Date: 2017-02-23

The Deputy Director of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) Central Research Laboratories, Associate Professor Baba Alafara, has been appointed to lead 25 Professional Materials Scientists selected across the world to give professional guidance to industrialists, Doctoral and Master's students in Materials Science discipline.

The mentors and mentees are expected to attend the 146th annual meeting and exhibitions organised by The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) of Pan American Materials Congress in San Diego, California, United States.

At the six-day conference with the theme: The world comes here, Assoc. Prof Alafara will present a lead research paper titled: Preparation of High Grade Industrial Copper Compound from a Nigerian Malachite Mineral by Hydrometallurgical process. The event starts on February 26.

The selected TMS experts were keenly picked as mentors to provide professional guidance to industrialists and post-graduate students worldwide based on their research inputs and global experiences in minerals and materials processing research, which addressed various professional interests.

Other TMS mentors include Boyd Davis of Kingston Process Metallurgy Incorporation, Richard Kunter of Richard S. Kunter & Associates, Raymundo Arroyave of Texas A&M University, Michael Demkowicz of Texas A&M University, Jeffrey Fergus of Auburn University, Yu Zhoung of Florida International University, Anne Kvithyid of San Diego State University, Sugrib Shaha of the University of Georgia-Savannah River National Laboratory, and Xiaoming Wang of Purdue University, among others.

The event will feature technical divisions, including discussions on Extraction and Processing Division, Functioning Materials Division, Light Metals Division, Materials Processing and Manufacturing Division, and Structural Materials Division.