Noubar is a consulting metallurgist. He specializes in metal properties, composite metals/materials, ceramics, porcelain, failure analysis, and corrosion. Noubar is also a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and former Head of Materials and Mining Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at Dalhousie University, where he teaches courses such as Material Science, Non-Ferrous Alloys, Structure of Metals, Mechanics of Materials, and Metallurgy of Welding. In addition, Noubar is also fluent in English, French and Armenian.

• Metal properties
• Composite metals/materials
• Ceramics
• Failure analysis
• Corrosion

• Ph.D. – Concordia University, Montreal (1983)
• Eng. – Sir George Williams University, Montreal (1972)

• President and Chief Scientist, Nova Crystals Ltd.
• Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dalhousie University

• Member of the American Association for Crystal Growth
• Member of ASM
• Member of the American Ceramics Society (ACERS)
• Member of APMI International