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Awards &
Accomplishments |
Alumni Award of
Merit Recipient
Alan Macnab BESc‘72 was recently announced as the Professional
Achievement award winner by the Alumni Awards Committee. Alan
will be honoured at the Homecoming Alumni Awards Dinner on Friday,
October 1st.
Click
here to
read more about Alan Macnab. |
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Engineering Award Banquet
The Annual Engineering Award Banquet was held on Thursday, June
17th at the Westhaven Golf & Country Club.
Click
here to read more about the banquet. |
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Canadian Society
for Civil Engineering Annual Conference
Jeff Nocent and Lisa Feldman, grad students from Civil & Environmental Engineering, were recognized at
the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Annual Conference.
Click here to read more about the
conference. |
Formula SAE 2004 Competition
The Western Engineering Formula SAE racing team placed 86th out of
134 teams at the 2004 competition in Detroit, Michigan.
Click
here to read more about the competition. |
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Environmental Design
Competition
One of Western Engineering's capstone design teams won the judges
special selection category in the Environmental Design Competition
in United Arab Emirates. Congratulations to the following team
members: Alex W. Hansen, Beverly Nollert, Natalie R. Addis and Siu
Y. Chau. Click here to read more
about the competition. |
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American Control
Conference
Harman Bassan, a doctoral student co-supervised by Dr. Moallem and
Dr. Patel received a best paper presentation award at the American
Control Conference in Boston on June 30th. Harman's award
winning paper was titled: Real-Time Vibration Control of an
Industrial Manipulator Mounted on a Compliant Base. |
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Research |
Simonovic Seeks
Flooding Solutions
Slobodoan Simonovic, Research Chair in Civil & Environmental
Engineering, is helping to design a new international mechanism for
coping with ever-increasing damage and loss of life caused by
flooding.
Click here to read more
about Simonovic's research. |
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Dunning
Researches Replacement Joints
Cynthia Dunning, Assistant Professor in Mechanical & Materials
Engineering is working with a team to develop better replacement
joints (implants) for the human body. She is researching how implant
characteristics, such as shape, affect their fixation within the
body. Loss of fixation is one of the main reasons for revision
surgery on artificial joints.Click
here
to read more about Cynthia's research. |
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Parsa Studies How Bats Use
High-Frequency Sounds to Adapt to Environments
With
$154,079 in new funding from CFI, Vijay Parsa will establish a
Laboratory for Advanced Digital Signal Processing Research at
Western.
The new inter-disciplinary facility will facilitate research
projects
ranging from audiological device development, machine condition
monitoring, sympathetic nerve discharge analysis, and bat
vocalization
analysis.
Click
here
to read more about Vijay's research on bat vocalization. |
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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.
Click here
for a complete list of Western Engineering's NSERC recipients. |
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News &
Events |
Picnic in the
Park
Please join us for a picnic in the park on Friday, September 3rd at
12:30 pm in Weldon Park, Arva to welcome new faculty, staff and
graduate students. All food and beverages are complimentary
(subsidized by the Social Committee and the Dean's Office). A
bus has been arranged for those without transportation. It
will leave from SEB at 12:15 p.m. and return at 3:30 p.m.
Please bring a lawn chair. |
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Frosh Orientation
Faculty Day
September 8th is Frosh Orientation Faculty Day. UES has
planned for their annual events, including the Women In Engineering
luncheon in the afternoon. |
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Shinerama Bus
Pull
This year, the Engineering students have decided to stray from
the Shinerama ‘norm’ and will attempt to pull an eight-ton bus
(motor home) around a three hundred-meter circuit to raise money for
the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. This event will take place
on Saturday September 11th from
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon in the Zeller’s parking lot (Masonville
Mall). |
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Innovation: Beyond Technology Exhibition
The 50th Anniversary of Engineering at Western exhibition, called
"Innovation: Beyond Technology" will open on Thursday, September
16th at 1:00 p.m. (the Dean's Hour) at the McIntosh Gallery. The
Exhibition will showcase current research in the faculty and inform
the public about the many areas in which Engineers not only create
and improve technology, but also improve our lives. If there are
faculty members who would still like to be involved, please contact
Jan Shepherd McKee at
jshepherd@eng.uwo.ca. |
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Connected
Career Fair
The Annual Connected Career Fair is taking place on Thursday,
September 30th from 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm in Thompson
Arena. Company representatives (including some alumni) will be
on hand to talk to upper year students about job opportunities
and careers. The event is sponsored by Western Engineering, The
Richard Ivey School of Business, Administrative and Commercial
Studies (ACS) and The Faculty of Science. This year – the
response from companies has been great and we are anticipating a
bigger and better event than in previous years.
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New Grad
Recruiting and Career Fair Workshops
These workshops are organized
by Engineering Career Services for third and fourth year
students interested in learning more about the New Grad
Recruiting Program and how to market themselves at the Connected
Career Fair. Workshops will be held on Thursday, September 16th
from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm; Monday, September 20th from
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm; Tuesday, September 21st from 4:00
pm – 5:00 pm; and Wednesday, September 22nd from 5:00
pm – 6:00 pm. For additional information contact
Michelle Prestwich at
x81154.
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Spencer
Engineering Building Renovations
There will be renovations to SEB from August 24th - December 20th
2004.
The renovations will include some shutdowns during the demolition
and rebuilding phase.
Click here for
more information. |
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Water Shutdown in
Thompson Engineering Building
There will be a shutdown of the domestic hot & cold water in TEB on
Wednesday, September 1st from 7:00 am -8:00 AM to test the backflow
preventer for the building. This will affect the entire water supply
to the building. |
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Meteoroids
Conference At Western
Close to 100 astronomers, astrophysicists, cosmo chemists, space
physicists, engineers and others were in the Spencer Engineering Building from
August 16th - August 20th for the Meteoroids 2004 Conference.
The week long conference included presentations from Western's
Meteor Physics Group, including a presentation from Alan Webster,
Electrical and Computer Engineering. |
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Engineering Golf Retreat
The 2004 Engineering Golf Retreat took place at the Fox Golf Club on
Friday, June 25th.
Click
here to view pictures from the event. |
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Engineering &
Medicine Collaboration
The Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry
have joined forces....again! Starting September 2005, the
Schulich School of Medicine will reserve 3 designated spots for
Western Engineering students specifically.
Click
here to read more about this exciting
opportunity. |
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Deadlines |
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Sabbatical Applications
Completed Sabbatical Applications are to be submitted to the
Dean's Office (for any leave during the period between July 1,
2005 and June 30, 2006) by Monday, September 13, 2004.
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Announcements |
Welcome Aboard
Western Engineering would like to welcome: |
| Dr. Lindsay Anderson
Karen Foullong
Dr. Lior Kogut
Allison Stevenson
Dr. Xueliang (Andy) Sun |
Assistant Professor, Civil &
Environmental Engineering (currently an maternity leave until
January 2005). Undergraduate & GRC Assistant, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Visiting Professor, Mechanical and
Materials Engineering
Communications Officer, Dean's Office
Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Materials Engineering |
Acting Chair
Dr. Maciej Floryan has been appointed Acting Chair of the Department of
Mechanical & Materials Engineering for 11 months, effective August
1, 2004.
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NSERC-University Faculty Award
Recipients
Western Engineering congratulates
Jayshri Sabarinathan and Lindsay Anderson on being Western
Engineering's most recent NSERC-University Faculty Award
recipients. Jayshri held a limited term appointment in Electrical
& Computer Engineering since last September and as of July 1 began
her probationary appointment. Lindsay Anderson joined Civil
&
Environmental Engineering us a probationary faculty member, also on
July 1, 2004.
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Farewell
Western Engineering wishes Dr. Robert Martinuzzi the best of luck in
his new position at the University of Calgary. |
