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Dean’s Message The Schulich School of Engineering has had astounding success in the last two decades which culminated when we reached the top three rank in Canada in 2004. Table of Contents: Dean’s Message .......................................... 1 Around the SSE ............................................. 2 COVER: What’s in a Name? ..........................4 Renaming cont’d ...........................................5 Engineered Care .............................................6 Standing On Guard for Thee .........................7 Alumni Chapter ...............................................8 Students in the News ......................................9 @ CCIT: The Heart of the Matter ..................10 Engineering Excellence Awards .................11 New Director of Advancement ..................11 Soak up the Sun .............................................12 Solar Car cont’d. ...........................................13 Back Up Plan: Scoliosis Research ................14 W.I.S.E.: Meet the Dean ...............................15 Leader of Tomorrow ......................................15 enginuity Winter 2005 EDITOR Kirk Thurbide, Manager of Communications Schulich School of Engineering PUBLISHER Dr. S.C. Wirasinghe, Dean Schulich School of Engineering Dean's Office Schulich School of Engineering University of Calgary 2500 University Drive NW Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4 CONTRIBUTORS Kirk Thurbide, Georgia Hasapes, University of Calgary External Relations Views expressed in Enginuity by guest writers do not necessarily reflect the policy of the Schulich School of Engineering or the University of Calgary. Enginuity © 2005, Schulich School of Engineering and the Engineering Associates Program, University of Calgary. All rights reserved. The editor reserves the right to select, edit and position copy. Permission to reproduce any part of this publication for commercial purposes should be obtained by writing to the editor at the above address. Reproduction for other purposes should acknowledge the source. That achievement was recognized by Mr. Seymour Schulich when he chose our school to be the first engineering school in Canada to be named and receive the highest ever benefaction of $50M. I believe that the time is now optimal to seek new leadership for the Schulich School of Engineering. Thus, having served as Dean since January 1, 1994, it is now time for me to step aside for the benefit of the School. I will do so effective July 1, 2006. I must thank President Murray Fraser posthumously for giving me the opportunity to serve, and President Terry White as well as President Harvey Weingarten for extending my term as Dean for the Second (5-year) and Third (3-year) terms respectively. Much has been accomplished in each term. I must also thank Provost and VP (Academic) Ron Bond for his continuous support going back to when we were Dean’s together. The Schulich School of Engineering has had, and continues to have, incredible leadership among its Heads, Associate Deans as well as senior, junior academics and staff. Our alumni and members of the Engineering Associates Program have given me outstanding support. They have all, past and present, joined me in various selected adventures on which I embarked the School, such as the new B.Sc. programs in Oil & Gas Engineering and Software Engineering, the CCIT, the 10 Year Plan and the “naming” to name but a few, and we are a great family. I hope that we will continue to be completely united under new leadership. I urge you to nurture and support this School in its totality. It is the flagship of the University of Calgary and well on its way to be FIRST CHOICE for engineering education and research in Canada. I wish our colleagues, the University of Calgary and the Schulich School of Engineering outstanding success. Sincerely, S.C. Wirasinghe, Ph.D., P.Eng. Around the SSE ‣ Dr. Janet Ronsky was honoured with the 2005 Alberta Women’s Science Network’s (AWSN) Minerva Mentoring Award. This award recognizes her significant contribution to mentoring females in the areas of science, mathematics engineering and technology. Mr. Gerald Maier recieved an Honourary Degree and Mr. ‣ SSE Professors Drs. Shelley Lissel (Civil) and Les Sudak (Mechanical & Manufacturing) were winners of Students’ Union ’04-’05 Teaching Excellence Awards. Honourable Arthur Dumont recieved the Order of the University of Calgary at the June 10th Convocation Ceremony. (L to R): Chancellor William Warren, Gerald Maier, Arthur Dumont, SSE Dean S.C. Wirasinghe, President Harvey Weingarten mentions went to Drs. Norman Bartley (Electrical & Computer), Lynne Cowe Falls (Civil), and Ron Hugo (Mechanical & Manufacturing). ‣ In April, the SSE hosted Dr. A. Richard Newton, Dean, College of Engineering, UC Berkeley as part of the Dean’s Annual Lecture Series. Dr. Newton’s lecture, “Great Works for the 21st Century: A Critical Role for The Modern Research University” was very well received by a capacity audience of U of C Engineeirng Alumni, engineering students, local engineering professionals, and Engineering Faculty members. Photo Credit Stuart Gradon 2 UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
Schulich Entrance Scholarship Recipients 1. Kevin Beary 2. Ryan Benty 3. Bradley Cooper 4. Christina De Rose 5. Luiz Del Nero 6. Danielle Derochie 7. Kevin Dorling 8. Carl Dyck 9. Ryan Edmonds 10. Heather Elliot 11. Daniel Ferguson 12. Cathy Giang 13. Kimberly Hanson 14. Brett Heintz 15. Audrey Kertesz 16. Madeline King 17. David Koleszar 18. Jennifer Kwong 19. Caitlin Logan 20. Catherine MacKinnon 21. Adarsh Madhavan 22. Lucas Makowsky 23. Andrew Maynard 24. Alex Novlesky 25. David Pesta 26. Matthew Reid 27. Maureen Saunders 28. Kyle Skea 29. Rabih Talih 30. Analie Tremblay 31. Melissa Vandekerckhove 32. Grant Paul Wiens 33. Melinda Yeoh 34. Colin Yuen SSE First Year Stats ‘05-’06 •1st Year Enrollment: 633 • 21 % Female, 79 % Male •Average Entrance: 85.1% SSE Dean, S.C. Wirasinghe, and graduate Vicki Teskey at the June 10th Covocation Ceremony. Around the SSE ‣ 2005 APEGGA Summit Award recipients in the SSE, included Dr. Naser El-Sheimy (Excellence in Education Award), and Drs. Nigel Shrive and Janet Ronsky (AIF Research Excellence Award – as part of a team conducting knee joint research). The annual awards event recognizes remarkable individuals and corporate members for their accomplishments in engineering, geology and geophysics. ‣ In May, the International Institute for Infrastructure Renewal and Reconstruction (I 3 R 2 ) held a conference with seven other universities and industry partners to discuss their role in rebuilding Sri Lanka and to agree on initial plans and programs. A follow up conference was held in October and Dean Wirasinghe will visit Sri Lanka in December. ‣ Dr. Alex De Visscher (Chemical & Petroleum) joined the SSE in May 2005 from Belgium as a CRC Tier 2 in Air Quality and Pollution Control Engineering. Dr. De Visscher will be conducting environmental research with CEERE. ‣ Professor Dieter Fritsch, Rector/President of Stuttgart University, along with Dr. David Philips, Director of International Affairs, made an official visit to the University of Calgary May 11 &12. Professor Fritsch is a specialist in Geodesy and particularly in Photogrammetry and made a special presentation of his research to the Department of Geomatics Engineernig. ‣ Dr. J.W. Haslett was inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering at the CAE Annual General Meeting June 3 rd , 2005 ‣ In June Dr. Chan Wirasinghe, Dean of the SSE, was named “Honorary Professor” in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. ‣ The SAE Mini Baja Off-Road Racing team completed their 2005 season with the SAE Mini Baja Midwest competition in Dayton, Ohio (June 16th -19th). The Schulich School of Engineering Mini Baja team tied for 14th place in the 4 hour endurance race and 26th overall at this year’s Midwest competition, making them the 2nd ranked Canadian car in the endurance race and 3rd overall. ‣ SSE Alumnus Laura Lucier, one of five Canadian flight controllers working in mission control at the Johnson Space Center, was monitoring data of the Discovery Shuttle to ensure the electrical, mechanical and software systems were working properly. ‣ In August, Biomedical Engineering researchers Drs. Steven Boyd and Christopher Hunter each received research awards from the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) for their respective research in Osteoporosis and Disc Tissue Engineering. ‣ Engineering Frosh Students raised the most money for Cystic Fibrosis and also won the Inter-Faculty Games during U of C 101new student orientation. ‣ Dr. Christopher Hunter (Mechanical & Manufacturing) has been awarded the 2005 Ingenuity New Faculty Grant. His application was amongst the top ten applications that were approved for funding. ‣ The SSE held 40 th Anniversary celebrations in September including an EAP Breakfast, a special edition of the Engineering Faculty Council and a reception. ‣ Dr. Yang Gao (Geomatics) has been appointed Luojia Chair Professor of Wuhan University, China. The appointment will further strengthen the academic collaboration between Wuhan University and the University of Calgary. ‣ At the November convocation ceremony, graduate student Jean Chen was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal at the Mater’s Level. This is the second year in a row that a SSE graduate student has won this prestigious award. ‣ In October, Dr. Elizabeth Cannon was named to the Canada Foundation of Innovation (CFI) Board of Directors for a three year term. ‣ Professors Gérard Lachapelle, Elizabeth Cannon, Adjunct Professor Richard Klukas, and Messrs. Sanjeet Singh and Rob Watson have been selected as this year’s recipients of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute Casey Baldwin Award for their paper entitled “Hardware Simulator Models and Methodologies for Indoor Performanc Assessment of High Sensitivity Receivers.” This paper was done in collaboration with Spirent Communications (SW) Limited, U.K. ‣ The 6 th Annual Alberta BME Conference took place in Banff Oct. 21-23 with invited guests from Virgina, Washington and Nova Scotia. Approximately 180 people attended the conference highlighting Alberta’s initiatives within the Biomedical field. ‣ Dr. Frank Cheng (Mechanical & Manufacturing) joined the SSE as an Assistant Professor and CRC Chair in Pipeline Engineering. Before joining the Department, he was a Research Scientist at the Centre of Nuclear Energy Research at the University of New Brunswick. ‣ Dr. Simon Park (Mechanical & Manufacturing) was awarded the 2005 University of Calgary Young Innovator Award. SCHULICH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ‣ Sherif S. Abdelatif Hassanien PhD Candidate, has been awarded Dean’s Special Doctoral Scholarship 2005/2006. He is developing a stochastic approach using surrogate models for life cycle cost optimization of structural systems. Sherif under the supervision of of Dr. Nigel Shrive. 3
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