UBC Mechanical Engineering professor Dr. Altintas has received the Gold Medal Award from Engineers Canada—the highest recognition of its kind in engineering in Canada—bestowed for his exceptional individual achievement and distinction in the field of machining and machine tools.
Dr. Altintas received an NSERC Strategic Networks grant last year, to lead the NSERC Canadian Network for Research and Innovation in Machining Technology (CANRIMT). Dr. Altintas holds an NSERC-Pratt & Whitney Canada Industrial Research Chair in Virtual High-performance Machining and is the leading scientific authority in machining and machine tool control engineering worldwide. He has also published a senior undergraduate- and graduate-level textbook titled “Manufacturing Automation: Principles of Metal Cutting, Machine Tool Vibrations and CNC Design”. The CANRIMT Network will receive $5 million from NSERC and $400,000 from industry over five years, and includes 20 researchers from seven universities in B.C., Alberta, New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec. Approximately 100 engineers are expected to be trained through the network.
Dr. Altintas has received recognition from around the world and numerous honors and awards for the global impact of his scholarly work. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Pratt & Whitney Canada, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the International Academy of Production Engineering Researchers (CIRP), the international Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and Tokyo University. He has received an Honorary Degree from the University of Stuttgart; and in October, he received the APEGBC R.A. McLachlan Memorial Prize—the highest honour that can be bestowed on a B.C. engineer in recognition of his outstanding professional and community service.
He was honoured at the Engineers Canada Awards Gala held at the Casino Nova Scotia in Halifax on March 28, 2011.
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Congratulations Dr. Altintas on this huge achievement.