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Awards : H.H. Uhlig Current Recipient
The H.H. Uhlig Award is given in recognition of outstanding effectiveness in post-secondary corrosion education as exhibited by an educator who excites their students through outstanding and innovative teaching in corrosion. To qualify, nominations must be received within 10 years of the nominee entering the field of education. An educator may qualify who has effectively conveyed and instilled in students the principles and applications of corrosion science and technology, and has stimulated students to enter professional pursuits in defining and mitigating corrosion problems.
The 2010 Uhlig Award recipient is Noam Eliaz.
Professor Eliaz has been successful in establishing graduate and undergraduate corrosion programs as well as the largest corrosion laboratory in Israeli academia at Tel-Aviv University. He is the founder and/or lecturer of seven different courses in the study of materials and corrosion at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, and for students seeking degrees in many different scientific disciplines.
He established the first corrosion course at Tel-Aviv University. In the framework of this course, he was the first educator in Israel to dedicate one lecture to corrosion costs and surveys conducted worldwide. The graduate courses that he teaches, including Corrosion Engineering, are among the most popular courses in the Faculty of Engineering and attract many undergraduate and graduate students, including students from other faculties.
Eliaz has successfully established the largest corrosion lab in Israeli academia. The lab attracts many graduate students, most of whom have received their degree cum laude. Nationally, the lab has become one of the major sources of employees in the field of corrosion.
He led the design of an extended M.Sc.-Ph.D. interfaculty Materials and Nanotechnologies Program, a joint venture of five faculties, which officially launched this academic year. Currently, he is working on the foundation of a new Department of Materials Engineering at Tel-Aviv University.
During his short time in the field of education, Eliaz has advised numerous B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. students, many of whom have been recognized for excellence locally and, in some cases, internationally
From 2003 to 2005, Eliaz served as the chairman of the Israel Section of NACE. During that time period, he initiated many educational activities such as seminars, workshops, intensive courses on topics such as cathodic protection, and industry visits, exposing young professional students to the corrosion problems encountered in different industries and approaches to mitigate them.
NACE proudly recognizes Noam Eliaz as the 2010 recipient of the Uhlig Award.
Noam Eliaz is an associate professor at Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.