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Materials Science and Engineering

Events

21st Blast Furnace Course
May 9-14, 2010
An in-depth, week-long course held every second year. It covers every aspect of blast furnace ironmaking on 22 lectures given by experts in the field, supplemented by a computer game, and plant tours.
Link: http://training.mcmaster.ca/index.html

MSE Graduate Seminar
On Wednesday, February 10th, Amin Mali will be presenting a seminar on 'Ceramic Technologies for the Sodium-Nickel Chloride Battery' in HSC1A4 at 11:30 a.m.
Supervisor: Dr. Petric

MSE Graduate Students Games Night
Wednesday, February 10th starting at 5:00 pm
Location TBA

Engineering Level l Information Fair for Level 2 program selection will be held:
Thursday, February 25th
11:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Engineering Technology Building

Blue Mountain Ski Resort
Friday, February 26th - Sunday, February 28th
Please contact Ryan Phillips for more information.

WISE Initiative 2010 International Women's Day Conference
The McMaster Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Initiative invites you to submit abstracts for the upcoming 4th Annual International Women's Day Conference. The conference will be held at McMaster University on March 5th and 6th, 2010.

Faculty Positions Available

U.S. Steel Canada Chair in Sustainable Steel Production - REVISED Nov. 2009
Industrial Research Chair in Materials Science and Engineering

Announcements

Thinking of Graduate School with MSE?
$1,000 signing bonus to all Canadians who accept an offer before March 31st
Contact Diana Maltese to arrange a personal tour of our facilities and labs, meet with award winning faculty members and current grad students.

Materials Science and Engineering is honoured to receive applications from excellent Chinese students who will be applying for China Scholarship Council (CSC) doctoral scholarships.

Apply Now for Summer Research Jobs in Engineering
Looking to work this summer? Interested in learning more about research? Then the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) may be just the thing for you.

Condensed Matter Newsletter is now online.

News

AIST - Computer Applications Best Paper Award
Dr. G.A. Irons together with his former Ph.D. student Ho Yong Wang have been awarded the 2010 Computer Applications Award for Best Paper for their paper entitled “Experimental and Mathematical Studies of Impinging Gas Jets on Liquid Surfaces.”

AIST - Charles W. Briggs Best Paper Award
Dr. G.A. Irons, Dr. K.S. Coley, their visiting PDF F.Ji and former MASc student M. King have been selected as the recipient of the AIST Charles W. Briggs Award for Best Paper for their paper entitled “Kinetics of Carbon Reaction with Electric Arc Furnace Slags During Slag Foaming.”

Congratulations to the authors on these notable achievements.

McMaster Engineering Society Awards and Results
We are proud to announce that our technologist Doug Culley was awarded one of the MES Faculty Appreciation awards. Congratulations Doug!