October 2011
Engineering students and alumnus compete in Pan Am Games
Alexandra Bruce, a student who completed her second year of studies in Civil Engineering at Western before taking a break to prepare for the Pan Am Games, has won a gold medal in women's doubles in badminton. Alex return to Western in 2012 to complete her Civil Engineering degree. Conor Trainor, fourth-year Civil Engineering, and Reid Halpenny, BES'11, will also compete at the games this week. Trainor in Rugby and Halpenny in Volleyball.
May 2011
CEE International Development Students Embark on their Summer Placements
This year's Civil Engineering and International Development students are making a difference in Zambia and the Gambia this summer. You can follow their progress and adventures on their blogs:
Spencer Weber:
http://spencerweber.wordpress.com/ -
Spencer is working in Zambia from May to August with Engineers
Without Borders Canada in the agriculture value chains sector.
John Iezzi:
http://johniezzi.wordpress.com/
John is working this summer with the Gambian Ministry of Agriculture
with Dan (Hyland) and Danielle (Ahadzie)
Dan Hyland:
http://danielhyland.wordpress.com/
Dan is working this summer with the Gambian Ministry of Agriculture
with John and Danielle
Danielle Ahadzie:http://gambia2011yena.wordpress.com/
Danielle is working this summer with the Gambian
Ministry of Agriculture with John and Dan
For more information about the program and our students please check out their website.
March 2011
City of London Design Competition Results
Congratulations to all our student teams for a very successful afternoon on March 4, 2011 -- the presentations for the City of London Design Competition were all excellent. The judges were impressed with the quality of submissions this year.
Special congratulations to our first place and two second place
winning teams:
RGL Consulting Engineers (LtoR): Aaron Mohammed, Philip Spencer, Leanna King, Muhannad Bagajati and Demetrios Vaiopoulos (absent);
Six Degrees of Freedom (LtoR): Reid Halpenny, Michael Thompson, Karol Chorostecki, Nicholas Jones, Valeriy Tyshchuk, and Keith Kraayenbrink;
Modern Civil Engineering Solutions
(LtoR): Lee Santos, Stephen Holt, Matthew Darling and Jovan Draca and Jordan Wilson.
February 2011
CEE's Western Engineering Design Competition Results
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is pleased announce and congratulate this year's winners of the department's WEDD Competition which was help on Friday, February 18, 2011.
The First Place
prize of $600 went to the design group calling themselves Six
Degrees of Freedom, for their design of a Sunningdale Road
bridge over Medway Creek. The team includes:
Karol Chorostecki,
Two second place
prizes of $200 went to design teams RGL Consulting Engineers (Muhannad
Bagajati, Leanna King, Aaron Mohammed,
Philip Spencerand Demetrios Vaiopoulos) for their design for
the removal of the Hunt Weir; and SWIFT Consulting (Kyle
Gilbertson, Bernard Kim, Nathan Madigan, Myles Swift and Kim Van
Andel) for their design of a pedestrian footbridge over
Sunningdale Rd.
November 2010
CEE Course Instructors on 2009-2010 USC Teaching Honour Roll
The Department of
Civil and Environmental Engineering is pleased announce and extend
congratulations to the instructors of 2009-2010 who have received
USC Teaching Honour Roll Certificates.
Instructors of CEE courses who are recipients include:
Salah El-Din Farouk Abdal El-Fitiany,
Jason Gerhard, and
Frederick J Keenan
Based on information received from the course and teacher
evaluations, this award is presented to the most outstanding
teachers on campus. Professors that receive an accumulated
average of 6.3 or higher out of 7 on the first 14 questions of the
evaluations are recognized with this award from the University
Students' Council.
September 2010
CEE Hosts WE Distinguished Lecturer
Environment
geotechnical engineer Prof. Fred Kulhawy (
February 2010
City of London Design Competition Results
Congratulations to all our student teams for a very successful
evening on February 26th -- the presentations for the City of London
Design Competition were all excellent. The judges were
impressed with the quality of submissions this year.
Special congratulations to our winning teams:
Clean Water Solutions: Nolan Danard, Teresa Brown, Amro Miqdadi and Andrei Shevchuk
Prestige Worldwide Engineering Enterprises: Scott Bushell, Clarke Campbell, Rory Doherty, Matthew Esposito and Matthew Marttila
SkyNet Co.: Michelle Hennessy, Andrew Ablenas, Kyle Rundle Drake, Abdallah Abu Farah and Shiban Haithem
Prestige
Worldwide Engineering Enterprises, left
to right: Scott Bushell, Clarke Campbell, Matthew Marttila, Matthew Esposito, and Rory Doherty.
SkyNet
Co.
left to right:
Michelle Hennessy,
Abdallah Abu Farah,
Shiban Haithem,
and
Andrew Ablenas
(Kyle
Rundle Drake
absent)top
November 2009
2009 Polar Stick Bridge Competition a Snapping Success
Congratulations to all the students from A.B. Lucas, H.B. Beal, and London Central Secondary Schools who entered their bridges in this annual event hosted by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the student group Western Society of Civil Engineering (WSCE).
The night was full of a polar stick splintering fun and excitement as more that 20 bridges constructed of polar sticks (donated by Nestle Canada), dental floss (donated by the Faculty of Dentistry) and a bottle of white glue were stressed to destruction.
There were a number of good entries, said Civil engineering professor Mike Bartlett, "but the winners put the most thought into their designs and the most care into the construction of their bridges." Win or lose, it's a fun thing to do and a good learning experience, he said.
This year's Best Overall Bridge which held 250kg a weight 262 times its own weight was constructed by Nicole Ginzel of H.B. Beal SS. She also took home the prize for the Best Bridge by an Individual Student. The prize for the Best Bridge by a Student Team went to Hannes Filler, Monan Wang, and Matthew Ng from A.B Lucas SS. Their bridge, Atlas held 200 times its own weight. Sophia Liu and Shirley Yuan's, The Little Boulder, took home the prize for Most Aesthetically Pleasing Bridge.
London Free Press On-line Coverage (story, photos, video)
Left to Right: Nicole Ginzel (Best Overall Bridge), Ernest Yanful (representing CSCE), and Cameron Gorrie (Stantec Consulting Ltd.)
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CEE Faculty Member Receives Alan H. Yorkdale Memorial Award
Congratulations are extended to our own Dr. Ashraf El Damatty for receiving the Alan H. Yorkdale Memorial Award for his paper titled “Behavior of Partially Grouted Reinforced Masonry Shear Walls – Experimental Study” published earlier this year at the 11th Canadian Masonry Symposium.
The Alan H. Yorkdale Memorial Award is presented not more frequently than once a year to the author or authors of the best paper concerning clay shale, concrete, or sand-lime masonry published in the English language. The award, established in 1987 by Committee C15 on Manufactured Masonry Units, honors Alan H. Yorkdale, , former Secretary of C15, member of Executive Committee of C15, Chairman of C15.02 for 18 years and a leading proponent of the advancement of masonry engineering and research in his 27 years of service with the Brick Institute of America. This award is financed through voluntary contributions by ASTM Committee C15 members and other organizations.
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CEE Faculty Member Designated Diplomate, Water Resources Engineer (D.WRE)
Congratulations are extended to our own Dr. Slobodan Simonovic for receiving the designation of Diplomate, Water Resources Engineer (D.WRE) from the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers (AAWRE).
The Academy has conferred the Honorary Diplomate (Hon.D.WRE) status to 18 individuals and the D.WRE certification to 500 professional engineers. Each professional engineer has demonstrated the highest level of achievement in water resources engineering through their water resources engineering experience, advanced level of education, and contributions to the engineering profession. These individuals exemplify and embody the very best in the broad field of water resources engineering; from academia, public service, and private practice. AAWRE celebrate these outstanding leaders that have made significant contributions to the field of water resources engineering and leading by example in furthering AAWRE's mission to improve the practice, elevate the standards, and advance the profession of water resources engineering.
March 2009
City of London Design Competition Results
Left to Right: Kyle Howe, Eric Simon, Tiffany Palmer, Marcin Blazejowski, and Cameron Laffin of Cliffton Engineering; and Ryan Devries, Haider Ahmed, and David Williams (absent: Roman Elazar and Jennifer Francis) of Team Enviro Spirit.
Congratulations to all our student teams
for a very successful evening on March 3, 2009 -- the presentations for
the City of London Design Competition were all excellent. The judges
were impressed with the quality of submissions this year.
Special congratulations to our two first place and second place winning
teams:
Cliffton Engineering: Marcin Blazejowski, Kyle Howe, Cameron Laffin, Tiffany Palmer, Eric Simon
Team Enviro Spirit: Haider Ahmed, Ryan Devries, Roman Elazar, Jennifer Francis, David Williams
Mifflin-Dunder Engineering and Associates: Alexandra Moore, Travis Parker, Jennifer Simich, Matthew Stead, Michelle Welch
Left to Right: Alexandra Moore, Matthew Stead, Jennifer Simich, Travis Parker, Michelle Welch of Mifflin-Dunder Engineering and Associates.
February 2009
CEE Western Engineering Design Day Completion Results
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering held it's Western Engineering Design Day Competition on Friday, February 13, 2009 in the Great Hall.
Congratulations to our winning teams:
First Place and overall winner:
Telford Engineering: Jeffrey Blaylock, David Hendry, Bradley McKellar, Pauline Sceviour, Corey Voisin. For their CN Bridge-CN4 CPCI girders and RC slab design.
Telford Engineering will represent CEE in Western Engineering Design Days – Final Presentations scheduled on Tuesday, March 24, 2009.
DeMarco Family Green Technologies Award:
Right to Water: Taryn Meyers, Tyler Rosen. CEE International Development students with their portable water purification system design.
Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction Award:
Auspicious: Neramith Khamvongsa, Melissa Meems, David Mizzen, Kenneth Shannon, Sarah Stenabaugh
Acala Engineering: Ali Al-Saady, Alexander Dolson, Terri Janzen, Johnnathan Vargas, Sheryl Sotomil
November 2008
2008 Polar Stick Competition a smashing success
Congratulations all of our 2008 Polar Stick Bridge Competition contestants. The night was full of a polar stick splintering fun and excitement as more that 20 bridges constructed of polar sticks (donated by Nestle Canada), dental floss (donated by the Faculty of Dentistry) and a bottle of white glue were stressed to destruction. Contestants included high school students from A.B. Lucas SS, Oakridge SS, H.B. Beal SS; and first year students from Fanshawe College, and Western Engineering. It came down to a very tight race with a difference of only 0.6 N separating the winners from their closest competitors. The winning team of the Best Overall Bridge was the duo of Laura Bujouves and Gretta Janitz from H.B. Beal Secondary School with their bridge, Bridgette. They also took the prize for the Best Bridge by a High School Student or Team. Other winners of the night were: Western Engineering students Colin Lee and Gary Chan for the Best Bridge by a First Year Student or Team; and from Oakridge SS Hojun Pyo and Brody Kim for the Most Aesthetically Pleasing Bridge.
Polar Stick Competition winners Gretta Janitz and Laura Bujouves with the night's MC Dr. Southen (UWO) and event sponsor representatives Katelyn Smith (CSCE) and Gary Deonarine (Stantec)
July 2008
CEE Researcher Receives $395,000 from CFCAS and City of London
Congratulations to Civil and Environmental Engineering's Dr. Slobodon Simonovic. His successful grant proposals to the City of London and the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences (CFCAS) total $395,200 over two years.
The City of London will fund an update of rainfall intensity-duration-frequency curves for the City under the changing climate for $20,000 over three months. As well as a study of vulnerability of infrastructure to climate change for $180,000 over 18 months.
The CFCAS will provide $195,000 over 24 months to fund the research project Quantifying the Uncertainty in Modelled Estimates of Future Extreme Precipitation Events.
This research will be supported by Dr. Simonovic's graduate students: Ms. Angela Peck (MESc), Ms. Elisabeth Bowering (MESc), Mrs. Tarana Solaiman (PhD); and one postdoctoral fellow.
May 2008
Concrete Canoe Team Launch in Halifax, NS
Concrete Canoe Team members (L to R) Katie Down, Mira Pavan, and Jeff Blaylock visualizing victory
The Boat Floats! While the inclement weather in Halifax did not allow the teams gathered from across Canada to race their canoes, our Western Concrete Canoe team shone winning the Best Rookie Team of the Year Award, and beating out veteran teams from Queens and Dalhousie in the overall marking of their Final Product. The entire Western Concrete Canoe team is made up of: Adam Crookes, Alexandra Moore, Ben Riddell, Brad McKellar, Chris Blust, Jake Elliott, James Mann, Jeffrey Blaylock, Jonathon Chan, Katie Down, Pauline Sceviour, and Mira Pavan. For more information about this student association check out their website: http://www.eng.uwo.ca/cc/Default.htm.
Team "Top Gun" in Halifax (L to R): Katie
Down, Mira Pavan,
Alexandra Moore, Adam Crookes, Jeffrey Blaylock, Ben Riddell
First International Development Students Arrive in Ghana
Civil and Environmental Engineering students Taryn Meyers and Tyler Rosen have landed in Ghana to embark on their summer placement as part of their International Development program. (more)
Taryn & Tyler under a coconut tree at Lake Bosomtwe.
To follow along with Taryn and Tyler on their adventures in Ghana they invite you visit their blogs. Here also is a link to their photo gallery.
Ph.D. student featured on news for work on Confederation Bridge
Civil Engineering Ph.D. student Bilal Bakht appeared in several news sources in April, including CBC television and CBC.ca for his work on Prince Edward Island’s Confederation Bridge. (more)
March 2008
NSERC Strategic Special Projects Grant
Western Engineering certainly has a good track record in the last two NSERC Strategic Grant rounds !!! We recently found out that our Strategic Grant proposal has been funded. Dr. Paul Van Geel from Carleton University is the principle investigator with Civil and Environmental Engineering’s Dr. Jason Gerhard and Dr. Denis O’Carroll as the co-principle investigators. The project entitled, Real World Soil-NAPL Wettability: Tools for Site Assessment and Implications for Site Remediation, is funded for $98,900 and $91,900 respectively over two years. Approximately 2/3 of this funding will come to Western.
City of London Design Competition Results
Left to Right: Travis Goodhand, Robyn Gaebel, Michael Napper, Tyler Ing, Jonathan Schlemmer, and Ashley McManus of Green Concrete Solutions and Mark Carney, Sandor Nagy, Christopher Ledsham and Scott Young of SMCS Engineering Associated Inc.
Congratulations to all our student teams
for a very successful evening on March 4, 2008 -- the presentations for
the City of London Design Competition were all excellent. The judges
were impressed with the quality of submissions this year.
Special congratulations to the two winning teams:
SMCS Engineering Associates Ltd: Mark Carney, Chris Ledsham, Sandor Nagy and Scott Young
Green Concrete Solutions: Robyn Gaebel, Travis Goodhand, Tyler Ing, Ashley McManus, Mike Napper, Jon Schlemmer
February 2008
CEE Western Engineering Design Day Completion Results
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering held it's
Western Engineering Design Day Competition on Friday, February 22, 2008
in the Great Hall.
Congratulations to our winning teams:
First Place and overall winner:
Triton Engineering: Julie Graham, Jennifer McDonald, Katie Reipas, Mark Torrie, Gregory Williams
Triton Engineering will represent CEE in Western Engineering Design Days – Final Presentations scheduled on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 4:30 p.m.
DeMarco Family Green Technologies Award:
Green Tech Consulting: Elisabeth Bowering, Christian Concolino, Bruno Ferreira, Sand Mansor, Angela Peck, Lukasz Sadoch
Honourable mentions: (alphabetically according to team name)
Green Concrete Solutions: Robyn Gaebel, Travis Goodhand, Christopher Ing, Ashley Mcmanus, Michael Napper, Jonathan Schlemmer
Green Masons: Mark Bruder, Alia Callaghan, Jennifer Hinton, Joshua Kaye, Nikolai Mattison, Jonathan Vis
SMCS Engineering Associates Inc: Mark Carney, Christopher Ledsham, Sandor Nagy, Scott Young
VERTex Inc.: Richard Blair, Timothy Fernihough, Christopher Lynes, Ashley Munroe, Darryl Twynstra, Claire Walker
July 2007
Western Engineering goes ‘green’ in Ghana
Engineering students continue to think green with their research,
class projects and extracurricular activities – and faculty is also
leading environmental pursuits.
Ernest Yanful, Department Chair of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, is co-organizing the first International
Conference on Environmental Research, Technology and Policy
(ERTEP 2007) in Accra, Ghana, from July 16 to 19.
“The idea of the conference started in July 2005 at another
international conference in Sweden,” says Yanful. “A number
of us felt that the time has come for researchers,
practitioners and policy makers to meet together in one
forum to discuss ways of protecting the world’s fragile
ecosystem.” Click
here for more info.
GRC Awards
The Geotechnical Research Centre honoured its top students at the
GRC Awards Ceremony in the Spencer Engineering Building on
Wednesday, July 21.
Milos Novak Memorial Award
This Award was setup in memory of Professor Milos Novak. The award is
normally awarded annually to an engineer to pursue graduate studies in
Geotechnical Engineering at Western University. Special
consideration will be given to students working in the area of dynamics
and soil-structure interaction who have demonstrated a sound academic
background and a potential for contribution to the engineering
profession in general.
Award recipients: Alper Turan and Mrinmoy Kanungo
R.M. Quigley Award
The R.M. Quigley Award is named after Dr. R.M. Quigley, the founding
director of the Geotechnical Research Centre and a distinguished
Canadian Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineer. The award is
typically awarded annually to an engineer or scientist to pursue
graduate studies in Geotechnical Engineering at The University of
Western Ontario. Special consideration will be taken of a candidate's
academic, professional and general contributions to the engineering
profession.
Award recipients: Xueying Liu and Muluken Yeheyis
L.G. Soderman Award
The L.G. Soderman Award, established in memory of the late Professor
L.G. Soderman, distinguished Canadian Geotechnical Engineer, is awarded
annually to an engineer to pursue graduate studies in Civil Engineering
at Western University. The candidate's academic and
professional qualifications, and general contribution to the engineering
profession, are also taken into consideration.
Award recipients: Amnart Rittirong
John Booker Award
The John Booker Award was setup to commemorate a distinguished scientist
and engineer, teacher, researcher and mentor who, while a professor at
the University of Sydney, had close research collaboration with the
Geotechnical Research Centre, Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Western University. In addition to being an
outstanding researcher, John Booker was known for fostering new talent
as well as developing collaborative relationships in many different
areas of research. The award is normally presented annually to an
engineer or scientist to pursue graduate studies in Geotechnical or
Geoenvironmental Engineering at Western University.
Special consideration will be taken of a candidate's academic and
professional contributions to the engineering profession with preference
to students conducting research in computational geomechanics.
Award recipient: Erin Cullen
June 2007
New CEE Undergraduate Program
Starting in Fall 2007 our Department will be offering the new and
adventurous program in Civil Engineering and International
Development. Students will be encouraged to complete a summer
placement in an ‘at-need community in Canada or in a developing
country in the summer between third and fourth year, and will
complete a final year design project that addresses a social need
from an appropriate engineering perspective. Download the program
document
here.
May 2007
CEE Department Web Maintenance
Our Department website will be undergoing a complete overhaul and
maintenance until July. We apologize for any inconvenience that this
may have.
Award for Research Excellence
The Society of Graduate Students has conferred upon CEE Ph.D.
candidate M. Shahria Alam (supervisors: M. Nehdi and M.A. Youssef)
The Award for Research Excellence for his second place oral
presentation of "Development of a Smart RC Building Utilizing
Superelastic Shape Memory Alloys" in the Physical Sciences Session,
Given at the 20th Annual Western Research Forum, May 9th-11th, 2007.
February 2007
Three Little Pigs Facility Gets New
Name
The Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) is providing $500,000 to
support ground-breaking research conducted by Western's Faculty of
Engineering. The research is being conducted at a one-of-a-kind
facility now called The Insurance Research Lab for Better Homes
(formerly the Three Little Pigs project). Click
here for more info.
10th Anniversary for Student Design Competition
Since its debut, the competition has yielded 11 projects by way of
71 designs as well as eight environmental projects selected from 18
designs --involving a total of 400 students. Click
here for more info.
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