Engineering Now :: Volume 5 - Edition 2 :: October 2008
Western Engineering student Daniel Hammond plans to spend a couple of weeks in Antarctica - in February. Hammond is one of 70 students worldwide travelling to
Antarctica to take part in the International Polar Year Antarctic University Expedition. (more)
Awards & Accomplishments
Adam Love, Electrical Engineering MESc student supervised by Dr. Vijay Parsa, has received an NSERC Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship with Research In Motion, Waterloo, Ontario. (more)
One of Western Engineering’s 2007 Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Capstone Design teams, consisting of Suanne Mahabir, Karen Lenkiewicz and Luke McIntyre, attended this year’s competition and won first place for their presentation, Manufacture of Polylactic Acid, biodegradable plastic from renewable sources. (more)
Mustafa El-Sabawi, Chemical Engineering PhD student who is supervised by Dr. Hugo deLasa, was the winner of this year’s 2008 CSChE Conference Best Graduate Student Paper-Poster Presentation held in Ottawa this October. (more)
The University of Western Ontario has received Canada’s only ‘A’ grade for overall student satisfaction among its 16 Canadian peer universities (large – more than 22,000 students). This is the seventh year in a row Western has come out on top among large Canadian universities. (more)
Research
Research is underway to develop pyrolysis technology for the conversion of agricultural waste into fuels and valuable products. Pyrolysis produces bio-oil that can be shipped to a biorefinery for refining into green chemicals and biofuels. Fast pyrolysis research is currently conducted by the Institute for Chemicals and Fuels from Alternative Resources (ICFAR) research group at The University of Western Ontario and is soon to begin at the Bioindustrial Innovation Centre (BIC) at the Research Park, Sarnia-Lambton Campus. (more)
Making a Difference
From the most remote villages of Africa, to First Nations communities of northern Ontario, the need for access to safe drinking water is an urgent matter. The scarcity of energy or major infrastructure challenges can also make it difficult to get safe drinking water to these communities. (more)
Announcements
Effective October 6, Sarah Gaetan joined the Dean’s Office on a secondment as the Coordinator, Faculty & Staff Relations. As many of you know, Sarah has been working in the Undergraduate Services office for the past two years providing support to the Associate Dean, Academic.
Effective October 16, Isobel Nicholson will fill the position of Undergraduate Assistant in the Undergraduate Services Office while Sarah Gaetan is on her secondment in the Deans Office. Isobel has a great deal of administrative experience which she will bring to this position. She comes to us from Derby Staffing Solutions where she has recently worked in a variety of temporary administrative positions for Express Personnel, General Dynamics Land Systems, and The Peoplebank to name a few. She has also worked for The University of Western Ontario as an Assistant to the Dean and Administrative Officer for the Faculty of Information and Media Studies.
The University of Western Ontario's 20th chancellor, John Thompson, was installed Friday during the afternoon fall convocation ceremony. Thompson, a Western Engineering alumnus and chairman of the Board of TD Bank, will be serving a four-year term through 2012. (more)
Upcoming Events and Deadlines
Click
HERE to view Western Engineering's online calendar. This calendar includes a complete list of Western Engineering's upcoming events and deadlines.
Events are colour-coded as follows:
Grey - Faculty-wide events/deadlines
Purple - Student events/deadlines
Light blue/Teal - Faculty member events/deadlines
Orange - Faculty & Staff events/deadlines
Green - Staff events/deadlines
Yellow - UES Events/Announcements
Pink - Faculty, Staff and Graduate student events/deadlines
Past Events
October 3 - 5, 2008
October 16, 2008
October 18, 2008
Contact
.: Allison Stevenson
Spencer Engineering Building, Room 2074
Phone: 519 850-2917 Fax: 519 661-3808
contactWE@eng.uwo.ca
