Graduate Studies

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Congratulations, Class of 2020! Your university graduation is an important milestone in your life – Take time to reflect on the past few years and celebrate how far you’ve come.

Western Engineering is extremely proud of your accomplishemtns, and we look forward to watching as you continue on your journey. Keep making us Purple and Proud.

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  • Adel Ali Abosnina, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Power Systems)
    “DC-DC and AC-DC Converters Based on Three-Phase DC-DC Topologies”
  • Mahdi Bagheripoor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering (Mechanical)
    “Incipient deformation of small volumes of fcc metals”
  • Patrick Alan Breach, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Environmental & Water Resources)
    “Water Supply Capacity Development in the Context of Global Change”
  • Kadeem Pierre Anthony Dennis, Mechanical and Materials Engineering (Thermofluids)
    “Experimental Investigation on the Impact of Wall Heating on Mixed Convection Turbulent Boundary Layer Flow Structure”
  • Mansour Jalali, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Power Systems)
    “Synchrophasor Based Islanding & Open phase fault Protection in Distribution Systems”
  • Leanna King, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Environmental & Water Resources)
    “Using a systems approach to analyze the operational safety of dams”
  • Yanan Liu, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Communication Systems & Data Networking)
    “Intelligent and Efficient Ultra-Dense Heterogeneous Networks for 5G and Beyond”
  • Hadis Madani, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Robotics & Control)
    “Hyperspectral Image Classification for Remote Sensing”
  • Aleksandar Dimitrov Mihaylov, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Structural)
    “Advanced hardware and software approach to seismic site response investigations”
  • Connell Shamus Miller, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Wind Engineering)
    “Design Wind Loads for Air-Permeable Multilayer Cladding Systems”
  • Ahmed Aladdin Fouad Shehata, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Structural)
    “Cascade Failure of Transmission Lines under Downbursts”
  • Ian James Villamagna, Biomedical Engineering (Biomaterials)
    “Preparation of Intra-articular Drug Delivery Systems for the Treatment of Osteoarthritis”
  • Changhong Wang, Mechanical and Materials Engineering (Materials & Solid Mechanics)
    “Rational Interface Design for High-Performance All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries”
  • Miaomiao Wang, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Robotics and Control)
    “Geometric State Observers for Autonomous Navigation Systems”
  • Ziming Zhao, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (Environmental & Green)
    “Effects of Drinking Water Treatment Processes on Removal of Algal Matter and Subsequent Water Quality”

Master of Engineering (MEng)

  • Ali Abbas Akl, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Structural)
  • Mitchell Acton, Mechanical and Materials Engineering (Engineering in Medicine)
  • Maha Al Massri, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental)
  • Ahmad Mounir Alnahas, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Structural)
  • Indrakiran Reddy Atturu, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental)
  • Mohammad Khalid Backtash, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Structural)
  • Rasheed Ahmad Bhatti, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Structural)
  • Brayden Scott Ehgoetz-Martens, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Structural)
  • Tarek Elghannam, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Structural)
  • Nima Farhang Khoee, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Structural)
  • Stephen James Fredericks, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental)
  • Javier Gomez Ospina, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Structural)
  • Siyuan He, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental)
  • Sham Petron Hunt, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Structural)
  • Balraj Singh Jhajj, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Structural)
  • Aliaksei Maksachou, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Environmental & Water Resources)
  • Nishil Patel, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Structural)
  • Himabindu Saddi, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Environmental & Water Resources)
  • Sina Samivand, Mechanical and Materials Engineering (Automation)
  • Sara Sattarzadeh, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Structural)
  • Prashant Sharma, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Structural)
  • Saransh Sharma, Mechanical and Materials Engineering (Mechanical)
  • Taizong Shen, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (Environmental & Water Resources)
  • Sasha Ronald Jhaman Tiwari, Advanced Design and Manufacturing Institute
  • Maria Fernanda Valderrama Vargas, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Structural)
  • Saravanan Vijayan, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Structural)
  • Hongzhou Zhou, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Structural)

Master of Engineering Science (MESc)

  • Wesam Mohamed Nader AbdElhamid Mohamed, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Structural)
    “Progressive Failure of Transmission Line Towers under Different Tornado Wind Fields”
  • Rami Mahmoud Ib Abu Shammeh, Mechanical and Materials Engineering (Automation Technologies & Systems)
    “Additive Manufacturing of Piezoelectric Photopolymer Ferroelectrets”
  • Abdalla Elhadi Izzeldin Adlan Alhashmi, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Structural)
    “System Reliability Analysis of Defected Pile group Foundations”
  • Carolyn Berkmortel, Mechanical and Materials Engineering (Mechanical)
    “Lower Stiffness Orthopaedic Implants for Hemiarthroplasty”
  • Alexandra Lorna Duchesne, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Environmental & Water Resources)
    “Smouldering Combustion Treatment of Soils and Granular Activated Carbon Contaminated with Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances”
  • Estee Goldberg, Biomedical Engineering (Imaging)
    “Using an Internal Auditory Stimulus to Activate the Developing Primary Auditory Cortex: A Fetal fMRI Study"
  • Jonathan MacNeil, Biomedical Engineering (Imaging)
    “Pulmonary Imaging of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease using Multi-Parametric Response Maps”
  • Chu Peng, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Structural)
    “Lateral Load Analysis of Multi-Storey Light-Frame Wood Buildings through Detailed and Simplified Numerical Approaches”
  • Connor Ojoleck Pritty, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Environmental & Water Resources)
    “Anaerobic Digestion Modeling of a High Rate Acidification Pre-Treatment Technology”
  • Daiana Roxana Pur, Biomedical Engineering (Imaging)
    “Structure-Function Relationships in the Brain: Applications in Neurosurgery”
  • Mohammad Mahdi Sheikh Bagher Mohajer, Mechanical and Materials Engineering (Materials & Solid Mechanics)
    “Wave Propagation in Viscoelastic Dielectric Elastomer Media”
  • Clara Tam, Biomedical Engineering (Imaging)
    “Machine Learning towards General Medical Image Segmentation”
  • Archana Tamang, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Environmental & Water Resources)
    “Quantification of septic system contribution to nutrient loads in surface waters”
  • Jiahao Wang, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Environmental & Water Resources)
    “The Influence of Porous Media Heterogeneity on Smouldering Remediation”
  • Junfei Wang, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Software)
    “Deep Learning on Smart Meter Data: Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring and Stealthy Black-Box Attacks”
  • Xiaowei Zhang, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (Reaction & Process Systems)
    “Improvement of Fluidization Ability for Group A Powders by Fine Powder Additives”