The Department of Materials Engineering would like to congratulate Mr. Reza Roumina who was awarded “Best Young Researcher” at the 11th International Conference on Aluminum Alloys (ICAA) held last week in Aachen Germany. Reza was awarded for his paper and talk entitled “Effect of Recovery on the Tensile Response of an Al-Mg-Sc Alloy”. [...]

The Department of Materials Engineering is pleased to welcome three new sponsors to the Industrial Research Chair in Hydrometallurgy for 2008. Air Liquide (Versailles, France), Cia. de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. (Lima, Peru) and Newmont Mining Corporation (Denver, Colorado) have agreed to join the sponsorship group. The Industrial Research Chair in Hydrometallurgy began in 1988 [...]