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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Engineering science promoter wins NSERC award

ݮƵEngineering's outreach operations manager Martin Scherer is among threeUniversity of ݮƵ winners who will receive funding fromtheNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) 2011 PromoScience Program Competition, the results of which wereannouncedonMay 17.Scherer will receive$38,100 overthree yearsfor Engineering Science Quest's satelliteprogramming.

The PromoScience program offers financial support for organizations working with young Canadians to promote an understanding of science and engineering.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Engineering students win both Governor General's Medals for grad studies

Both Spring 2012 Governor General's Gold Medals for ݮƵ graduate studies have been won by engineering students. Matthew Day, a mechanical engineering MEng student, has been selected as the master's medal winner and Rongxing Lu, an electrical and computer engineering doctoral candidate, has been chosen as the doctoral medal winner. Both will be honoured at spring convocation.

Monday, May 14, 2012

CEE doctoral candidate honoured with presentation award

Mark Spanjers, a civil and environmental engineering doctoral candidate,has won the Michael A. Provart Environmental Award for best overall student presentation at the 2012 Ontario Water Works Association/Ontario Municipal Water Association Joint Annual Conference and Exhibition held Mary 6-9 in Niagara Falls.He presented a talk entitled “Comparison of four media types for traditional and biofiltration treatment goals: Assessment of rough engineered media and implications for filter media choice.”

Monday, May 14, 2012

ECE professor wins IEEE technical achievement award

Omar Ramahi of electrical and computer engineering isthe2012 recipientof the IEEE EMC Society'stechnical achievement award.The honour recognizes Ramahi's significant technical accomplishments in the field of electromagnetic compatibility.

Friday, May 11, 2012

Grad student wins prestigious Vale scholarship

Rana Tehrani Yektais bright, ambitious and an inspiration for women in engineering.The civil engineering master's studentisthe newest $10,000 Vale Master’s in Engineering Scholarship winner and joins the list of impressive women who represent the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation (CEMF) and Vale inencouraging youth and promoting engineering as a profession to women across Canada.

Thescholarship is awarded annually to the most promising woman in a graduate engineering program at the master’s level in Canada and comes with awork place opportunity with Vale.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Watch management sciences guest interviews on Skype

Looking for information on the impact of information technology on people at work and other thought-provoking topics? Guest speakers on information technology and other subjects presented to management sciences professor Peter Carr's classes are available on YouTube. The speakers include:

Friday, May 4, 2012

Engineering researchers receive ERA funding boost

Three ݮƵ Engineering researcherswereamong the11throughoutthe ݮƵRegion who receivedprestigious Early Researcher Awards that were announcedbyJohn Milloy, MPP for Kitchener Centre, onMay 4.Alexander Wong of systems design engineering,Zhongwei Chen andBoxin Zhao, both of chemical engineering,received $140,000 eachto support their researchprojects.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

New director of nanotechnology engineering appointed

Christopher Backhouse, an electrical and computer engineering professor, has been appointed the new director of ݮƵ's nanotechnology engineering program. His term runs from May 1, 2012 to April 30, 2015. Backhouse will succeed current director Marios Ioannidis of chemical engineering.

Friday, April 20, 2012

Professor wins 2012 Young Architect Award

Lola Sheppard, aSchoolof Architectureprofessor, has beenselectedas therecipient ofArchitecture Canada's2012 Young Architect Award.
Sheppard, who hasbeen honoured with several awards in the pastyear includingthe2011 Holcim Gold Award,is one of the founding directors of InfraNet Lab, a design research companydedicated to the role infrastructures and networks play in our environment.