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Designing for Ice with

Ian

Jordaan

By Andrew Safer (Credit: James Delgado Collection)

Dr. Ian Jordaan, Professor Emeritus and University Research Professor in the Faculty of Engineer- ing and Applied Science at Memorial University, and President of Ian Jordaan Associates, Inc.

tap into Canadian expertise. In 1986, I was fortunate to obtain

How did a South African engineering student a position at Memorial University (in St. John’s, Newfound- end up in Newfoundland?

land) as a research chair, sponsored by Mobil. The focus was I immigrated during the time that Mandela was im- to investigate ice-structure interaction, which I had been very prisoned on Robben Island. I was strongly pro-Mandela. I interested in when I was working for DNV. This gave me a went to England ? rst, where I did doctoral studies, and then chance to do research in more depth.

I immigrated to Canada and obtained a position at the Uni- The position here at Memorial was the NSERC Mo- versity of Calgary. Then I entered consulting work with Det bil Industrial Research Chair in Ocean Engineering. It was

Norske Veritas in Calgary. They had formed a Cold Climate the ? rst Collaborative Industrial Research Chair established

Technology Center. at Memorial, and among the ? rst in Canada. Fairly soon after I became head of research and development for them coming here in 1986 I started working on several projects with and later became vice president in Canada for R&D. In the C-CORE. I’ve worked on and off with them ever since, usu- early 1980s when I was at DNV, Calgary was the chief place ally on a project basis. I have worked on various aspects of for the Arctic because access was generally from Calgary Hibernia, Terra Nova, White Rose, Hebron and other projects north. Quite a few oil companies were there. It was a logical offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. I’ve also worked on place for DNV to do cold climate technology. The idea was to projects in the Beaufort Sea, Barents Sea and Caspian Sea.

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