Award winners. (For the Record).* Dr Laxman "Lucky" Amaratunga has been awarded Laurentian University's Teaching Excellence Award for 2002-2003. Since his arrival at Laurentian University's School of Engineering in 1984, Dr. Amaratunga has taught courses in metallurgical met·al·lur·gy n. 1. The science that deals with procedures used in extracting metals from their ores, purifying and alloying metals, and creating useful objects from metals. 2. engineering and process control. With this award, Laurentian recognizes Dr. Amaratunga's qualities as an outstanding teacher, his enthusiasm and his capacity to involve students in the class. Dr. Amaratunga received the Distinguished Lecturer Award in, 1999-2000 from the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum The Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) is a technical society of professionals in the Canadian minerals, metals, materials and energy industries. It was founded in 1898. In 2006, the organization had 12,000 national members. (CIM (1) (Computer-Integrated Manufacturing) Integrating office/accounting functions with automated factory systems. Point of sale, billing, machine tool scheduling and supply ordering are part of CIM. ), is an active member of CIM and its committees, is an editor of the Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly and received a CIM Fellowship in 1997. Amaratunga is also a proficient pro·fi·cient adj. Having or marked by an advanced degree of competence, as in an art, vocation, profession, or branch of learning. n. An expert; an adept. researcher who has secured more than $900,000 in funding to pursue research related to the environmental aspects of minerals industry, waste processing and utilization, solid-liquid separation, mineral processing mineral processing or ore dressing Mechanical treatment of crude ores to separate the valuable minerals. Mineral processing was at first applied only to ores of precious metals but later came to be used to recover other metals and nonmetallic minerals. , and sulphode dust explosions. |
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