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| Born | Carolyn Russell March 15, 1941 Hazel Grove, Cheshire, England |
| Occupation | Metallurgist |
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| Education | B.Sc., Ph.D., physical metallurgy, Imperial College London |
| Thesis | Lattice parameters and superconducting properties of alloys based on lead and idium (1966) |
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| Institutions | Queen's University University of Waterloo |
Carolyn M. Hansson CM FRSC (nee Russell;March 15,1941) is a Canadian materials engineer. She was the first female student to attend the Royal School of Mines at Imperial College,London,and the first woman to graduate with a PhD in metallurgy from there. Hansson was honoured for pioneering a monitoring system for evaluating the integrity of concrete structures.
Hansson was born on March 15,1941,in Hazel Grove,Cheshire,England. [1] Growing up,she attended an all-girls school in England and applied for metallurgy at Imperial College. [2] Upon being accepted,she was the first female student to attend the Royal School of Mines at Imperial College,London,and the first woman to graduate with a PhD in metallurgy from there. [1] She was also only one of two women in the United Kingdom with a PhD in metallurgy. [3]
In 1976,Hansson joined AT&T Bell Labs where she stayed four years before spending the following nine as a research scientist,and eventually as head of the Research Department,at the Danish Corrosion Centre. [4] When her husband was extended a position in Maryland,Hansson accepted an appointment within the Martin Marietta’s Institute for Advanced Studies. [2] She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1977 for research on physical metallurgy. [5] [6] doing these studies at the University of Cambridge. [7] She was awarded the 1980 Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award. [8]
In 1990,she became a professor and head of the Materials and Metallurgical Engineering Department at Queen's University and then joined the University of Waterloo in 1996 as Vice President of University Research. [4] The following year,she was elected a Fellow of The Minerals,Metals &Materials Society. [9] Hansson was eventually replaced as VP by Paul Guild in 2001 after a five year term. [10]
Hansson's research focus is on the corrosion of steel inside concrete. She has identified techniques for measuring the amount of corrosion and also studies rust-resistant reinforcing materials. [11] Hansson has worked as a consultant to the Ministry of Transportation Ontario and Alberta Transportation in corrosion monitoring of bridge structures. [12] In 2005,Hansson resigned from Hydrogenics Corporation upon their acquisition of Stuart Energy. [13] A few years later,she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for her contributions in the basic science of corrosion and metallurgical processes and applied engineering. [14] Hansson also received the 2009 Acta Materialia,Inc. Materials &Society Award. [4]
In 2014,she was appointed Executive Secretary and Cooperating Society Governor of Acta Materialia Inc. [15] The next year,Hansson was appointed a member of the Order of Canada for "pioneering a monitoring system for evaluating the integrity of concrete structures." [16] She has also been appointed a Fellow of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences,the UK Institution of Materials,Minerals and Mining,and the American Concrete Institute. [15] Two years later,she joined the Board of Directors at Electrovaya Inc. [17] During the year,she was appointed head of Electrovaya's Disclosure Committee after it was fined $250 thousand by the Ontario Securities Commission. [18]
As of 1980,she lived in Murray Hill,New Jersey. [7]
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