DAVID WEISGERBER, P.ENG.
Metallurgical Engineer

• Failure Analysis: material fatigue, creep, overload, SCC, pitting corrosion, etc.
• Lab Experience: metallography, characterization, SEM, EPMA, Optical microscopy, XRD, EDX, and hardness testing,
• Field Experience: Visual Inspection, LPI, MPI, field hardness, replicas, PMI, SPARK, acoustic emission.
• Process Engineering and Design: mass balance, heat balance, flow sheets and P&ID, machine and equipment design and design and equipment codes (ASTM, AISI, ASME and API, AWS)

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

• Bachelor of Metallurgical Engineering (B. Eng.) Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 2000
• Bachelor of Science of Chemistry (B.Sc.) Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 2000
• Diploma of Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, April 1997
• Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists, and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA)

EXPERIENCE

Materials Engineer

• Destructive and nondestructive testing, inspection and engineering of materials.
• Perform failure analysis investigations for customers detailing mechanisms and recommendations.
• Work with ASTM, ASME and API codes.
• Experience with fatigue, mechanical failures and corrosion.
• Work with inspection teams and customers to provide material solutions for customers.
• Experience with acoustic emission, metallurgical replication, Visual Inspection LPI, MPI, UT, PMI, SPARK and hardness testing.
• Asset management, equipment databases, corrosion monitoring and isometric and P&ID drawings

Process and Design Engineer

• Custom design, fabrication and manufacture of industrial ceramics.
• Research and development of ceramics, glasses, cemented carbides, cermets, metal, matrix composites semiconductors and single crystals.
• Kiln design and construction
• Design and fabrication experience utilizing stainless steels, monels, inconels, nickel alloys, maraging steels, alloy steel, tool steels, titanium alloys and cobalt alloys and refractory materials, alumina, silica, zirconia and graphite

Metallurgical Technician

• Steelmaking research on slag formation, molten slag chemistry and refractory materials.

Process Engineer EIT

• Operated and configured pilot plant with process technicians.
• Assisted plant engineers with mass balance for the plant.
• Commissioned and evaluated test equipment.

Mill Operator

• Operated CIP (Carbon In Leach) cyanide circuit.
• General equipment maintenance and grinding mill liner changes.