About the Department
Historically Metallurgical discipline deals with extraction of metals from their ores, transforming them in different pure or alloy form of different engineering shapes, and to study their internal structure in an atomic scale to correlate with the manifested properties. Comparatively, new dimension of understanding and evaluating newer materials necessitate Materials engineering approach, which is an interdisciplinary field to study all type of engineering materials and advanced materials despite their basic classification.
The Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department of NIT Rourkekla has earned expertise and reputation for conventional fields like study of blast furnace, fracture mechanics, advanced materials like polymer composite, nano materials, thin film etc. To support these it possesses high end equipment like UTM, XRD, SEM, DSC-FTIR, Surface profilometer etc. The major emphasis of the Department right at this moment spread over from characterization of slag to nano-materials.