Students graduating with a cast metals minor from Western Michigan University’s metal casting program are provided with an education that prepares them to be immediately productive as lab managers, melt supervisors, quality engineers, process engineers or product engineers in the metal casting industry. The lab experience is very hands-on and students become experienced in the metal casting process.
Students complete a senior project which is the capstone of their degree. It is a two semester project focusing on cast metals and the casting industry.
Western Michigan University is a certified school in the Foundry Educational Foundation.