If you really start on the metallurgy trail, be ready for the looooooong haul, believe me! Even the Mech Eng Uni courses 'do' the subject, in real terms, as you learn when you're out in the real big bad world, it's no more than glossing over. In fact it's a degree in its own right

On the down side, I find that while many of them soon become PHd's/Doctors, they get a bit nerdish/blinkered. Only my take on things