Dr. Roderick Guthrie

Roderick I.L. Guthrie, Macdonald Professor of Metallurgy and Director of McGill's Metals Processing Centre, is a scientific leader in the application of advanced heat, mass, and fluid flow theory to the analysis, improvement, and design of a wide range of metallurgical processing operations. His pioneering research on liquid,metals, for instance, spans such topics as gas bubbling/jetting systems, filtration of inclusions, melting and mixing phenomena of alloy additions, and complex three-dimensional metal flows in furnaces, ladles, tundishes, and strip-casting machines. The author of two acclaimed textbooks and a prolific inventor, he is co-inventor of the LIMCA inclusion detector now in routine use for process optimization and quality assurance of melts of aluminum.