ProfessorChristopher Gourlay

I teach across the MEng/BEng Materials Science and Engineering course and supervise final year research projects in the undergraduate (MEng) and taught postgraduate (MSc) programmes. I also run the 3rd year long laboratory in metals processing.

Current teaching

• Year 2 MATE50004 Structure 2: I am the course coordinator and lecture on ternary phase diagrams and liquid to solid phase transformations.
• Year 3 MATE60007 Sustainable Metallurgy: I lecture on light alloys for automotive mass production: Fe vs. Al vs. Mg; casting alloys vs wrought alloys; recycled alloys; mass production.
• Year 4 MATE70034 Microstructure Engineering in solidification processing: I lecture on the columnar-to-equiaxed transition; grain refinement; competitive solidification; microstructure selection maps; and case studies in the continuous casting of steel, electronic soldering, industrial single crystals (silicon vs. superalloys) and gigacastings.

   

  
  Previous teaching at Imperial College
• (2009-2016) Year 3 MSE-305: Metals Processing: I lectured on solidification processing [casting, heat transfer, grain refinement, eutectic growth, Al-Si case study] and deformation processing [macroplasticity, extrusion, rolling, texture, thermomechanical processing].
• (2016-2025) Year 4 MATE70013 Advanced Engineering Alloys: I lectured on heat transfer in casting; dendrite growth; grain refinement; eutectic growth; competitive solidification; microstructure selection maps; and a case study in aluminium castings.