CIM Fellowship
(Biography from 2009) Georges J. Kipouros obtained his Diploma of Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and his M.Sc. and PhD from the University of Toronto. He then worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for three years as a postdoctoral research associate.
For the next five years, Kipouros worked for General Motors Research Laboratories in Warren, Michigan, as a senior research scientist. Returning to academia, he joined Dalhousie Technical University where he held numerous positions, such as head of the mining and metallurgical engineering department, assistant dean of engineering and vice chair of the Senate of Dalhousie University. Kipouros is currently a professor of materials engineering in the Department of Process Engineering and Applied Science, and director of the Minerals Engineering Centre. His main research interests are in alloy development, powder metallurgy, corrosion and processing in molten salts. He teaches thermodynamics, kinetics, electrochemistry and advanced materials science.
His most recent awards include the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS/NSERC Award) Invitation Fellowship 2007 and the Metal Chemistry Award from the CIM Metallurgical Society.
Distinguished Lecturer 2009-10
Lecture Abstract
Materials and Asset Integrity
The extraction and transportation of minerals require a continuous development of new and sophisticated assets that include devices and lightweight structures. Many advances have relied on the development of new materials while other technologically advanced ideas are limited by the lack of suitable materials.
Asset integrity includes protection from degradation, particularly corrosion, which in turn requires the development of new materials and designs. A comprehensive understanding of the factors that contribute to degradation of materials will be more important in the near future as climate change imposes severe changes in the interface between corroding media and materials of construction.
The lecture will discuss the present understanding of the interplay between materials and their environment, the design of materials and the effects of these parameters on corrosion.
