2024 Light Metals Best Paper Award
MMPC members, PhD Candidate Daniel Gonzalez Morales, Dr. Mihaiela Isac, and Dr. R. I. l. Guthrie received the 2024 Light Metals Best Paper Award. The Award was accepted at the Conference of Metallurgists (COM) 2024. The award ceremony was held in Halifax, in August 2044. Their awarded paper was entitled “Mathematical Modelling and Experimental Work on the Solidification of Strips of Calcium-based, Bulk Metallic Glass (BMG), Produced by the Horizontal Single Belt Casting (HSBC) Process”.
Members of the MMPC celebrating the recipients of the 2024 Light Metals Best Paper Award presented at the COM 2024 ceremony (from left to right holding their award: PhD Candidate Daniel Gonzalez Morales, Dr. Mihaiela M. Isac, and Dr. R.I. L. Guthrie).
BRAVO GALA 2024
BRAVO GALA 2024, Celebrating McGill Community took place at the Hotel Omni Mont-Royal, on Thursday, March 21, 2024.
The Office of the Vice-President (Research and Innovation) congratulated McGill's faculty members and researchers who have recently been awarded external prizes for outstanding research. From the message of McGill Vice-President, Research and Innovation, Martha Crago: “In 2023, one hundred and twenty-eight significant prizes were awarded to McGill’s researchers and scholars in ten faculties and schools. Through dedication, creativity, and innovation, this esteemed group is making a profound impact at McGill, in Quebec, across Canada, and internationally”. Among this year’s honourees are two members of the McGill Metals Processing Centre, Dr. R.I.L. Guthrie, and Dr. Mihaiela Minea Isac.
Dr. Mihaiela Isac, Associate Director MMPC, Mrs. Jana Porubska, Senior Industry Partnerships Officer, Innovation and Partnerships (I+P), Office of the Vice-Pesident (Research and Innovation), and Dr. Roderick Guthrie, Director MMPC, at the BRAVO Gala 2024.
President and Vice-Chancellor Deep Saini, and V.P Research and Innovation Martha Crago honored the McGillians who received some of the most prestigious Canadian awards at the BRAVO Ceremony 2024, including Roderick I.L. Guthrie Director McGill Metals Processing Centre, and Mihaiela Isac, Associate Director McGill Metal Processing Centre.
2010 Synergy Awards for Innovation highlight partnerships that foster economic growth
The Honorable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry, the Honorable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology) and Dr. Suzanne Fortier, President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), today announced the recipients of NSERC’s 2010 Synergy Awards for Innovation. These awards recognize the type of university-industry research and development collaborations that lead to new products that are key to economic growth. The 2010 Synergy Awards recognize collaborations that have resulted in the development of lightweight materials for automobiles, refinement and commercialization of new reinforcement materials for concrete structures, efficient wastewater treatment applications, and applied technologies that enhance the processing of liquid and solid metals.
The year 2010’s recipients are:
Roderick Guthrie and Mihaiela Isac of McGill University, and the member companies of the McGill Metals Processing Centre (MMPC)—Hatch, Novelis, Heraeus Electro-Nite, Sumitomo Metals Industries, and Rio Tinto, together with its subsidiaries QIT-Fer et Titane, and Alcan—who have garnered NSERC’s prestigious Leo Derikx Award, for their innovative contributions to global advances in the processing of liquid and solid metals.
Award-winning researchers receive a $200,000 research grant, while each industry partner has an opportunity to hire an NSERC Industrial R&D Fellow for two years, with NSERC supporting the industrial portion of the fellow’s salary. Recipients will be recognized at ceremonies to be held at later dates.
Dr. Christophe Pierre, Dean of McGill Faculty of Engineering, Mme. Janet Weldon (NSERC). Dr. R.I.L. Guthrie and Dr. M. Isac (MMPC), Mr. J. Young (Hatch), and Dr. K. Gatenby (Novelis).
BRAVO CEREMONY, Hotel Omni, Montreal, May 5, 2011.
McGill’s annual BRAVO event celebrates the cream of the researcher crop. On Thursday, May 5th, 2011, Dr. Rose Goldstein, McGill’s Vice-Principal (Research and International Relations), welcomed guests to the sixth edition of BRAVO. She shared her pride in McGill’s prize-winning research, and all the discoveries that have made significant contributions to Canadian, and global, society. “It is also very much a time to celebrate the important people behind the many outstanding research accomplishments we celebrate tonight,” she told the audience gathered at the Hotel Omni Mont-Royal, “I would like to recognize, and I know our prize winners will also want to recognize, the contributions of our colleagues, students, staff, collaborators, funding agencies, our governments, our partners in the private sector and all of those who make your ground-breaking research and scholarship possible.” Joined by Principal and Vice-Chancellor Heather Munroe-Blum and Chancellor H. Arnold Steinberg, Goldstein honored the McGillians who received some of the most prestigious Canadian awards during the past 12 months: NSERC 2010 Synergy Award for Innovation, Leo Derikx category: Roderick I.L. Guthrie (Department of Mining and Materials Engineering), Mihaiela Isac (McGill Metals Processing Centre) were among the celebrated researchers.
From left to right; Chantal Labreque, RTIT QIT Fer et Titane, Michael Midash, Heraeus Electro-Nite, Kevin Gatenby, Novelis, David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, Roderick Guthrie, Director of MMPC, Mihaiela Isac, Associate Director of MMPC, and Jack Young, HATCH
2013 XSTRATA (MetSoc) Innovation Award
This award is to support the important role of innovation as a fundamental foundation to the development and growth of the Canadian metallurgical industry. The award recognizes outstanding innovation in the industry, specifically innovations which have been implemented and are practiced technology, and to which a company or group of individuals are the prime contributors. The 2013 recipient was the Liquid Metal Cleanliness Analyzer System.
The citation read: "In recognition of the LiMCA System, from its invention by the McGill Metals Processing Centre, McGill University, to its development and application by RioTinto Alcan and ABB." LiMCA (Liquid Metal Cleanliness Analyzer) is now the sensor in world-wide use for the detection of inclusions in liquid metals, including molten aluminum and molten steel, in situ, and in real time.
Conceived by Rod Guthrie and Don Doutre, at the McGill Metals Processing Centre, the system was further developed by Rio Tinto-ALCAN, and commercialised by BOMEM, now ABB. In this method, a resistive pulse is generated during the passage of a non-conducting particle through an Electric Sensing Zone, which is located within the orifice. The technique involves drawing a sample of liquid aluminum or steel into an insulating glass tube through the sensor’s orifice, and simultaneously passing an electrical current through the entering metal. By continuously monitoring the electrical resistance during the melt sampling period, one can detect the electrical changes during the passage of entrained non-metallic inclusions as they pass through the ESZ into the tube. The size of each inclusion detected can be calculated, based on the peak height of the voltage pulse generated, the current strength, the diameter of the orifice, and the melt’s electrical resistivity. For continuous measurements, a heavy conditioning current is used to reverse the flow of metal, before each successive filling of the sampling tube, to prevent inclusion build up at the orifice.
The group leaders are Roderick Guthrie (MMPC), Don Doutre (Novelis), Mihaiela Isac (MMPC), Frédéric Laroche (ARDC, Rio Tinto Alcan), Claude Dupuis (ARDC, Rio Tinto Alcan), and Daniel Gagnon (ITC, ABB Inc).