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Opening for a PhD candidate for an industrial R&D project

Thesis topic: “Development of an Electropolishing Method for Titanium Parts Manufactured by Selective Laser Melting”

The successful applicant will work at DynaTool Industries (http://www.dyna-tool.com/index.asp) and will be registered as a PhD candidate in the department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Concordia University.


Objective: transfer the developed technology from lab-scale work-pieces to real manufactured parts.

We offer:

- The possibility to conduct research in the frame of an industrial project involving cutting edge technologies.
- Part of the research will be conducted in France
- Competitive bursaries

We look for

We seek applications from highly motivated students having achieved a first-class cumulative average (A-) during his master degree. Industrial experience is an asset.
Successful candidate should have a strong background in at least three of the following fields:
- Mechanical Design
- Instrumentation
- Control
- Computer Programming
- Modeling of multi-physics systems

Strong English spoken and written skills are required.
French is not required but desirable.
Start date: May 2011 or September 2011 latest
Applications, including a CV, list of publications and short description of projects conducted in industry, should be submitted electronically to Dr. R. Wuthrich (ev.wuthrich@videotron.ca) with the subject: “Opening Electropolishing” (http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~wuthrich/moodle/).