The Board of Directors is composed of MetSoc members and volunteers who are dedicated to supporting the society by assisting in the planning of community activities, webinars, events and conferences.
The Executive Board consists of the Immediate Past President, President, Vice-Presidents, Treasurer and Secretary.
The Technical Sections represent the technical diversity of the metals, minerals and materials community.
These committees are dedicated to the various services of the society such as membership, students, EDI, publications, etc.
Director – Green Mining Innovation, base/precious metals, and critical minerals
Professor of Materials Engineering at Dalhousie University
RioExpert Metallurgist, Rio Tinto Iron & Titanium, Sorel-Tracy, QC
Assistant Professor, Queen’s University
Director, Energy Solutions at Gas Cleaning Technologies LLC
Materials Science and Engineering, McMaster University
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METSOC is a constituent society of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM).
Dr. Corbin has been a Professor of Materials Engineering since 1997, when he first took up a position at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. Dr. Corbin is currently the NSERC/Pratt and Whitney Canada Industrial Research Chair in Structural Brazing and Processing of Powder Metallurgy Superalloys at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
His current work is primarily in the areas of powder metallurgy and joining of light metals (e.g. Al and Ti) and Ni-based superalloys for aerospace and automotive applications. For more details on Dr. Corbin’s research Team, interests and our High Temperature Thermal Analysis Laboratory (HTTAL) visit the laboratory’s website.
Roki Fukuzawa is a Specialist at Hatch with more than thirteen years of experience in the design and engineering of off-gas handling systems for metallurgical clients in copper, nickel, zinc and gold industries. She has worked on off-gas projects from conceptual studies to detailed engineering.
Julie Lévesque is an R&D project manager at Quebec Metallurgy Center (CMQ), where she is the leader of the mechanical forming axis. She has close to 15 years of experience in the optimization of forming processes in collaboration with industries in the automotive, aerospace and packaging industry, amongst others.
Julie has been involved in MetSoc since 2017 as the Chair of the Light Metals technical section. She was the chair of the Light Metal Technology – Applications for the Transportation Industry at COM 2018 and a co-chair of other Light Metals symposiums at COM in 2019 and 2020. She is also active in her community, being a Women Ambassador of the Profession for the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (Quebec Professional Engineers order).