He won the award for his ‘significant and novel contributions’ to materials processing, according to the Society.
Professor Brochu is also director of powder processing and additive manufacturing at the Advanced Materials Laboratory. He is co-director of the The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) network on Holistic Innovation on Additive Manufacturing and co-director of the Canadian Additive Manufacturing Network. Before joining McGill University in 2004, he researched electron beam welding and free-forming of aerospace materials at the Canadian Aerospace Research Centre, and Post Doctoral Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories.
Currently, he is leading research projects to demystify the competitive interactions between metal powder engineering, their AM and sinterability and their response to heat treatment. His research team focuses on AM of unweldable alloys and hard to print geometries, improvement of powder processing and behavior and alloy development.
