Materials Alumni Newsletter
Dear Alumni,
Welcome to our semi-annual newsletter. As Chairman of the department for the last 8 years, we have seen many changes. On the Materials side, the undergraduate program has grown to 214 with an average class size of 45; we have 35 master’s degree students and 84 Ph.D. students who come from all over Quebec, Canada and the rest of the world. We have experienced growth in our professoriate as well to 17 professors, 5 of which were hired in the last 6 years in the fields of bio-materials, electronic materials, computational materials modelling and mineral processing.
On the subject of mineral processing, we recently celebrated Prof. Jim Finch’s retirement at Thompson House, a site of many memories for him and his family; it was a great sendoff but we will miss him as a colleague and a friend. On a sadder note, we experienced the untimely loss of one of our community members, Claudia Macedo, who was a U4 student. The community has since rallied together to raise money for an endowed, memorial S.U.R.E. (Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering) Internship position, including a gift from the Materials Engineering Undergraduate Society (MEUS) Society of nearly $2000.
Please read below about our invitation to the Alumni/Student Mixer on May 12th and information on hiring one of our undergraduates for a Co-Op.
Best regards,
Steve Yue
Chair, Mining and Materials Engineering
Alumni/Student Mixer
Please come to our second annual Alumni/Student Mixer to meet our students, reconnect with old friends and professors while sipping on wine and eating cheese.
When: Tuesday, May 12th - 6-8pm
Where: Macdonald Engineering Building Lobby
Hire a Co-Op student
As many of you may know, our undergraduate program in materials engineering is a co-op program. Students are available for 4 and 8 month internships in January, May and September. Help your alma mater by mentoring or hiring our students and together we invest in the future! For more information about posting jobs, please go to the Employer Info section of our webite or contact the Materials Engineering Co-op Program Manager, genevieve [dot] snider [at] mcgill [dot] ca (subject: HIRE%20A%20CO-OP%20STUDENT) (Genevieve Snider).