Discovery Grants

Sixty-six researchers in the Faculties of Engineering, Social Science, and Science have been awarded Discovery Grants totaling $9,319,714 by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for 2004.

Congratulations to the following engineering recipients:

• Abid, Zine-Eddine (Electrical and Computer)
  Design of semiconductor devices and development of circuit techniques for very-deep-submicron silicon technology.
   

• Bartlett, Michael (Civil and Environmental)
  Characterizing emergency vehicle weights for existing bridge evaluation.
   

• Berruti, Franco (Chemical & Biochemical)
  Feed jets-fluidized bed interactions: fundamentals and applications.
   

• Dounavis, Anestis (Electrical and Computer)
  Design/verification methodologies of VLSI circuits.
   

• El Naggar, Hesham (Civil and Environmental)
  Innovative foundations for earthquake resistant structures.
   

• Ghenniwa, Hamada (Electrical and Computer)
  Adaptive agents and multi-agent systems for autonomic computing.
   

• Jiang, Jin (Electrical and Computer)
  An experimental facility for research in fuel cell applications.
   

• MacDougall, John (Electrical and Computer)
  Digital inosodes for geospace monitoring with Glenn Hussey
   

• Margaritis, Argyrios (Chemical & Biochemical)
  Novel bioprocess development and immobilized cell bioreactors.
   

• Mequanint, Kibret (Chemical & Biochemical)
  Cardiovascular tissue engineering.
   

• Miller, Craig (Civil and Environmental)
  Structure and modeling of tropical cyclone boundary layers.
   

• Moallem, Mehrdad (Electrical and Computer)
  Development of intelligent mechantronic systems for flexure control.
   

• Moschopoulos, Gerasimos (Electrical and Computer)
  New Ac/Dc power electronic converters for industrial applications.
   

• Parsa, Vijay (Electrical and Computer)
  Spatial sound processing measurement system with Susan Scollie
   

• Samani, Abbas (Electrical and Computer)
  Nonlinear elasticity reconstruction technique for breast MR elastography.
   

• Stergiopoulos, Stergios (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
  Implementation of adaptive processing for 3D ultrasound imaging and diagnostic intracranial ultrasound.
   

• Youssef, Maged (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
  Fire resilience of seismically damaged RC frames and 2. Seismic behavior of modular steel structures.