Mihaiela Isac
Mihaiela Minea Isac is a Romanian and Canadian metallurgist whose research publications focus on the physical properties of steel and aluminum and on their production processes. She is affiliated with the McGill Metals Processing Centre at McGill University.[1]
Education and career
Isac has master's and doctoral degrees from Politehnica University of Bucharest. After postdoctoral research at the Delft University of Technology, she was a professor of metallurgy at the Politehnica University of Bucharest from 1986 to 2004. She has been affiliated with McGill University since 1995,[2][3] including being associate director of the McGill Metals Processing Centre, and as president and CEO of MetSim Inc.[4]
She has also chaired the Light Metals Section of The Metallurgy and Materials Society (MetSoc), one of the constituent societies of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum.[3]
Recognition
Isac is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum,[3] and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering,[4] elected in 2023.[5]
In 2010, Isac and Roderick Guthrie of the McGill Metals Processing Centre were the co-recipients of the NSERC Leo Derikx Award, "for their contributions to global advances in liquid and solid metal processing".[6] Isac is the 2022 recipient of the MetSoc Research Excellence Award,[7] and of the MetSoc Silver Medal Award.[8]
References
- ^ "McGill Metals Processing Centre", Centres & Institutes, McGill Faculty of Engineering, retrieved 2025-09-06
- ^ "Mihaiela Isac", LinkedIn, retrieved 2025-09-06
- ^ a b c "Mihaiela Isac", Award winners, Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, retrieved 2025-09-06
- ^ a b "Isac, Mihaiela", Directory of Fellows, Canadian Academy of Engineering, retrieved 2025-09-06
- ^ New CAE Fellows, Canadian Academy of Engineering, archived from the original on 2023-10-02, retrieved 2025-09-06
- ^ Government of Canada Recognizes Innovative Collaboration Between Business and McGill University, Government of Canada, 25 November 2010, retrieved 2025-09-06
- ^ MetSoc Research Excellence Award, MetSoc, 27 June 2022, retrieved 2025-09-06
- ^ MetSoc Silver Medal Award, MetSoc, 27 June 2022, retrieved 2025-09-06
External links
- Mihaiela Isac publications indexed by Google Scholar