Ceramic Engineering
Ceramic Engineering is the technology
of manufacturing and usage of ceramic materials. Many
engineering applications benefit from ceramics
characteristics as a material. The characteristics of
ceramics have garnered attention from engineers across the
world, including those in the fields: Electrical
Engineering, Materials Engineering, Chemical Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering, and many others. Highly regarded for
being resistant to heat, ceramics can be used for many
demanding tasks that other materials like Metal and Polymers
can't.
Ceramics, in addition to being a fine art, also requires a
thorough working knowledge of certain materials. Whether we
need to design a new office building, or a vase for our
bedroom, we need a ceramic engineer. Someone has to figure
out our creative designs into a reality and here walks in
the engineer. A ceramicist joins ceramics and engineering
and helps us to create new and more interesting works with
new materials, which we cant, even dream of.
The multibillion-dollar ceramic industry converts processed
materials and raw materials taken directly from the earth
(clay, sand, etc.) into such useful products as spark plugs,
glass, electronic components, nuclear materials, abrasives,
rocket components, and even tableware. High-temperature
processing is the key to ceramic engineering, and the
products are always inorganic, nonmetallic solids.
Job Prospects
Ceramic Engineers experienced in both scientific and
production aspects of the profession may also work as
administrators, project supervisors, sales engineers or
technical consultants to firms using ceramic materials.
Many Ceramic Engineers work in the nuclear field, as ceramic
fuel materials make nuclear power generation possible.
The electronics industry is a growth area for this
technology, as ceramics are used as insulators for
transistors and integrated circuits.
Refractory ceramics are required in the refining of iron and
aluminum, and this industry is especially in need of this
type of worker.
The exciting new field of fiber optics has had a dramatic
effect on today's telecommunication and medical industries,
and since ceramic components are used, Ceramic Engineers are
playing a vital role in this new science. Ceramic Engineers
experienced in both scientific and production aspects of the
profession may also work as administrators, project
supervisors, sales engineers or technical consultants to
firms using ceramic materials.
Nature of Work
CERAMIC ENGINEERS help to develop varied products as
protective tiles for space shuttles, ceramic fillings for
teeth, Unbreakable dinner plates, and sophisticated
telescope lenses. Ceramics have applications in virtually
any industry, which demands the use of heat-resistant
materials.
Ceramic Engineers are specialists in the study of these
materials, their behavior, application, and use. They
develop methods for processing nonmetallic inorganic
materials into many ceramic products ranging from glassware,
fiber optics products, cement, and bricks, to coatings for
space vehicles, materials for microelectronics, components
of nuclear fuel, and pollution control devices. Recent
advances in physics and chemistry have expanded the
applications of ceramic engineering.
The major functions of Ceramic Engineers are Research,
product development, and production engineering. The
engineer is frequently challenged to produce new ideas and
to suggest solutions to difficult problems. Engineers may
have extensive responsibilities such as preparing labor cost
analyses or troubleshooting problems.
From a single chemical source, ceramic engineers make useful
materials in many forms:
Develop improved heat tiles to protect the space shuttle and
the future supersonic space plane from the searing heat of
reentry into the earth's atmosphere.
Produce ceramic teeth, bones, and joints to replace parts of
the human body or improve advanced medical equipment to
continue research in the way against disease.
Help make innovative, ultra-fast computer systems using
ceramic superconductors, lasers, and glass optical fibers.
Develop materials to enclose and support aircraft engines
that run at high temperatures.
Improve fiber optic cables that allow doctors to see inside
the human body and permit the human voice to travel
thousands of miles under the ocean without distortion.
Discover new ways to use ceramics to build highways and
bridges, or to carry water and waste to treatment plants.
Those who work in these fields have been trained in Chemical
engineering, Chemistry (for manufacturing), Mechanical
engineering (for the study of strength, wear, etc.), or
Electrical engineering and Physics (for optimization of
electric or Magnetic applications). Recently the field has
come to include the studies of single crystals or glass
fibers, in addition to traditional Polycrystalline
materials, and the applications of these have been
overlapping and changing rapidly.
Ceramic Engineers often specialize in one or more products:
White wares these are porcelain and china dinnerware or high
voltage electrical insulators
Structural materials these are brick, tile, and turbine
blades,
Electronic ceramics are magnetics, memory systems, and
microwave devices), protective
Refractory coatings for metals, glass products, abrasives,
and fuel elements for nuclear energy.
One of the top priority projects of Ceramic Engineers is the
development of a ceramic engine which would replace the
present diesel, gasoline and turbo engines.
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