Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Annual Conference

The Canadian Society for Civil Engineering held its annual conference in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, June 2 -5^th this year.  Two of our graduate students from the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering were recognized at the conference.  Jeff Nocent won second prize in the Graduate Student Paper Competition for the paper “Direct Measurement of Internal Loads in Wood Trusses”, and Lisa Feldman received the Donald Jamieson Fellowship which is awarded to an outstanding full-time graduate student in structural engineering at a Canadian University, including a cheque for $5000.  The Jamieson Fellowship is the most prestigious structural engineering scholarship in the country.  There are now nine recipients of the Jamieson Fellowship, three of which are at Western: Lisa Feldman, Prof. Diana Inculet and Prof. Michael Bartlett.