Adrian Gerlich

Adrian Gerlich is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering and part of the Waterloo Centre for Automotive Research at the university. He is affiliated with the Canadian Welding Association, American Welding Society, and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Canada.

Professor Gerlich’s research interests are in the physical metallurgy of welded components, friction stir welding and processing, roll bonding, overlay welding, and material characterization of light alloys, steels, and metal matrix composites using quantitative electron microscopy.

His current efforts focus mainly on welding metallurgy of high strength steels, and dissimilar metal joining for transportation applications. To-date he has published over 60 journal papers, and 25 conference papers.

• Physical Metallurgy of Welded Components, Mechanical Properties of Pipeline Welds, Friction Stir Welding of Dissimilar Materials, Materials Characterization Using Quantitative Electron Microscopy, Roll Bonding, Overlay Welding, Additive Manufacturing, Advanced Manufacturing

• 2007, Doctorate Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada

• 2003, Bachelor's Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada

• BME 282 - Materials Science for Biomedical Engineers
  • Taught in 2024
• ME 115 - Structure and Properties of Materials
  • Taught in 2021, 2022, 2023
• ME 435 - Industrial Metallurgy
  • Taught in 2021
• ME 436 - Welding and Joining Processes
  • Taught in 2025
• ME 632 - Experimental Methods in Materials Engineering
  • Taught in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• MTE 111 - Structure and Properties of Materials
  • Taught in 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

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