Engineering professor named fellow of national society

Ali Dolabatadi, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, was named a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineers during the society's annual forum, held this past June in Victoria, BC.

Dolatabadi is an expert in the fields of two-phase flows, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and thermal spray technologies. He is a holder of a patent on "High efficiency nozzle for thermal spray of high quality, low oxide content coatings."

His patented nozzle considerably expands the capacities of the HVOF process and widens its applications. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 2002 and was awarded a Materials and Manufacturing Ontario Technology Transfer Fellowship in recognition of his research in the field of design and optimization of HVOF thermal spray processes.

Dolatabadi is the founder and director of the Multiphase flow and Thermal spray coating laboratory at Concordia. He collaborates extensively with aerospace industries such as Pratt and Whitney Canada, Bombardier Aerospace, and Rolls-Royce Canada on fuel spray atomization, ice protection, and novel coatings. Dolatabadi received the ENCS Young Researcher Achievement award in 2008, as well as teaching awards in 2006 and 2009.