the future of metallurgical education – importance, status, opportunities with Professor Evgueni Jak

There is a clear lack of metallurgy graduates now, and the demand for the metallurgy graduates will increase with the increasing role of metallurgy in the foreseeable future in solving current society challenges such as recycling, high-tech developments, e-mobility, decarbonization. Only UQ and Curtin universities still have metallurgy programs in Australia with low number of students, all others were closed. Metallurgy programs are under review from the Universities due to low number of students. The reasons for the low metallurgy students numbers are analysed. An opportunity to significantly increase the number of metallurgy graduates is discussed if Universities, industry and government work together collaboratively and proactively.