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Carlos Horacio Cáceres
Reader
in Casting Technology
email: c.caceres@uq.edu.au
Materials Engineering
School of Engineering
The University of Queensland
Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia
Telephone: +61 7 3365 4377 Fax:
+61 7 3365 4799
Last updated: July
2012.
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Education
Positions held
·
Reader in Casting Technology (tenured), The University of
Queensland (current). (picture)
·
Visiting Professor, South China University of Technology,
Guangzhou, RPC. 2007-2012 (see class photos 2009; 2010, 2011/2012 a, b, c, d).
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Visiting Scholar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
2007.
· Visiting Researcher, Technological Institute of Iceland
(Ice-Tec); 2005.(picture)
· Visiting Scholar,
Charles University, Prague, 2005.
· Visiting Scholar,
University of Windsor, Ont., 1998.
· Visiting Scholar,
University of British Columbia, B.C., 2002.
· Research Associate,
McMaster University, Ont., 1988-1991. (picture)
· Assistant/Associate
Professor (Tenured), University of Cordoba, Argentina, 1984-1988.
· Postdoctoral Fellow
(Argentine Research Council), McMaster University, Ont., 1980–1983.
Publications
Editorial Work
- Subject Editor (Casting, Heat
treatment and Welding) for the
Journal of Materials Processing Technology
(JMPT)
Awards/Invited
Lectures/International Committees
- 2010
School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering Teaching Award for
“Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning”
- Article
featured as “Editors’ Choice” in Metallurgical and Materials
Transactions, December 2010 (text)
- Article featured
as “Editors’
Choice” in physica status solidi, vol
194, 2002 (with A. Blake).
- Best Article
Award, Int. J. of Cast Metals Research, 1998.
- Best Research
Paper Award, Argentine Society for Metals, 1988.
- International
Committee to the Int. Conf. on the Strength of Materials, ICSMA.
- International
Committee to the ICAMMP2010 and ICAMMP2011.
- Invited lecture
to ICAMMP2010, Shenzhen, RPCh, Nov 2010 (w/J
Tailor and T Sivarupan)
- Invited Lecture
to ICAA-11 (Aachen, 2008) (with J Taylor).
- Invited Lecture
to ICMSMF, Brno, CR, June 27-29, 2007(with P Lukac and A Blake).
- Invited lecture
to ICAA-10 (Vancouver, 2006).
- Invited Lecture
to the 2nd Aluminum Casting Technology
Symposium (ASM, 2002), Columbus, Oh.
- Invited Lecture
to the International Metallographic Society Meeting (IMS-ASM, 1999),
Cincinnati, Oh.
- Invited lecture
to ICSMA-7 (Montreal, 1985) (with DS Wilkinson and X Wu).
Professional Societies
- American Foundry Society (AFS)
- ASM International
- Australian
Nuclear Association Queensland (ANAQ)
- Institute of
Materials Engineers Australasia (IMEA)
- TMS (The Minerals, Metals and
Materials Society)
Teaching/Service
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- Materials
Selection (MECH4301)
- Science and
Engineering of Metals (MECH3305) (with Ming Zhang
since 2006)
- Academic Adviser
to Materials Engineering students (all years)
Research
(see next
page for more details)
- Micromechanics of deformation and
fracture of light (Mg and Al) alloys castings
- Grain size
hardening, twinning hardening, strain hardening in Mg alloys
- Environmental
effects of light alloy applications in transportation
- Ductility issues
in Al-Cu-Si-Mg-Fe alloys
Postdoctoral fellow/Postgraduate Students
- Dr Bao Zhang
- Ms Kun Vanna Yang (CSC-CoE)
- Mr Tharmalingam
Sivarupan, (CAST)
- Mr Nagarajan Devarajan (UQ-COE)
- Ms Saeideh
Abaspour (UQ-CoE)
Research Funding
- CI
within the ARC Centre of Excellence Design in Light Metals.
- CI within the
Co-operative Research Centre for Cast Metals Manufacturing, CAST.
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