Materials development engineer vs product development engineer

Differences between materials development engineer and product development engineer duties and responsibilities

Materials development engineer example responsibilities.

• Manage and successfully complete carbon/epoxy material qualification and gain approval from FAA to use in manufacturing of composite aircraft parts.
• Evaluate epoxy formulations and adhesive tapes used to encapsulate all plastic film capacitors, including UL and ASTM material/flammability testing.
• Develop basic extrusion procedures and temperature profiles for polyurethane extrusion.
• Optimize polymer extrusion processes from development to implementation to the plant floor to product commercialization and subsequent continual improvement.
• Provide production support including developing LabVIEW base testing system, working procedure analysis/optimization and documentation, assembler training and equipment trouble-shooting.
• Synthesize cobalt nanoparticles and evaluate the tuning of magnetic properties for applications in biomedicine and data storage.

Product development engineer example responsibilities.

• Manage design control including FMEA risk analysis, surgeon clinical input documentation, design verification and validation activities.
• Manage project from conceptual design through final debugging and animal/clinical testing resulting in a new business unit within the company.
• Create java test template design to vary equation specs and loop pattern bursts.
• Develop and maintain websites in HTML, CSS and JAVA script by writing, debugging, and testing.
• Set up, troubleshot and maintain the Linux and Unix machines used in the development, build and test of ADINA.
• Participate in engineering DFMEA activities.
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