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Engineering students dominated��the��University of ��ݮ��Ƶ men’s curling team��that earned national gold��with a 7-5 victory over the University of Alberta Golden Bears in Kamloops, B.C.

Skip Jake Walker, a fourth-year electrical engineering student, second Jordan Moreau, a management engineering student, third��Edward Cyr, a mechanical engineering master's student,��and alternate Nathan Ransom, an undergraduate mechanical engineering student,��and other members of the team, captured top spot in the 2013��Men’s Curling Championship in a rematch of last year's finals.

The 2012 ��ݮ��Ƶ Engineering Awards dinner��held on��November 22 honoured engineering's exceptional students, alumni and a friend of the faculty. More than 2,500 students received awards this year for everything from top marks to extracurricular activities such as leadership, community engagement, and involvement in athletics.

A number of awards were distributed at the event, including:

John Wen, a ��ݮ��Ƶ mechanical and mechatronics engineering professor,��has been awarded funding from BioFuelNet Canada for his��grant proposal entitled Emission Performance and Catalytic Combustion of Fuel Blended with 3-OH Methyl Esters. Wen will receive��initial funding��of $68,000 towards his research into developing next generation biofuels.��

Brendan McDonald, a��chemical engineering (nanotechnology) master’s student, captured the second place��2012 Excellence in Thermoset Polymer Research Award for his paper entitled Biomimetic Micro-Structured Surfaces: Pattern Transfer and Fabrication of Icephobic Epoxy Surfaces. McDonald, who��is supervised by��chemical engineering professor Boxin Zhao, presented his paper at the Thermoset Resin Formulators Association (TRFA)��annual meeting held at the end of October��in Orlando, Florida.��

Ibraheem Khan��(MASc, PhD, mechanical) presented��his ��ݮ��Ƶ Engineering research on shape memory alloys during his keynote address at the Medical Manufacturing Innovations Conference held in Toronto at the end of��October. Khan's doctoral thesis was on the discovery of�� Multiple Memory Material Technology for which he and Norman Zhou, a mechanical and mechatronics engineering professor, are co-inventors. Kahn is currently president and CTO of Smarter Alloys and a research associate at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ's Centre for Advanced Materials Joining.

Simarjeet Saini of electrical and computer engineering��had an article published about his silicon nanowire research in the print and online editions of LaserWorld magazine.“Low-cost measurements in optics are the holy grail for photonics researchers,” says��Saini in the article.

��ݮ��Ƶ Engineering students had their chance to��impress Canadian��business leaders��on the October 31 all-student episode of CBC's Dragons' Den.�� Hongwei Liu, an electrical and computer engineering student, and��Desmond Choi, a�� University of ��ݮ��Ƶ arts student, pitched their company MappedIn's smartphone application that helps people navigate through malls.��
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��ݮ��Ƶ's School of Architecture��is one of the top��design schools in North America and the only Canadian institution chosen by AZURE, an award-winning magazine with a focus on contemporary architecture and design.�� The ranking appears in the publication's��November/December issue. In alphabetical order the top five schools��are: Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Southern California Institute of Architecture and ��ݮ��Ƶ.