Ahmed El Ansary named Trillium scholar
Information from Western News | October 20, 2011
Western students Frederick Armah, Sarbani Banerjee, Mark-Shane Scale, Ahmed El Ansary and Yann Benetreau-Dupin have been named recipients of the Ontario Trillium Scholarships.
"The opportunity to recruit these talented scholars to Western from all over the world has been wonderful,” says Linda Miller, vice-provost, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. “Their research talent and diversity will no doubt enrich our campus community for years to come.”
Western awards seven Ontario Trillium Scholarships annually. Five were announced recently, two final recipients will be named in Winter 2012.
Included in this recent announcement is Ahmed El Ansary, who is pursuing a PhD in civil and environmental engineering, completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering at Cairo University in Egypt.
His proposed thesis, Seismic performance of a novel reinforced concrete precast wall system with tuned liquid dampers, addresses the need for development of a structure system for buildings that is economical, easy and quick to construct, while being able to absorb the energy released during an earthquake without suffering from collapse.
“As a researcher in structural engineering, I would like to contribute to making the world a safer place during natural disasters,” El Ansary says. “I have chosen Western because of the international reputation of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the area of natural disaster mitigations, and am most excited about the atmosphere of co-operation between research groups in the civil engineering department.”
Introduced in November 2010, the Ontario Trillium Scholarship (OTS) program was launched to raise the profile and prestige of Ontario universities internationally, and increase economic performance by bringing highly educated individuals to the province.
Trillium scholars are nominated by their graduate program due to their scholarly achievements and strong research potential, and receive $40,000 annually for up to four years of study.
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