Canadian Academy of Engineering.
C. (Ravi) Ravindran was elected president of the Canadian Academy
of Engineering (CAE) at the CAE's Annual General Meeting held in
June 1 in Toronto, ON. He is a professor of advanced materials and
manufacturing processes at Ryerson University in Toronto where he
directs the Centre for Near-net-shape Processing of Materials, which he
founded in 1991. He has an extensive record of collaborative research
with industry, making extensive R&D and engineering contributions to
the steel industry and auto parts industry in many areas including steel
making, rolling, micro alloying, and automotive casting processes,
particularly for light alloys of magnesium and aluminium.
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