Awards

Michael Agnew - A MetSoc member since 1984, Mike Agnew has been selected to be a recipient of a CIM Fellowship Award. Since 2006 Mike has been enjoying a wide variety of work as an independent consultant from his office in Hudson, Quebec. The work has included assisting with due diligence, project peer reviews, and process technology evaluations, as well as assessing performance within metallurgical operations. Mike worked for more than 33 years for Noranda, Falconbridge and Xstrata starting in technology development and operations support, and later in project and operations management, as Project Manager, General Manager, V.P. Operations and Senior V.P. Technology. "The most important skill I learned from my mentors, peers and colleagues, over those many years, was to distinguish between deficiencies in a technology, or its implementation, and problems with the organisational structure", he said. "Technology is people, and organisational structure is how we work together. The implementation of a new process technology often imposes changes in work methods and organisation. The risk of failure to achieve expected results can come from either inadequate development of the technology or from difficulties with the management of the changes that the technology requires within the organisation", he added. Mike is a member of the Order of Engineers of Quebec and is a graduate of the University of Waterloo. He is also a member of TMS, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, and is an Adjunct Lecturer at Queen's University, Kingston.

Dr. Mahesh Chaturvedi presently holds the position of University Distinguished Professor and Tier-1 Canada Research Chair at University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, where he was also Associate Dean of Engineering (1982-91) and Assoc. VP Research. As a professor of materials engineering, he has contributed extensively to materials education through extension lectures and was ASM-IIM Lecturer in 2006. Eight of his former PhD students are faculty members in Canadian universities and several others occupy important positions in Canadian, American and Chinese industry. As Associate Dean of Engineering, Dr. Chaturvedi was responsible for applying for and securing 5 NSERC Industrial Research Chairs in Faculty of Engineering at University of Manitoba. He also received funds from The Canadian International Development Agency to develop linkages with Khon Kaen University in Thailand, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Lanzhou University in China to improve their teaching of materials science and engineering. Dr. Chaturvedi has contributed his time generously in serving the wider interests of the scientific and research communities. He was Chair of the Manitoba Research Council for two years, a member of the NSERC Chemical and Metallurgical Grant Selection committee, and is a member of College of Reviewers of Canada Research Chairs. Dr. Chaturvedi has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Metallurgical Society of CIM since 2005 and is its current President. He served as Chair of the 2008 Conference of Metallurgists and the 2002 Canadian Materials Science Conference. He has been a regular contributor to the annual Conference of Metallurgists since 1968.

David Dreisinger holds the position of Professor and Chairholder of the Industrial Research Chair in Hydrometallurgy at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Dr. Dreisinger received B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from Queen’s University in Kingston before beginning his career at UBC in 1984. At UBC, Dr. Dreisinger supervises a wide ranging program of research and development in atmospheric and pressure leaching of ores and concentrates, solution purification and the use of electrochemical methods for metal recovery. Dr. Dreisinger (with co-workers) has been actively involved in commercializing the Mt. Gordon and Sepon copper processes in Australia and Laos as well as a number of novel ion exchange technologies. Through the Industrial Research Chair in Hydrometallurgy, Dr. Dreisinger is engaged in teaching technical short courses to the global metallurgical industry. Within the MetSoc of CIM, David has participated in the organizing or co-organizing of a number of technical conferences. Dr. Dreisinger has received a number of awards including the Sherritt Hydrometallurgy Award (1993), the Alcan Award (2005) and INCO Medal (2008).