Join us for Materials Engineering Research Showcase Day 2025!
This event will take place in the Frank Forward Building rm 319.
This annual showcase highlights the innovative work and dedicated effort of our graduate students and researchers through engaging poster and oral presentations. This is a great opportunity to learn more about current research in the Department, and to interact with graduate students, post-docs, faculty and staff about research opportunities and currents trends in Materials Engineering. Discover how their research is shaping the future of materials science and tackling real-world challenges!
As part of the event, we will also celebrate the incredible contributions of our community, including a special recognition of the recipients of major Departmental Graduate Awards.
Hope to see you there!
Schedules
10:00 am Introduction/ Welcome – Dr. Daan Maijer & Dr. Ben Britton
10:15 am Atmospheric Tank Leaching of Chalcopyrite Concentrate Assisted by Iodine in Ferric Sulfate Media – Muhammad Reza Kurniawan (Supervisors: Wenying Liu & David Dreisinger)
10:30 am Extraction of Rare Earth Metals from Low-Grade Ores Using Organic Acids – Jose Eric Ortiz Castillo (Supervisors: Wenying Liu & David Dreisinger)
10:45 am Behavior of Germanium in the Purification of Zinc Sulfate Electrolyte – Guilherme Apostolico Bortolini (Supervisors: Wenying Liu & David Dreisinger)
11:00 am Electrochemical Evaluation of Alloys 400 and 800 Corrosion in High-Temperature High-Pressure Conditions of Nuclear Steam Generators: Challenges & Insights – Mohammad Amin Razmjoo Khollari (Supervisor: Edouard Asselin)
11:15 am Development of a Benchtop-Scale Kroll Reactor and Sensitivity Analysis of Select Process Parameters – Thomas Ferguson (Supervisors: Steve Cockcroft & Daan Maijer)
11:30 am Break
11:45 am Modelling Peek Crystallization Process Under a 3D Printing Thermal Profile with Fast Scanning Calorimetry – Shahil Hamid (Supervisor: Sergey Kravchenko)
12:00 pm Data-Driven Surrogate Multi-Scale Analysis of Morphologically Complex Composites from Low-Resolution Structural Data – Kuthan Celebi (Supervisor: Sergey Kravchenko)
12:15 pm Improving The Fibre/Matrix Interface of Natural Fibre Composites Via Chemical Treatment and Hybridization – Shengnan (Sheena) Yan (Supervisor: Yasmine Abdin)
12:30 pm Analysis Of Local Manufacturing Variability in Polymer Melt Extrusion 3D Printing – Soroush Azhdari (Supervisor: Sergey Kravchenko)
12:45 pm Fabrication Of Carbon Nanofiber by Electrospinning with Nitric Acid Treated Asphaltene – Archer Wang (Supervisor: Yasmine Abdin)
1:00 pm Lunch and Posters
1:45 pm Understanding The Role of Intergranular Residual Stresses on the Toughness of Engineering Ceramics – Ebru Karakurt Uluscu (Supervisor: Ben Britton)
2:00 pm Large-Scale Data Analysis of μ-CT Imaging of Composites – Ali Haghverdi (Supervisor: Anoush Poursartip)
2:15 pm Kikuchi Diffraction in the Scanning Electron Microscope with a Compact Direct Electron Detector – Tianbi Zhang (Supervisor: Ben Britton)
2:30 pm Data Fusion of Non-Destructive Testing Techniques for Improved Defect Detection in Long Discontinuous Fiber Composites – Marco Didone (Supervisor: Sergey Kravchenko)
2:45 pm Break
3:00 pm Using Crystal Plasticity Finite Element Method to Model Simple Shear Test – Ripudaman Singh (Supervisors: Chad Sinclair and Warren Poole)
3:15 pm Austenite Decomposition During Hot Rolling of X70 Line Pipe Steel – Smit Patel (Supervisor: Warren Poole)
3:30 pm Microstructure Evolution of Line Pipe Steels During Reheating – Minyu Tseng (Supervisors: Matthias Militzer & Warren Poole)
3:45 pm The Role of Surface Roughness on Cooling of Steel – Zhuo Li (Supervisor: Matthias Militzer)
4:00 pm End of Day
