive x-ray spectrometers EDS)
• Semiconductor process systems (Etching equipment)
• Extensometers
• Borescope inspection equipment (Fiberscopes)
• Thickness measuring devices (Film thickness measurement systems)
• Filtering machinery (Filter presses)
• Photometers (Flame photometers)
• Bubble columns (Flotation columns)
• Infrared spectrometers (Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectroscopes)
• Concrete or cement testing instruments (Freeze-thaw test units)
• Wear testers (Friction and wear testers)
• Fume hoods or cupboards (Fume hoods)
• Gas chromatographs (Gas chromatographs GC)
• Leak testing equipment (Gas detectors)
• Electromagnetic field meters (Gauss meters)
• Chromatographic scanners (Gel permeation chromatographs GPC)
• Programmable tube furnaces (Graphite element furnaces)
• Gyratory crushers
• Hardness testers
• Heated walk in environmental or growth chambers (Heated walk-in environmental chambers)
• High pressure liquid chromatograph chromatography (High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment)
• Tension testers (High temperature material testing systems)
• Laboratory separators (High tension separators)
• Tension testers (High-vacuum tensile testing chambers)
• Positioning jig (Holding jigs)
• Laboratory blenders or emulsifiers (Hot blenders)
• Hydraulic press frames (Hydraulic presses)
• Impact testers
• Laboratory box furnaces (Inert atmosphere box furnaces)
• Infrared imagers (Infrared cameras)
• Infrared imagers (Infrared monitors)
• Injection molding machines (Injection molders)
• Laboratory separators (Isodynamic separators)
• Laboratory mills (Jar mills)
• Jaw crushers
• Vibratory plates (Kneading compactors)
• Laboratory blenders or emulsifiers (Laboratory blenders)
• Isolation glove boxes (Laboratory glove boxes)
• Laboratory microwave ovens
• Laboratory crushers or pulverizers (Laboratory pulverizers)
• Laboratory crushers or pulverizers (Laboratory sample splitters)
• Test sieves (Laboratory test sieves)
• Laboratory vacuum pumps
• Laminators
• Grinders (Lapping wheels)
• Flowmeters (Laser Doppler velocimeters LDV)
• Lathes
• Linear position sensors (Linear variable differential transformers LVDT)
• Water conditioners (Liquid conditioners)
• Load frame (Load frames)
• Laboratory separators (Magnetic separators)
• Analytical balances (Magnetic susceptibility balances)
• Power saws (Masonry cutters)
• Mass spectrometers
• Orbital shakers (Mechanical sieve shakers)
• Crucible furnaces (Melt spinners)
• Semiconductor process systems (Micromanipulators)
• Photo attachments for microscopes (Microscope photo attachments)
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers (Microwave autoclaves)
• High vacuum combustion apparatus (Microwave sintering furnaces)
• Tube furnaces (Microwave tube furnaces)
• Laboratory vacuum pumps (Molecular pumps)
• Laboratory box furnaces (Muffle furnaces)
• Binocular light compound microscopes (Optical compound microscopes)
• Infrared spectrometers (Optical emission spectrometers)
• Flow transmitters (Oscillating water tunnels)
• Optical diffraction apparatus (Particle size analyzers)
• Permeability testing apparatus (Permeability measuring devices)
• Personal computers
• pH meters (pH testers)
• Depth gauges (Pit depth gauges)
• High vacuum combustion apparatus (Plasma-arc furnaces)
• Polarizing microscopes
• Grinding or polishing machines (Polishing machines)
• Porosimeters (Porosity indicators)
• Pycnometers
• Reflectometers
• Laboratory mills (Rod mills)
• Roll crushers
• High vacuum combustion apparatus (Rotating furnaces)
• Safety glasses
• Protective gloves (Safety gloves)
• Laboratory crushers or pulverizers (Sample presses)
• Pneumatic sanding machines (Sanding machines)
• Scanning electron microscopes (Scanning electron microscopes SEM)
• Compression testers (Screw-driven test machines)
• Fatigue testers (Servohydraulic test machines)
• Laboratory blenders or emulsifiers (Slurry blenders)
• Ageing ovens (Solar simulators)
• Lasers (Solid state laser systems)
• Induction dryers (Solvent dryers)
• Sonometers
• Laboratory balances (Specific gravity balances)
• Colorimeters (Spectrocolorimeters)
• Spectrometers
• Spectrophotometers
• Concrete or cement testing instruments (Stabilometers)
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers (Steam autoclaves)
• Stereo or dissecting light microscopes (Stereo microscopes)
• Strain gauges
• Orbital shaking water baths (Temperature regulated shaking water baths)
• Tension testers (Tensile testers)
• Tensiometers (Tension gauges)
• Thermal differential analyzers (Thermal analysis systems)
• Calorimeters (Thermogravimetric analyzers)
• Tube furnaces
• Turbidimeters
• Twin screw extruder (Twin screw extruders)
• Twin screw extruder (Twin-screw extruders)
• Immersion circulators (Ultrasonic baths)
• Homogenizers (Ultrasonic dismembrators)
• Homogenizers (Ultrasonicators)
• Ultrasonic examination equipment (Ultrasound inspection equipment)
• Infrared dryers (Ultraviolet UV exposure units)
• Optical vacuum coating equipment (Vacuum coating systems)
• Laboratory evaporators (Vacuum evaporators)
• Vacuum ovens (Vacuum furnaces)
• Vibration testers (Vibration analysis equipment)
• Viscosimeters (Viscosity meters)
• Laboratory burets (Water burets)
• Power saws (Water-cooled saws)
• Flow transmitters (Wind tunnels)
• Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters (X ray fluorescence XRF analyzers)
• Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters (X ray fluorescence XRF spectrometers)

Technologies Include:

• Analytical or scientific software

• ANSYS Multiphysics
• Digital image correlation DIC software
• Fault detection isolation and recovery FDIR software
• Image analysis systems

• Charting software

• Microsoft Office Visio

• Computer aided design CAD software

• Autodesk AutoCAD software
• Computer aided design CAD software
• PTC Pro/ENGINEER software

• Computer aided manufacturing CAM software

• Fused deposition modeling FDM rapid prototyping systems
• Stereolithography SLA rapid prototyping systems

• Data base user interface and query software

• Data entry software
• MTS Testworks
• QMC CM4D

• Development environment software

• Formula translation/translator FORTRAN
• Microsoft Visual Basic
• National Instruments LabVIEW

• Electronic mail software

• Microsoft Outlook

• Graphics or photo imaging software

• Graphics software

• Internet browser software

• Web browser software

• Object or component oriented development software

• C++
• Microsoft Visual Basic.NET

• Office suite software

• Microsoft Office software

• Presentation software

• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Presentation software

• Spreadsheet software

• Microsoft Excel

• Word processing software

• Microsoft Word
• Word processing software

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