Mr. Georges Salloum

Director General, NRC Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute

Mr. Georges Salloum is the Director General of the NRC Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute (NRC-IMTI) since 1999. NRC-IMTI is a leader in the research and development of integrated technologies for the manufacture of products and equipment, focusing on Material Addition Processes, Precision Fabrication Processes, Shape Transfer Processes, Concurrent Engineering, Distributed Manufacturing and Modelling and Simulation.

Mr. Salloum was formerly Research Director at NRC Industrial Materials Institute (NRC-IMI) where he managed interdisciplinary research teams in material processing (moulding, casting, extrusion and forming) of polymers, tool steels, casting alloys and composites. He also supervised experimental research projects and numerical modelling on fluid flow, solidification and the structural behaviour of materials. Before joining NRC in 1981, Mr. Salloum served as Project Engineer in several companies, including IBM Canada.

In 1989, Mr. Salloum introduced a simple model for collaborative research in manufacturing: the Special Interest Group (SIG). This new framework, more fluid and flexible than a Consortium structure, targets specific areas of manufacturing. Mr. Salloum has since been directly involved in the creation of six SIGs on precision and freeform fabrication, injection moulding, extrusion-blow moulding, die-casting and thermoforming. He has developed several multi-client projects and other cooperative projects, with national and international industries, universities, and research organizations. Mr. Salloum acted as scientific advisor for strategic projects for NRC, NSERC, reviewer for the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and the Canada Research Chairs (CRC), National Science Foundation (NSF, US), Industry Canada and provincial research organizations. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), a member of Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO), Society of Aerospace and Automotive Engineering (SAE), Society of Plastic Engineers (SPE) and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME - Computer and Automated Systems Association and Technology Watch Committee).