News Archive - 2008
November/December 2008
- Engineering good grades and extracurricular activities
- Safety innovation by student recognized
- Western Engineering Steps-Up for United Way
- Western Engineering students DIG digital games
- New research grant for Simonovic
- Western Engineering's Marathon Man runs for diabetes
- Can robots become eyes and hands of surgeons?
- Waste-to-fuel machine near market-ready
- WORLDiscoveries Research Showcase
- London Hydro makes donation to Green Building
- Plus special announcements, past events and more.
October 2008
- ECE graduate student receives an NSERC Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship with Research In Motion
- CBE students place 1st at National SNC-Lavalin Plant Design Competition
- CBE graduate student, Mustafa El-Sabawi, wins big at CSChE Conference
- Globe ranks Western #1 for seventh year
- Fast Pyrolisis Research at the Bioindustrial Innovation Centres
- Mobile water treatment hope for remote areas
- Plus special announcements, past events and more.
September 2008
- Rohani to receive Engineering Medal at the 2008 Ontario Professional Engineers Awards Gala
- CBE students, finalists in SNC-LAVALIN Plant Design Competition
- Awards promote commercialization
- Roof razing raises housing safety questions
- IN PROFILE: Francois Lagugné-Labarthet and Elizabeth Gillies
- Western Engineering's Claudette MacKay-Lassonde Pavilion has received $1 million from the T.R. Meighen Family Foundation
- Plus special announcements, past events and more.
July/August 2008
- Engineering among top sustainability programs
- Big Beam teams come home winners
- Professor Slobodan P. Simonovic awarded three new grants to continue research
- Engineering PhD earns G-G gold medals
- Research pursues next generation of biofuels
- Western Engineering faculty member wins Early Researcher Award
- Plus special announcements, past events and more.
May/June 2008
- Sharon A. Ling honoured at 2008 Awards Celebration
- Concrete Canoe team has good first showing at competition
- Mechanical & Materials Engineering students win design competition at CSME Forum
- WEBots team wins second place in Robot Challenge
- Western Engineering faculty members receive honour from Canadian Academy of Engineering
- Western Engineering students win Senior Design Competition
- Team of Western Engineering faculty and student win Best Paper Award
- Grad students win prize in OCE video competition
- Geotechnical Research Centre hosts first annual Symposium for NAPLs Research and Groundwater Studies
- Going to Ghana
- Plus special announcements, past events and more.
April 2008
- 2008 School Year Ends on High Note at Design Showcase
- Ph.D. student featured on news for work on Confederation Bridge
- Western Engineering student wins Minerva safety award
- Western Engineering Ph.D. student wins Dean's Award for Research Excellence
- Western Engineering staff members win University Health and Safety Award
- Western Engineering student named Goldman Sachs leader
- Western Engineering staff, faculty and students nominated for first annual Western Green Awards
- Western Engineering students offered unique certification opportunity
- Western Engineering students receive scholarships from RIM
- Breakthrough pilot delivers cleaner water
- Plus special announcements, past events and more.
March 2008
- Western Engineering celebrates with students as they receive their iron rings
- Western Engineering Students and Faculty Honoured at USC Awards of Excellence
- Professor Amarjeet Bassi named new Associate Dean
- Professor Amarjeet Bassi appointed associate editor, receives grant for research
- NSERC Strategic Special Projects Grant awarded to Western Engineering team
- WE student Julie Ladiges wins HP Scholarship
- WE student Melissa Fabian wins first prize in CBE 415
- Students compete in Canadian Engineering Competition
- John M. Thompson named Chancellor at Western
- Budget highlights alternative energy project
- Engineers Without Borders Profile
- Plus special announcements, past events and more.
February 2008
- Bio-Engineering building cleared to make way for new Claudette MacKay-Lassonde Pavilion
- First winner of the Julie Lassonde scholarship announced
- Sunstang team impresses at various events including the Canadian International Autoshow
- $6 million project to bring solar power to electrical grid
- Space science not as ‘pure’ as once imagined
- Plus special announcements, past events and more.
January 2008
- Ross & Jean Scholarship recipients announced
- Dr. Horia Hangan invited to a workshop hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy
- Dr. Slobodan Simonovic nominated for Fellowship
- Western Engineering supporter EllisDon named Canada's best employer
- Sun shines as new Canada Research Chair
- New Engineering project marvel of conservation
- Dream of "green" building about to come a reality at Western Engineering
- Plus special announcements, past events and more.
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