Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Summer Program

High school students are invited to apply to participate in our Materials Science and Engineering Summer Program. This week-long residential program is for high school sophomores and juniors interested in exploring careers in science or engineering. The program features hands-on learning in our outstanding materials labs in addition to field trips, visits to local industrial operations, and guest speakers. The culminating experience is a design-oriented project to spur friendly competition and emphasize the advantages and benefits of collaboration.

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2023

Students participate in slip casting
Two students pouring slip into a mold
Students enjoying marshmallows
Students making smores
Students roasting marshmallows for smores
Students enjoying conversation around the fire
Student forging knife blade
Student hammering on steel rod
Student inspecting forged blade
Student hammering knife blade
Students pose in blacksmithing PPE
Students forging knife blades
Focused student hammers blade
Students showing their aluminum casted keychain pendants
Student working on forging a knife blade
Student pulling sand casted pendant for cooling
Student placing hot aluminum pendant into cool water
Students showing off their sand casted aluminum pendants
Students observing remnants of a thermite reaction
Students take a look at different thermite reaction mixtures (post-reaction)
Students learning in the classroom
Students learn more about mining at the World Museum of Mining
Students in the underground mine at the World Museum of Mining
Students learning about the underground mining at the World Museum of Mining
Students pose for a photo in front of the headframe at the World Museum of Mining
Students observing a froth flotation demonstration
Students on a tour at Montana Resources
Students press molds into sand for sand casting
Students watching their pendants cool
Student ready to put the blade back into the forge
Student hammering on hot steel
Students learning in the classroom
Students making composite materials
Students working with epoxy and fiberglass to create composite materials
Students having fun in their composites making section
Student shaping hot steel
Student shaping steel on an anvil