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A new endowed chair aims to strengthen the already deep relationship between 看片视频 researchers and the aerospace industry. Stephen Yue, a professor in the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, is the inaugural Lorne Trottier Chair in Aerospace Engineering, which is funded by Lorne Trottier, the founder and CEO of Matrox Electronic Systems. The chair will support Yue鈥檚 research on cold-spray manufacturing, a new process that creates aerospace parts by building up layers of metal powder鈥攁 much less wasteful process than traditional machining methods. The NSERC-funded research is a collaboration between researchers in the 看片视频 Aerospace Materials and Alloy Development Centre鈥攊ncluding Richard Chromik, Mathieu Brochu and Jerzy Szpunar鈥擯ratt & Whitney Canada and Jean-Gabriel Legoux鈥檚 thermal spray team at the Industrial Materials Institute in Boucherville. 鈥淚 believe we will have the best facility on the planet,鈥� says Yue. 鈥淏ecause we are creating new materials and processes, we will be helping to establish a technical work force that will attract more aerospace activity and new enterprises.鈥�