August 17-20, 2026 | metsoc@cim.org
August 17-20, 2026 | metsoc@cim.org
Calgary TELUS Convention Centre
$600 Regular, $300 Student (add during your registration)
$600 Regular, $300 Student (email: metsoc@xcdtechnologies.zohodesk.com)
Lunch Included
5 Hours of Professional Development (PDH) with Certificate
This short course will provide the participants a general understanding of three (Al, Mg and Ti) light metals, their applications in industry (state of the art) and future challenges.
In addition, a fundamental understanding of one of the three light metals (Al, Mg, Ti) metallurgies is obtained by the participants. The participants are aware of critical microstructures as well as challenges and opportunities in the related product chain. The participants will be able to choose the correct alloy with an appropriate microstructure for a given application. The attendees would become familiar with the state-of-the-art of the chosen light metal and future research potential.
Second- or last-year BSc students (depending on the courses they have already taken), MSc students, PhD students, scientists, and materials engineers from industry who would like to receive an extended general introduction to titanium alloys.
Requirements: Basic knowledge in materials science (e.g. lattice structures, phase diagrams, phase transformations, mechanical testing, microstructural features like grains, grain boundaries and phases) as well as some basic concepts in manufacturing.
Abdallah Elsayed, University of Guelph
Carsten Siemers, TU Braunschweig
Mihriban Pekguleryuz, McGill University
About the presenters:
Abdallah Elsayed is an associate professor at the University of Guelph who’s research investigates the processing and properties of aluminum and other light alloys. Previous research has focused on new aluminum alloys for electric vehicles and interaction of molten aluminum with tool steel during high pressure die casting operations. He is also becoming involved with additive based manufacturing of aluminum and other light alloys.
For more than 18 years, Carsten Siemers has headed the Titanium Research Group of the Institute for Materials Science at the Technische Universität Braunschweig in Braunschweig, Germany. Research in his group is focussed on the development of advanced Titanium alloys for several fields of applications like the aerospace, the medical and the automotive industries. This includes the identification of alloy compositions and alloy production (conventional and additive manufacturing), the development of thermo-mechanical treatments as well as alloy characterisation and testing in laboratory and pre-industrial scale.
Dr. Mihriban Pekguleryuz's engineering career has spanned 12 years in Canadian industry and more than 15 years in University where her creative and innovative research in light metal alloys has directly resulted in commercially successful products with significant impact to reduce environmental pollution. She developed Noranda's Mg engine alloy used on all BMW models since 2004 and established a high profile for Canada in Mg materials research taking active role in numerous industrial international/national projects, light metals programs and committees. In academia, she held two industrial research chairs, with Rio Tinto Alcan at UQAC and with General Motors of Canada at McGill.
