Career opportunities span from innovation and development of production, advanced planning and programming, management of complex systems, both as self-employment professionals and in manufacturing and services companies, as well as in public authorities.
Materials engineers may be employed in: chemical, pharmaceutical and processing industries; companies active in the production, transformation, transportation and storage of substances and materials; industrial laboratories; public administration offices for environment and safety management.
With the MS in Materials Engineering graduates will also be able to work as scientists, engineers or managers in industries of production and conversion of metallic, polymeric, ceramic, glass, composite materials and biomaterials, building materials, or electronic materials, telecommunications, energy, construction, transportation, environment, cultural heritage, industrial laboratories and R&D Departments of public and private institutions.
They may be employed, for example, as project and development engineers, in sectors spanning from experiments to engineering, as project managers or technical directors. Considering the wide range of acquired skills they may also be employed in basic and applied research centres, or as managers of production, logistics, quality control, marketing and purchasing managers.
According to figures published by the Italian Institute of Statistics, the Master's degree course in Materials and Production Engineering trains:
- Mining and metallurgical engineers;
- Chemical engineering.
The Master's degree programme in Materials Engineering has been tailored to allow students to embark upon any international post-graduate level study; the PhD programmes offered at the University of Trento include the Materials, Mechatronics and Systems Engineering Doctoral School.