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The mechanical properties, wear and corrosion behavior of copper matrix composites reinforced with steel machining chips was investigated in this research. Steel machining chips with chip size range of 105 μm and below were utilized to develop stir cast copper matrix composites having 5, 7.5 and 10 wt% of the chips as reinforcement. Unreinforced copper and 10 wt% alumina reinforced copper matrix composites were also prepared for control experimentation. Hardness and tensile properties evaluation, wear test, potentiodynamic polarization corrosion tests, and optical microscopy; were used as basis to characterize the composites produced. The results show that the addition of steel machining chips in copper resulted in significantly low porosity levels in the copper matrix composites compared with the use of alumina as reinforcement. The mechanical properties (hardness and tensile properties) and wear …