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Research Report 20102011 

Dr. Ajay Dalai 

Professor and Associate Dean, Research and Partnerships 

57 Campus Drive, College of Engineering, University of 

Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A9 

Phone: (306) 966‐4768/ 4771; 

Fax: (306) 966‐5205; 

Email: ajay.dalai@usask.ca

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY………………………………………………................................vii 

PART I – COLLEGE RESEARCH THEMES 

1. Bio-sciences, Bio-engineering, Bio-processing………………………………………..02 

2. Environment, Infrastructure and Sustainable Development………………………….08 

3. Energy: Production and Processing, Transport, Electrical Energy and Utilization..16 

4. Information and Communication Technologies and Intelligent Systems……………22 

5. Materials Science and Applications……………………………………………………..26 

PART II – DIVISIONS AND DEPARTMENTS 

1. Division of Biomedical Engineering……………………………………………........33 

Summary of Research Activities………………………………………………………...34 

I. Faculty and Staff……………………………………………………………………..35 

II. Highly Qualified Personnel………………………………………………………….40 

III. Grants, Contracts, and Gifts………………………………………………………...41 

IV. Degrees Awarded……………………………………………………………………41 

V. Publications…………………………………………………………………………..41 

VI. Honours and Awards………………………………………………………………...41 

2. Division of Environmental Engineering……………………………………………..42 

Summary of Research Activities…………………………………………………………43 

I. Faculty and Staff……………………………………………...................................45 

II. Highly Qualified Personnel………………………………………………………….47 

III. Grants, Contracts, and Gifts………………………………………………………...47 

IV. Degrees Awarded……………………………………………………………………47 


VI. Honours and Awards………………………………………………………………...47 

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3. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering...…………………………..48 

List of Faculty and Staff…………………………………………………………………...49 


I. Faculty and Staff…………………………………………………………………….53 

II. Highly Qualified Personnel…………………………………………………………58 

III. Grants, Contracts, and Gifts………………………………………………………..58 

IV. Degrees Awarded …………………………………………………………………...64 


VI. Honours and Awards………………………………………………………………..66 

4. Department of Civil and Geological Engineering………………………………….67 



I. Faculty and Staff…………………………………………………………………….72 






5. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering……………………………..83 



I. Faculty and Staff………………………………………………………………….....87 






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6. Department of Mechanical Engineering……………………………………………..96 



I. Faculty and Staff…………………………………………………………………...100 

II. Highly Qualified Personnel………………………………………………………..104 

III. Grants, Contracts, and Gifts………………………………………………………104 

IV. Degrees Awarded ………………………………………………………………….108 

V. Publications…………………………………………………………………………109 

VI. Honours and Awards………………………………………………………………109 

7. Department of Physics and Engineering Physics………………………………110 

List of Faculty and Staff………………………………………………………………….111 

Summary of Research Activities………………………………………………………..112 

I. Faculty and Staff…………………………………………………………………...119 

II. Highly Qualified Personnel………………………………………………………..122 

III. Grants, Contracts, and Gifts………………………………………………………138 

IV. Degrees Awarded ………………………………………………………………….127 

V. Publications…………………………………………………………………………127 

VI. Honours and Awards………………………………………………………………128 

PART III – DIVISION / DEPARTMENT LISTS OF GRADUATE STUDENTS, POST- 

DOCTORAL FELLOWS & VISITING SCHOLARS 

1. Division of Biomedical Engineering………………………………………………...130 

2. Division of Environmental Engineering…………………………………………….134 

3. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering..…………………………...135 

4. Department of Civil & Geological Engineering……………………………………144 

5. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering…………………………….153 

6. Department of Mechanical Engineering……………………………………………161 

7. Department of Physics and Engineering Physics…...……………………………171 

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PART IV – DIVISION / DEPARTMENT LISTS OF PUBLICATIONS 

1. Division of Biomedical Engineering………………………………………………...175 

2. Division of Environmental Engineering…………………………………………….176 

3. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering..…………………………...177 

4. Department of Civil & Geological Engineering……………………………………199 

5. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering…………………………….209 

6. Department of Mechanical Engineering……………………………………………222 

7. Department of Physics and Engineering Physics…...……………………………238 

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 

Research in the College of Engineering continues to flourish, ensuring that we maintain 

our position as one of the top ten engineering research colleges in Canada. This 

Research Report is a detailed account of the faculty and other research personnel, 

research funding, graduate students and research publications in the College of 

Engineering. It has been an annual publication of the College for more than 20 years. 

The College is actively engaged in research in its constituent departments of Chemical 

and Biological, Civil and Geological, Electrical and Computer, and Mechanical 

Engineering. Engineering related research is also conducted in Engineering Physics 

within the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics. In addition, there are two 

research divisions within the College involved in interdisciplinary research; the Divisions 

of Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Engineering. 

The College of Engineering remains committed to its traditional strong emphasis on 

research performance and the training of graduate students and other research 

personnel. Research continues to be impressive again this year according to all 

indicators. In our constituent departments, there were close to 433 graduate students 

enrolled during the report period of which 153 (35%) were PhD students. Females 

made up nearly a quarter of our student body (28%). Seventy seven graduate students 

were awarded their degrees. A total of 508 scientific articles were published and 

presented. Faculty in Physics and Engineering Physics and their 58 graduate students 

published and presented another 207 scientific articles in total. The Divisions of 

Environmental Engineering and Biomedical Engineering together accounted for 63 of 

our graduate student population. Research funding to the constituent Departments was 

$9.4 M which was augmented by an additional $3.2 M from the Physics and 

Engineering Physics Department. 

Collaborative research and the many synergies that it offers has always been a 

cornerstone of research in the College of Engineering. This year was no exception. For 

example, 127 of our graduate students were co-supervised. Some of the research 

projects involved close collaborations with some 43 major industrial sponsors and 

partners. 

The Research Report consists of four main parts. Research Theme Areas which 

represent our areas of research strength and focus are featured in Part I. Part II 

includes information regarding faculty and staff, research activities, graduate students, 

grants and contracts, degrees awarded, publications, and honours and awards in each 

department or division. The details of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and 

visiting scholars are presented in Part III, whereas Part IV contains a detailed list of all 

publications by department and division. 

College of Engineering – Research Report 2010-11 Page vii

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Phani Adapa, Director, Research and 

International Relations in the College of Engineering and many people who spent 

considerable time and effort compiling the statistics and putting this document together. 

This includes all of the College Research and Partnerships Committee members, 

department and division secretaries. 

Please do not hesitate to contact me or any of our faculty about information in this 

document or to discuss the possibility of pursuing new research projects. You can also 

visit the College web site for additional information about us, http://www.engr.usask.ca/ . 

Dr. Ajay Dalai, Ph.D., P. Eng. 

Associate Dean Research and Partnerships 

Canada Research Chair in Bioenergy and Environmentally Friendly Chemical 

Processing 

College of Engineering 

University of Saskatchewan 

57 Campus Drive 

Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A9 CANADA 

Ph: 1 (306) 966-4771/4768 

Fax: 1 (306) 966-5205 

Email: ajay.dalai@usask.ca 

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PART I COLLEGE RESEARCH THEMES 

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING | RESEARCH REPORT 

DECEMBER 2011

THEME 1 – BIO-SCIENCE, BIO-ENGINEERING AND BIO-PROCESSING 

Overview and Relevance 

The nature of the College of Engineering research involving ‘bio-domain’ has once 

again proven to be versatile, dynamic and instrumental in enhancement of critical mass 

involving multi-disciplines and diverse expertise. The members of this theme are very 

active in attracting top quality graduate students/scholars from Worldwide and attracted 

significant funding from several sources (provincial, federal, industry). There are addons 

to the funding from the “Bio” cluster; Biosciences, Bio-engineering, Bio-processing, 

Bio-resources, Biotechnology, Biosystems and Biomedical domain integrated with 

several disciplines. As a result, this domain is rapidly evolving to have strong 

implications for Canada’s bio-economy drive. The multidisciplinary engineering 

research theme is working together in building strong collaboration among faculties in 

the College as well as Provincial, Federal and International agencies. Bio-products 

(food, feed, fiber and fuel) identified research initiatives have become pathways for 

strategic directions in Canada’s strong role within primary bioresources such as 

agriculture and forestry, value-addition to bioresources and processing coupled with 

utilization of niche technology and engineering aspects. This theme includes a very 

broad set of research topics that do overlap with some of the other research theme 

areas. It is unique, however, in the involvement of living organisms. Current topics of 

research under this theme are: value-added products, bio-processing, bio-fluids, nanotechnology 

materials, tissue engineering, biodiversity of agriculture products, 

sustainable agricultural production, food quality and safety, functional foods by 

fermentation or enzymatic processes, biochemical processing, computational 

techniques for analyzing the bio-mechanical behaviour of soft tissue, biomedical 

engineering, FEM simulation of bony structures, applications to MEMS & Nano devices, 

tribology, and bio-diesel and bio-ethanol for renewable energy sources. This list is not 

exclusive. There is an absolute synergy and collaboration with topics that could be 

included in theme areas such as energy, environment and materials and sustainable 

systems. 

Natural health products processing and functional food production, bio-fuels, nanotechnology, 

and advanced health technologies have the potential of becoming as 

important as the electronics industry to the global market. Food security, quality and 

safety have become important issues eclipsing that of environmental and biosystems 

concerns. Of special importance to engineering is that of biochemical and chemical 

processing that not only serve to greatly increase the value of bioresources, but to 

synthesize and extract new products and provide new, economically more efficient and 

environmentally safer techniques/processes for waste handling and management, and 

production of bio-products. 

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The research topics of active interest within the Division of Biomedical Engineering 

include: bioinformatics, biological control processes, biomechanics, diffraction 

enhanced X-ray imaging, functional magnetic resonance imaging, image processing, 

magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasound imaging. 

Research within the College 

Within the College of Engineering there are 16 faculty who are actively involved in this 

theme. Total amount of funding received in this area during the reporting year is 

$3.48 million of which $1.06 million was from NSERC. 

The contribution from the members of this theme resulted in 19 refereed journal 

publications, 9 refereed conference proceedings, 1 non-refereed conference 

proceedings, 8 conference presentations, 1 keynote presentation, 3 invited lectures, 1 

plenary lecture, and 1 published book chapter. The number of graduate students was 

81 out of which 41% represented female students. The reporting year also attracted 

about 20 summer students who worked in various research projects. International 

students constituted about 84% of the graduate community within the College. 

Faculty 

Four faculty members from Chemical and Biological Engineering under the Biological 

stream (Baik, Crowe, Meda, and Tabil) and one faculty from Mechanical Engineering 

(Schoenau) are involved with bioprocessing and added-value of bioproducts. Topics of 

research of the active faculty include: heat transfer during cooking, microencapsulation, 

microwave measurement and processing, development of machine systems for 

enhancement of product value, physical processing, post-harvest drying and 

processing, animal welfare, biomaterials, machine-biological material interaction, 

human- live-stock ergonomics, and utilization and processing of agricultural byproducts. 

Some of current research projects in bioprocessing stream of Chemical and Biological 

Engineering focus on thermal processing (drying), post-harvest storage, and adding 

value to biological and agricultural materials. Current NSERC-supported projects in this 

area include: a) physicochemical characterization of pulse grains and their products, in 

support of improvements to processing, transportation and utilization of pulses and their 

products in food, feed and industrial products; b) optimization of food cooking processes 

for quality and energy consumption; and c) value-added processing of biological 

materials using electrotechnologies. One of the projects involves the disinfestation of 

Hessian fly using mechanical compression in timothy bales. Equipment to heat foods 

using radio frequency is being installed in the bioprocessing laboratory (CFI funding) to 

study heat penetration in biological materials and improve the extraction of bioactives. 

Another on-going research project includes the development of novel drying and 


extraction systems for processing medicinal plants, spice crops, biomaterials and prairie 

fruits. Other projects involve the densification of alfalfa and prairie-based feed 

ingredients for the diversification of the alfalfa dehy-industry, investigations on the 

densification of biomass as feedstock for bioenergy and biochemicals, flax mucilage 

processing, frying of foods, microwave-assisted extraction of bioactives and microbial 

de-contamination (E-coli in drinking water), microwave-assisted drying of meats and 

vegetables and other food products, research on the utilization of agri-based fibers in 

construction materials, development of binders and biopolymer from recycled plastics 

and agri-based fibers, and many others. These projects are directed towards the 

utilization of biological and agricultural materials for increased added value processes 

and improvements of the products to be more competitive. An International 

collaborative effort is being currently pursued with the faculty from the College of 

Engineering and the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India, Tamil Nadu 

Agricultural University, India, Society for Applied Microwave Electronics and 

Engineering Research (SAMEER), India, Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation (BAIF), 

India, and National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute, India. 

Additional, four faculty members from Chemical Engineering stream of the Department 

of Chemical and Biological Engineering are working in the area of biochemical and 

chemical processing of biomass, and biosorption (Dalai, Lin, Nemati and Niu). Their 

research areas include: production of microbial cells and biochemicals such as 

penicillium bilaiae and proteins, bioremediation of chemicals and mining industrial 

wastes such as soils and waters contaminated with polyaromatic hydrocarbons and 

sulfides, microbial oil recovery, greenhouse gas mitigation by microbial conversion of 

carbon dioxide and volatile chemicals, fermentation and separation technologies such 

as simultaneous cold starch hydrolysis and fermentation, biodiesel, and fuel alcohol 

production using chemical catalysis and fermentation of biomass, and the association of 

genomics and proteomics to explore global cellular bionetwork. Other research fields 

include biogas production, yeast physiology, applied bioinformatics and projects related 

to nickel plating rinse water treatment, biological hydrogen production, systems biology, 

fuel alcohol and bioprocess development. The team under bio-energy and 

environmentally friendly technologies research headed by the Canada Research Chair, 

is spearheading collaborations within Canada and Internationally. 

Eight faculty members (Chen, Dolovich, Fotouhi, Schoenau, Szyszkowski, Torvi, Zhang 

and Yang) from Mechanical Engineering are involved in Bioengineering, and in 

particular with: applications of MEMS to biotechnology; engineered tissue scaffolds; 

biomechanics and non-destructive testing of soft tissues; computational mechanics, 

time-dependent materials, optimization, and robotic control; precision fluid manipulation; 

and bio-heat transfer. 


The Division of Biomedical Engineering involves faculty from Engineering who are 

collaborating with colleagues from Arts and Science, Kinesiology, Medicine, and the 

Western College of Veterinary Medicine. Eight faculty members from Engineering are 

involved along with more than 15 faculty members from other colleges. The primary 

areas of activity within the Division are imaging (image processing, functional MRI, 

magnetic resonance imaging, synchrotron imaging, and ultrasound imaging), 

bioinformatics, biological control processes, and biomechanics. Division members have 

been particularly active in establishing the Biomedical Imaging and Therapy beam line 

at the Canadian Light Source. 

Collaborations 

University: There is interaction and sharing of information and research ideas within the 

Chemical and Biological Engineering, and across units within the College. Other 

Departments on campus that are involved are: Applied Microbiology and Food Science, 

Biochemistry, Cell Biology and Anatomy, and Veterinary Medicine. 

Provincial collaborations include: Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food, National Water 

Research Institute, Philom Bios, Saskatchewan Chicken Industry, Communities of 

Tomorrow (CT), CNH, Elcan Forage, Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation 

(SHRF), Saskatchewan Canola Development Commission, Moose Jaw Asphalt Inc., 

SaskPower, etc. 

National collaborations include: University of Guelph, Concordia University, University 

of Manitoba, McGill University, University of Alberta, University of Regina, and 

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), and Canadian Poultry Research Council. 

Faculty members within this theme are actively involved in collaborative research 

projects at the Canadian Light Source (CLS), as new beam lines are being 

commissioned. It is anticipated there will be enhanced interaction among staff scientists 

and members of this theme in developing joint initiatives, attracting research funding/top 

researchers, internationally. 


LIST OF FACULTY 

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering 

Baik, O. Bakhshi, N. [Prof. Emeritus] Crowe, T. 

Dalai, A.K. Kushwaha, L. [Prof. 

Emeritus] 

Lin, Y.-H. 

Meda, V. 

Tabil, L 

Nemati, M. Niu, C. (H.) 

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 

Bolton, R. 

Department of Mechanical Engineering 

Chen, D. (X.B.) Dolovich, A. Fotouhi, R. 

Hertz, B. [Prof. Emeritus] Schoenau, G.J. Szyszkowski, W. 

Torvi, D. Zhang, C. (W.J.) Yang, Q. 

Division of Biomedical Engineering 

Gray, J. (Biol.) Adams, G. (Vet. Biomed. 

Sci.) 

Kendal, E. (Med. Imag.) 

Binsted, G. (Kinesiology) Kusalik, A. (CS) Chapman, D. (Ana. And 

Cell Biol.) 

Pierson, R. (Obs. & Gyn.) Eramian, M. (CS) Sarty, G. (Psychol.) 

Singh, J. (Vet. Biomed. 

Sci.) 

Yong-Hing, K. (Surgery) 

HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL 

Total number of students: 81 

Number of female students: 33 (41%) 

Number of Visa students: 68 (84%) 

Number of Ph.D. students: 28 

Number of M.Sc. students: 46 

Number of M.Eng. students: 05 

Number of Post-doctoral Fellow : 13 

Number of Visiting Scholar : 21 

Number of Summer Student : 20 

Number of Research Engineer : 04 

Number of Research Associate : 11 


PUBLICATIONS 

Refereed Journal Publications: 19 

Refereed Conference Proceedings: 09 

Non-refereed Conference Proceedings: 01 

Conference Presentations / Poster Presentations: 08 

Keynote Conference Presentation: 01 

Invited Lecture/Talk: 03 

Plenary Lecture/Talk: 01 

Published Book chapter: 01 


THEME 2 – ENVIRONMENT, INFRASTRUCTURE AND SUSTAINABLE 

DEVELOPMENT 

Overview and Relevance 

This research theme is fairly broad in scope and overlaps to some extent with other 

theme areas. However, it is characterized by a central focus on the impact of human 

activity upon the environment, both the natural environment and the built environment 

(infrastructure). The ‘Environment’ sub-theme deals primarily with the natural 

environment, with research focused on the impact of agricultural, forestry, industrial or 

municipal activity on the health of the natural environment and the development of 

methods for monitoring, minimizing, and remediating these impacts. The ‘Infrastructure’ 

sub-theme focuses on the built environment, dealing primarily with the health of the 

transportation and municipal systems on which society relies. 

Environment 

The Environment sub-theme involves faculty from the Departments of Chemical and 

Biological Engineering, Civil and Geological Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and 

Physics and Engineering Physics as well as the Division of Environmental Engineering. 

Research projects encompass studies on environmental monitoring of the atmosphere, 

water, and land systems; methods of minimizing harmful emissions to the environment; 

and reclamation and bioremediation of contaminated soil and water. While research 

topics cut across themes and departments, the common focus is on ensuring that 

human activity can be sustained by the natural environment. A particular strength of the 

Engineering College is a large body of work targeting the environmental concerns of 

industries vital to Saskatchewan’s and Western Canada’s economy, including those of 

agriculture, forestry, mining and petroleum. Some examples of environmental research, 

as categorized by the medium targeted - atmosphere, air, water, land, or byproducts - 

are provided below. 

Geo-space and Atmospheric Science 

The Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies (ISAS), which is a large research unit 

[led by 8 professors] within the Department of Physics & Engineering Physics, is one of 

the largest groups in Canada investigating terrestrial space and atmospheric 

environments (‘Space Weather’ and ‘Climate Change’). The group bases its research 

upon the development and operation of observational systems, with an emphasis upon 

experimental design, tomography, radar-signal-processing and data analysis. Prof. St.- 

Maurice, who holds a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in ‘Environmental Science,’ also 

provides Campus leadership for the environmental science community on Climate 

Change issues. Some examples of research projects in this group include the following: 

SuperDARN and PolarDARN - G. Sofko is the P.I. for the Canadian component of a 

growing international network of 11/7 HF radars in the northern/southern hemispheres. 

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The SuperDARN research group, including colleagues J.-P St.-Maurice, S. Koustov, 

G. Hussey and K. McWilliams, studies “space weather” phenomena through ionospheric 

convection, field-aligned currents, auroral substorms and magnetospheric processes. A 

new radar pair called PolarDARN has for its goal to probe the ‘polar-cap’ region. The 

first of the pair has been producing high quality data from Rankin Inlet since May 2006. 

The second of the pair will be built in Inuvik and is scheduled to come on-line by the end 

of 2007. 

Atmospheric environment and climate change issues - E. Llewellyn is the P.I. of the 

Canadian Space Agency’s OSIRIS system on the Odin satellite, which is being used to 

study the global distribution of ozone within the middle/lower atmosphere (0-100km), 

and for studies of aerosols and sub-visual clouds. OSIRIS also measures water vapour 

in the mesosphere. D. Degenstein is the OSIRIS Co-P.I. and as such is primarily 

responsible for the production of the OSIRIS data products such as number density 

profiles of ozone, nitrogen dioxide and stratospheric sulphate aerosols. All of these 

data products provide useful insight into the aspects of climate change that involve 

transport of air masses between the stratosphere and troposphere. The research of 

A. Manson’s group utilizes the Institute’s advanced MF/VHF radar facilities at 

Saskatoon, Ellesmere Island, Tromso, and Platteville, along with global networks of 

radars, opticals and satellites (including OSIRIS), and combined with data-assimilated 

general circulation models. These are used to characterize and investigate the dynamic 

and chemical processes of the winter polar vortices e.g. ozone distributions and 

changes. The research is part of the CAWSES (Coupling and Weather of the Sun- 

Earth System) International Program and CANDAC-PEARL activities on Ellesmere 

Island. (www.CANDAC.ca) 

Air quality 

Research in this area focuses upon agricultural or industrial emission monitoring, 

control and reduction. H. Guo (Chemical and Biological Engineering) has been working 

with the hog industry on odour and greenhouse gas emissions from intensive livestock 

operations. 

In addition, a number of researchers in Chemical and Biological Engineering are 

investigating methods for biological and chemical removal of harmful emissions: 

M. Nemati is involved in collaborative research with the Prairie Swine Centre on 

biological control of H2S emissions from swine barns; H. Wang is focusing on catalytic 

conversion of CO2 into syn-gas, a synthesis of fuels and chemicals; H. Wang is also 

studying the thermochemical splitting of H2S emissions from the oil and gas industry 

into usable components to reduce the use of natural gas and CO2 emissions; and 

A. Dalai (Canada Research Chair in Bioenergy and Environmentally Friendly Chemical 

Processing) is developing a method for mercury capture from coal power plant emission 

stacks. 


Water 

Research in this category is concerned with the distribution of water on the earth’s 

surface, water supply systems with regard to both quantity and quality, and the 

protection of the aquatic environment. Faculty members in Civil and Geological 

Engineering are working on a great diversity of projects, including: evaluating the 

hydrology of reconstructed watersheds (A. Elshorbagy), studying the effect of forest 

harvesting upon stream flow quantity and quality (G. Putz), studying built structures in 

waterways and their ability to allow for passage of fish (J. Kells), modifying sea lamprey 

barriers to minimize drowning risk (K. Mazurek), characterizing pollutant load in runoff 

from various urban land use types to the South Saskatchewan River in the City of 

Saskatoon (J. Kells and G. Putz), reducing internal phosphorous loading in lakes 

(J. Peng), characterizing residual solids from membrane filtration of water (G. Putz), 

studying the influence of baffles and columns on retention time in chlorine contact 

vessels (K. Mazurek and G. Putz), and investigating the dynamics of scour in erodible 

material at hydraulic structures (J. Kells and K. Mazurek). 

Within Chemical Engineering, C. Niu is developing biosorbents from waste biomaterials 

for removal of nickel, sulphate, chloride and boron from industrial process rinse water so 

that the rinse water may be recycled. In addition, M. Nemati is working on biotreatment 

of acid mine drainage and biological treatment of sulphide-laden waters. 

Current research within Chemical and Biological Engineering is focused upon intensive 

livestock operations: the effect of manure land application upon snowmelt runoff water 

quality (C. Maulé), runoff prediction and control from beef feedlots (C. Maulé and 

T. Fonstad), and development of management practices to maximize the efficiency of 

solar powered irrigation systems (T. Fonstad). 

R. Burton (Mechanical Engineering), with funding from the Canadian Water Network, 

have been working on the detection of leakage in pipelines using Kalman and Variable 

Structure filtering techniques. The cooperation of SaskWater has permitted the use of 

the line from the South Saskatchewan River to Melfort to simulate controlled leakages 

and to make online measurements. 

Land 

Research in the land category is typified by monitoring, protection, treatment, and 

reclamation of soils, land, and groundwater resources influenced by human activities 

related to agriculture, urban development, and industry. Within the Chemical and 

Biological Engineering, T. Fonstad is monitoring seepage and geochemistry changes 

beneath earthen hog manure storages and from animal mortality pits with the goal of 

improving control and regulation. M. Nemati has developed a novel method that 

enhances bioremediation of petroleum contaminated waters, sludges, and soils. In 


addition, H. Wang is developing a leaching process to regenerate spent H2S solid 

adsorbent in order to reduce both the amount of H2S sent to landfills as well as the 

sulphur content of the waste adsorbent. 

Faculty from Civil and Geological Engineering are pursuing numerous projects involving 

municipal landfills and reclamation associated with the mining industry: I. Fleming (with 

G. Putz) is investigating the treatment of landfill leachate via enhanced nitrogen 

removal, COD stabilization and methane production; I. Fleming is also carrying out full 

scale trials in Flin Flon to evaluate the performance of an innovative cover system for 

mining waste using a new geosynthetic product developed at the U of S; L. Barbour 

(with A. Elshorbagy) is pursuing a large multidisciplinary study on instrumented 

reclaimed watersheds on mine waste at oilsands mines near Fort McMurray, a project 

that also involves faculty from soil science, geology and geography. 

Byproducts 

This sub-theme is concerned with the management and conversion of ‘waste’ streams 

of byproducts from agricultural, industrial, or municipal operations such that their value 

is enhanced and their impact upon the environment is minimized. Although some of this 

research may also be classified under the College Research Themes of Bio-Sciences or 

Energy, its focus is on the reduction of harmful environmental effects. 

Several faculty members within Chemical and Biological Engineering are working 

towards emission reduction through alternative energy sources: A. Dalai is investigating 

the production of biodiesel, and studying the gasification of biomass for the production 

of hydrogen and/or electrical energy. T. Fonstad is working with PAMI on the codigestion 

of animal waste and mortalities for gas and nutrient recovery as well as to 

improve their value as fertilizer and soil amendments. T. Fonstad and A. Dalai are 

investigating gasification of animal meat and bone meal from rendering to supply energy 

to the rendering process and add value to the meal. 

I. Fleming (Civil and Geological Engineering) is completing a province-wide study of 

municipal solid waste composition with respect to the potential for waste-to-energy 

projects. I. Fleming is also directing a full-scale demonstration project at the City of 

Saskatoon Landfill for rapid landfill stabilization and enhanced landfill gas production. 

Division of Environmental Engineering 

The Division of Environmental Engineering provides students the opportunity to do 

research in an interdisciplinary environment. This activity is not intended to compete 

with teaching and research carried out in specific departments in the College of 

Engineering. Rather, its purpose is to enhance the opportunities for both faculty and 

students interested in pursuing teaching and research efforts beyond traditional 

departmental boundaries. The Division of Environmental Engineering has developed 

research liaisons with the Centre for Studies in Agriculture, Law and Environment, the 


Institute for Space and Atmospheric Studies, and the Toxicology Research Centre as 

well as collaborative research with the National Water Research Institute, the 

Saskatchewan Research Council, the City of Saskatoon and the Prairie Swine Centre 

Inc. 

Infrastructure 

Infrastructure research focuses on the ‘built environment’ upon which healthy, 

prosperous and safe communities are built. As the infrastructure ages, there is a 

particular need for the renewal of road systems, bridges, water supply facilities, and 

water treatment systems. Given Saskatchewan’s unique dependence on the highway 

system, research that targets the management, renewal and maintenance of this 

system has been a particular focus of the Transportation Group within this theme area. 

One area of rapid growth in research has been the participation of a number of faculty in 

the ISIS Canada Network of Centre of Excellence (Intelligent Sensing for Innovative 

Structures), which has close working relationships with public sector agencies (e.g., 

Highways Departments, City Engineering Departments), private sector infrastructure 

users (e.g., resource companies) as well as service industries in this sector. An 

example of projects in this area is the work of several faculty members in Civil and 

Geological Engineering (G. Sparks, B. Sparling, L. Wegner and M. Boulfiza) on Life 

Cycle Engineering and Costing, being undertaken in collaboration with Saskatchewan 

Highways and Transportation and Weyerhauser Inc. In addition, B. Sparling and 

L. Wegner are investigating methods for monitoring the condition of bridges using 

information about their vibration characteristics and M. Boulfiza is working on models to 

predict the service life of reinforced concrete structures. 

Transportation Centre 

Traffic Safety Research - The Transportation Centre, which is part of the Department of 

Civil and Geological Engineering and is led by C. Berthelot along with J. Chan, has a 

research focus on highway traffic safety and safety standards. The safety research at 

the centre is funded by Transport Canada and continues to play an important role in 

traffic safety research at the national level. 

Intelligent Transportation Systems – Research on ‘weigh in motion’ systems, begun by 

A. Bergan in the early 1970’s has continued, leading to collaborations with a commercial 

vendor of this technology, International Road Dynamics (IRD), by C. Berthelot. The 

development of Smart Work Zones, which use IT to quantify and improve work zone 

safety, has recently begun in collaboration with International Road Dynamics, North 

Carolina Department of Transportation, the US Federal Highway Administration, and 

Saskatchewan Highways and Transportation. The use of Intelligent Transportation 

Systems has also led to the pilot implementation of integrated real time video tracking 


and weigh in motion installed for the first time in Saskatoon, which is being used to 

better characterize traffic load spectra by the industry sector on typical urban roads. 

Mechanistic Modeling of Pavements – C. Berthelot also leads an integrated series of 

studies into the development of an engineering mechanics and material science 

approach to the design of asphalt concrete pavements. Collaborators in this work 

include University of Nebraska, Texas A & M University, Saskatchewan Highways and 

Transportation, City of Regina, City of Saskatoon, and Husky Oil. This research has led 

to the development of mechanistic materials characterization for evaluating traditional 

and innovative road materials, as well as applying mechanistic based road structural 

modelling to evaluate the impact of various truck configurations on different road 

structures. Recent research has been expanded to the evaluation of cold in-place 

recycling and full depth stabilization of in service road structures. Benefits of cold inplace 

recycling of in service roads include reduced consumption of new source 

aggregates, reduced construction energy requirements, and minimized user 

interruptions due to improved construction efficiency and reduced weather exposure. 

This research is developing mechanistic-climatic laboratory characterization of cold inplace 

recycled road systems to develop improved engineering design and analysis 

protocols. 

Personnel 

Thirty one faculty members were actively involved in research related to the 

Environment, Infrastructure, and Sustainable Development Theme in 2010-2011. In 

addition, 151 highly qualified personnel were involved in this research, including 68 

graduate students (15 of whom were Ph.D. students), 17 post-doctoral fellows, 16 

research associates, 18 visiting scholars, 26 summer students and 6 research 

engineers. The faculty working in this area is listed on the following page. 

Funding 

Not including funding received by faculty from outside of the College of Engineering (i.e. 

faculty in the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, and non-college faculty 

affiliated with the Divisions of Biomedical and Environmental Engineering), this theme 

area received $5.20 M to pursue research in 2010-2011, of which $1.01 M (19%) was 

from NSERC. 

Output 

During 2010-2011, 35 refereed journal papers, 17 conference papers, and, 11 technical 

reports were published, delivered 14 conference presentations, and 2 invited lectures, 

and published 2 book chapters. A total of 12 graduate students completed degrees in 

this theme area, including 1 Ph.D. and 10 M.Sc. students. 



Division of Environmental Engineering 

Gillies, J.A.[Prof. Emeritus] Lin, Y.-H. Bowden, M.A. (Coll. of Law) 

Hendry, J. (Geol. Sciences) Hucq, A. (CSALE) Johnston, M. (CSALE) 

Kulshreshtha, S.N. (Agric. Liber, K. (Toxicology Martz, L. (Geog.) 

Econ.) 

Schoenau, J.J. (Soil 

Science) 

Centre) 

Baik, O. 

Department of Chemical and Biological 

Crowe, T. Dalai, A.K. 

Evitts, R. Fonstad, T. Guo, H. 

Lin, Y.-H. Maule, C. Meda, V. 

Nemati, M. 

Wang, H. 

Niu, C. (H.) Phoenix, A. 

Department of Civil and Geological Engineering 

Barbour, S.L. Berthelot, C. Boulfiza, M. 

Elshorbagy, A. Fleming, I. Haug, M. 

Kells, J. Mazurek, K. Milne, D. 

Peng, J. Putz, G. Reeves, M. 

Sharma, J. Sparling, B. 


Wegner, L. 

Bugg, J. 

Sumner, D. 

Burton, R. Hertz, B. [Prof. Emeritus] 

Department of Physics and Engineering Physics 

Degenstein, D. Hussey, G. Koustov, A. 

Llewellyn, E. Manson, A. McWilliams, K. 

Sofko, G. St.-Maurice, J.P. 














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Personnel 

THEME 3 – ENERGY: PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING, TRANSPORT, 

ELECTRICAL ENERGY AND UTILIZATION 

In 2010-2011, energy research involved 25 faculty members in the College of 

Engineering, 5 emeritus professors and 172 high quality personnel (93 graduate 

students, of which 35 were Ph.D. students, 27 summer students, 13 postdoctoral 

fellows, and 39 research engineers, research associates, and visiting scholars). 

Funding 

This past year, the energy group received $4.32 M, of which $1.12 M (26%) was from 

NSERC, to pursue research in all four topics of the theme area, including: (1) energy 

production (bio-energy from animal and agricultural wastes, clean coal technology, 

alternative energy, solar, and wind); (2) energy processing (bio-ethanol, bio-diesel, 

biomass conversion, bio-technology applications, and improved oil and gas processing); 

(3) energy transport and distribution (multi-phase flow transport systems, oil and gas 

transport, power grid and power reliability, and development of efficient transmission 

and distribution systems); and (4) energy utilization and conservation (building science, 

heat recovery systems, moisture control, and high-efficiency high voltage systems). 

Results 

During 2010-2011, the energy group contributed to progress in science and technology 

by publishing 63 refereed journal papers, 19 conference papers, 20 technical reports, 

and 1 book chapters; delivering 63 conference presentations, 1 keynote conference 

presentation, and 13 invited lectures. In addition, 25 graduate students (5 Ph.D. and 19 

M.Sc.) completed degrees in the energy theme area. 

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering: The research under Biological 

stream of this department includes the development of methods for the storage and 

densification of biomass for delivery to the biorefinery. The research projects in the past 

year in the Department included: 1) densification and processing of biomass as 

feedstock for bioenergy and biochemicals; 2) modeling the collection of material for an 

agricultural-based industry; 3) milling feed-grade cereal grains and pulses to be used as 

feedstock for ethanol fermentation; and 4) development of novel micro-wave assisted 

drying and extraction systems for bioprocessing. Research focus has been to reduce 

energy usage during drying, baking, and heat treatment for value-added processing of 

agricultural materials into food or industrial products. Novel processing technologies 

have been investigated to extract biological material, improve food safety, and reduce 

energy consumption during processing. Organizations funding this research include: 

AAFC, Alberta Livestock Industry Development Fund, Alberta Odor Control, AUCC, 

Theme 3 – Energy – Research Report 2010-11 Page 16

Canadian Hay Association, CIHR, Communities of Tomorrow, Department of National 

Defense, Environment Canada, NSERC, and Saskatchewan Agriculture Development 

Fund. 

Under the Chemical Engineering stream of the Department of Chemical and Biological 

Engineering, eight faculty members including Professor A.K. Dalai, Canada Research 

Chair in Bioenergy and Environmentally Friendly Chemical Processing, are actively 

working on various aspects of energy production, processing and energy transport. In 

the past year, the research has included catalytic processing of natural gas and sewage 

gas for the removal of hydrogen sulfide; hydroprocessing of heavy and light gas oils for 

improving the process efficiency; conversion of glycerol, animal fat, bio-oil and crude 

ethanol to hydrogen, synthesis gas and high Btu gas; production of diesel-like fuel from 

lard, hydrodeoxygenation of canola oil to transportation fuel; sonochemical processing 

of heavy oil; biochar conversion to activated carbon; production of diesel fuel additives 

from various vegetable oils such as canola, yellow grease and jatropa oil via 

transesterification process; catalytic reforming of greenhouse gases, oil/gas 

transportation; nuclear waste disposal; bitumen slurry pipeline flow, the migration and 

coalescence of bitumen froth waste droplets in a shear field, phase behavior analysis of 

bitumen-containing systems, bio-ethanol fermentation, control of souring and biocorrosion 

in oil reservoirs, biological removal of H2S, fuel cell simulation research, and 

applications of carbon nanotubes for petroleum processing. Funding was received for 

research in this theme from: Auto21 Network of Centre of Excellence, Canada 

Research Chair Program, Environment Canada, Moose Jaw Asphalt Inc., National 

Centre for Upgrading Technology, National Research Council, Natural Resources 

Canada, NSERC, PCS Inc., Saskatchewan Canola Development Commission, 

Saskatchewan Research Council, SaskPower, Syncrude Canada Ltd., and TSE 

Research Fund 

There are three professors (out of 18) from the Department of Civil and Geological 

Engineering working on the energy theme in the areas of petroleum hydrogeology, 

geomechanics and reclamation. Specific studies were on the leakage of stored 

greenhouse gas from depleted oil reservoirs, borehole stability analyses for coal bed 

methane wells and the long-term evolution of reclaimed watersheds over oil-sand mine 

waste sites, with an aim to protect the soil, groundwater and surface water in order to 

produce boreal forest following the end of mining. Funding for this research was 

received from: Alberta Geological Survey, CEMA, City of Regina, Environment Canada, 

NSERC, Petroleum Technology Research Centre, Saskatchewan Department of 

Highways, Suncor Canada Ltd., Syncrude Canada Ltd., and Western Economic 

Diversification Canada. 

In the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, there are six faculty 

members (out of 23 regular plus six Professors Emeriti) working closely with this theme 


especially in three areas: electrical machines and power magnetics; power systems 

analysis, protection and control; and power system reliability evaluation. In the past 

year, faculty have continued work on power system reliability evaluation, dynamic 

performance of electrical machines, microcontroller and embedded systems, 

microprocessor applications in control, renewable energy applications in power 

systems, power system and power system analysis. The Department received funding 

for this research from NSERC and Yukon Energy Corporation. 

The Department of Mechanical Engineering has eight faculty members (out of 19 

regular plus six professors emeriti) working on fundamental thermal sciences, fluids, 

and heat and mass transfer. In the past year, the faculty continued to focus on moisture 

exchange in buildings, heat and moisture transfer in urea fertilizer, heating, cooling and 

ventilating of buildings, coarse-particle slurry flows, and tribology of biodiesel fueled 

engines. The faculty has received funding from Milligan Biotech, NSERC, PCS Inc., 

Saskatchewan Canola Development Commission, Syncrude Canada Ltd., and Venmar. 

The Department of Physics and Engineering Physics has four professors (Bradley, 

Hirose, Smolyakov, and Xiao) working on the Fusion research in the Plasma Physics 

Laboratory. The STOR-M tokamak in the Laboratory is currently the only device in 

Canada devoted to magnetic fusion research with an ultimate objective to burn 

hydrogen isotopes for abundant, clean energy source. The STOR-M was constructed as 

a test bed for novel technologies which are relevant to tokamak fusion reactors in the 

future. Active research is being carried out on the following programs: Compact Torus 

(CT) injection as a novel fueling means, alternating current (ac) operation as a quasi 

steady state tokamak reactor, induction of improved (high) confinement phase (H-mode) 

by various means, and development of novel plasma diagnostics. In parallel with 

experimental research, active theoretical research is maintained in order to further our 

understanding of the complex tokamak physics. Recent experimental highlights include 

confinement improvement triggered by CT injection, vertical CT injection, observation of 

radial propagation of drift type mode and the Geodesic Acoustic Mode (GAM), 2 mm 

microwave scattering by short wavelength drift type modes in STOR-M, and plasma 

flow measurements using a Gundestrup probe. In theoretical research, stability analysis 

of tokamaks was continued with an integral equation based kinetic, electromagnetic 

ballooning code. Recent main findings include prediction of large electron thermal 

transport by the electron temperature gradient (ETG) mode and proportionality of both 

ion and electron thermal diffusivities to the safety factor q, which is consistent with the 

experimental observation in the DIII-D tokamak. Also, novel ballooning instability with a 

cross-field wavelength in the range of electron skin depth has been predicted. 

A group of four universities (Saskatchewan, Quebec, Toronto, Alberta) approached the 

Federal Government and urged reinstatement of a national fusion program. A recent 

NRCan report clearly supports fusion energy as one of the sustainable energy sources. 


Also, NSERC recently awarded a Strategic Grant to PPL for fusion research even 

though fusion is currently not in the list of “targeted research.” 

Other energy-related experimental and theoretical research such as the chemistry of 

fuel cell membrane, technology on hydrogen containment and the exploration of new 

alternate energy sources (e.g. natural gas hydrate) are being investigated in the group 

of Prof. John Tse. 




Baik, O. Dalai, A.K. Evitts, R. 

Guo, H. Kushwaha, L. [Prof. 

Emeritus] 

Meda, V. 

Nemati, M. Niu, C. (H.) Peng, D-Y. 

Phoenix, A. 

Tabil, L. 

Soltan, J. Wang, H. 


Barbour, L. Elshorbagy, A. Hawkes, C. 


Billinton, R. [Prof. Emeritus] Chowdhury, N. Faried, S. 

Gokaraju, R. Karki, R. Sachdev. M. [Prof. 

Emeritus] 


Bergstrom, D. Bugg, J. Besant, R.W. [Prof. 

Emeritus] 

Hertz, B. [Prof. Emeritus] Schoenau, G.J. Simonson, C. 

Sumner, D. Torvi, D. 


Bradley, M. 

Xiao, C. 

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THEME 4 – INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AND 

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS 

Overview 

Information and communication research will have a large impact on future 

technological and social progress. The advancement of integrated information systems 

for communication, control, decision-making, and intelligent structures involves 

development of new hardware, algorithms and software as well as a consideration of 

application domains. Over thirty University of Saskatchewan faculty have established 

niche areas of research excellence that support this field. In particular, research 

clusters have been formed in: 

� Communication over wireless, optical and wired channels; 

� Electronic materials and devices; 

� Embedded computing systems and sensory hardware; 

� Intelligent control and fault detection systems; 

� Actuation systems, fluid power, and mechatronics; and 

� Structural health monitoring and damage detection. 

Activities, around this theme, have in the past five years generated considerable 

research funding to the College with funds for the coming year from CFI grants, one 

NSF grant, several grants from ISIS (Innovative Sensing for Intelligent Structures), 

multiple NSERC strategic and operating grants as well as Canada Research Chair 

funding. Additionally, the SyLMAND (Synchrotron Laboratory for Micro and Nano 

Devices) at the Canadian Light Source, a dedicated X-ray lithography facility for micro 

and nano-scale structure and device research fabrication, has been cooperatively 

funded. Total funding for 2010-2011 is $1.98 M with $0.81 M coming from NSERC. 

This funding supports 71 graduate students (29 doctoral level and 34 Masters level) 

who play active roles in the research areas and dissemination of 79 journal, conference, 

and other scholarly publications. Furthermore, the past research thrust has resulted in 

successful spin-off companies (Vecima Networks Inc. and Critical Telecom) and 

promises the creation of new ventures in the near future. It also strongly relates and 

supports initiatives for the undergraduate program, notably the new Computer 

Engineering program and a projected mechatronics undergraduate stream. 

Description of the theme 

This theme focuses on the use of in-depth specialization in the fields of advanced 

information and communication systems, intelligent integrated mechatronic systems, 

and intelligent sensing within large-scale structures. 

Theme 4 – IT – Research Report 2010-11 Page 22

Active research projects, as well as related areas of expertise within the College, 

include: 

1. Advanced materials and devices: 

� Photoconductors for modern digital flat panel X-ray image detectors, 

� New doped and undoped Chalcogenide glasses for use in photonics such as 

wavelength selective filters, optical amplifiers and Bragg diffraction gratings in 

DWDM communications, 

� Precise fabrication of high-aspect-ratio micro and nano-scale structures using 

synchrotron deep X-ray lithography, and 

� Tactile sensing raised display for the blind, 

2. Information and Communication Technology: 

� Cost-effective microwave/millimetre-wave rural communication systems in the 

newly available 2.5/3.6 GHz frequency bands, 

� Interference cancellation techniques to improve the capacity of multiple 

access systems for mobile wireless communications and cable TV, 

� A wireless network in potash mines for convergence meters, geophones and 

in-mine positioning system, 

� Multi-rate systems operating at different sampling rates, and transmultiplexers 

for the conversion to and from the time-division multiplexing (TDM) frequencydivision 

multiplexing (FDM), 

� Internet access through extended digital subscriber line (DSL) service, “last 

mile” radio service and mobile computing devices, 

� Home information networking using the power conductors for “smart” utility 

metering, controlling home appliances, and security devices, 

� Diversity techniques for performance improvements of wireless transmission, 

� Design and implementation of code division multiple access (CDMA) and 

coded orthogonal frequency division multiplex (COFDM) for cellular phones in 

field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), 

� Development of system on a chip (SOC) embedded systems, application 

specific integrated circuit (ASIC) development at CMC Microsystems, 

� Efficient FPGA realizations based on AND/XOR expressions, 

� MPEG2/4 digital video protocol, construction of a 3-D virtual reality model 

from a 2-D video sequence, and next generation 3-D stereoscopic television, 

� Signal processing and state estimation, and 

� High-aspect-ratio RF-MEMS for wireless transceiver applications. 

3. Intelligent Systems: 

� Intelligent fault detection and condition monitoring systems with emphasis on 

fluid power, water supply, and fuel cell systems, 

� Fluid power systems, 

� Expert systems for advanced design, 

� Intelligent control systems – fuzzy logic and neural networks, 

� Intelligent controllers for the positioning of large inertial loads to sub micron 

accuracy using Electro hydraulic Actuator Systems, 


� Identification and control of multi-rate systems, 

� Networked control systems, 

� Robotics control of flexible manipulators and wheeled mobile robots 

� Robotics with emphasis on micromanipulation and biological cell 

manipulation, 

� Intelligent Mechatronics and Micro Electromechanical Systems (IMMS and 

IMEMS), 

� Intelligent sensors and DNA chip micro technology, 

� Energy optimization in supply operations with emphasis on water supply 

management, 

� Hybrid techniques comprising of intelligent systems and numerical methods 

for power system optimization, control and protection, 

� Pattern recognition, data mining and fusion with emphasis on molecular 

engineering and manufacturing, 

� Electrical weight scales, 

� GIS for watershed management, 

� Structural health monitoring of bridges, and 

� Vibration-based damage detection of full-scale structures. 




Crowe, T. 


Sparling, B. Wegner, L. 


Achenbach, S. Bolton, R.J. Daku, B.L.F. 

Dinh, A. Dodds, D.E. Gokaraju, R. 

Kasap, S.O. Klymyshyn, D. Ko, S.-B. 

Mehr, A.S. Nguyen, H. Salt, J.E. 

Teng, H.Y. Wood, H. [Prof. Emeritus] 


Burton, R.T. Chen, D. (X.B.) Fotouhi, R. 

Gupta, M.M. [Prof. Nikiforuk, P.N. [Prof. 

Schoenau, G.J. 

Emeritus] 

Emeritus] 

Szyszkowski, W. Zhang, C. (W.J.) 








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Overview 

THEME 5 – MATERIALS SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS 

Research in the area of Materials Science and Applications of the College of 

Engineering is interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, intensive and extensive. It involves 

more than 15 faculty and researchers, 44 graduate students, 7 post-doctoral fellows and 

13 research associates and engineers from all the departments of the College. A strong 

collaboration exists between materials researchers in the College and the Canadian 

Light Source (CLS), the Saskatchewan Structural Sciences Centre (SSSC), several 

colleges and departments within the University (e.g., Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, 

Chemistry and Biochemistry) and other educational institutions, research centres, and 

industrial organizations within and outside Canada. Materials researchers in the 

College are recognized nationally and internationally as experts in their research areas 

and have attracted several million dollars in research funding from NSERC, CFI and 

industries. In the 2010-2011 year, more than $3.3 million was received. 

The focus of materials research in the College is on synthesis, modeling, 

characterization, performance evaluation and application of materials. This 

encompasses both fundamental and applied research on a variety of material systems 

including: structural and multifunctional, advanced, plasma-derived, electronic and 

photonic, functional organic and hybrid, catalytic, bio-derived, and bio-inspired 

materials. The research activities are aimed at addressing national needs in terms of 

providing technological solutions to industries and governments, and training highly 

skilled graduates. The main areas of materials research within the College can be 

grouped as follows: 

Plasma Physics Research 

Plasma physics deals with the collective behaviour of charged particles in 

electromagnetic fields. The application of basic plasma physics to manufacturing and 

processing of materials is a new frontier that is of great technological importance to 

Canada. Industrial applications of plasma processing include the production of 

computer chips and planar optical waveguides, microwave devices, high-efficiency 

lamps, particle accelerators, processing of thin films, modification of materials, and 

large-scale electricity generation through nuclear fusion. Fusion energy produces no 

harmful waste, uses a virtually inexhaustible source of fuel (the hydrogen comes from 

water), and is incredibly efficient in the conversion of matter to energy. 

The application of plasma physics in material synthesis and modification is the cardinal 

focus of plasma research in the College. Carbon nanostructures (diamond films, carbon 

nanotubes (CNT), carbon nanocones) have been successfully synthesized with a 

unique plasma-assisted technology which allows diamond synthesis at unusually low 

Theme 5 – Materials Science – Research Report 2010-11 Page 26

temperatures. Several methods have also been developed for mass production of 

carbon nanotubes. In biomedical applications of diamond and related materials, 

diamond-like-carbon (DLC) has been coated on polymers (PTFE) to improve its 

haemocompatibility. Haemocompatibility tests of PTFE with and without DLC coating 

have been conducted with human blood with encouraging preliminary results. High field 

electron emission current from the synthesized carbon nanostructures has also been 

observed with low turn-on field. Plasma ion implantation technique has been used to 

modify materials properties. High-dose ion implantation of a variety of sample 

materials, such as conventional and porous silicon, SiO2, and diamond and DLC films 

have been carried out. Also, low-energy ion implantation techniques are used to 

investigate the self-assembly of nanometer-sized nitride structures on metals. 

Electronic Materials Research 

A rapidly growing area in electronic materials research today is the development of 

solid-state medical X-ray detectors. These X-ray detectors promise to reduce 

substantially the radiation doses to patients, increase image resolution, and improve the 

storage and recall of X-ray images in a digital format. The focus of electronic materials 

research in the College includes: (i) fabrication and characterization of X-ray 

photoconductors for X-ray imaging applications, (ii) deposition and optical 

characterization of thin films for optoelectronic and photonic applications, (iii) 

preparation and characterization of chalcogenide glasses for optoelectronic and 

photonic applications, (iv) device characterization and modeling [e.g., noise 

characterization of thin film transistors (TFTs used in flat panel displays)], device 

modeling of direct conversion flat panel X-ray image detectors, and modeling of 

photonic devices such as Er-doped optical amplifiers made from chalcogenide glasses, 

(v) fundamental understanding of property-preparation, and property-structure 

relationships for various technologically important materials with applications in 

electronics, optoelectronic and photonics, and (vi) fundamental understanding and 

theoretical treatment of the mechanism of superconductivity in high-pressure solids, 

boron-doped diamond, nanometer-size superconductors, and high-temperature 

superconductors which are used in a variety of applications such as medical imaging 

devices. 

Materials Performance Research 

Material degradation is of great importance to the Canadian economy because it occurs 

in the mining, agricultural, construction, manufacturing and power generation industries. 

Research in this area concentrates on the use of experimental techniques as well as 

numerical modeling to analyze the performance of materials in service and investigate 

causes of failure with respect to wear, friction, corrosion, oxidation, thermal durability, 

creep and mechanical/thermal fatigue. Predictive modeling and experimental studies 


elating to corrosion in a wide range of industrial systems are investigated. The effect of 

sensitization temperature and time on the stress-corrosion cracking of aluminum alloys 

used in marine applications is investigated, the effect of welding parameters on the 

fracture behaviour of high-pressure vessel steels and corrosion wear and erosion 

corrosion resistance of engineering materials employed in potash brine environment are 

also investigated. Intensive research is also being conducted on superhard 

nanocomposite materials for applications in mechanical, nuclear, and biomedical 

engineering. Characterization of biological materials, specifically physical attributes and 

structure, force-deformation, viscoelastic, thermal, frictional and electromagnetic 

properties are also carried out in order to design effective processing systems for these 

materials. 

Synchrotron Radiation and Surface Science Research 

The understanding of the electronic structure of materials is very important for the 

design of new materials with novel electronic, optical, magnetic, photochemical, and 

catalytic properties. This ultimately will lead to new devices. Also, the knowledge of the 

properties and behavior of surfaces is necessary in such diverse fields as electronics, 

nonlinear optics, sensors, catalysis, biotechnology, medicine, interfaces, adhesion and 

wear, friction and wetting. It is equally crucial in the manufacture and characterization 

of semiconductor devices and coatings. Synchrotron radiation materials research 

focuses on the characterization and probing of the electronic structure of complex 

materials, magnetic systems, strong ferromagnetic thin films, magnetic semiconductors, 

and biomaterials. These materials are of great theoretical and practical interest 

because their electronic structure is not merely related to atomic species and position 

but to ordering of spins, orbitals and charge on the lattice ions. They are candidate 

materials for the next generation of information technology with higher storage density 

and faster processing. With the unique capabilities offered by synchrotron radiation, 

low-energy excitation studies can be carried out. For example, magnetic (and 

nanostructured) materials can be probed with polarized synchrotron radiation. 

Materials research in the surface science area focuses on fundamental understanding 

of the chemistry and physics of phenomena occurring at the surfaces of materials. The 

self-assembly and structural properties of nanometre-scale systems at surfaces, and 

the interaction of molecules with model surfaces and nanostructures are investigated. 

Surfaces patterned on the nanometre scale have a wide range of potential applications 

in electronics, nonlinear optics, sensors, catalysis, biotechnology and medicine. The 

electronic structure probing of materials is carried out using a variety of techniques 

including synchrotron-based spectroscopy and X-ray scattering techniques, X-ray 

photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES), Auger electron 

spectroscopy (AES), and secondary ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS). Surface 

characterization and modeling are also carried out using scanning probe microscopy 


(SPM) techniques such as atomic-force microscopy (AFM) and variable temperature 

UHV scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy. 

The application of synchrotron radiation in micro and nano device fabrication 

technologies is a new area of research that is gaining momentum in the College. A new 

dedicated synchrotron beamline, the Synchrotron Laboratory for Micro and Nano 

Devices (SyLMAND), is being constructed at the CLS for this purpose. Current 

research efforts in this area include precise fabrication of nanostructures, including high 

resolution patterning, using ultra deep X-ray lithography. 

Composite and Computational Materials Research 

The ability of conventional engineering materials to meet the ever-increasing demands 

of the present modernity has reached a plateau. Modern engineering problems demand 

materials that exhibit a wide range of desirable mechanical and physical properties, 

such as high specific strength and stiffness, excellent strength at elevated 

temperatures, low thermal expansivity, high corrosion and creep resistance, and 

excellent wear resistance. The study of composites focuses on the development and 

optimization of mechanical, physical and chemical properties of metal matrix 

composites (MMCs), polymer matrix composites (PMCs), and ceramic matrix 

composites (CMCs) for a variety of industrial applications. Research is undertaken in 

developing biocomposites using flax and hemp fiber and biopolymers from agricultural 

materials for use in the automotive, construction, agricultural, and consumer products. 

Flax fiber reinforced concretes are being developed and characterized for use in 

building construction. Model aluminum alloy-based MMCs reinforced with alumina, 

silicon carbide, and fly ash particles are also investigated for use in automobile, railway, 

electronic, and aircraft components. 

Research in computational materials design involves modeling of materials behavior 

using both continuum and mechanistic approaches; quantum-mechanical prediction of 

crystal structure; computational design of materials, electronic devices and systems; 

and computer-aided selection of materials for engineering design. Current theoretical 

research projects include theoretical development and numerical simulation on the 

capacity of hydrogen storage in porous media, advanced thermoelectric materials, the 

search for superconductivity in high pressure solids and liquid-liquid phase transition 

under high pressure and high temperature. Recent successes in theoretical modeling 

include the demonstration of the feasibility of using graphene nanostructures as efficient 

and tunable storage media for molecular hydrogen and the prediction of high 

temperature superconductivity in dense metal hydrides. Development of materials and 

technologies employed in MEMS and other nanostructures is a new area of this 

endeavour. 




Dalai, A. Evitts, R. Meda, V. 

Tabil, L. 


Boulfiza, M. Wegner, L. 


Achenbach, S. Johanson, R. Kasap, S.O. 

Chen, L. 


Oguocha, I. Szpunar, J.A. Torvi, D. 

Yang, Q. Szyszkowski, W. 


Bradley, M. Chang, G. Hirose, A. 

Mitchell, C. Moewes, A. Robinson, A. 

Tanaka, K. Tse, J. Xiao, C. 













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PART II DIVISIONS AND DEPARTMENTS 


DECEMBER 2011

SUMMARY OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES – DIVISION OF BIOMEDICAL 

ENGINEERING 

The primary objectives of the Division of Biomedical Engineering are to provide for the 

training of graduate students and to foster and coordinate interdisciplinary research in 

the area of biomedical engineering. In fulfilling these objectives, the Division administers 

the degree programs of M.Eng. (non-thesis Master), M.Sc., and Ph.D. in the College of 

Graduate Studies and Research and has a membership that includes faculty members 

from the Colleges of Engineering, Medicine, Kinesiology, Arts and Science, and the 

Western College of Veterinary Medicine. 

There were a total of 54 students enrolled in the Division including 21 Ph.D. students, 

28 M.Sc. students, 3 M.Eng. students, and 2 PGD students as of June 30, 2011. 

Several engineering graduate students, who are registered in other departments, are 

doing research in the area of biomedical engineering under the supervision of members 

of the Biomedical Division. In addition, fourth year undergraduate students in Electrical 

and Mechanical Engineering are often involved in projects in the biomedical engineering 

area. 

Research projects of current interest include many areas within both engineering and 

life sciences. Within engineering, these include cognitive science and health, 

bioinformatics, biomaterials, biomechanics, biological control systems, signal 

processing, pattern recognition, ultrasound imaging, image processing, bioengineering, 

biosensors, bio-actuators, bio-mechatronics, modeling, electroradiography, expert 

systems, tissue engineering, and artificial neural networks. Within the life sciences, 

research projects include ultrasonography, cardiology, neurophysiology, 

electroradiography, and magnetic resonance imaging. In addition, several members of 

the Division are involved with the Biomedical Imaging and Therapy Beamline currently 

under construction at the Canadian Light Source. 

W.J. (Chris) Zhang 

Chair, Division of Biomedical Engineering 

Biomedical Engineering – Research Report 2010-11 Page 34

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEEE 

Chris Zhang, Chair, (Dept of Mechanical Engineering) 

F-X, Wu, Graduate Chair (Department of Mechanical Engineering) 

J.Singh (Veterinary Biomedical Sciences) 

M.M. Gupta (Mechanical Engineering) 

Daniel Chen (Mechanical Engineering) 

William Dust (Orthopaedic Surgery) 

Mark Eramian (Computer Science) 

Joel L. Lanovaz (College of Kinesiology) 

I. FACULTY AND STAFFFACULTY AND STAFF 

G.P. Adams, D.V.M. (Sask.), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Wis.) 

(Veterinary Biomedical Sciences) 

Reproductive physiology/endocrinology, ultrasonography, medical imaging 

Baik, Oon-Doo, B.Eng., M.Eng.(Pukyong) Ph.D. (Laval) 

(Agriculture and Bioresource Engineering) 

Energy Efficient Extraction of Medicinal and Nutraeutical components with Radio 

Frequency and Pulsed Electric Field combination 

D. Chen, B.E., M.Sc., Ph.D (Sask.) 

(Mechanical Engineering) 

Tissue Engineering, Mechatronics and Biomechatronics, Dynamics System and Control, 

Precision Fluid manipulation. 

L. Chen, E. (Tianjin), Ph.D. (Alberta) 

(Electrical & Computer Engineering) 

A reconfigurable fault-tolerant 32-bit Forth Engine Low-power, fault-tolerant memories 

and systems 

Ultra low-power digital systems Near-fall and fall detecting system Impulse UWB radar 

sensors for medical applications 

Chip Design for Biomedical Instruments. 

L. D. Chapman, B.Sc., Ph.D. (USA) 

(Anatomy & Cell Biology) 

Physics of contrast mechanisms such as diffraction enhanced imaging (DEI), soft tissue 

contrast characterization, x-ray optics research, synchrotron and conventional imaging 

systems research. 

P. Chilibeck, M.Sc. (McMaster University), Ph.D. (University of Western 

Ontario) 

(College of Kinesiology) 


Adaptation of muscle and bone to exercise and nutritional interventions; Spinal cord 

injury and conditions that effect bone and mineral status 

A-v. Dinh, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Regina), P.Eng. 

(Electrical and Computer Engineering) 

Wireless communications, fall and near fall detection device. 

A.T. Dolovich, B.Sc., M.Sc. (Man.), Ph.D. (Waterloo), E.I.T. 


Biomechanics 

W.N. Dust, B. Sc. (Alberta), M.D. (Alberta), FRCSC. 

(Orthopaedic Surgery) 

Orthopedic trauma, Adult joint reconstruction, Arthroplasty, Joint dislocations, fractures, 

and breaks 

M. Eramian, B.Sc., Ph.D (University of Western Ontario) 

(Computer Science) 

Computer Vision, Image Processing, Medical Image Analysis, Computer Assisted 

Diagnosis. 

G. George, PhD. 

(Anatomy & Cellular Biology) 

Use of synchrotron radiation to solve structural and chemical problems in biology and 

chemistry. 

J.R. Gray, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. 

(Biology) 

Neuroethology and Kinematics of Insect flight. 

J.E. Greer, B.Sc., B.Ed., M.Ed. (Sask.), M.S., Ph.D. (Texas) 


Artificial Intelligence, expert systems 

M.M. Gupta, B.Sc., B.E., (Hons), M.E., (Rajasthan), Ph.D., (Warwick), D.Sc. (U of S) 


Adaptive control Systems, Neural Networks, Cardiac Signal Processing and Robotics 

B. Juurlink, Ph.D., (McMaster), M.Sc., B.Sc. (Acadia) 

(Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology) 

The principal research interests are in the area of how neural and vascular cells 

respond to perturbations that lead to oxidative stress and inflammation. 

S.O. Kasap, B.Sc. (Eng.), M.Sc., Ph.D. (London), D.Sc. (London), D.I.C. (Imperial), 

FRSC, FCGI, FAPS, FEIC, FCAE, FAIP, FIET, FIP, FIMMM, FSGT, P.Eng. 

(Electrical Engineering) 


Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Photonics, Image Detectors, 

Direct conversion flat panel x-ray image detectors. 

E. Kendall, Ph.D. (Guelph) M.Sc.., B.Sc. (Dalhousie) 

(Department of Biochemistry) 

Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Epilepsy, Diagnostic textures from Medical Images, 

Image optimization. 

Ko, Seok-Bum, Ph.D. (Rhode Island), M.Sc (South Korea), B.Sc (South Korea) 


Efficient Implementation of Floating Point Unit in FPGAs 

A. Kusalik, B.Sc. (Lethbridge), M.Sc., Ph.D. (UBC) 


Bioinformatics, Computational biology, Machine learning, Constraint logic programming 

J. Lanovaz, B. Sc., PGD, M. Sc. (Sask), Ph.D. (Queen's University) 

(College of Kinesiology) 

Biomechanics, musculoskeletal modelling and simulation, orthopaedics, motion 

analysis. 

G.A. Linassi 

(Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation) 

Virtual reality rehabilitation in upper extremity prosthetic users 

Y.-H. Lin, B.Sc (Taiwan), Ph.D. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) 

(Chemical Engineering) 

Systems biology, Global gene expression and whole-cell protein profiling, Applied 

Bioinformatics and Protein-Protein Interaction Network, Fuel Alcohol and Yeast 

Physiology 

Q. Liu, B.Sc. (Nankai) Ph.D. (Justus Liebig, Germany) 

(Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, Vido) 

Viral Pathogenesis, Vaccine Development, Vaccine Delivery by Nanotechnology 

G. Muir, Ph.D (U.B.C.), D.V.M. (Sask) 

(Veterinary Biomedical Sciences) 

Immunochemistry, retrograde tract-tracing and nueroanatomical measurement and 

dendritic arborization 

I. McQuillan, Ph.D (Ontario), B.Sc. (Ontario) 

(Dept. of Computer Science) 

Bioinformatics, Natural Computing, and Theoretical Computer Science 

E. Neufeld, B.Sc., M.Sc., B.Ed. (Sask), Ph.D. (Waterloo) 



Graphics and Artificial Intelligence 

H. Nichol, M.Sc., Ph.D. (University of Western Ontario) 

(Anatomy and Cell Biology) 

Applications of synchrotron technology to mitochondrial and neurodegenerative 

diseases of metal metabolism. 

C. Niu, B.Eng., M.Eng.,(China) Ph.D. (McGill) 

(Chemical Engineering) 

Biosorption, Bioseparation and Biothanol Purification 

N. Osgood, B.Sc., M.Sc., (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Ph.D. (Computer 

Science) 

System dynamics modelling and simulation for decision making using differential 

equation and agent-based modelling; Project dynamics and management in software 

development and construction 

R.A. Pierson, B.S., M.S. (Purdue), Ph.D. (Wis.) 

(Obstetrics and Gynecology) 

Reproductive physiology 

Pickering, I. Ph.D. (London) 

(Geological Science) 

Synchrotron radiation studies of environmental and biological systems. 

Saadat Mehr, A.,Ph.D. (Aberta) 

Electrical & Computer Engineering) 

Signal Processing for Biomedical Instruments 

G. Sarty, B.Sc., (UNB), M.Sc., Ph.D.(Sask)., P.Eng 

(Psychology and Associate in Medical Imaging and Physics) 

FMRI data analysis, Physiological Math Models of the Brain and Ovary 

E. Schultke, M.D. (Dresden), Ph.D. (Sask) 

(Anatomy & Cell Biology) 

Neurotrauma, Synchrotron-based Imaging, Microbeam Radiation Therapy. 

B. Singh, MVSc&AH. (Punjab), MVSc. (Punjab), Ph.D. (Guelph) 

(Western College of Veterinary Medicine) 

Cell and molecular biology of lung inflammation. Focused on mechanisms of neutrophil 

and monocyte migration into inflamed lungs. Biology of pulmonary intravascular 

macrophages and environmental pulmonary toxicology. 

J. Singh, B.V.Sc.&A.H. (India), M.V.Sc. (India), Ph.D., (Sask) 

( Veterinary Biomedical Sciences ) 

Ultrasonographic, morphologic and biochemical kinetics of ovarian follicles to refine the 


ovine model. 

W. Szyszkowski, M.Sc., Ph.D. (Warsaw), P.Eng. 


Flexible Structures, Optimization, Computational Mechanics, Time-Dependent 

Materials, Holographic Interferometry 

K.A. Wahid, B.Sc. (Bangladesh), M.Sc. (U of Calgary), Ph.D. (U of Calgary) 

(Electrical and Computing Engineering) 

Bio-medical Imaging application using wavelet transform: low power image and video 

processors for wireless endoscopy: telemedicine: arithmetic techniques and number 

theory. 

N.H. West, B.Sc. (Bristol), Ph.D. (UBC) 

(Physiology) 

Cardiopulmonary physiology 

T. Wysokinski, M.A.Sc. (TUG, Poland), Ph.D. (SFU, Canada), P.Eng. 

(Canadian Light Source, BMIT) 

Medical Physics, Cryogenics, Applied Superconductivity . 

F-X. Wu, B. Sc. (China), M.Sc. (China), Ph.D. (Sask.) 


Bioengineering , Systems biology, Gene regulatory networks, Protein interaction 

networks, Bioinformatics and proteomics, Real time control of mass spectrometers, 

Control theory with applications to biology and medicine 

Q. Yang, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. (China) 

(Department of Mechanical Engineering) 

Physical and Chemical vapor deposition, nanoengineered this films and coatings, 

Friction and wear, Carbon and its related nanostructures, Biomedical tools and 

implants, Nano - drug and antibody delivery. 

K. Yong-Hing, M.B., Ch.B., F.R.C.S. (Glasgow), F.R.C.S.C. 

(Orthopaedic Surgery) 

Internal fixation devices, modeling 

W.J. (Chris) Zhang, B.Sc., M.Sc. (China), Ph.D. (Delft), P. Eng. 


Nano-robotics, Biosensor, Nano-drug delivery system, Human Behavior Modeling, 

Bioinformatics, Human Centered Mechatronics, Biologically Inspired System 

Dinh, Anh Van, Ph.D. 


Wireless communications, fall and near fall detection device. 


Adjunct Professor 

Assem Hedayat, B.Sc in Materials Engineering (The American University in Cairo), 

M.Sc in Metallurgy (Georgia Tech), and Ph.D in Materials Science (Michigan State 

University) 

(Biomedical Engineering) 

Biomaterials, nano-fabrication, and orthodontic coatings. 

Rob Lewis, B.Sc. Physics, Ph.D. Physics (University of Southhampton) 

(Biomedical Engineering) 

Measurement of mass attenuation coefficients of various breast tissues; Dose-energy 

image quality assessment of slot scanning mammography; Tissue specific X-ray 

imaging, Breast cancer diagnosis utilizing scattered x-rays, X-ray Detection 

Gopalan Selvaraj , Principal Research Sc Ph.D. Carleton University, Ottawa M.Sc. 

Carleton University, Ottawa B.Sc. Bangalore University, St. Joseph's College, 

Bangalore 

Secretary 

Jan Compain 

II. H HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL (HQP)LY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL (HQP) 








Number of visiting scholars: 01 

A complete list of HQP may be found in Part III, 1. 


III. GRANTS, CONTRACTS AND GIFTSGRANTS, CONTRACTS AND GIFTS 

Grants of faculty in the College of Engineering are reported in their home department 

sections. 

IV. DEGREES AWARDED 

Name Degree Thesis Title Supervisor(s) 

Cao, N. M.Sc. Experimental Study on Tissue Engineered Nerve 

Constructed by Schwann Cells and Biodegradable 

Materials 

Guan, Y. M.Sc. Characterization of Alginate Scaffolds Using X-ray 

Imaging Techniques 

Khan, 

S.K. 

Shah, 

W. 

M.Sc. Fabrication of Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) 

Encapsulating Chitosan Microspheres. 

M.Sc. Data Analysis of Chemosensor Bead Array for 

Olfactory Model 

Song, K. Ph.D. Formation of Controlled Uniform Microspheres by 

MEMS for Effective Drug Delivery 

Wellens, 

V. 

M.Sc. Heel Compliance and Walking Mechanics Using the 

Niagara Foot Prosthetic 

Chen / David 

Schreyer* 

Chen / 

Chapman 

Chen / 

Schreyer, 

David* 

Wahid 

Gupta / Zhang 

Lanovaz 

Yang, C. M.Sc. TBA Zhang 

Zhang, 

Q. 

M.Sc. TBA Shi / Ko 

V. PUBLICATIONSONS 

Publications of faculty in the College of Engineering are reported in their home 

department sections. 

A complete list of publications may be found in Part IV, 1. 

VI. HONOURS AND AWARDS 

None Reported 


SUMMARY OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES – DIVISION OF ENVIRONMENTAL 

ENGINEERING 

The mission of the Division of Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering 

at the University of Saskatchewan is to address the modern environmental problems 

faced by our society. There is a strong demand for the technical ability to solve 

environmental problems based on sound engineering principles. Research in the 

Division of Environmental Engineering assists in the development of scientific 

knowledge and tools to control, minimize, and prevent environmental degradation. 

The Program is unique in that, as with all other graduate programs in the College of 

Engineering, there is a focus on Saskatchewan needs and engineering problems 

related to the environment. 

The Division is an interdisciplinary teaching, research and administrative organization. 

The terms of reference for the Division are: 

� promote and facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration in environmental 

engineering, 

� promote and facilitate education, research and development in environmental 

engineering, 

� encourage students within the College of Engineering to pursue advanced 

studies in environmental engineering, 

� interact with organizations external to the College of Engineering in 

environmental engineering and technology, 

� promote public awareness of environmental engineering, 

� review course offerings suitable for students of environmental engineering, make 

recommendations to avoid unnecessary duplication, and recommend the 

development of new courses as considered desirable, 

� act as a consultative organization concerning the employment of new staff, 

thereby promoting training and research in environmental engineering, and 

� act as the administrative home for graduate students who otherwise would find it 

difficult to obtain admission to graduate studies because of the interdisciplinary 

nature of the proposed field of study. 

During the past year there were 3 students registered in the Ph.D. program, 1 students 

in the M.Sc. program, 4 students in the M.Eng. program, and 1 student in PGD 

program. The publications and research funding relating to the Division can be found 

by referring to the individual faculty member's home department. 

Environmental Engineering – Research Report 2010-11 Page 43

Research projects in the Division of Environmental Engineering cover a wide range of 

environmental issues. Some examples are: 

� Modelling of Ground Water Flow and Contaminant Transport; 

� Modelling of air dispersion; 

� Bioremediation of naphthenic acid; 

� Treatment of Pesticides in Water; 

� Agricultural Forestry; 

� Hydrological Properties of Waste Rock; 

� Protein - Protein Interaction of P. putida; 

� Swine Manure Odour Control; 

� Irrigation Sustainability; and 

� Wastewater Treatment Technology. 

The Division of Environmental Engineering has developed research liaisons with the 

following University-based institutions: 

- The Centre for Studies in Agriculture, Law and Environment; 

- The Institute for Space and Atmospheric Studies; and 

- The Toxicology Research Centre. 

As well, cooperative research is being conducted with the following agencies outside 

the University: 

- The National Water Research Institute; 

- The City of Saskatoon; and 

- The Prairie Swine Centre Inc. 

Mehdi Nemati 

Chair, Division of Environmental Engineering 


I. FACULTY AND STAFF 

As an interdisciplinary program, membership in the Division is open, upon application, 

to all faculty members actively working in the area of environmental engineering. This 

membership will continue as long as the individual maintains active involvement. Nonfaculty 

can apply for associate member status. 

Members of the Division of Environmental Engineering 

Bergstrom, D., - Mechanical Engineering 

Billinton, R., - Electrical Engineering 

Bowden, M.A., - College of Law 

Dalai, A., - Chemical and Biological Engineering 

Fleming, I., - Civil and Geological Engineering (Division Chair) 

Fonstad, T., - Chemical and Biological Engineering 

Hendry, J., - Geological Sciences 

Hucq, A., - Centre for Studies in Agriculture, Law and the Environment (CSALE) 

Johnston, M., – CSALE 

Kells, J., - Civil Engineering 

Kulshreshtha, S.N., - Agricultural Economics 

Liber, K., - Toxicology Centre 

Lin, Yen-Han, - Chemical Engineering 

Maulé, C.P., - Chemical and Biological Engineering 

Martz, L., – Geography 

Nemati, M., - Chemical and Biological Engineering 

Peng, J., - Civil Engineering 

Phoenix, A., - Chemical and Biological Engineering 

Putz, P., - Civil Engineering 

Schoenau, J.J., - Soil Science 


Smolyakov, A., - Physics and Engineering Physics 

Adjunct Members of the Division of Environmental Engineering 

Headley, J., - National Water Research Institute 

Melville, G., - Saskatchewan Research Council (Aquatic Ecology) 

Schmutz, J., - CSALE 

Schreiner, B., - Saskatchewan Research Council (Environmental Management) 

Shewchuk, S., - Saskatchewan Research Council (Climate Change) 

Stottmeister, U., - UFZ Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig Germany 

Steppuhn, H., - Semi-arid Prairie Agricultural Research Centre, Canada Agriculture 

(Water Harvesting) 

Tollefson, L., - PFRA, Irrigation 

Wheaton, E., - Saskatchewan Research Council (Climate Change) 

Professor Emeritus 

Gillies, J.A. B.E., M.Sc. (Sask.) – former chair, Chemical and Biological Engineering 

(Sustainable Environments) 

Professional Affiliates 

Gerstmar, J., - Meewasin Valley Authority (Landfill Leachates) 

Keller, M., - City of Saskatoon (Municipal Water Treatment) 

Clerical Service Worker 

J. Compain 


II. HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL (HQP) 









III. GRANTS, CONTRACTS AND GIFTS 

Grants of faculty in the College of Engineering are reported in their home department 

sections. 


None Awarded 

V. PUBLICATIONS 








Name Phone E-mail 

Baik, O.-D. (306) 966-5320 oon-doo.baik@usask.ca 

Brad, R.A. (306) 966-2340 robert.brad@usask.ca 

Crowe, T.G. (306) 966-7861 trever.crowe@usask.ca 

Dalai, A.K. (306) 966-4771/4768 ajay.dalai@usask.ca 

Evitts, R.W. (306) 966-4766 richard.evitts@usask.ca 

Fonstad, T.A. (306) 966-7860 terry.fonstad@usask.ca 

Guo, H. (306) 966-5350 huiqing.guo@usask.ca 

Helgason, W. (306) 966-5315 warren.helgason@usask.ca 

Kushwaha, R.L. (306) 966-5313 lal.kushwaha@usask.ca 

Lin, Y-H. (306) 966-4764 y-h.lin@usask.ca 

Maulé, C.P. (306) 966-7861 charles.maulé@usask.ca 

Meda, V. (306) 966-5309 venkatesh.meda@usask.ca 

Nemati, M. (306) 966-4769 mehdi.nemati@usask.ca 

Niu, C. (306) 966-2174 catherine.niu@usask.ca 

Noble, S.D. (306) 966-5308 scott.noble@usask.ca 

Peng,D-Y (306) 966-4767 ding-yu.peng@usask.ca 

Phoenix, A. (306) 966-4190 aaron.phoenix@usask.ca 

Soltan, J. (306) 966-5449 j.soltan@usask.ca 

Tabil, L. (306) 966-5317 lope.tabil@usask.ca 

Wang, H. (306) 966-2685 hui.wang@usask.ca 

LIST OF STAFF 


Bader, K. (306) 966-4760 kelly.bader@usask.ca 

Blondin, R. (306) 966-4711 richard.blondin@usask.ca 

Cekic, D. (306) 966-4926 dragan.cekic@usask.ca 

Claude, D.R. (306) 966-4707 dale.claude@usask.ca 

Crerar, W.J. (306) 966-5321 bill.crerar@usask.ca 

Horosko, J. (306) 966-4762 jean.horosko@usask.ca 

Hunchak, P.I. (306) 966-5304 pat.hunchak@usask.ca 

Miller, M. (306) 966-5330 mike.miller@usask.ca 

Roth, L. (306) 966-5302 louis.roth@usask.ca 

Wallentiny, T. (306) 966-4728 ted.wallentiny@usask.ca 

Chemical and Biological Engineering – Research Report 2010-11 Page 49

SUMMARY OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES - DEPARTMENT OF 

CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING 

Chemical Engineering 

Members working in the stream of Chemical Engineering have been actively involved in 

fundamental and applied research in biotechnology, energy, and environment; which 

are areas that align with the University’s strategic directions. The research can be 

categorized according to the following major areas of specialization: biochemical 

engineering, chemical reaction engineering, corrosion, environmental remediation, 

biosorption, fluid mechanics, renewable energy, separation technology, and 

thermodynamics. 

In the areas of biochemical engineering and environmental remediation, the research 

topics included mass transfer of volatile organic compounds, bioremediation of 

contaminated air and industrial wastewater, biosorption in waste water treatment and 

bioethanol purification, characteristics of immobilized enzyme, metabolic regulation of 

cells, gene and protein expression profiling for fuel alcohol production, cellular global 

organization and protein-protein interaction, and anaerobic reduction of sulfate. 

Chemical reaction engineering and bioenergy research included the development of 

process for the catalytic oxidation of low concentration hydrogen sulfide and 

mercaptans in gases, the steam gasification of chars, waste soilds and bio-oils, the 

production of diesel fuel additives from various vegetable oils, conversion of syngas to 

liquid transportation fuels, productions and catalytic applications of carbon nanotubes, 

glycerol conversion to biochemicals and the hydro processing of heavy and light gas 

oils derived from Athabasca bitumen. Studies concerning corrosion covered systems 

involving potash brines, mineral slurries, oil/gas production, and nuclear waste disposal. 

The research in fluid mechanics included studies of the hydrodynamics and 

performance of gas-solid fluidized beds, the migration and coalescence of bitumen froth 

water droplets in a shear field, and the design of concentric cylinder based wear 

apparatus. Research in thermodynamics included the modeling of the critical and 

miscibility behavior of mixtures, the modeling of fuel cells, the calorimetric behavior of 

glucose under the influence of bio-kinetic effects, and the development of equations of 

state for associating systems. 

Biological Engineering 

Biological Engineering integrates engineering science, engineering design, and applied 

physical and biological sciences for the solution of problems involving plant and animal 

systems and the natural environment. 


The three general theme areas of research are: bioprocess engineering, engineering 

for crop and animal production systems, and engineering for natural resource 

management. Applications are found in agriculture, food and value-added processing, 

forestry, waste management and landmine neutralization. 

Research projects in bioprocess engineering focus on drying, storage, and adding value 

to biological and agricultural materials. Current NSERC-supported projects in this area 

include: a) physicochemical characterization of pulse grains and their products, in 

support of improvements to processing, transportation and utilization of pulses and their 

products in food, feed and industrial products; b) radio-frequency thermal applications 

for food and bioprocesses; c) value-added processing of biological materials using 

electrotechnologies; and d) processing of flax and hemp fiber into composites. 

Research projects in the engineering for crop and animal production systems deal with 

several topics. Current NSERC-supported projects include: a) spectral properties of 

plants as affected by nutrients, water and growing environments; b) development of crop 

chopping/processing/blowing system for high capacity forage harvester; c) monitoring and 

modeling of diurnal and seasonal profiles of odour and gas emissions and developing an 

odour dispersion model for swine operations; d) systems engineering for manure 

management systems; and e) spectral imaging for crop protection. 

On the animal production side, several projects deal with enhancing animal production 

facilities and manure management to assess the actual impact of animal production 

expansion. Research projects are undertaken to monitor odor, gas profiles and 

greenhouse gas emissions from swine operations. Through these research projects, 

setback distance recommendations can be made on these facilities. Work is also being 

carried out to evaluate problems concerning contaminants in livestock buildings to 

reduce the negative impact on both workers and animals. Animal welfare issue is 

addressed in a project that involves transport of broiler chickens, where the aim is for 

favorable temperature and humidity distribution within trailers carrying broiler chickens. 

In the natural resource management area, research work has been conducted that 

directly relates animal production to soil and water issues. Investigation on the longterm 

safety of earthen manure storages (EMS) continues. Other projects deal with 

feedlot hydrology (to more accurately forecast runoff volumes and water quality) and the 

design and monitoring of earthen manure storages (EMS). Laboratory studies are also 

conducted to determine reactive transport parameters associated with seepage from 

EMS, the development of monitoring systems for the determination of changes in 

oxidation-reduction potential during seepage, determination of microbial populations 

beneath EMS, long term monitoring of seepage effects, and development of methods 

for optimum design of liners. 


During the year, the Department received $3,449,984 in research funds from various 

sources; $987,212 of this (29%) came from NSERC, and $270,436 (8%) from the 

Saskatchewan Agriculture Development Fund, $634,225 (18%) from the Agricultural 

Bioproducts Innovation Program (ABIP), $1,071,117 (31%) from CFI and $359,494 

(10%) from other sources. There were a total of 64 refereed journal papers, 12 papers 

in refereed conference proceedings, 4 papers in non-refereed conference proceedings, 

83 papers/posters presented at conferences, 2 keynote conference presentations, 15 

invited lectures, 1 plenary lectures, 20 technical reports, 1 book chapter, and 4 patents. 

Faculty members in the Department served as supervisors for 88 graduate students 

(31 Ph.D., and 54 M.Sc.), of which 6 Ph.D., 14 M.Sc. and 2 M.Eng. students graduated 

during the year. An additional 6 and 8 student were supervised or co-supervised by our 

faculty but registered in the Divisions of Biomedical Engineering and Environmental 

Engineering, respectively. 

Mehdi Nemati 

Member, Research and Partnerships Committee 



Professor and Acting Head 

R. Evitts, B.Sc. (Regina), B.E., Ph.D. (Sask.), P.Eng. 

Corrosion and Electrochemical Engineering, Moisture and Energy Transfer in Packed 

Beds 

Professors 

T.G. Crowe, B.S.Eng., M.Sc. (Man.), Ph.D. (Calif.), P.Eng. 

Instrumentation, machinery systems 

(Associate Dean, College of Graduate Studies and Research, University of 

Saskatchewan) 

A.K. Dalai, B.Sc. Tech. (India), M.Tech. (India), Ph.D., (Saskatchewan), P.Eng. 

Associate Dean, Research and Partnerships; Canada Research Chair in Bioenergy and 

Environmentally Friendly Chemical Processing 

Renewable Energy, Heavy Oil and Gas Processing, Catalytic Reaction Engineering 

Y.-H. Lin, B.Sc. (Nat. Taiwan Inst.), M.Sc. (Nat. Taiwan Inst.), Ph.D. (Rensselaer), 

P.Eng. 

Molecular Biochemical Engineering 

C.P. Maulé, B.Sc. (Brit. Col.), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Alta.), P.Ag. 

Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Administration 

Soils, soil hydrology 

M. Nemati, B.Sc. (Eng.), M.Sc. (Eng.) (Amirkabir University of Technology), Ph.D. 

(University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology), P.Eng. 

Environmental Bioengineering 

D.-Y. Peng, B.Sc. (Taiwan), Ph.D. (Missouri), D.Sc. (Saskatchewan), F.C.I.C., P.Eng. 

Thermodynamics of Hydrocarbons and Related Fluids 

L. Tabil, B.Sc. (Xavier, Philippines), M.Eng. (AIT, Thailand), Ph.D. (Sask.), P.Eng. 

Postharvest technology, value-added processing 

Associate Professors 

O.-D. Baik, B.Eng., M.Eng. (Pukyong), Ph.D. (Laval), P.Eng. 

Optimization of food and bioprocesses 


T.A. Fonstad, B.E., M.Sc., Ph.D (Sask.), P.Eng. 

Waste utilization 

H. Guo, B.Sc., Ph.D. (Beijing), P.Eng. 

Structures and environment 

V. Meda, B.Eng. (India), M.Sc., Ph.D. (McGill), P.Eng. 

Physical properties, biomaterial processing and electro-technologies 

H (Catherine). Niu, B.E., M.E. (Sichuan University), Ph.D. (McGill University), E.I.T. 

Biosorption, Bioenergy 

A. Phoenix, B.A.Sc. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Calgary), P.Eng. 

Aqueous Thermodynamics, Petroleum Thermodynamics, Fuel Cells and Computational 

Methods 

Assistant Professors 

W. Helgason, B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. (Sask.), Applied, APEGGA 

Water management engineering 

S.D. Noble, B.Sc. (Guelph), M.Sc. (Sask.), Ph.D. (Guelph), E.I.T. 

Machinery Systems, Reflectance Spectroscopy, Instrumentation 

J. Soltan, B.Sc. (Iran), M.Sc. (Iran), Ph.D. (University of British Columbia) 

Multiphase Reactors, Catalytic Ozonation, Application of Ultrasound in Wastewater 

Treatment, Catalytic Conversion of Natural Gas 

H. Wang, B.Sc., M.Sc. (Taiyuan University of Technology), Ph.D. (Alberta), P.Eng. 

Catalysis, Adsorption, Reaction Engineering, Separations 

Professors Emeritus 

N.N. Bakhshi, B.Sc., M.Sc. (Banaras), Ph.D., D.Sc. (Virginia Polytechnic), D.Sc. (Sask.), 

F.C.I.C., P.Eng. 

Catalysis and Chemical Reaction Engineering 

W.J. DeCoursey, B.Sc., Ph.D. (Imperial College, London, UK), F.C.I.C., P.Eng. 

Mass Transfer 

M.N. Esmail, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Moscow State), F.C.I.C., P.Eng. 

Fluid Mechanics and Computational Methods 

J.A. Gillies, B.E., M.Sc. (Sask.), P.Eng. 

Sustainable environments, groundwater, irrigation, water quality 


R.L. Kushwaha, B.S.A.E. (Allahabad), M.S. (Tor.), Ph.D. (Sask.), P.Eng. 

Machinery systems, tribology 

D.G. Macdonald, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Queen's), M.C.I.C., P.Eng. 

Biochemical Engineering 

D.I. Norum, B.E., M.Sc. (Sask.), Ph.D. (Calif.), F.C.S.A.E., P.Eng. 

J. Postlethwaite, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Manchester), F.C.I.C., P.Eng. 

Corrosion Engineering 

S. Sokhansanj, B.Sc. (Tehran), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Mich. State), F.C.S.B.E., P.Eng. 

Post harvest systems 

Lecturer without Term 

R.A. Brad, B.E. (Sask.) 

Associate Member 

E.M. Barber, B.S.A., M.Sc. (Alta.), Ph.D. (Guelph), P.Eng., P.Ag. 

Animal building systems 

H.C. Wood, B.E., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Sask.), P.Eng. 

Instrumentation and robotics 

Adjunct Professors 

J.D. Adjaye, B.Sc. (Kumasi, Ghana), M.Sc. (Haifa, Israel), Ph.D. (Sask.), P.Eng. 

Chemical Reaction Engineering and Catalysis (Syncrude Canada) 

P. Chang, B.Sc. M.Sc. (Taiwan), Ph.D. (North Dakota) 

Bioproducts, bioprocessing 

I. Dunmade, B.Sc. (Ilorin), M.Sc. (Lagos), Ph.D.(Brandenburg) 

Environmentally sustainable processing and production 

J.J.R. Feddes, B.Sc., M.Sc. (Alta.), Ph.D. (Nebraska), P.Eng., P.Ag. 

Animal housing systems 

C. Karunakaran, B.Sc. (Tamil Nadu), M.Sc. (Manitoba), Ph.D. (Manitoba) 

Imaging, Synchrotron applications for biomaterials and bioproducts 

C. Laguë, B.Sc.A., M.Sc. (Laval), Ph.D. (Calif.), P. Eng. 

Manure management systems, machinery systems 

S.P. Lemay, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Laval), P.Eng. 

Engineering for pork production 


J. Monnier, B.A.Sc. (Laval), Ph.D. (McMaster) 

Chemical Process/Product Development, CANMET Energy Technology Centre 

J. Paslawski, B.E., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Sask), P.Eng. 

Bioenergy and bioproducts 

A. Pietroniro, B.Sc. (McGill), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Waterloo), P.Eng. 

Water resources, remote sensing 

B.Z. Predicala, B.Sc. (Philippines), M.Eng. (AIT, Thailand), Ph.D. (Kansas State) 

Engineering for pork production 

R. Ranganathan, B.E. (Annamalai University, India), M.S. 

(Indian Institute of Science, India), Ph.D. (Sask.), P.Eng. 

Process and Product Development, Saskatchewan Research Council, Saskatoon 

Z. Ring, M.Eng. (Technical Univ. of Warsaw), M.A.Sc., Ph.D. (Toronto) 

National Centre for Upgrading Technologies 

M. Roberge, B.Sc., M.Sc. (Laval), Ph.D. (McGill), P.Eng. 

Machinery systems, systems modeling 

R. Sammynaiken, B.Sc. (McMaster), M.Sc. (Guelph), Ph.D. (New Brunswick) 

Electronic Structure of Materials 

H. Steppuhn, B.Sc., Ph.D. (Colorado State) 

Hydrology, salinity 

R.J. Sumner, B.Sc. (Sask.), M.E.Sc. (Western Ontario), Ph.D. (Sask.), P.Eng. 

Multiphase Pipeline Flow 


M.R.L. Bantle, B.E., M.Sc. (Sask.), P.Eng. 

Animal housing systems, machinery systems 

J. Cross (Philom Bios Inc.) 

R. Gillies (Saskatchewan Research Council) 

M. McKibben (Saskatchewan Research Council) 

D. Soveran (Saskatchewan Research Council) 

L.C. Tollefson, B.S.A., M.Sc. (Sask.) 

Soil science, irrigation 


J. Wassermann, B.E. (Sask.), P.Eng. 

Machinery systems 

Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food Research Engineer in Agricultural Material 

Utilization and Bioprocess Engineering 

W.J. Crerar, B.Sc. (UManitoba), M.Sc. (UManitoba) 

Departmental Assistants 

R. Blondin (Analytic Technician) 

D. Cekic (Stores Technician) 

L.L. Roth (Power and Machinery Technologist) 

M. Miller (Facilities Manager) 

T. Wallentiny (Electronics Technician) 

Clerical Service Workers 

K. Bader 

J. Horosko 

P.I. Hunchak 



Total number of students: 88 + 06 in Biomedical Engineering + 08 in 

Environmental Engineering supervised by 

CBE faculty 













Baik, O. 

$80,000 Energy Efficient Extraction of Medicinal and Nutraceutical components with 

RF and Pulsed Electric Field combination, NSERC, Strategic Grant, 3/3, 

Dec. 2007 to May. 2011 (extended) (Gauri S. Mittal) 

$21,170 Radio-Frequecy thermal applications for food and bioprocesses, NSERC, 

Discovery Grant, 4/5, April 2008 to March 2013 

$35,000 Development of pulsed electric field process for efficient extraction of 

bioactive pigments from microalgae, MACC, Research grant, 1/1, July 1, 

2010 to June 31, 2011 

Crowe, T. 

$21,000 Reducing Energy Requirments in Poultry Production, NSERC, Discovery 

Grant, 2/5 

Effect of ventilation management strategies and stocking density during 

transport on trailer microclimate and calf welfare, Beef Cattle Research 

Council, $136,500 (Collaborators: Luciano Gonzalez, Trever Crowe, Eugene 

Janzen, John Kastelic and Ed Pajor.) 


Dalai, A.K. 

$44,222 Investigation and Demonstration of Close Coupled Gasification Combustion 

of Raw Glycerin and Canola Hull Fiber Fuel Pellets/Bri, ADF, Saskatchewan 

Ministry of Agriculture, 1/3, April 2011 and March 2014 

$22,111 Investigation and Demonstration of Close Coupled Gasification Combustion 

of Raw Glycerin and Canola Hull Fiber Fuel Pellets/Bri, Saskatchewan 

Canola Development Commission, Industrial, 1/3, April 2011 and March 

2014 

$64,667 Production of Biolubricant from Canola Oil using Solid Catalysts, 

Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, Agricultural Development Fund, 1/3, 

April 2011 and March 2014 

$81,000 Applied Energy Research for Green Diesel production and Glycerol 

Utilization, NSERC, Discovery Grant, 1/5, April 2011 and March 2016 

$40,000 Applied Energy Research for Green Diesel Production and Glycerol 

Utilization, NSERC, DAS, 1/3, April 2011 and March 2014 

$82,475 Combined Raman and Fourier Transformed Infra-Red (FTIR) Upgrade, 

NSERC, RTI, 1/1, April 2011 and March 2012 (Seven Co-investigators) 

$143,800 Development of Catalysts for Hydrodeoxygenation and Transesterification of 

Nonedible Vegetable Oils, Estimation of Combustion P, NSERC, SPG, 1/3, 

October 2010 and September 2013 (Janusz Kozinski and two others) 

$37,494 Pyrolysis of Agriculture and Livestock Residue, SRC, Industry Contract, 1/1, 

Sept 2010 and April 2011 

$837,148 Applied Energy Research Facility, CFI, Infrastructure Grant, 1/1, July 2010 

$75,000 Bioenergy and Environmentally Friendly Processing, Saskatchewan 

Innovation Fund and the University of Saskatchewan, CRC Grant, 2/5, July 

2009 and June 2014 

$94,000 Development of Mesoporous Supported Ni-Mo catalysts for Hydroprocessing 

of Gas Oils, Syncrude Canada Ltd., Industry Contract, 2/2, 2009 and 2011 

$122,000 Applications of Mesoporous Carbon, Carbon Nanohorns and M-SBA-15 

(M=Zr and Ti) as Support to Ni-Mo Hydrotreating Catalysts, NSERC, CRD, 

1/2, March 2010 and February 2012 

$250,000 Generation of Fuels and Chemical from Biomass, Agriculture and Biomass 

Innovation network, Network Grant, 1/3, 2008-2011 

Biodiesel from Microalgae Grown on Waste Resources Using Liquid-Solid 

Circulating Fluidized Beds and Photo-Bioreactors, NSERC, Strategic Grant, 

$25,000/yr, 2/2, April 2008-March 2010 (A. Bassi, A. Ray, J. Zhu) 


Evitts, R.W. 

Development of Absorbent for Removal of Water from Ethanol-water 

Mixture, Saskatchewan Canola Development Corp. and Pound-maker 

Agventures Ltd., Industry Contract, $30,000/yr, 1/2, 2008 and 2010 (C. Niu, 

Investigator) 

SUNFUEL: Conversion of Waste Biomass to Biofuels, NSERC, SPG, 

$150,000/yr, 2/3, April 2009 and March 2012 (Janusz Kozinski and two 

others) 

Second Generation Biofuels for Sustainable Transportation, Auto21, 

Network Grant, $20,000/yr, 1/2, May 2009- April 2011 

Utilization of Biomass for Energy, Agriculture, Food and Rural Revitalization, 

Govt. of Saskatchewan Grant, $90,000/yr, 1/3, 2008-2011 (D. Anweiler, 

Principal; T. Pugsley & T. Fonstad, Co-investigators) 

Biochar: Biofuel Help Themselves, NSERC, Strategic Grant, NSERC, SPG, 

$41900/yr, 1/3, October 2010 and September 2013 (D. Smith and four 

others) 

$70,248 Factors Influencing Cake Formation in Potash Fertilizer, NSERC - 

PotashCorp, CRD, 2/4 (R.W. Besant (Co-Investigator)) 

$25,000 Electrode Development for Microbial Fuel Cells with Electrochemical 

Systems Modeling, NSERC, Discovery Grant, 1/5 

Fonstad, T.A. 

Integrated Biofuel System - Bioethanol, Biodiesel and Microbial Fuel Cell, 

NSERC, Strategic, $35000/yr, 2/2 (Gordon Hill (PI), William McCaffrey (Co, 

U of A)) 

$30,000 Solid State Digester Bench Scale Development, Sask Ministry of Agriculture 

ADF through Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute, Research Contract, 1/2, 

May 1, 2010 to May 1, 2012 

Guo, H. 

$40,000 Development of a livestock farm site selection system based on an odor 

dispersion model and GIS, CIHR, PHARE program Grant for Post-Doctor 

Research, 2/2, June 2010 to June 2012 

$45,360 Dehumidification requirement determination and dehumidifier evaluation for 

humidity control in greenhouses, Sask ADF, Contract (Total $109,200), 1/3, 

Jan. 2011-Jan. 2014 (Doug Waterer, Robert Brad, Rick VanDuyvendyke) 

$20,000 Study on livestock odour properties, community odour impact criteria and 

setback modeling for livestock farms, NSERC, Discovery Grant, 1/5, April 

2011-March 2015 


$15,000 Proposal For Setting An Odour Guideline For The Purpose Of Ambient Air 

Quality Criteria For Saskatchewan, Ministry of Environment, Contract, 1/1, 

Jan. 2011-Mar.2011 

$6,587 Dehumidification in greenhouses. Funded by for a total of $73,170 (2007- 

2011)., Saskatchewan ADF, Government contract, 3/3, 2007-2011 (Robert 

Brad, Doug Waterer, Rick) 

Helgason, W. 

Development of Dispersion-Based Setback Distance Guideline for Manitoba, 

MANITOBA LIVESTOCK MANURE MANAGEMENT INITIATIVE INC., 

Contract, $32,000/yr, 1/1, Jan. 2010 to Dec. 2011 (Principal Investigator: Dr. 

Qiang Zhang) 

$19,600 Feasibility study of an 'off-grid sprinkler irrigation system, Saskatchewan 

Agricultural Development Fund, Provincial Government Contract, 1/2, 

December, 2010 - May 1, 2013 

$10,000 Simulating the hydrological effects of agricultural land use under a changing 

climate, Morris Sebulsky Agricultural Engineering Research Fund, Grant, 1/1 

Lin, Y. H. 

$23,000 Whole-cell gene and protein expression profiling of Saccharomyces 

cerevisiae grown under different gravity conditions, NSERC Discovery Grant, 

1/5 

Meda, V. 

Co- CA storage of fresh vegetables grown organically and conventionally, 

ADF, Contract, $15,000/yr, 2/2, July 2010 June 2011 (CSIDC, Outlook, SK) 

Co- Lignocellulosic to Ethanol conversion: processing and drying of biomass, 

ABIP - AAFC, Contract, $140,000/yr, 3/3, April 2010 - March 2011 (L. Tabil, 

CBE Dept, U of S) 

Co- Pea Protein Utilization and fractionation studies, ADF, Research grant, 

$30,000/yr, 1/3, January 2011 December 2014 

$5,000 Utilization of RF, MW and InfraRed Technology for Bioprocessing research, 

U of S, President's NSERC Award, 1/2, May 2011 - April 2013 

$45,000 Integrating Safety and Environment Knowledge in World Food Studies 

(ISEKI), European Union (EU), Mundus, ISEKI_MUNDUS 2 Network, 3/3, 

September 2010 - August 2011 (Dr. C. Silva, Escola Superior de 

Biotecnologia, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal) 

$55,000 Infra-red treatment on functionality of resistant starch in food applications, 

ADF, Contract, 3/3, November 2010 - June 2011 (R. T. Tyler (Co-applicant, 

College of ABE, FABS Dept.) and M. Pickard (Co-applicant, InfraReady 


Products) from Industry) 

$30,000 DFAIT CCSP (Canada Common Wealth Fellowship) award, Dept. of Foreign 

Affairs and Trade, Canada (DFAIT), Graduate student fellowship, 3/3, Sept 

1, 2010 - March 31, 2011 

$65,000 Extraction of high value products from ethanol processing plant, ABIP - 

AAFC, Contract, 3/3, April 2010 March 2011 (R.T. Tyler, FABS, College of 

Ag. & Bioresource, U of S) 

$30,500 International Partnership Development Activities: Integrated Bioprocessing 

and Bioproducts Technology, ISTP Canada - India (International Science 

and Technology Partnerships) & Government of SK, U of S, Research grant, 

1/2, August 2010 March 2012 (B. Tyler, FABS Dept, College of Ag /Bio) 

Nemati, M. 

Fractionation and Processing of Small Fruits for Applications in Functional 

Foods and Nutraceuticals, MRAC: Manitoba Rural Adapation Council Inc., 

Research Contract, $71,000/yr, 1/2, July 2010 June 2012 (Food 

Development Center (FDC), Manitoba) 

$3,300 Analytical infrastructure for environmental bioengineering research 

laboratory, CFI, Infrastructure Operating Fund, 6/6, 2006-2011 

$25,020 Desulphurization and Denitrification of Gas and Liquid Streams with 

Concomitant Generation of Energy in Microbial Fuel Cells, NSERC, 

Discovery Grant, 4/5, 2008-2013 

$35,000 Treatment of swine and food processing wastewater and generation of 

electricity using microbial fuel cell technology, Ministry of Agriculture, 

Agriculture Development Fund (ADF), 2/3, 1 January 2010-1 January 2013 

(B. Predicala (co-investigator)) 

Niu, C.H. 

$17,000 Dehydration of alcohols using biosorbents, University of Saskatchewan, 

NSERC Bridging Fund, 1/1, July 2010 and March 2012 

Noble, S.D. 

$76,388 Improving the Performance and Efficiency of a Mobile Pneumatic Conveying 

System (application submitted Feb 2010), NSERC/CNH Canada Ltd., 

Collaborative Research and Development (CRD), 1/3, Jan 2011- Dec 2013 

(David Sumner (co-investigator)) 

$15,000 Investigation of Product Induction Systems used in the Pneumatic 

Conveyance of Agricultural Materials, MITACS/CNH Canada Ltd., Accelerate 

Grant, 1/1, June 2011 - September 2011 (Tyrone Keep (M.Sc. Student)) 


Peng, D. 

$27,000 Thermodynamics of Green Process Mixtures, NSERC, Discovery Grant, 6/6, 

2006-2012 

Soltan, J. 

$227,629 Catalytic Ozonation Laboratory, Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), 

Leaders Opportunity Fund, 2/2 

$20,000 Environmental remediation by using catalytic ozonation with surface bonded 

hydrophobic heterogeneous catalysts, NSERC, Discovery Grant, 4/4, 2008- 

2012 

$10,000 Application of heterogeneous Catalysts in ozonation of pesticides in water, 

Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT), Graduate Student 

Exchange Program (GSEP) fellowship, 1/1, 2010-2011 

$1,000 Feasibility of using a hybrid chemical and biological process for degradation 

of micro-pollutants in water, UofS, Proposal Development Assistance, 1/1 

Tabil, L.G. 

$23,000 Pretreatment, Densification and Physicochemical Characterization of 

Biomass for Bioproduct and Bioenergy Applications, NSERC, Discovery 

Grant, 2/5, April 2010 - March 2015 

$0 An Integrated Process for the Production of Xylitol and Biocomposites from 

Lignocellulosic Biomass (Oat Hulls), Agriculture Development Fund, 

Contract, 3/3, Jan. 1, 2008 - Aug. 31, 2010 (Satya Panigrahi (Co- 

Investigator), Bill Crerar (Co-Investigator)) 

$57,400 Pre-processing and Densification of Biomass and Biorefinery Interface under 

Theme 1 of ABIN Network, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Agricultural 

Bioproducts Innovation Program, 3/3, May 2008 - March 2011 (Satya 

Panigrahi (Co-investigator)) 

$182,325 Pre-processing and Compaction of Annual Cereal and Perennial Forage of 

the The Cellulosic Biofuel Network, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 

Agricultural Bioproducts Innovation Program, 3/3, May 2008 - March 2011 

(Venkatesh Meda (Co-PI)) 

$53,500 Physico-chemical Characterization and Evaluation of Drying Technologies of 

Distillers Grains of the FOBI Network, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 

Agricultural Bioproducts Innovation Program, 3/3, May 2008 - March 2011 

(Venkatesh Meda (Co-investigator) and Satya Panigrahi (Co-investigator)) 

$26,000 Debranning Wheat Grains and Bran-solubles Product Development of the 

Feed Opportunities from the Biofuels Industry Network, Agriculture and Agri- 

Food Canada, Agricultural Bioproducts Innovation Program, 2/2, April 2009 - 


March 2011 (Venkatesh Meda and Satya Panigrahi) 

$6,500 Gender and Localized Postharvest Technology Development: Strengthening 

the Sustainable Livelihood of Small Farming Communities, University of 

Saskatchewan, Research Acceleration Program (RAP), 1/1, August to 

December 2010 

$7,500 Gender and Localized Postharvest Technology Development: Strengthening 

the Sustainable Livelihood of Small Farming Communities, International 

Development Research Centre, Canadian International Food Security 

Research Fund, 1/1, August to December 2010 

Wang, H. 

$22,000 CO2 Reforming of Hydrocarbon Gasses, NSERC, Discovery Grant, 5/5, 

2007-2012 

$25,000 Identification of Cata-DyneTM Heater Inhomogeneity to Improve Combustion 

Efficiency, NSERC, Engage, 1/1, 6/1/2022-11/30/2011 

$0 A Novel Process for Hydrogen Production from Thermochemical Splitting of 

Hydrogen Sulfide, NSERC, Strategic, 3/4 (Karl Chuan, Co-investigator) 

$3,040 Applied Catalysis Laboratory for CO2 Utilization, CFI, IOF, 5/5 



Avala, V. M.Eng. Process Simulation of Bioethanol 

Production Using Algae as Raw Material 

Peng / Lin 

Biswas, P. M.Sc. Catalytic Performances of NiMo/Zr-SBA-15 

Catalysts for the Hydrotreating of Bitumen 

Derived Heavy Gas Oil 

Boahene, P. M.Sc. Effect of Pore Diameter Variation of Fe- 

W/SBA-15 Supported Catalysts on 

Hydrotreating of Heavy Gas Oil from 

Athabasca Bitumen 

Botchwey, C. Ph.D. Synthesis, Characterization and Kinetic 

Modeling Studies of Nickel-Tungsten Nitride 

Catalysts for Hydrotreating of Gas Oils 

Cortes, G. M.Sc. Organic waste identification for City of 

Saskatoon (M.SEMS, SENS) 

Gibb, C. M.Sc. Low Impact Development Strategies for 

Saskatoon (M.SEMS, SENS) 

Guzman Perez, 

C. 

M.Sc. Application of heterogeneous catalysts in 

ozonation of model compounds in water 

Dalai / John 

Adjaye* 

Dalai 

Dalai 

Maule 

Maule 

Soltan 


Hasan, S. M.Sc. Excess Enthalpy for Binary and Ternary 

Systems Involving Hydrocarbons and 

Ethers 

Peng 

Jacobson, K. M.Sc. Valorization of Bio-oil from Maple Sawdust 

for Transportation Fuels 

Dalai 

John, S. M.Eng. Degradation of Micro-Pollutants in Water Peng / Soltan 

Klassen, C. M.Sc. Rainwater Harvesting on Lakewood Civic 

Center (M.SEMS, SENS) 

Maule 

Kumar, P. Ph.D. Chemical and biological remediation of 

petroleum contaminants 

Hill / Nemati 

Liu, C. Ph.D. The Effect of Oxidoreduction Potential on Lin / Dalian 

Very High Gravity Ehtanol Fermentation and University of 

Studies of Underlying Mechanisms ( Technology* 

Malek Abbaslou, 

M. 

Ph.D. Iron Catalyst Supported on Carbon 

Nanotubes for Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis: 

Experimental and Kinetic Studies 

Mapiour, M. M.Sc. Effects of Hydrogen Partial Pressure on 

Hydroprocessing of Heavy Gas Oil 

Narayanasarma, 

P. 

M.Sc. Mesoporous Carbon Supported NiMo 

Catalyst for the Hydrotreating of Coker Gas 

Oil 

Neufeldt, M. M.Sc. Agrochemical Fate From a Saskatchewan 

Grain Farm (M.SEMS, SENS) 

Nuncio, P. M.Sc. Study on Reaction Between H2S and 

H2SO4 for H2 Profuction from H2S Splitting 

Cycle 

Sigurdson, S. M.Sc. Effects of Pore Diameters of CNTs on 

Hydroporcessing of Gas Oils 

Surisetty, V. Ph.D. Research and Development of Co and Rh- 

Promoted Alkali-Modified Molybdenum 

Sulfide Catalysts for Higher Alcohols 

Synthesis from 

Trepanier, M. Ph.D. Promoted Co-CNT Nano-catalyst for Green 

Diesel Production Using Fischer-Tropsch 

Synthesis in a Fixed Bed Reactor 

Yang, L. M.Sc. HI Production in H2 Production Cycle of 

H2S Splitting 




Dalai 

Dalai 

Dalai 

Maule 

Wang 

Dalai 

Dalai 

Dalai 

Wang 




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Dalai, A.K. Award of Innovation, ILO, University of Saskatchewan 

Cross Canada Lecture Tour, Canadian Catalysis Division, CIC Canada 

Fellowship of Engineering, Institute of Canada 

First Prize, Poster Competition, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering 

Conference, Inhibition and Deactivation of Catalyst Active Sites by Nonbasic 

Nitrogen Compounds and Their Selective Removal Using 

Functionalized Polymer, D. Rizwan (Presenter) with Professor A.K. Dalai, 

October 24-27, 2010 

First Prize, Poster Competition, Auto 21 Workshop, Hamilton, ON 

Canada, Wood Pyrolysis Oil-Upgrading via Solvent Extraction and 

Hydroprocessing, K. Jacobson, M.Sc. Student (presenter) with Professor 

A.K. Dalai, 2010 

Fulbright Fellowship, Government of USA 

Synergy Award with Syncrude Canada Ltd. (Nominated), NSERC 

Third Prize, Poster Competition, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering 

Conference, A Study of Dispersion of NiMo Oxide and Sulfide Phases on 

Mesoporous Alumino-Silicate Supports for Hydrotreating Reaction, S. 

Mohanty (Presenter) with C.M. Kotikalapudi, A.K. Dalai, Y. Hu, Y. and J. 

Adjaye, October 24-27, 2010 

Wang, H. Award of Innovation, Innovation Place of Saskatoon and U of S Industry 

Liaison Office, Due to the allowing of a US patent and its licensing to a 

US company. 




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Berthelot, Curtis (306) 966-7009 curtis.berthelot@usask.ca 

Boulfiza, Mohamed (306) 966-5299 moh.boulfiza@usask.ca 

Elshorbagy, Amin (306) 966-5414 amin.elshorbagy@usask.ca 

Feldman, Lisa (306) 966-5774 lisa.feldman@usask.ca 

Fleming, Ian (306) 966-5341 ian.fleming@usask.ca 

Haug, Moir (306) 966-5355 moir.haug@usask.ca 

Hawkes, Christopher (306) 966-5753 chris.hawkes@usask.ca 

Kells, Jim (306) 966-5340 jim.kells@usask.ca 

Mazurek, Kerry (306) 966-5477 kerry.mazurek@usask.ca 

Milne, Doug (306) 966-5346 doug.milne@usask.ca 

Park, Peter (306) 966-1314 peter.park@usask.ca 

Peng, Jian (306) 966-5431 jian.peng@usask.ca 

Putz, Gordon (306) 966-5368 gordon.putz@usask.ca 

Sharma, Jitendra (306) 966-7049 j.sharma@usask.ca 

Sparks, Gordon (306) 966-5370 gordon.sparks@usask.ca 

Sparling, Bruce (306) 966-5366 bruce.sparling@usask.ca 

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Civil & Geological Engineering – Research Report 2010-11 Page 68

SUMMARY OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES - DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND 

GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING 

The Department of Civil and Geological Engineering delivers two fully accredited 

undergraduate engineering programs (Civil and Geological Engineering), and an active 

program of graduate studies and research integrating both disciplines. The 

Departmental Strategic plan outlines three major research theme areas: Infrastructure 

Renewal (including Transportation), Environment (including Earth and Water), and 

Geological Engineering (Mining and Petroleum). Civil Engineering contributes to these 

themes through six major areas of specialization: (i) environmental/sanitary engineering; 

(ii) hydrotechnical engineering; (iii) geotechnical/geo-environmental engineering; 

(iv) civil engineering materials; (v) structural engineering; and (vi) transportation 

engineering. Areas of specialization in Geological Engineering include: 

(i) hydrogeology, and (ii) rock mechanics. 

During the report period, the Department had 18 faculty members, 9 professor emeriti, 

6 adjunct professors, 3 professional affiliates, 5 research associate, 2 research 

engineers, 6 post doctoral fellows, 5 technicians and 3 secretaries. Several faculty 

members were engaged in a variety of interdisciplinary research activities. In total, 

there were 83 graduate students supervised by the Department of Civil and Geological 

Engineering faculty of which 35% were female and 19% were international students. A 

total of 10 graduate degrees were awarded during 2010-2011. 

The principal research interests of the Geological Engineering group are: reservoir 

simulation, petroleum hydrogeology and geomechanics, underground mine design and 

open stope stability, and hydrogeology and environmental protection. Rock mechanics 

projects include research on the integrity of porous media during fluid injection and 

withdrawal, prevention of borehole collapse in deep oil and gas wells, underground 

instrumentation, and monitoring open stope stability and dilution studies. Research in 

the environmental and hydrogeological areas include: work on solution of potash 

bearing rocks and tailings evaluation of bedrock aquifers for ground water production, 

risk analysis for point and diffuse-source contamination of regional, shallow, surficial 

aquifers, and analysis of gas migration through natural fractures during geological 

storage of carbon dioxide. 

The Environmental/Sanitary engineering group is conducting several research programs 

in water and wastewater treatment and water quality. These include studies in the 

areas of eutrophication and nutrient removal in lakes, characterization of dissolved 

organic carbon in surface waters, modelling of watershed mass loading and water 

quality modelling related to forestry operations. 


Research by the Hydrotechnical group was carried out on several fronts. Several 

studies were carried out on hydrological systems, including the application of system 

dynamics approach to water balance and watershed modelling in the context of oil 

sands development and associated hydrological impacts, the use of a data-driven 

methodology (statistical and machine learning techniques) to modelling environmental 

data, and the use of multi-criterion decision analysis for evaluating the performance and 

sustainability of water resource systems. Laboratory studies on fish passage through 

culverts, backwater effects due to spur dikes in rivers, scour by plane wall jets, 

agricultural spray drift around shelterbelts and hydraulic residence time distribution in 

clearwells were conducted. 

In the Geotechnical and Geo-environmental areas, studies continued on reclamation of 

lands disturbed by mining including hydrocarbon affected soils, rapid stabilization and 

geomechanics of landfill solid waste, soil-structure interaction modelling, geosynthetics, 

engineering geology of glaciated soils, unsaturated soil behaviour, and the effect of 

climate change on slope stability. Field-based research was conducted on the 

performance of reclamation covers, moisture dynamics in landfill waste, watersheds 

associated with oilsands and uranium mining as well as measurement of in-situ stresses 

in glaciated soils using pressuremeter. Laboratory studies were undertaken on the soilwater 

characteristic curve, characterization of lateral stress anisotropy in glaciated soils 

and effect of oxidation on clay shale of Saskatchewan. Research was conducted on 

properties of geosynthetics, compatibility of geosynthetic clay liners and the shear 

strength of the soil-geosynthetic interface. 

Research in Materials included experimental and theoretical studies on the performance 

of fibre-reinforced concrete, high performance concrete, and fibre-reinforced polymers 

and their application to solve durability and rehabilitation problems in structural 

engineering. The performance of natural, recycled and stainless steel fibres are being 

evaluated. Studies on the use of synchrotron radiation for evaluating performance of 

fibre reinforced polymers were also performed. 

The Structural engineering group conducted research in reliability-based service life 

prediction and structural health monitoring of bridges, dynamic response of guyed 

towers subjected to wind loading, the design and behaviour of reinforced masonry 

structures, and splice testing of plain reinforcing steel. The structural health monitoring 

research is investigating the influence of environmental effects, instrumentation and 

monitoring methods, and numerical modelling of damage detection. 

The Transportation group continued research on mechanistic road materials 

characterization, road performance modelling, pavement performance response to high 

axle loading, intelligent transportation systems, traffic safety, infrastructure engineering 


and management, life cycle engineering and costing and life cycle performance 

prediction of infrastructure systems. 

Financial support for research for the Department totalled $2,685,037 of which 10% 

came from NSERC and 90% came from industry and government. A total of 

69 publications were produced which included 29 papers in refereed journals, 24 papers 

in refereed conference proceedings, 7 papers in non-refereed conference proceedings, 

3 conference presentations / poster presentations, 27 invited lecture/ talk, 2 book 

chapters, and 2 published books. 

Amin Elshorbagy 




Professor and Head 

J.A. Kells, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Sask.), P.Eng. 

Hydrotechnical: Hydraulic Structures, River Engineering, Open Channel Flow, Physical 

Hydraulic Modelling 


S.L. Barbour, B.E., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Sask.), P.Eng. 

Geotechnical/Geo-environmental: Saturated/Unsaturated Groundwater Flow and 

Contaminant Transport, Mine Waste Reclamation 

C. Berthelot, B.Sc. (Sask.), M.Sc. (Sask.), Ph.D. (Texas A&M), P.Eng. 

Transportation: Mechanistic Pavement Design and Management 

A. Elshorbagy, B.Sc., Ain Shams University (Egypt), M.Sc., (Netherlands), Ph.D. 

(Manitoba) 

Hydrotechnical: Hydrologic Modelling and Prediction 

M.D. Haug, B.E., M.Sc. (Sask.), Ph.D. (Calif.), P.Eng. 

Geotechnical/Geo-environmental: Permeability, Earth Liner Design, Seepage Barriers 

G. Putz, B.Sc. M.Sc. Ph.D. (Alta.), P.Eng. 

Environmental: Water Quality Modelling and Management, Water and Wastewater 

Engineering 

J.S. Sharma, B.E. (Mumbai), M.Tech. (IIT Kanpur), Ph.D. (Cambridge), P.Eng. 

Geotechnical: Advanced Soil Mechanics, Physical and Numerical Modelling, Ground 

Improvement, Soft Ground Tunneling 

G.A. Sparks, B.Sc. (Alta.), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Calif.), P.Eng. 

Transportation: Transportation Systems and Planning, Transportation Economics 

B. Sparling, B.E., M.Sc. (Sask.), Ph.D. (West. Ont.), P.Eng. 

Structures/Materials: Structural Dynamics, Wind Loading, Structural Masonry, 

Structural Health Monitoring 


M. Boulfiza, M.A.Sc. (Laval), Ph.D. (UBC) 

Structures: Durability Mechanics of Cement-Based Materials and Structures, 


Computational Mechanics, Constitutive Modelling, Damage Mechanics, High 

Performance Concrete 

I. Fleming, B.A.Sc., (Ont.), M.Eng. (Ont.), Ph.D., (Ont.) 

Geotechnical/Geo-environmental 

C. Hawkes, B.Sc. (New Brunswick), Ph.D. (New Brunswick) 

Geological Engineering: Petroleum Geomechanics, Rock Mechanics, Numerical 

Modelling 

K. Mazurek, B.Sc. (Alberta), M.Sc. (Alberta), Ph.D. (Alberta), P.Eng. 

Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics 

D. Milne, B.Sc., (UBC); M.Sc., (London), Ph.D. (UBC), P.Eng. 

Geological Engineering: Rock Mass Classification, Rock Stability 

J. Peng, M.Sc. (Tsinghua), Ph.D. (Windsor), P.Eng. 

Environmental: Water Pollution Control 

L. Wegner, B.Sc. (Sask.), M.Sc. (Tech. Univ. of Nova Scotia), Ph.D. (MIT), P.Eng. 

Structures/Materials: Mechanics of Composite Materials, Fibre-reinforced Concrete, 

Structural Health Monitoring 


L. R. Feldman, B.A.Sc. (Waterloo), M.S. (Texas), Ph.D. (Western Ontario) 

Service Life Prediction, Non-Destructive Testing, Code Calibration, Evaluation and 

Rehabilitation of Existing Structures, Structural Masonry, Reinforced Concrete 

Structures 

P. Park, B.Sc. (Seoul), M.Sc. (Seoul), Ph.D. (Waterloo, Seoul), P.Eng. 

Transportation: Transportation Planning, Traffic Safety 


J.M. Gustafson, B.E. (Sask.), M.Sc. (Sask.), Ph.D. (Sask.) 

Geographic Information Systems 

J. Headley B.Sc., Ph.D. (Warwick) 

Environment Canada 

Environmental Chemistry 


K. Kostakis, B.Sc. (Athens), M.Sc. (London), Ph.D. (London) 

Geological Engineering: Geo-mechanics 

Two Phase Flow in Rock Fractures 

G. McKenna, B.Sc., (UBC), Ph.D. (Alberta) 

Norwest Corporation 

Geological Engineering 

G. van der Kamp, B.Sc. (UBC), M.Sc. (UBC), Ph.D. (Amsterdam) NWRI, 

Environment Canada, Saskatoon 

Geo-environmental 

T. Wolf, B.Sc. (Man.), M.Sc. (Man.), Ph.D. (Ohio) 

Agriculture and Agrifood Canada 

Hydrotechnical 


R. Bashir, Ph.D. (Cameco Corporation) 

Geotechnical/Hydrogeology 

P. Christensen 

Transportation Economics 

M. Hrabok (AMEC) 

Structural Engineering\ 

Ian MacPhedran (UofS) 

Structural Engineering 

Technicians 

B. Pokoyoway (Structures/ Materials Laboratory) 

C.D. Fisher (Environmental Laboratory) 

A. Hammerlindl (Geotechnical/Geo-environmental Laboratory) 

D. Pavier (Structures/Hydrotechnical Laboratory) 

Z. Szczepanik (Rock Mechanics Laboratory) 


Secretaries 

Cynthia Hanke 

Jackie Hendrickx 

Amanda Doherty 

Debbie Forgie 


Total number of students: 83 + 2 in Environmental Engineering 

supervised by Civil & Geo. faculty 







Number of Research Associate: 05 


Number of Visiting Scholar: 03 


Number of Student Technical Staff: 01 



Barbour, S. 

Dynamic monitoring of train loads over soft subgrade, NSERC, NSERC 

Collaborative CRD - Subgrant from UofA:(2007=$23,000, 2008=$25,000, 

2009=$14,600, 2010=$23,957), $23,957/yr, 4/4, April1/07 - 

December31/10 (Derek Martin, University of Alberta, Principal-Investigator) 

Investigation on the Causes of Low Infiltration Rates and Hydrophobicity of 

Reclamation Soils, CONRAD Consortia of Oilsands Operators (Albian 

Sands Energy Inc and Syncrude Canada Ltd), Industry Contract 

($115,948=2008; $87,108=2009), Total = $203,056(25%) - just finishing 

out contract this yr - no new funds, $0/yr, 2/2, July/08 - Sept/10 (Si, B., 


Principal-Investigator) 

Assessing Solute Transport in a Thick Claystone using Natural Tracers, 

NSERC, NSERC CRD, (2009=$131,724, 2010=$47,769, 2011=$29,691) , 

Total=$209,184 (11% of total contract funds given in y1/3), $0/yr, 2/3, 

April1/09 - December31/12 (Hendry, M.J., Principal-Investigator) 

Interim funding for the U of Saskatchewan Sulfur research program, 

Syncrude Canada Inc., Industry Contract, Total=$119,842(40%) - just 

finishing out contract this yr - no new funding, $0/yr, 1/1, September18/08 - 

December31/10 (no-cost extension) (Hendry, M.J., Principal-Investigator) 

Numerical Simulation of Piezometric Observations and Estimations of 

Hydraulic Properties of the Deilmann TMF Tailings, Cameco Corp., 

Industry Contract, Total =$6,000(40%), $2,400/yr, 1/1, July1/10-Oct.31/10 

((van der Kamp, G., Principal-Investigator)) 

Water Isotope Methods Development - Aurora Capping Study, Syncrude 

Canada Ltd., Industry Contract ($186,330=2010, $69,840=2011), Total = 

$256,170(25%), $46,583/yr, 1/2, Feb./11-Jan.31/13 ((Hendry, M.J., 

Principal-Investigator)) 

A Comparison of the Water Storage Capacity of Peat Mineral Mixes and 

LFH in Reclamation Covers for Coarse Textured Soils - Auro, Syncrude 

Canada Ltd., Industry Contract ($56,400=2010, $28k+34,480=2011, 

$73,969=2012), Total = $192,849(40%), $24,992/yr, 2/3, May 21/10- 

Aug.31/12 ((Si, B., Co-Princ.-Inv.) - updated from old "Obs. of Soil Moisture 

Dynamics..." contract - name change/extra funds) 

$17,000 Evaluating the Potential for Convective Drying of Soil Covers over 

Unsaturated Coke and Sand Tailings, Syncrude Canada Ltd., Industry 

Contract, 1/1, June 24/11-Sep.30/11 

$151,900 Syncrude Mine Closure Research - Aurora Capping Study, Syncrude 

Canada Ltd., Industry Contract - Total = $151,900 given upon execution, 

1/2, Dec.8/10-Nov.30/12 

$54,770 Interim Support for Ph.D. Program on Loading Rates to Base Mine Lake - 

Aurora Capping Study, Syncrude Canada Ltd., Industry Contract, Total = 

$54,770 - Lump sum payment upon execution, 1/1, Dec.16/10-May 31/12 

$27,000 Large scale mine cover monitoring and mine cover design for cold regions, 

NSERC, Discovery Grant, 1/5, Ap.1/11-Mar.31/16 

$47,460 Summary of Cover Performance and Hydrology - Mildred Lake Coke 

Watershed, Syncrude Canada Ltd., Industry Contract, Total 

=$63,280(75%), 1/1, Sep.2/10-Feb.28/11 ((Si, B., Co-Investigator)) 

$37,412 Interpretation of Cover Performance Monitoring on SUNCOR Coke 

Watershed, SUNCOR Energy Inc., Industry Contract, Total 


=$49,882(75%), 1/1, Sep.1/10-Sep.30/11 ((Si, B., Co-Investigator)) 

$39,802 Preliminary Soil-Water-Atmospheric Modeling of the Proposed Aurora 

Capping Treatments, Syncrude Canada Ltd., Industry Contract, 1/1, 

Nov.15/10-Ap.30/11 

$10,500 IPS Scholarship for Keely Relland, NSERC, NSERC Industrial Post- 

Graduate Scholarship, (Total = $21,000), 2/2, April1/09 - June30/11 

$12,600 Evaluation of Alternate Capillary Breaks for Deilmann North Waste Rock 

Pile (DNWRP) Cover Trials, Cameco Corp., Industry Contract, Total 

=$16,800(75%), 1/1, June 15/10 - Sep.30/10 ((Si, B., Co-Investigator)) 

Berthelot, C. 

Fibre Optic Cable Preliminary Testing Program, Syncrude Canada Inc., 

Industry Contract, Total=$27,300(50%) - just finishing out contract this yr - 

no new funding, 1/1, May21/10 - December31/10 (Si, B., Co-Investigator) 

The Influence of Microtopography on the Performance of Reclamation 

Covers, NSERC, Discovery Grant - finishing out contract this yr - no new 

funding (one yr no cost ext.), 6/6, April1/05 - Mar31/11 (one yr no cost 

extension) 

The Effects of Mesotopography on the Performance of Engineered Soil 

Covers, CONRAD; (SUNCOR, Albian Sands, Total E and P, CNRL, 

Syncrude, Imperial Oil, Petro Canada), Industry Contract (2007= $84,000, 

2008=$104,000, 2009=$45,200), Total=$233,200 - finishing out contract 

this yr - no new funds, 3/3, May1/06 - December31/10 

$22,000 Mechanistic Characterization and Modeling of Road Materials and 

Structures, NSERC, Discovery Grant, 5/5, June 2006 to March 2011 

$1,000,000 Saskatchewan Centre of Excellence for Transportation and Infrastructure, 

Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure, Industry Contract, 3/3, 2008-2011 

Boulfiza, M. 

Development of a National Pavement Asset Design and Management 

Guide, Transportation Association of Canada, Research Project, 

$18,950/yr, 2/2, 2009/10/2 to 2011/09/01 (Dr. Susan Tighe - Principal 

Investigator) 

$18,000 A Mechanistic Approach For Predicting The Service Life & Performance Of 

Steel Reinforced Concrete Bridge Decks, NSERC, Discovery Grant, 4/5 

$30,000 Development of an Ultra-High Performance Concrete for bridge 

applications, NSERC/MITACS, Industry, 2/2, January 2010 - December 

2011 


Elshorbagy, A.A. 

$23,000 Modeling the hydrological processes using hybrid modeling approach, 

NSERC, Discovery Grant, 3/5, 2008-2013 

Feldman, L. 

$136,474 Loading System for Large-Scale Testing of Reinforced Masonry 

Components, Canadian Foundation for Innovation - Leaders Opportunity 

Fund (CFI-LOF), Equipment Grant, 1/1, 2011 (Bruce F. Sparling (coinvestigator)) 

$7,620 Evaluating Splice Behaviour in Reinforced Masonry Components, 

Saskatchewan Centre for Masonry Design (SCMD), Industry, 1/1, July 1, 

2010 - June 30, 2011 

$2,604 The Evaluation of Plain Reinforcement in Concrete Splice Specimens, 

Lafarge North America, In-Kind Supply of Ready-Mix Concrete, 1/1, July 1, 

2010 - June 30, 2011 

$18,300 Bond and Development of Reinforcing Steel for Structural Evaluation and 

Rehabilitation, NSERC, Discovery Grant, 4/5, 2008 - 2013 

Fleming, I. 

$20,000 Field scale evaluation of innovations in landfill engineering, NSERC, 

Discovery Grant, 5/5 

$150,000 Waste mechanics study for wind turbine foundations on landfill, Saskatoon 

Light & Power, Contract, 1/1, Oct 2010 - July 2011 (J. Sharma (co), Bruce 

Sparling (co)) 

$200,000 Hydrocarbon degradation and mobility in oilsands waste, Canadian 

Oilsands Network for R & D (CNRL, IOL, Shell, Suncor, Syncrude, Petro- 

Total), Contract, 1/2, Oct 2010 - Oct 2012 

$27,000 Evaluation of methane potential of landfilled waste, SALT Canada Inc., 

Industry, 1/1, July 2010-June 2011 

$14,000 Methane potential of post-processing waste, Golder Associates, Industry, 

1/1, May 2010 - June 2011 

Hawkes, C.D. 

Rock Mass Hydrogeological Properties for Shaft-Sinking and Underground 

Stability, Cameco Corporation, Industry Contract, $23,545/yr, 3/3 (D. Milne, 

Co-Principal Investigator) 

Hydrogeology of Siltstones Overlying N.B. Potash Mine, Potashcorp, 

Industry Grant, $14,460/yr, 3/3 (D. Milne, Co-Principal Investigator) 


$53,330 Reservoir-Geomechanical Research - Heartland Area Redwater Project 

(Phase 2), Alberta Research Council, Industry Contract, 2/2 

$18,765 Geomechanical Characterization Program - Clive Field CO2 Injection, 

Alberta Innovates Technology Futures, Industry Contract, 1/2 

$24,000 Investigating the Mechanics of Two-phase Flow in Rock Fractures and 

Caprocks, NSERC, Discovery Grant, 5/5 

$32,500 Theme leader - Wellbore integrity: Final phase of the IEA GHG Weyburn- 

Midale CO2 monitoring & storage project, Petroleum Technology Research 

Centre, Industry Contract, 5/6 

Kells, J.A. 

$0 A study of the hydraulics of nature-like fishways, NSERC, Discovery Grant, 

0/5, 2008-2012 

Mazurek, K.A. 

$19,000 Scour and Erosion Resistance in Cohesive Soils, NSERC, Discovery 

Grant, 4/5, 2007-2012 

Milne, D. 

The Healthy River Ecosystem Assessment System (THREATS) for 

Saskatchewan, Province of Saskatchewan, Grant, $42,100/yr, 3/5, 2008- 

2013 (M. Dube (PI), Gordon Putz) 

$50,000 Influence of Time on Stope Stability and Dilution, Vale Canada, Industry 

Contract, 1/2 

Park, P.Y. 

Development of Geographic Information System (GIS) to Identify Potential 

High Collision Locations in Major Cities in Saskatchew, Saskatchewan 

Centre of Excellence for Transportation and Infrastructure, SCETI, 

$25,000/yr, 1/1 (Dr. Berthelot) 

$18,000 Development of an Innovative Network Screening Method that considers 

Drivers' Speed Choice Behaviour and the Impact of Weather, NSERC, 


$50,000 Development of a GIS System to Visualize and Analyze Collisions for the 

City of Saskatoon, SGI, Industry Grant, 1/1, Dec.01, 2010 - Aug.31, 2012 

Peng, J. 

Identification of dominant microorganisms degrading benzene under 

anaerobic conditions, Canadian Light Source Inc., Beamline time: 01B1-1 

(Mid IR), 13 shifts with 8 hours per shift, in-kind, $52000/yr, 1/1 (Xiong, W. 


Putz, G. 

Sharma, J.S. 

(co-investigator)) 

Phosphorus Fractionation in Eutrophic Lake Sediments Using XANES and 

Sequential Phosphorus Extraction, Canadian Light Source Inc., Beamline 

time: 06B1-1 (SXRMB), 10 shifts with 8 hours per shift, in-kind, $40000/yr, 

1/1 (Xiong, W. (co-investigator)) 

Technology transfer from small watersheds to managed watersheds in the 

Canadian Boreal Forest, NSERC, CRD Grant $866,000/yr total; subgrant 

to G. Putz and exclusive access to field infrastructure and data collected, 

$20000/yr, 6/6, January 2006 to January 2011, extended to June 30, 2012 

(E. Prepas, (Lakehead) - Principal; D.W. Smith (Alta.), J. Germida (Sask.) 

and G. Putz (Sask.) - Coinvestigators) 

Improving Capacity for Assessment and Management of Water: 

Development of The Healthy River Ecosystem Assessment System 

THREATS, Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment, Provincial Grant 

$300,000/yr total; $42,100 subgrant to K.A. Mazurek and G. Putz and 

exclusive access to provincial data, $21050/yr, 3/5, June 2009 to June 

2013 (M. Dube, (SENS) Principal; K.A. Mazurek, (Civil and Geo.) Co- 

Investigator; G. Putz, (Civil and Geo) Co-Investigator) 

$19,000 Stability of large embankments founded on glaciated soils, NSERC, 

Discovery Grant, 4/5, 2008 to 2013 

$10,000 Modelling cyclic response of soft clays using an elastic-viscoplastic 

constitutive model, DFAIT, GSEP Commonwealth Scholarship, 1/1, March 

to August 2011 

$15,000 Consolidation characteristics of mature fine tailings using a bench-top 

centrifuge, Syncrude Canada Limited, Industry Contract, 1/1, Sep 2009 to 

Aug 2010 (S. Lee Barbour (Co-investigator)) 

Sparks, G.A. 

$20,000 Technology Management, Wilson Centre for Entrepreneurship Excellance, 

Industry Contract, 1/1 

Sparling, B.F. 

Loading Systems for Large Scale Testing of Reinforced Masonry 

Components, CFI, Research Equipment Grant, $78500/yr, 1/1 (L. Feldman 

(Co-Principal Investigator)) 

$20,000 Life Cycle Performance Assessment and Prediction for Bridges, NSERC, 

Discovery Grant, 4/5, April 1, 2008 to March 31, 2012 


$200,000 Saskatchewan Centre for Masonry Design, Saskatchewan Masonry 

Institute, Endowment, 3/5, 2008 - 2012 

$50,000 Saskatchewan Centre for Masonry Design, Canadian Concrete Masonry 

Producers Association, Research Grant, 3/5, 2008 - 2012 

Wegner, L.D. 

$18,000 Vibration-based damage detection for bridges, NSERC, Discovery Grant, 

5/5, May 2007 - April 2012 

Use of flax fibre as a reinforcement for concrete, Agriculture Development 

Fund, Contract, 2/2, May 2009 - September 2011 (Dr. Satya Panigrahi (coinvestigator), 

Dr. Lope Tabil (co-investigator)) 



Ahmed, K. M.Sc. Evaluation of Contact and Non-Contact Lap 

Splices in Concrete Block Masonry Specimens 

Feldman 

Bergerman, M.Sc. Design of free flowing granular drains for Haug 

M. 

groundwater containment applications 

Garner, M. M.Sc. Model Study of the Hydraulics Related to Fish 

Passage Through Embedded Culverts 

Kells 

Hassan, N. M.Sc. Splice Tests of Plain Reinforcing Steel Feldman 

Hilderman, M.Sc. Net Percolation as a Function of Topographic Barbour 

J. 

Variation in a Reclamation Cover over a Saline- 

Sodic Overburden Dump 

Keshta, N. Ph.D. Toward designing a sustainable watershed 

reclamation strategy 

Elshorbagy 

Larsen, A. M.Sc. Laboratory Investigation of the Sealing 

Properties 

Hawkes 

MacLeod, M.Sc. Structural health monitoring of the Victoria Sparling / 

A. 

Avenue Bridge 

Wegner 

Meier, A. M.Sc. Field-scale trials of Geosynthetic Capillary Break Fleming / 

Barbour 

Schmid, B. M.Eng. N/A Barbour 



Refereed Conference Proceedings 24 

Non-Refereed Conference Proceedings 07 



Invited Lecture/ talk: 02 






Barbour, S. John Mitchell Memorial Medal and Prize for 2011, ICE, Award is for a 

paper on either practical geotechnical and foundation engineering, 

geotechnical site-based innovation, geotechnical safety in design or 

site practice, or engineering geology in the practice of foundation 

engineering. Awarded for paper: "Track Displacement and Energy 

Loss in a Railway Embankment by David Hughes, Michael T Hendry 

and Lee Barbour". Award includes presentations of a Prestige Lecture 

in the UK(BGA) and Ireland(IGG), Notice given: May/11; Awards 

Ceremony: Oct.24/11 (London, England) 

Runner up Award for the J.Toth Award for the Best Student Paper in 

Canadian Hydrogeology in 2009 (Halifax Conf.), Joint Canadian 

Geotechnical Society/International Association of Hydrogeologists- 

Canadian National Chapter (CGS/IAH-CNC), Paper awarded: 

"Numerical simulation of observed pore-pressure changes in an 

aquitard due to changes of total soil moisture", Authors: Anochikwa, 

C.I., van der Kamp, G., and Barbour, S.L. In Proceedings of the 62nd 

Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 10th Joint Canadian 

Geotechnical Society/International Association of Hydrogeologists- 

Canadian National Chapter (CGS/IAH-CNC) Groundwater 

Conference, Halifax, Sep. 2009 

Peng, J. Guest Professor, Sichuan University, China 

Putz, G. 25 Year Long Service Award, University of Saskatchewan 

Sparling, B.F. Nomination, USSU Teaching Excellence Award, University of 

Saskatchewan Students' Union, CE 295 

Provost's Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Engineering, 

University of Saskatchewan, April 27, 2011 




Achenbach, S. (306) 966-5307 s.achenbach@usask.ca 

Bolton, R. (306) 966-5412 ron.bolton@usask.ca 

Chen, L. (306) 966-2507 li.chen@usask.ca 

Chowdhury, N.A. (306) 966-5396 nural.chowdhury@usask.ca 

Daku, B.L.F. (306) 966-5421 brian.daku@usask.ca 

Dinh, A.V. (306) 966-5344 anh.dinh@usask.ca 

Dodds, D.E. (306) 966-5397 dave.dodds@usask.ca 

Faried, S.O. (306) 966-5422 sherif.faried@usask.ca 

Gokaraju, R. (306) 966-5385 rama.krishna@usask.ca 

Johanson, R. (306) 966-5392 robert.johanson@usask.ca 

Karki, R. (306) 966-5384 rajesh.karki@usask.ca 

Kasap, S.O. (306) 966-5390 safa.kasap@usask.ca 

Klymyshyn, D.M. (306) 966-5393 david.klymyshyn@usask.ca 

Ko, S-B. (306) 966-5456 seok-bum.ko@usask.ca 

Lynch, D. (306) 966-5473 denard.lynch@usask.ca 

Mehr, A.S. (306) 966-2006 aryan.saadat@usask.ca 

Nguyen, H. (306) 966-5383 ha.nguyen@usask.ca 

Salt, E.J. (306) 966-5389 eric.salt@usask.ca 

Teng, D. (306) 966-2889 daniel.teng@usask.ca 

Wahid, K. (306) 966-5474 khan.wahid@usask.ca 

LIST OF STAFF 


Gowen, R. (306) 966-1433 rory.gowen@usask.ca 

Karaloff, D. (306) 966-5417 dave.karaloff@usask.ca 

Kowalski, J. (306) 966-5416 james.kowalski@usask.ca 

Nazarenko, S. (306) 966-5416 serge.nazarenko@usask.ca 

Piot, S. (306) 966-5380 sue.piot@usask.ca 

Orth, D. (306) 966-5381 darla.orth@usask.ca 

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ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 

This report provides information concerning graduate studies and research in the 

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the College of Engineering, 

University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. Included is the information on faculty, research 

areas, research grants, graduate students and research publications. 

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering offers facilities for graduate 

studies and research leading to Post Graduate Diploma (PGD), M.Eng., M.Sc., and 

Ph.D. degrees in the following research areas: 

Electronic Materials and Devices 

Wired and Wireless Communications 

Electrical Machines and Power Magnetics 

Artificial Neural Network and Fuzzy Logic 

Instrumentation and Microprocessor Applications 

Microwave Communications Systems and Circuits 

RF and Microwave MEMS 

High Aspect Ration Micro Patterning 

Biomedical Microdevices 

Power System Analysis, Protection and Control 

Power System Reliability Economics 

Renewable Energy Applications in Power Systems 

Optoelectronics and Photonics 

Multimedia and Video Signal Processing 

Embedded Systems 

Digital Signal Processing 

Control Systems 

Instrumentation 

FPGA and VLSI Design and Applications 


The department has extensive facilities for conducting research in these areas. The 

facilities include well-equipped laboratories for research in the areas of communications, 

computer engineering, instrumentation, power system protection, thin films, and VLSI 

circuits. Additionally, the department has close ties with SaskTel, Vecima Networks 

Inc., TRLabs, SED Systems, the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation, and the 

Canadian Light Source (CLS). The University of Saskatchewan’s and the College of 

Engineering’s computer facilities are also available for major system analysis and 

computer-aided design projects. 

During the year, research was conducted in the above mentioned research areas, which 

has attracted a total external funding of $1,292,568. In particular, $585,183 has been 

received from NSERC Grants. Our research results have been extensively published in 

reputable international journals and conference proceedings. Three Ph.D. and 21 M.Sc. 

degrees were awarded over this period. During the year, 104 graduate students were 

registered, of which are 37 Ph.D., 55 M.Sc., 11 M.Eng., 1 PGD, 20 female (19%), and 

56 international students (54%). These statistics indicate that the Department of 

Electrical and Computer Engineering has a very active and ongoing program of 

graduate studies and research. 

Ha Nguyen 





D.E. Dodds, B.E., M.Sc. (Sask), P.Eng. 

Communication of Voice and Data 


S. Achenbach, M.Sc., Ph.D. (Karlsruhe), P.Eng. 

X-Ray Lithography, Including High Resolution Patterning 

Also Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Micro and Nano Device Fabrication 

R.J. Bolton, B.E., M.Sc. (Sask.), Ph.D. (Queensland), P.Eng. 

VLSI Design and Multi-Valued Logic, Computer Systems 

B.L.F. Daku, B.A.Sc. (Waterloo), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Sask.), P.Eng. 

Communication Systems and Signal Processing 

S.O. Faried, B.Sc. (Ain Shams), M.Sc. (Ain Shams), M.Sc. (Sask.), Ph.D. (Sask.), 

P.Eng. 

Power System Dynamics and Control 

S.O. Kasap, B.Sc. (Eng.), M.Sc., Ph.D. (London), D.Sc. (London), D.I.C. (Imperial), 

FRSC, FCAE, FAPS, FCGI, FSGT, FSPIE, FAPS, FEIC, FAIP, FIET, FIP, FIMMM, 

P.Eng. 

Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Photonics 

Also Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials 

and Devices 

H. Nguyen, B.Eng. (Vietnam), M.Eng. (Thailand), Ph.D. (Man.), P.Eng. 

Communication Systems, Information Theory and Coding 

J.E. Salt, B.Sc. (Sask.), M.Eng. (Carleton), Ph.D. (Sask.), P.Eng. 

Communication Systems and Signal Processing 


Md. N.A. Chowdhury, B.Sc. (Bangladesh), M.Eng. (Concordia), Ph.D. (Sask.), 

P.Eng. 

Power System Operation and Economics 


A. van Dinh, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Regina), P.Eng. 

VLSI, Digital Communications, Analog and RF Circuits 

R. Gokaraju, B.Eng., M.Sc. (Alta.), Ph.D. (Alta.), P.Eng. 

Power Systems Protection and Control 

R. Johanson, A.B. Hon., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Chicago) 

Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials and Devices 

R. Karki, B.E. (India), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Sask.), P.Eng. 

Power Systems Reliability and Renewable Energy Application 

D. Klymyshyn, B.E., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Sask.), P.Eng. 

Microwave and Wireless Devices and Circuits 

S-B Ko, B.Eng., M.Eng. (South Korea), Ph.D. (Rhode Island), P.Eng. 

Computer Engineering, FPGA, Digital Logic Synthesis 

A.S. Mehr, B.Sc., M.Sc. (Iran), Ph.D. (Alta.), P.Eng. 

Digital Signal Processing, Linear Systems 


L. Chen, B. Eng. (China), Ph.D. (Alta.) 

Radiation-tolerant microelectronics, Fault-tolerant Systems, Reconfigurable 

Computing 

D. Lynch, B.Sc., M.Sc. (Sask.), P.Eng. 

Communications, Telephony 

D. Teng, B.Sc. (Taiwan), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Sask), P.Eng. 

IC Design 

K.A. Wahid, B.Sc. (Bangladesh), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Calgary), P.Eng. 

FPGA and ASIC Design, Real-Time Embedded Systems, Video and Image 

Compression 

Adjuncts 

M.S. de Jong, Canadian Light Source Inc. 

T. Le-Ngoc, McGill University 

S.K. O’Leary, University of Regina 


E. Demeter, SaskPower 

Professors Emeriti 

R. Billinton, B.Sc., M.Sc. (Man), Ph.D., D.Sc. (Sask.), F.R.S.C., F.E.I.C., F.I.E.E.E., 

F.C.A.E., P.Eng. 

Power System Reliability and Power System Analysis 

A.M. El-Serafi, B.Sc. (Cairo), Ph.D. (Manchester), Dr.Ing. (Darmstadt), F.I.E.E.E., 

P.Eng. 

Dynamic Performance of Electrical Machines 

R.J. Fleming, B.E., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Sask.), P.Eng. 

Power System Control and Electrical Machines 

R.E. Gander, B.Sc. (Alta.), M.A.Sc., Ph.D. (Toronto), P.Eng. 

Biomedical Instrumentation and Signal Processing 

M.S. Sachdev, B.Sc. (Benares), M.Sc. (Punjab), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Sask), D.Sc. 

(Sask.), P.Eng. 

Power System Analysis and Protection and Digital Relays 

S.P. Verma, B.Sc. (Banaras), Dr.-Ing. (Tech. Univ., Hanover), A.G.E. 

Electrical Machines and Electromagnetic Noise 

G. Wacker, B.E., M.Sc. (Sask.), P.Eng. 

Customer Losses from Interruptions of Electrical Power 

H.C. Wood, B.E., M.Sc. Ph.D. (Sask.), P.Eng. 

Neural Networks for Sensor Signal Processing 

Department Assistants 

D. Karaloff, Undergraduate and Graduate laboratories 

J. Kowalski, Undergraduate and Graduate laboratories 

R. Gowen, Undergraduate and Graduate laboratories 

S. Nazarenko, Undergraduate and Graduate laboratories 

Clerical Service Workers 

Sue Piot 

Darla Orth 



Total number of students: 104 + 2 in Biomedical Engineering 

supervised by Elect. & Comp. faculty 







Number of Post-doctoral Fellows : 03 

Number of Research Associates: 03 


Number of Visiting Scholars: 04 

Number of Summer Students : 03 



Achenbach, S. 

$38,000 Deep X-Ray Lithography for High Aspect Ratio Applications, NSERC, 

Discovery, 1/5, 2009-1014 

$2,000 HARMST Manuscript Preparation Costs, University of Saskatchewan, 

Publications Fund, 2/2, 2009-1010 

$28,000 Specialty X-Ray Test Masks for Lithography Process Optimisation, KNMF, 

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology / HGF Germany, KNMF Short Term, 2/2, 

2009-1010 

$35,400 Institutional Support - Research, University of Saskatchewan, Canada 

Research Chairs, 1/5, 2010-2015 

$40,000 Institutional Support - HQP Matching Funds, University of Saskatchewan, 

Canada Research Chairs, 1/5, 2010-2015 

$50,000 CRC Provincial Operating, CFI, Research Chairs, 4/5, 2005-2010 

$100,000 CRC Incumbent, Government of Canada, Research Chairs, 1/5, 2010-2015 

Nanofabrication Facility Support, NSERC, MRS Grant, $1,091,500/yr, 2/5, 

2008-2013 (M. Brett (Principal Investigator), J. Buriak, M. Freeman, J. 

Harrison, A. Hitchcock, M. Okoniewski, L. Pilarski, C. Shafai, K) 


Billinton, R. 

$58,000 Analytical Methods in Power System Reliability, Economics and 

Performance, NSERC, Discovery grant, 4/5, 2008-2013 

Chen, L. 

$15,000 Study of Radiation-Hard Microelectronics, NSERC, Discovery grant, 4/5, 

2007-2012 

$5,000 DC-DC Converter SET Analysis, Intersil Inc., Research Gift, 1/1, November 

2010 - June, 2011 

$50,000 Logic In-Field Repair for ASICs and SET Analysis Using Pulsed Laser, 

Cisco, Cisco University Research Grant, 1/1, May 2011-June 2013 

$13,500 Research and Design Lab for Microelectronics in Extreme Environments, 

CFI, LOF, 1/1, March 2011 - March 2012 

Daku, B.L. 

$15,592 NSERC Discovery Grant, NSERC, Discovery Grant, 4/5, 2008-2012 

Dinh, A.v. 

$15,000 In-chip communications using UWB for 3D integration, NSERC, Discovery 

Grant, 3/6 

Dodds, D.E. 

Validity, Feasibility and Utility Testing of a Near-Falls and Falls Detection 

System (NF-FDS) Device for Older Adults, Royal University Hospital, RUH 

Foundation Research Fund, $6,000/yr, 1/1 

$35,000 Communication Electronics for Telephony and Internet access, National 

Science and Engineering Research Council, NSERC Discovery Grant, 5/5, 

2005-2012 (deferred twice) 

Faried, S.O. 

$20,000 Applications of Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) Devices to 

Power System Security, NSERC, Discovery Grant, 2/5 

Gokaraju, R. 

$23,000 Application of Intelligent Systems Techniques to Power System Control & 

Protection, NSERC, Discovery Grant, 2/5, 2010-2015 

$10,000 Identifying Loss of Excitation Conditions in Power Systems, Canadian 

Bureau for International Education (CBIE), Canadian Commonwealth 

Scholarship Program, 1/1, 15 Feb-Aug 14, 2011 


$10,000 A Fuzzy Inference System for Generator Phase Backup Protection, 

Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE), Canadian 

Commonwealth Scholarship Program, 1/1, March 23-Sept 22, 2011 

$157,485 Hardware-In-The-Loop Simulation Facility for Power System Control and 

Protection Research, Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Leaders 

Opportunity Fund, 1/1, June 15, 2011-June 15, 2014 

Karki, R. 

$50,000 Investigative Studies on Generation System Adequacy for Saskatchewan 

Power Corporation, SaskPower, Industry Contract, 1/1, May 2010 (Roy 

Billinton) 

$20,000 Evaluation of Reliability Impacts and Benefits of Renewable Energy 

Integration in Modern Power Systems, NSERC, Discovery Grant, 1/1, Oct. 

2010 

Kasap, S. 

$71,500 Amorphous Semiconductors for Imaging Applications, NSERC, Discovery, 

1/5, 2011-2016 ("Amporhous Semiconductors for Optoelectronic 

Applications: Photoconductors, Detectors and Sensors") 

$55,000 Preparation, Characterization and Modeling of a-Se Photoconductors, 

NSERC, CRD, 3/3, 2008-2011 

$116,500 High Resolution Dosimetric Detector for Synchrotron Microbeam Cancer 

Therapy, NSERC, Strategic, 2/3, 2009-2012 

$50,000 Institutional Support, CRC, HQP, 2/7, 2009-2016 

$54,000 Institutional Support, CRC, Research, 2/7, 2009-2016 

Klymyshyn, D.M. 

$19,800 Microfabrication of RF MEMS Devices using Synchrotron X-ray Lithography, 

NSERC, Discovery Grant, 5/5 

$14,000 RF Filtering using High Aspect Ratio Structures, TRLabs, Student Support 

Grant, 1/1 

$6,000 Thick Dielectric Structures and Materials for Wireless and Satellite 

Applications, TRLabs, Student Support Grant, 1/1 

$8,000 Polymer-based Dielectric Resonator Antenna (DRA) Research Areas, 

Communications Research Centre, Research Grant, 1/1 

Ko, S. 

$15,000 Efficient Hardware Implementation of Decimal Floating Point Arithmetic Unit, 

NSERC, Discovery Grant, 4/5, 2007 - 2012 


Nguyen, H. 

Near-falls and Falls Detection System, NSERC, Strategic, $16,407/yr, 3/3 

Validity, Feasibility and Utility Testing of a Near-Falls and Falls Detection 

System Device for Older Adults, RUH Foundation, Royal University Hospital, 

$6,249/yr, 1/1 

$24,000 Channel Estimation and Frequency Synchronization in Coded MIMO-OFDM 

Systems, TRLabs, Graduate Student Fellowship, 4/4 (J. E. Salt) 

$29,300 Bandwidth-Efficient Cooperative Diversity Techniques for Wireless Systems, 

NSERC, Discovery Grant, 5/5 

Salt, J.E. 

Distributed Energy-Aware Information Infrastructure: A Path to Robust and 

Sustainable IT, NSERC, Strategic Grant, $60,000/yr, 2/3, September 2009- 

August 2012 (T. Le-Ngoc (Principle Investigator, McGill), F. Labeau, G. Joos, 

M. Vu, and W. Gross ( McGill)) 

$19,000 DSP Algorithms for Carrier and Timing Recovery, NSERC Discovery Grant, 

5/5, 2006 – 2011 

Wahid, K.A. 

Co- Algorithms for a Cable Modem Terminal System, NSERC and Vecima 

Networks, Industrial Postdoctoral Fellowship (Eric Pelet receives the entire 

grant as Salary), $50,000/yr, 50000/100000, July 1, 2010 - July 1, 2011 

$19,491 New Architectures for Real-time Video and Bio-medical Imaging 

Applications, NSERC, Discovery Grant, 4/5, 2008-2013 



Ajami, R. M.Sc. Embedded Network Firewall on FPGA Dinh 

Babiy, M. M.Sc. Turn-to-Turn Fault Detection in Transformers 

Using Negative Sequence Currents 

Gokaraju 

Berscheid, B. Ph.D. FPGA-Based DOCSIS Upstream Demodulation Nguyen / Salt 

Chen, D. Ph.D. Algorithms and Architectures for Decimal 

Transcendental Function Computation 

Ko 

Chen, Z. M.Sc. Droplet Routing for Digital Microfluidic Biochips 

Based on Microelectrod Dot Array Architecture 

Teng / Dinh 

Duong, X.Q. M.Sc. Digital Resampling and Timing Recovery in 

QAM Systems 

Nguyen 


Elsamahy, 

M. 

Ph.D. Impacts of Midpoint FACTS Controllers on the 

Coordination Between Generator Phase Backup 

Protection and Generator Capability 

Faried 

Fentie, D. M.Sc. Transient Modeling and Protection of the Sen Gokaraju / 

Transformer 

Faried 

Grant, H. M.Sc. Acquisition and Tracking of Weak GPS Signals 

as Received by Cellular Telephones 

Dodds 

Islam, A.M. M.Sc. Hardware Implementation of Duabechies 

Wavelet Transforms Using Folded AIQ Mapping 

Wahid 

Julius, S. M.Sc. Design and Implementation of an ETSI-SDR- 

OFDM Transmitter with Power Amplifier 

Linearizer 

Dinh 

Kalra, V. M.Sc. Comparative Analysis of H.264 with the Other 

Video Codecs: DIRAC PRO-VC2 and AVS 

CHINA-P7 

Dinh / Wahid 

Kowalyshen, M.Sc. Photoinduced Dichroism in Amorphous As2Se3 Kasap / 

M. 

Thin Films 

Johanson 

Loi, C.K. M.Sc. Field-Programmable Gate-Array (FPGA) 

Implementation of Low-Density Parity-Check 

(LDPC) Decoder in Digital Video Broadcasting - 

Ko 

Malhotra, U. M.Sc. An Adaptive Add-On Control System for a 

Unified Power Flow Controller 

Gokaraju 

Noete (nee 

Schaffer), M. 

M.Sc. High Aspect Ratio Microstructure Coupler Klymyshyn 

Pan, S. M.Sc. Damping Power System Oscillations Using A Faried / 

Phase Imbalanced Hybrid Series Capacitive 

Compensation Scheme 

Gokaraju 

Pourhaj, P. M.Sc. Scalable Parallel Architecture For Biological 

Neural Simulation On Hardware Platforms 

Teng 

Rashidian, A. Ph.D. X-Ray lithography for batch fabrication of Klymyshyn 

Shrestha, S. M.Sc. 

polymer-based antenna structures with improved 

performance characteristics 

Hybrid DWT-DCT Algorithm for Image and Video Wahid 

Compression Applications 

Srinivasan, M.Sc. A Functional Link Network Based Adaptive Gokaraju 

S. 

Power System Stabilizer 

Tajallipour, M.Sc. Efficient Data Encoder for Endoscopic Imaging Wahid 

R. 

Applications 

Uddin, S. M.Sc. Radiation Hardening of a Operational Amplifier Chen 

Yang, X. M.Sc. A Wearable Real-Time System for Physical 

Activity Recognition and Fall Detection 

Chen / Dinh 













Dinh, A.v. Chairing and best paper, APCBEES, - Monetary award of $2,000 for 

General Co-Chairing the ICBET 2011 Conference - Best paper award in 

ICBET 2011 Conference, June 17-19 

El-Serafi, 

A.M. 

IEEE PES Working Group Recognition Award: “IEEE Std. 115-2009, 

Guide for Test Procedures for Synchronous Machines” 




Bergstrom, D.J. (306) 966-5454 don.bergstrom@usask.ca 

Bugg, J.D. (Head) (306) 966-5469 jim.bugg@usask.ca 

Burton, R.T. (306) 966-5373 richard.burton@usask.ca 

Chen, D.X.B. (306) 966-1267 daniel.chen@usask.ca 

Dolovich, A.T. (306) 966-5471 allan.dolovich@usask.ca 

Fotouhi, R. (306) 966-5453 reza.fotouhi@usask.ca 

Johnston, J.D. (306) 966-1468 jd.johnston@usask.ca 

Odeshi, A.G. (306) 966 5118 akindele.odeshi@usask.ca 

Oguocha, I. (306) 966-7832 ike.oguocha@usask.ca 

Schoenau, G.J. (306) 966-5446 greg.schoenau@usask.ca 

Simonson, C. (306) 966-5479 carey.simonson@usask.ca 

Sumner, D. (306) 966-5537 david.sumner@usask.ca 

Szpunar, J.A. (306) 966-5374 jerzy.szpunar@usask.ca 

Szyszkowski, W. (306) 966-5472 walerian.szyszkowski@usask.ca 

Torvi, D. (306) 966-5493 david.torvi@usask.ca 

Wu, F. X. (306) 966-5280 fangxiang.wu@usask.ca 

Yang, Q. (306) 966-5470 qiaoqin.yang@usask.ca 

Zhang, C. (306) 966-5478 chris.zhang@usask.ca 

LIST OF STAFF 


Bitner, D.V. (306) 966-5462 doug.bitner@usask.ca 

Deutscher, D.M. (306) 966-5460 dave.deutscher@usask.ca 

Haberman, S. (306) 966-5443 sherri.haberman@usask.ca 

James, C.M. (306) 966-5457 chris.james@usask.ca 

Neale, K. (306) 966-5444 kelly.neale@usask.ca 

Peace, R. (306) 966-5461 rob.peace@usask.ca 

Retzlaff, R. (306) 966-5457 rick.retzlaff@usask.ca 

Simonson, J. (306) 966-5442 janai.simonson@usask.ca 

Steinmetz, H.-J. (306) 966-5459 steinmetz@usask.ca 

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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 

The research activities in Mechanical Engineering can be grouped into seven main 

theme areas: (i) applied mechanics; (ii) bioengineering; (iii) fluid mechanics, thermal 

sciences, and heat transfer; (iv) fluid power and control systems; (v) manufacturing and 

engineering design; (vi) materials science and metallurgy; and (vii) robotics. Active 

research programs range from fundamental investigations intended to advance 

theoretical understanding to practical studies intended to solve current industrial 

problems. 

Personnel 

In 2010-2011, research in the Department was led by 18 faculty members including 2 

Canada Research Chairs, 8 emeritus professors, and 5 adjunct professors, and was 

supported by 126 personnel (5 departmental assistants, 95 graduate students 

(49% Ph.D.), 6 summer students and 20 postdoctoral fellows, research engineers, 

research associates and visiting scholars). 

Funding 

During 2010-2011, Mechanical Engineering faculty received a total of $1,936,457 in 

research funding, resulting in an average of $107,581 per full-time faculty member. A 

total of $1,082,607 (56% of the total) was received from NSERC. All of these projects 

are detailed in Section III: Grants, Contracts and Gifts. 

Industrial Partners 

A significant number of the research projects in the Department involved industrial 

partners who provided funding, expertise, and access to special research facilities. 

Some examples of company sponsored research were SaskWater and SaskTel (water 

quality), Hitachi Canadian Industries and IPSCO Regina Inc. (weldability), CNH 

(ergonomic assembly lines and welding fatigue), Syncrude Canada Ltd. (slurry flows), 

Venmar (air-to-air energy recovery), PCS (caking of urea fertilizer), and Saskatchewan 

Canola Development Commission and Milligan Biotech (lubricity studies). Other 

organizations that supported research projects over the past year include CIHR, 

Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation, and Saskatchewan Research Council. 


Results 

This past year, faculty members contributed to progress in science, technology, and 

graduate education by publishing 68 refereed journal papers (3.8 per faculty), 44 

conference papers, and delivered presentations and seminars at local and international 

meetings (30 presentations), and awarding 13 postgraduate degrees (3 Ph.D., 8 M.Sc., 

and 2 M.Eng.). 

On behalf of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, I thank all of the individuals, 

companies, and organizations that participated in the research activities of the 

Department over the past year. 

Qiaoqin Yang 





J.D. Bugg, B.E. (Saskatchewan), M.A.Sc. (Ottawa), Ph.D. (Calgary), P.Eng. 

Computational and Experimental Fluid Dynamics, Free Boundary Problems, Bubble-To- 

Bubble Interaction, Particle Image Velocimetry 


D.J. Bergstrom, B.Sc., M.Sc. (Alberta), Ph.D. (Waterloo), P.Eng. 

Associate Dean, Faculty Relations 

Fluid Dynamics, Turbulence, Computational Models for Heat and Fluid Flow, Large 

Eddy Simulation, Boundary Layers 

R.T. Burton, B.E., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Saskatchewan), P.Eng., FASME 

Fluid Power, Neural Network Application, Condition Monitoring 

D.X.B. Chen, B.Sc. (China), M.Sc. (China), Ph.D. (China & Saskatchewan), P.Eng. 

Precision Fluid Manipulation, Dynamic Systems and Control, Mechatronics, Engineered 

Tissue Scaffolds 

G.J. Schoenau, B.Sc., M.Sc. (Saskatchewan), Ph.D. (New Hampshire), P.Eng. 

Acting Associate Dean, Graduate Studies and Research 

Fluid Power, Building and Agricultural Thermal Systems 

C.J. Simonson, B.E., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Saskatchewan), P.Eng. 

Moisture Transfer in Buildings, Air-to-Air Energy Recovery, Heat and Mass Transfer in 

Porous Media, Heating, Ventilating and Air-Conditioning, Building Physics, Energy 

Conservation 

D. Sumner, B.Eng. (McGill), M.A.Sc. (Waterloo), Ph.D. (McGill), P.Eng. 

Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Bluff-Body Aerodynamics, Fluid-Structure Interactions, 

Unsteady Flows 

J.A. Szpunar, Ph.D., D.Sci. (Academy of Mining and Metallurgy, Poland), P.Eng. 

Canada Research Chair in Advanced Materials for Clean Energy 

Nuclear Materials, Aeronautical Materials, Thin Films and Coatings, X-ray and Neutron 

Diffraction, Oxidation and Corrosion Processes, Grain Boundaries and Interfaces, 

Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Hydrogen Permeation and Ingress, Monte Carlo 

Modeling of Nucleation, Recrystallization, Grain Growth, Abnormal Grain Growth 


W. Szyszkowski, M.Sc., Ph.D. (Warsaw), P.Eng. 

Computational Mechanics, Optimization, Optimal Control, Modeling and Simulation, 

Flexible Structure and Compliant Mechanisms, MEMS, Advanced Materials, 

Biomechanics 

D.A. Torvi, B.Sc. (Calgary), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Alberta), P.Eng. 

Fire Science, Bio Heat Transfer, Thermal Protective Clothing 

Q. Yang, B.E. (China), M.Sc. (China), Ph.D. (China), P.Eng., Canada Research Chair in 

Nanoengineered Coating Technologies 

Plasma and Ion Beam Based Materials Synthesis/Modification, Physical and Chemical 

Vapour Deposition, Electron Microscopy, Nanostructured Composite Hard Coatings, 

Advanced Ceramics and Carbon/Ceramics Composites, Tribology of Ceramic-Based 

Composite and Coatings, Superhard Coatings for Wear Protection and Biomedical 

Implants 

C. Zhang, B.Sc., M.Sc. (China), Ph.D. (Delft), P.Eng. 

Mechanical Design, Manufacturing, Dynamic System and Control, MEMS, Informatics, 

Robotics, Systems Science and Engineering 


A.T. Dolovich, B.Sc., M.Sc. (Manitoba), Ph.D. (Waterloo) 

Solid Mechanics, Stress Analysis, Biomechanics, Numerical Methods, Engineering 

Education 

R. Fotouhi, B.Sc., M.Sc. (Iran), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Saskatchewan), P.Eng. 

Structural Dynamics and Vibrations, Computational Mechanics (Finite Element & 

Optimization), Robotic Control, Biomechanics 

I.N.A. Oguocha, B.Sc., M.Sc. (Lagos), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Saskatchewan), P.Eng. 

Characterization of Decomposition Reactions in Metallic Alloys and Metal Matrix 

Composites, Interface Phenomena in Metal Matrix Composites, Wear of Engineering 

Materials 

F.X. Wu, B.Sc. (China), M.Sc. (China), Ph.D. (China & Saskatchewan), E.I.T. 

Computational Bioengineering, Systems Biology, Real-Time Control of Mass 

Spectrometers, Biosystem Identification and Parameter Estimation, Control Theory with 

Applications in Biomedical Engineering. 



J. D. Johnston, B.Sc., M.Sc. (Queen's), Ph.D (UBC) 

Biomechanics, Medical Imaging, Computational Mechanics (Finite Element & Modeling) 

Akindele G. Odeshi, B.Sc. M.Sc. (Akure, Nigeria), PhD (Chemnitz, Germany), P.Eng. 

Materials Science and Metallurgy; Microstructure Design and Engineered Materials; 

High Strain-rate Testing and Evaluation; Failure and Fracture Analysis 


J Dobchuk, B.Sc. M.Sc., Ph.D. (University of Saskatchewan). P.Eng. 

Fluid power, Controls, Off Highway Equipment (Convergent Motion Control, Inc.) 

S. Habibi, B.Sc. (Dundee), Ph.D. (Cambridge), P.Eng. 

Mechatronics, Multivariable and Intelligent Control, Robotics, Fluid Power, Water Supply 

Management (McMaster University) 

S. Lang, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Waterloo) 

Mechatronics, Manufacturing Systems (NRC-IMTI, London, Ontario) 

M. Sulatisky, B.E., M.Sc. (Saskatchewan), P.Eng. 

Hybrid Vehicles, Neural Controllers for Vehicles (Saskatchewan Research Council) 

S. Yannacopoulos, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Manitoba), P.Eng. 

Metallurgy, Materials, Metal Matrix Composites, Environmentally Induced Failures, 

Advanced Metallic Coatings, Creep Behaviour of High Alloy Steels, Materials Selection 

for Potash Brine Environments, Welding, Aluminum Alloys (UBC Okanagan) 

Professors Emeriti 

R.W. Besant, B.Sc. (Manitoba), M.S.E. (Princeton), P.Eng. 

Thermal Design of Buildings, Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer 

M.M. Gupta, B.Sc., B.E., M.E. (Rajasthan), Ph.D. (Warwick), D.Sc. (Saskatchewan), 

F.I.E.E.E., F.S.P.I.E., F.I.F.S.A. 

Adaptive Control Systems, Intelligent and Robotics Systems, Neuro-Vision Systems, 

Neuro-Control Systems, Biomedical Systems, Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks, 

Chaotic Systems, Medical Imaging, Signal Processing 

P.B. Hertz, B.E., M.Sc. (Saskatchewan), P.Eng. 

Vehicle Research, Machine Design, Manufacturing, Tribology 


D.H. Male, B.Eng. (McMaster), M.Sc. (Birmingham), Ph.D. (Saskatchewan), P.Eng. 

Hydrology 

P.N. Nikiforuk, B.Sc. (Queen's), Ph.D., D.Sc. (Manchester), F.R.S.A., F.E.I.C., F.R.S.C., 

F.I.E.E., F.Inst.P., F.C.S.M.E., F.C.A.E., C.Eng., P.Eng. 

Adaptive Control, Fluid Power 

P.R. Ukrainetz, B.E. (Saskatchewan), M.Sc. (British Columbia), Ph.D. (Purdue), P.Eng. 

Fluid Power, Condition Monitoring, Vibrations 

L.G. Watson, B.E., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Saskatchewan), P.Eng. 

Applied Mechanics, Finite Element and Boundary Element Analysis, Expert Systems, 

Biomechanics 

J.N. Wilson, B.E., M.Sc. (Saskatchewan), Ph.D. (Case Inst.), P.Eng. 

Instrumentation, Automation of Resource Industry Equipment, Fluid Power 

Departmental Assistants 

D.V. Bitner, B.E., M.Sc. (Saskatchewan) 

Fluid Power and Control Engineering Laboratory 

R. Peace, B.E., M.Sc. (Saskatchewan), P.Eng. 

Metallurgical Laboratory 

D.M. Deutscher, Mechanical Engineering Technology Diploma (SIAST) 

Thermo-Fluids Laboratory 

R. Retzlaff, B.E., M.Sc. (Saskatchewan), P. Eng 

Heat Transfer 

H.J. Steinmetz, State-Certified Mechanical Engineering Technologist (Breman, 

Germany) 

Applied Mechanics, Machine Shop, and CNC Laboratory 

Clerical Services Workers 

S. Haberman 

K. Neale 

J. Simonson 



Total number of students: 95 + 34 in Biomedical Engineering 

supervised by Mechanical Engineering 

faculty 


Number of visa students: 69 (73%) 





Number of Postdoctoral Fellows: 04 

Number of Research Associates: 03 

Number of Visiting Scholars: 13 

Number of Summer Students: 06 



Bergstrom, D.J. 

$49,000 Turbulent flow over walls and around solid objects, NSERC, Discovery 

Grant, 1/5, 2011-2015 

Bugg, J.D. 

$21,500 Particle Image Velocimetry in Single and Multiphase Flow, NSERC, 

Discovery Grant, 4/5, 2007-2012 

Burton, R.T. 

$50,000 Fluid Power Research, NSERC, Team Discovery Grant, 2/5, May 1/08 to 

April 30/13 (G. Schoenau) 

Chen, D. 

$30,000 Bio-Manufacturing of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds, NSERC, Discovery 

Grant, 3/5 

$100,000 Tissue Engineering Group, SHRF, Health Research Group - Phase Two 

Grant, 2/3 

$77,350 Bio-Engineering of Scaffolds for the Surgical Repair of Spinal Cord Injury, 


CIHR and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), China- 

Canada Joint Health Research Initiative Grant, 2/3 

$25,000 On-Line Monitoring of Drill Wear to Inform Tool Replacement, NSERC, 

Engage Grant, 1/1 

Fotouhi, R. 

$3,879 Experimental research lab in Robotics Motion and Control, CFI, IOF, 5/5, 

May 2006-May 2012 

$17,000 Dynamics, control, and path planning of flexible manipulators and mobile 

robots, NSERC, Discovery Grant, 5/5, April 2007 to March 2013 

$44,965 Experimental mobile robotic research in agriculture, Saskatchewan Science 

Fund, Matching CFI - research infrastructure, 1/1 

Johnston, J. 

$19,000 Linking Tissue Mechanics with Imaging, NSERC, Discovery Grant, 2/5, April 

2010 - April 2015 

$40,000 Enhancing Predictions of Distal Radius Bone Strength: a Validation Study 

Linking Mechanical Testing, FEM and Imaging, SHRF, New Investigator, 1/2, 

September 2011 - September 2013 (Cooper DML, Kontulainen S) 

$30,000 Servo-hydraulic Axial-Torsional Material Testing System, SHRF, Equipment 

Grant, 1/1, September 2011 - September 2012 (Cooper DML, Kontulainen S) 

Odeshi, A.G. 

Bone and Joint Imaging Group, SHRF, Team Grant (Phase II), $97057/yr, 

1/3, January 2011 - January 2014 (Baxter-Jones A (PI); Arnold C, Chilibeck 

P, Cooper DML, Farthing J, Johnston G, Kontulainen S, Lanovaz J) 

Bone health and fracture Prevention Across the LifeSpan (BonePALS) 

Team: Understanding Bone Architecture and Strength, CIHR IMHA, Team 

Grant, $10000/yr, 1/1, June 2011 - January - 2012 (Baxter-Jones A (PI), 

Arnold C, Cooper DML, Kontulainen S) 

$41,260 Materials and microstructure design for enhanced performance under 

dynamic shock loading, Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Leaders 

Opportunity Fund (LOF), 1/1, 2010-2011 

$17,000 Damage evolution in aluminum alloys and composites under dynamic shock 

loading, NSERC, Discovery Grant, 2/5, 2010 -2011 

$41,260 Materials and microstructure design for enhanced performance under 

dynamic shock loading, Provincial Government of Saskatchewan, Innovation 

Science and Science Fund (ISF), 1/1, 2010-2011 


Oguocha, I.N. 

Simonson, C.J. 

Optimization of the Welding Parameters of Steels Used in Wind Towers, 

NSERC, CRD, $16,000/yr, 4/5, 2006-2011 (Yannacopoulos (PI)) 

$27,500 Moisture transfer in hygroscopic materials and energy exchangers for 

buildings, NSERC, Discovery Grant, 5/5, 2007-2012 

$120,729 Development and testing of a new run-around, membrane energy exchanger 

(RAMEE) system for buildings, NSERC, CRD, 4/5, 2008-2012 (R.W. Besant 

(co-investigator)) 

$79,936 Development and testing of a new run-around, membrane energy exchanger 

(RAMEE) system for buildings, Venmar, Industry Contract, 4/5, 2008-2012 

(R.W. Besant (co-investigator)) 

$45,000 Design, testing and optimization of a new energy exchanger, MITACS, 

Accelerate Internship, 1/1, 2010-2011 

$17,000 Testing NovelAire's enthalpy wheels during cold/frosting conditions, 

NovelAire, Industry Contract, 1/1, 2010-2011 

Sumner, D. 

$26,750 Bluff-body aerodynamics and fluid-structure interactions, NSERC, Discovery 

Grant, 4/5, 2008-2012 

Szpunar, J.A. 

Improving the perfomance and efficiency of a mobile pneumatic conveying 

system, NSERC, CRD, $36676/yr, 1/3, 2010-2012 (S.D. Noble (PI)) 

$137,290 Novel Methods in Investigation of Hydrogen Embrittlement in Fuel Cladding 

in Supercriitical Water Reactors, NSERC, Strategic, 2010/2013, 2010/2013 

(Janusz Kozinski, co-investigator) 

$90,000 Effect of Polishing Treatment on Performance of Fuel Cladding, NSERC, 

Cameco Corp., CRD, 2011/2014, 1.08. 2011- 30.07.2014 

$30,000 Electrolitic Processing of Electrolitic Coatings, UOP LLC a Honeywell 

Company, Industry Contract, 2010/2011, 2010/2011 

$4,900 Canada-India collaboration: Nuclear Materials and Science, University of 

Saskatchewan, Research Acceleration Program, 2010/2011 

$200,000 Advanced Materials for Clean Energy, CRC -Canada, Canada Research 

Chair, 2010/2011 

$40,000 HQP training, University of Saskatchewan, Institutional research support for 

CRC, 2010/2011 


$25,000 Startup suplementary grant, University of Saskatchewan, Research support 

for CRC, 2010/2011 

Szyszkowski, W. 

$21,000 Advanced Computational Mechanics, Extension of FEM to Simulating Active 

Vibration Control of Elastic Structures, NSERC, Discovery Grant, 2/5, April 

2010 - April 2015 

Torvi, D.A. 

$21,000 Heat Transfer in Materials During Exposures to High Temperatures and Heat 

Fluxes, NSERC, Discovery Grant, 2/5, 2010-2015 

$650 Support for NSERC CREATE Letter of Intent, University of Saskatchewan, 

Proposal Development Assistance, 1/1, 2011 

Wu, F.X. 

A New, Scalable Fire Performance Screening Method for Lightweight 

Materials and Panels, NSERC, Engage Grant, $12,500/yr, 1/1, 2011 (E. 

Weckman, U. Waterloo - $25 K total) 

$81,988 Development of real-time control methodologies for Tandem mass 

spectrometry, NSERC, Strategic Grant, 5/5, Nov, 2006-Nov 2011 

Yang, Q. 

$100,000 Canada Research Chair in Nanoenigneeing Coating Technologies, 

Goverment of Canada, Canada Research Chair program, 1/5, 2010 - 2015 

$40,000 Synthesis, Charaterization and Application of Diamond Based 

Nanostructured Coatings, NSERC, discovery (amount significantly 

increased), 1/5, 2010-2015 

Zhang, W. 

Tissue Engineering, Saskatchewan Health Resaerch Foundation, Research 

Group Development Grant, $100,000/yr, 2/3, 2010-2013 (Xiongbiao (Daniel) 

Chen (principal), Qiaoqin Yang, David Schreyer etc.) 

COMBINED RAMAN/FTIR, NSERC, RTI, $0/yr, 1/1, 2011-12 (A. Dalai 

(principal), J. Koziski, etc) 

$130,000 Resilient system, NSERC, Strategic Grant, 3/3 

$24,500 Human-centered mechatronics, NSERC, Discovery Grant, 3/5 

$10,000 Commonwealth scholarship for students, CSFP, Student award, 1/1 

$26,000 Human-machine production systems, NSERC, CRD, 1/2 


$30,000 BioNEMS, SHRF, Health Research Group Grants, 1/2 



Arafin, M. Ph.D. Role of the Grain Boundaries and Microstructure 

on the Environment Assisted Cracking of Pipeline 

Steels 

Szpunar 

Hemingson, M.Sc. The Impacts of Outdoor Air Conditions and Non- Simonson / 

H.B. 

Uniform Exchanger Channels on a Run Around 

Membrane Energy Exchanger 

Besant 

Li, M. Ph.D. Modeling of the Dispensing-Based Tissue 

Scaffolds Fabrication Processes 

Chen 

Miao, Y. M.Sc. A New Strain Sensor Based on Pure CNT Films. Zhang 

Muddada, 

R. 

M.Sc. Towards Resilient Supply Chain Networks. Zhang 

Rasouli, M. M.Sc. Building Energy Simulation of a Run-Around 

Membrane Energy Exchanger (RAMEE) 

Simonson 

Tang, Y. Ph.D. Plasma and Ion Beam Enhanced Chemical 

Vapour Deposition of Diamond and Diamond- 

Like Carbon 

Yang 

Yackulic, M.Sc. Investigation in the Application of Complex Burton / 

M.M. 

Algorithms to Recurrent Generalized Neural 

Networks for Modeling Dynamic System. 

Schoenau 

Yu, M. M.Eng. Characterization Of Caking Process In A Potash Besant / Evitts 

Bed 

/ Yang 

Zhan, E.J. M.Sc. Fundamental Study of Measurement of Low 

Concentration Hydrogen Sulfide in Sera Using 

Carbon Nanotube. 

Zhang 

Zhang, Z. M.Sc. Modeling and Studying of Directional Friction on 

the Fully Lubricated Surface with Regular 

Anisotropic Asperities 

Zhang 

Zhang, Z. M.Sc. Modeling and Understanding of Directional 

Friction on the Fully Lubricated Surface with 

Regular Anisotropic Asperities 

Zhang / Chen 

Zhao, N.F. M.Eng. Fabrication and Characterization of Anisotropic- 

Friction Surfaces 

Chen 





Non-Refereed Conference Proceedings: 03 


Invited Lecture / Talk: 02 


Published Book Chapters: 02 



Burton, R.T. Robert E. Koski Medal in Fluid Power, ASME FPST Division, Awarded 

to "recognize individuals who have advanced the art and practice of 

fluid power motion and control through education and/or innovation." 

Dolovich, 

A.T. 

SES Educator of the Year, Saskatoon Engineering Society (SES), 

September 10, 2010 

Johnston, J. Nomination, Best Poster - President's Poster Competition, American 

Society for Bone and Mineral Research, 16 October 2010 

Zhang, W. 2011 College of Engineering Outstanding Researcher Award, College 

of Engineering 




Bourassa, A. (306) 966-1418 adam.bourassa@usask.ca 

Bradley, M. (306) 966-6411 michael.bradley@usask.ca 

Chang, G.S. (306) 966-2768 gapsoo.chang@usask.ca 

Degenstein, D. (306) 966-6447 doug.degenstein@usask.ca 

Dick, R. (306) 966-6443 rainer.dick@usask.ca 

Ghezelbash, M. (306) 966-6424 masoud.ghezelbash@usask.ca 

Hirose, A. (306) 966-6414 akira.hirose@usask.ca 

Hormes, J. (306) 966-3600 josef.hormes@lightsource.ca 

Hussey, G. (306) 966-6442 glenn.hussey@usask.ca 

Koustov, S. (306) 966-6426 sasha.koustov@usask.ca 

McWilliams, K. (306) 966-6605 kathryn.mcwilliams@usask.ca 

Moewes, A. (306) 966-6431 alex.moewes@usask.ca 

Pywell, R. (306) 966-6404 rob.pywell@usask.ca 

Rangacharyulu, C. (306) 966-6412 chary.r@usask.ca 

Smolyakov, A. (306) 966-6432 andrei.smolyakov@usask.ca 

St.-Maurice, J.P. (306) 966-2906 jp.stmaurice@usask.ca 

Steele, T. (306) 966-6427 tom.steele@usask.ca 

Tanaka, Kaori (306) 966-6406 kaori.tanaka@usask.ca 

Tse, J. (306) 966-6410 john.tse@usask.ca 

Xiao, C. (306) 966-6415 chijin.xao@usask.ca 

LIST OF STAFF 


Balon, P. (306) 966-6418 perry.balon@usask.ca 

Cederstand, C. (306) 966-6417 clay.cederstand@usask.ca 

Chomyshen, B. (306) 966-6418 blair.c@usask.ca 

Granrude, M. (306) 966-6396 marj.granrude@usask.ca 

Jelinski, C. (306) 966-6401 cindy.jelinski@usask.ca 

Pahatouroglou, Y. (306) 966-6383 yannis.p@usask.ca 

Parker, D. (306) 966-6393 debbie.parker@usask.ca 

Sander, L. (306) 966-6438 laverne.sander@usask.ca 

Shadick, S. (306) 966-6434 stan.shadick@usask.ca 

Toporowski, T. (306) 966-6418 ted.toporowski@usask.ca 

Zulkoskey, B. (306) 966-6439 brian.zulkoskey@usask.ca 

Physics and Engineering Physics – Research Report 2010-11 Page 111

SUMMARY OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES – DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS 

AND ENGINEERING PHYSICS 

There are 20 faculty members within the Department of Physics and Engineering 

Physics. Of these 14 are Full Professors (4 Canada Research Chairs, 3 Associate 

Professors; 3 Assistant Professors). The research areas of these faculty fall into four 

main physics themes and therefore most faculty are members of one of the four main 

research groups in the Department: The Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies 

(ISAS), the Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPL), The Subatomic Physics Institute (SPIN) 

and the Condensed Matter Physics (CMP) group. 

The Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies (ISAS) facilitates the design, 

development and operation of observational systems and associated experiments for 

remote sensing applications. These include systems in ‘space’ [balloon, aircraft and 

satellite] and on the ground. This is a particularly strong research area, involving the 

participation of 8 professors in the Engineering Physics Program. The resulting data 

are integrated with data from global networks from other observing platforms, as well as 

with extensive computer simulations dealing with Global Atmospheric Circulation and 

Magnetospheric Models, allowing for comprehensive and innovative studies of 

atmospheric, ionospheric and magnetospheric processes. These research programs 

are consistent with the high profile and well-funded Canadian Space Agency themes of 

Atmospheric and Space “Environments”, along with significant support from NSERC 

The “Space Environment” group within ISAS is strongly involved with the globalinternational 

array of HF radars called “SuperDARN” (Professors Sofko, St-Maurice, 

Koustov, McWilliams, Hussey and Research Associates Andre and Ponomarenko). 

Currently SuperDARN consists of more than 25 radars in the northern and southern 

hemispheres. The ISAS space environment group heads the Canadian participation in 

the SuperDARN project and is responsible for operating four radars (Saskatoon, Prince 

George, Rankin Inlet and Inuvik), as well as for running the SuperDARN International 

Data Copy and Distribution Facility from which all SuperDARN data are distributed to 

the international SuperDARN community. Through this participation in SuperDARN, the 

group has been assisting in the operation of all-sky imagers and magnetometers for the 

THEMIS multi-satellite mission, for which the U of Calgary has been maintaining an 

extensive ground-based support system in Canada. Also in partnership with the U of 

Calgary, the ISAS space environment group is currently involved with the installation of 

an international radar facility at Resolute Bay. One of only a dozen such facilities 

around the world, the Canadian Resolute Bay Incoherent Scatter Radar (RISR-C) will 

be operated in close collaboration with the American radar (RISR-N), which is already 

operational at Resolute bay. The ISAS space environment group will lead the RISR-C 

Scientific Management, scheduling experiments and facilitating data requests with 


international partners. As part of the $25M CFI RISR-C project, the ISAS space 

environment group will be constructing a fifth SuperDARN radar at Clyde River, on 

Baffin Island. 

The main objective of SuperDARN is to monitor and gain a better understanding of 

“Space Weather,” which damages satellites, ground electrical networks, and pipelines 

and which can be a danger to astronauts during strong geomagnetic disturbances. 

Energetic charged particles and electric and magnetic fields carried by the solar wind 

are at the origin of such disturbances. The recent addition of most northerly 

SuperDARN radars, which are known as PolarDARN and operated by the ISAS space 

environment group, has provided a unique opportunity for the study of the ionospheric 

and magnetospheric processes in the “polar cap” area. The polar caps surround the 

Earth’s magnetic poles--regions that have been largely inaccessible by other means, 

including the rest of the SuperDARN radar network. Recent research themes have 

included global-scale plasma convection patterns and their reconfiguration in response 

to changes in the interplanetary magnetic field, plasma physics of ionospheric 

irregularities, ionospheric signatures of energy transfer from the magnetosphere to the 

ionosphere, and the physics of auroral substorms. 

The second ISAS group is the Atmospheric Remote Sensing Group (ARSG) 

(Professors Degenstein, Bourassa and Llewellyn). In particular, this group has 

continued to develop techniques used to infer atmospheric constituent information from 

observations of spectrally dispersed limb scattered sunlight made with the Canadian 

built OSIRIS instrument. In the past year members of the ARSG have focused their 

efforts on further development of the SASKTRAN radiative transfer model and 

SaskMART, a Multiplicative Algebraic Reconstruction Technique used to infer vertical 

number density profiles of ozone, nitrogen dioxide and stratospheric sulphate aerosols 

directly from the OSIRIS radiance measurements. In particular the ARSG has 

developed an ozone retrieval that incorporates information from both the Chappuis and 

Hartley-Huggins absorption bands to extend the upper altitude of the ozone 

measurements to 60 km. This technique has received considerable attention from a 

team of NASA researchers planning an operational instrument to monitor ozone for the 

foreseeable future. As well members of the ARSG have advanced the development of 

techniques used to infer information about stratospheric sulphate aerosols. The 

techniques now include a method to use the OSIRIS radiance measurements to 

determine the size distribution parameters of these particles as well as their number 

density. The ozone and aerosol data retrieved from OSIRIS measurements are being 

used by other members of the ARSG to study long term trends and the exchange 

processes that occur between the stratosphere and troposphere. Other members of the 

group have continued to investigate mesospheric phenomena with the OSIRIS data set. 

The areas of interest include: continued investigation into the geographic distribution of 


Polar Mesospheric Clouds (PMC) as well as the sizes and light scattering properties of 

the ice crystals that make up these clouds; the measurement of true ground state (v = 0) 

hydroxyl from the OSIRIS observations of resonantly scattered sunlight at 308 nm with 

the goal of retrieving the water vapour concentrations throughout the sunlit mesosphere; 

the measurement of mesospheric temperature profiles with Oxygen A Band emissions; 

and continued investigation of the tertiary ozone peak and ozone depletion caused by 

solar proton events. Together with the OSIRIS project, members of the ARSG are also 

involved in other Canadian Space Agency satellite projects such as ACE-SCISAT, and 

a new Atmospheric Processes of Climate Change mission, STEP, the goal of which is 

to study high resolution structure in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. 

The third ISAS research group is the Atmospheric Dynamics Group (AGD) (Prof. 

Manson & RA Meek). Topics addressed are somewhat different, as research is 

conducted with four “Middle atmosphere” radars from middle to High Arctic latitudes: 

Platteville 45º N, Saskatoon 52º Tromso 70ºN and Eureka 80ºN. Winds from 60/79km to 

100km are measured continuously, with the Medium Frequency system having the 

greatest S/N ratio and hence lower height limit. The program themes are the location, 

characterization and understanding of coupling processes between the atmosphere 

over Ellesmere Island and all other planetary regions including height, location and time 

of year. The ADG members supplement global studies with data from satellites and 

models. A highlighted paper this year is by Meek et al. [2011] who consider a previous 

publication using SABER-satellite measurements of global semi-diurnal tides in the 

lower thermosphere, which presented results that did not show a well-known tidal 

feature. The question as to whether the orbital sampling allows that product to be 

authentically provided, and with what resolution was investigated. Meek et al. sampled 

the season-appropriate global GCM-CMAM [Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model] data 

archive at SABER resolution. Tidal analysis applied to these data, and then also to the 

complete CMAM [space time], provided middle latitude tides that were in serious 

disagreement with those from the fully sampled CMAM. The reason for inconsistency of 

the SABER-tides, with other tidal results from alternate data-archives [including those 

from ADG], then became clear. SABER sampling was inadequate. Such model tests 

are suggested for assessments of the significance of ‘results’ from irregularly sampled 

global data. 

The Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPL) [A. Hirose, C. Xiao, A. Smolyakov, M. Bradley] 

maintains a strong research activity in Magnetic Fusion and also has a rapidly 

expanding research effort in plasma assisted material synthesis and processing. The 

STOR-M in the Laboratory is the only tokamak in Canada devoted to magnetic fusion 

research. By exploiting the flexibility of a small tokamak, the STOR-M leads in 

development of novel tokamak operations, fueling methods, and advanced plasma 

diagnostics. AC (alternating current) operation was first demonstrated in the STOR-1M 


tokamak which has been followed in several tokamaks including the JET (Joint 

European Torus) and more recently in HT-7 superconducting tokamak. The PPL has 

been involved in developing the technology of compact torus (CT) injection since its 

inception. The CT injection program is receiving more attention now and the PPL is 

collaborating with international groups including the Princeton Plasma Physics 

Laboratory, University of Hyogo (Japan), and Nihon University (Japan). The STOR-M 

program continues to attract excellent students and PDFs. Recently, repetitive CT 

operation at a frequency of 0.33 Hz has been achieved (NSERC SPG). Currently, a 

spherical tokamak (ST) with a low aspect ratio (R/a = 1.7) is being designed for 

confinement of high beta plasma in a modest toroidal magnetic field. The ultimate 

objective is development of more compact, economically competitive fusion reactors. 

Active, internationally recognized theoretical and computational research is also being 

carried out on tokamak stability, transport, and nonlinear plasma dynamics. Since 2000, 

research in the Plasma Physics Laboratory has been rapidly expanding into the area of 

Plasma Based Material Synthesis and Processing. The Laboratory is becoming a 

major research centre for carbon nanostructures and their industrial applications. In the 

Laboratory, diamond synthesis at unusually low (250 o C) temperature has been 

achieved and diamond thin films can now be coated on low melting point materials such 

as polymers without damaging or changing substrates. Mass production of carbon 

nanotubes (CNT) has been demonstrated in a microwave plasma reactor and 

application of CNT in the oil refining industry has been investigated in collaboration with 

Professor Dalai in Chemical Engineering (NSERC SPG). Biomedical polymers used in 

cardiovascular applications as artificial blood vessels have been coated with DLC 

(diamond-like-carbon) for improved haemo-compatibility as a part of an NSERC 

Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) grant. Novel diamond nanocone 

structures have been synthesized by plasma CVD and their FEE (field electron 

emission) properties investigated. High adhesion diamond coating on steel has been 

known to be difficult, if not impossible. In the Laboratory, it has been demonstrated that 

steel alloys containing small concentration of Al can be coated with nanocrystalline 

diamond with high adhesion. Recently, research on synthesis of graphene (single layer 

graphite) has been initiated for potential applications in electronic industry. Plasma Ion 

Implantation is an innovative material modification technique whereby high-voltage 

negative pulses are used to implant high doses of ions into a target material immersed 

in a plasma. Because material properties are highly dependent on the composition and 

distribution of impurities, and because plasma ion implantation allows precisely 

controlled insertion of impurities at controlled depths, this technique is one of the most 

versatile methods available for the modification of material properties. A high-voltage 

pulse generator has been designed and built, and in the ICP plasma chamber recently 

acquired by the Laboratory, various ion implants have been carried out. The current 

focus of the program is to produce silicon-based photonic materials and structures by 


high-dose implantation of hydrogen (to produce buried nanometer-scale cavities), and 

carbon (to produce buried silicon carbide layers) for photonic and optoelectronic 

applications. Recently, the group led by Professor Bradley succeeded in developing 

porous Si with nano-voids which emits broadband light. 

The Subatomic Physics Institute (SPIN) includes experimental and theoretical 

physicists studying both pure and applied aspects of subatomic physics. Dr Pywell’s 

research includes experimental investigations of fundamental nuclear and nucleon 

properties using photonuclear reactions. This work is done using facilities such as the 

Duke University High Intensity Gamma Source (HIGS) and the Thomas Jefferson 

National Accelerator Facility (JLab) in the USA, as well as other facilities around the 

world. Recent research has centered on the photodisintegration of few-body nuclei and 

the measurement of nucleon polarizabilities using nuclear Compton scattering. Dr 

Rangacharyulu’s research is focused on Nuclear Radiation Physics and Energy related 

research. Dr. Steel’s theoretical research includes quantum chromodynamics, hadronic 

physics phenomenology, and electroweak symmetry-breaking. Dr. Dick’s research is 

focused on particle astrophysics and cosmology and in particular he is concerned with 

the Dark Matter Problem and the Origin of Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays. Prof. 

Ghezelbash's research program addresses current issues in Quantum Gravity in 

relation to particle physics, noncommutative geometry, gravitational and black hole 

physics that are inspired by string theory. These distinct areas are interrelated insofar 

as they shed light on the detailed structure of the universe and its most fundamental 

interactions. 

The Condensed Matter Physics group continues to thrive in synchrotron-based 

research that will make use of the Canadian Light Source, laboratory-based (in the 

Department) research, and theoretical studies. 

Prof John Tse’s research is on theoretical and experimental materials science. His 

project concerns the following three major areas: (1) Development and utilization of 

state-of-the-art synchrotron techniques for the characterization of the electronic and 

dynamical properties of materials with emphasis under extreme conditions. (2) 

Theoretical studies on phase stability and transport properties of materials under high 

pressure. (3) Studies on novel materials for energy storage and energy conversion. 

Among the research highlights was his study in which his group took a new look on 

hydrogen storage using graphitic materials. The report has attracted substantial media 

coverage. His group also pursues the use of inelastic scattering techniques to 

characterize the electronic structure and dynamical properties of ice and related 

systems at ambient and under high pressure. . His study on superconducting behavior 

under extreme pressure has led to the first experimental report on the superconductivity 

in a simple hydride. Dr. Tse also involved in the development of micro-diffraction 

technique at the Canadian Light Source. Most recently, he and his colleagues built the 


facility and performed the first diffraction experiment at high pressure on the HXMA 

beamline, two state-of-the-art computer clusters with fast interconnects have recently 

been commissioned. This facility will be used to the design of new superconducting 

materials. 

Prof Moewes’ group uses synchrotron radiation to characterize new materials. The 

underlying question is what happens to metal ions when implemented in bio- or other 

matrices. His group characterizes a wide range of materials such as ultra-hard 

materials, biomaterials and superconductors. These materials and structures have 

promising new electronic, optical, magnetic, photochemical, and biological properties 

and are studied using synchrotron-based techniques such as X-ray absorption and Xray 

emission spectroscopy. Dr. Moewes also is developing a new endstation for the 

recently funded beamline for resonant elastic and inelastic X-ray scattering (REIXS). 

The beamline is currently under commissioning and will provide a world-wide unique 

tool for materials science at the Canadian Light Source. 

Dr. Tanaka's theoretical and computational research explores strongly correlated 

electron systems and superconductivity. Current projects are concerned with novel 

vortex states in recently discovered multiple-band superconductors, effects of finite size 

and inhomogeneity on superconductivity in nanoscale structures, and exotic vortex 

matter in nanoscale superconducting quantum dots. Dr. Tanaka's group also 

investigates the fundamental question as to the origin of charge density waves (CDW) 

and its interplay with superconductivity (SC). The co-existence of CDW and SC has 

been observed in a variety of materials such as layered transition-metal 

dichalcogenides, high-temperature copper-oxide or iron-based superconductors, and 

low-dimensional organic superconductors. In particular, whether CDW compete with or 

boost SC is not known for many materials. Studying the effects of multiple bands, 

quantum confinement, or charge density modulations on superconductivity has a high 

computational demand and is not feasible without parallel computation. These studies 

are carried out with a CFI-funded, large-scale Beowulf-class PC cluster with extremely 

fast inter-node communication as well as clusters available on Westgrid. Dr. Tanaka's 

research will not only have a potential impact on nanotechnology, but also give us new 

insight into the fundamental mechanism of superconductivity. 

Professor Gap-Soo Chang’s studies concern the development of organic- and 

inorganic-based semiconductor devices for electronics (thin-film trasistors and solar 

cells) and spintronics (spin-memory and spin-transistors). Especially, spintronics 

promises a future alternative to traditional complementary metal-oxide semiconductor 

(CMOS) technology. The primary requirement for practical spintronic devices is to have 

ferromagnetic semiconductors which allow a current of spin-polarized electrons to be 

generated and controlled, and which preserve the spin-coherence over long times and 

distances in an existing semiconductor structure. His group uses the magnetic-impurity 


doping method to incorporate magnetism into organic-and inorganic-based semiconducting 

materials and investigates local electronic structure of magnetic impurities 

using synchrotron-based X-ray spectroscopy (X-ray absorption/emission spectroscopy 

and magnetic circular dichroism). This research on ferromagnetic semiconductors and 

their abilities to transport the spin-polarized electrons will facilitate the realization of 

future spintronic devices, including spin-transistors, magnetic memory, logic-circuits 

working both in magnetic and electric fields. 

There are 58 graduate students registered (32 M.Sc. and 26 Ph.D.). Nine M.Sc. and 

four Ph.D. degrees were awarded. Funding for research totals in excess of $3.2M per 

year, of which more than $1.5M comes from NSERC. 




C. Rangacharyulu, Professor, B.Sc., M.Sc. (Andhra University) Ph.D, (IIT) 

Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics, Quantum Chaos, Conceptual Foundations 

of Physics, and Physics Education 


D.A. Degenstein, Professor, B.Sc., B.E., Ph.D. (Sask), P.Eng. 

Upper Atmospheric Studies and Remote Sensing 

R. Dick, Professor, Diploma in Physics, Doktor der Naturwissenschaften, 

Dr.rer.nat.habil. (Germany) 

Particle Astrophysics Theory, Particle Physics Theory, Gravitation and Cosmology 

A. Hirose, Professor, B.Sc., M.Sc. (Yokohama Nat.), Ph.D. (Tenn.), D.Sc. (Sask.), 

F.R.S.C., F.A.P.S., F.I.E.E.E., CRC 

(Director Plasma Physics Laboratory) 

Canada Research Chair in Plasma Based Material Science 

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 

J. Hormes, Ph.D. and Habilitation in Physics from Bonn University 

Executive Director of the CLS 

G.C. Hussey, Professor, B.E., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Sask.), P.Eng. 

Ionospheric Studies and Remote Sensing 

A. Koustov, Professor, M.Sc. (Petersburg), Ph.D. (Moscow Inst. of Physics), P.Eng. 

Ionospheric Studies 

A. Moewes, Professor, M.Sc., Ph.D. (HASYLAB/DESY) (University of Hamburg, 

Germany) 

Canada Research Chair in Materials Science with Synchrotron Radiation 

R.E. Pywell, Professor, B.Sc., Ph.D. (Melbourne) 

Nuclear Physics 

A.I. Smolyakov, Professor, M.S., Ph.D. (Moscow), F.A.P.S., P. Eng 


T.G. Steele, Professor, B.Sc. (UWO), M.Sc. (U of A), Ph.D. (UWO) 

Particle Physics Theory and Phenomenology 


J.-P. St-Maurice, Professor, B.A. (Valleyfield), B.Sc. (Montreal), Ph.D. (Yale) 

Canada Research Chair in Environmental Science 

Chair, Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies 

J. Tse, Professor, B.Sc. (Hong Kong), Ph.D. (UWO) 

Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics 

Fellow Royal Society, Canada 

C. Xiao, Professor, B.Sc., M.Sc. (USTC, Hefei), Dr.rer.nat. (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) 


Associate Professor 

M.P. Bradley, Associate Professor, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.), B.Sc. (Univ. of 

New Brunswick) 


G.S. Chang, Associate Professor, M.Sc. (Yonsei), Ph.D. (Yonsei) 

Condensed Matter 

K.A. McWilliams, Associate Professor, Ph.D. (Leicester), M.Sc. (Sask), B.Sc. (Sask), 

P.Eng. 

Ionospheric Studies and Remote Sensing 


A. Bourassa, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., M.Sc., B.Sc., B.Eng. (Univ. of Saskatchewan) 

M. Ghezelbash, Assistant Professor, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Sharif University of 

Technology) 

Theoretical High Energy Physics 

K. Tanaka, Assistant Professor, B.Sc. (Science University of Tokyo) M.Sc., Ph.D. 

(McMaster University) 

NSERC University Faculty Award, Condensed Matter Theory 

Staff 

ISAS - Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies 

CLS - Canadian Light Source 

PPL - Plasma Physics Laboratory 

PEP - Physics and Engineering Physics 


J. Asai, Ph.D., CLS 

D. Boteler, Ph.D., Geomagnetic Laboratory (Ottawa) 

D. Harnett, Ph.D., University of the Fraser Valley 


E. Hallin, Ph.D., CLS 

G. Davis, Ph.D., Joint Astronomy Center (Hawaii) 

M. Benmerrouche, Ph.D., CLS 

L. Dallin, Ph.D., CLS 

R.L. Gattinger, B.E., M.Sc., Ph.D., NRC of Canada 

R. Igarashi, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D., CLS 

D.-T. Jiang, Ph.D., University of Guelph 

J.A. Koehler, Ph.D., University of Canberra, Australia 

D. McDiarmid, Ph.D., Canadian Space Agency 

C. McLinden, Ph.D., Environment Canada (Toronto) 

N. Sidhu, Ph.D., Saskatoon Cancer Center 

W.K. Yuen, Ph.D., Saskatchewan Research Council 

Associate Members 

P. Cadman, Ph.D., Saskatoon Cancer Center (U of S) 

D. Chapman, Ph.D., Anatomy & Cell Biology (U of S) 

G. Sarty, Ph.D., Psychology (U of S) 

S. Urquhart, Chemistry (U of S) 

Research Associates and Research Scientists 

D. Andre, Ph.D., P.Eng., ISAS 

C. Bryant, Ph.D., ISAS 

N.D. Lloyd, Ph.D., ISAS 

C. Meek, Ph.D., ISAS 

P. Ponomarenko, Ph.D., ISAS 

B. Szpunar, Ph.D., PEP 

Research Engineers 

T. Bathgate, M.Sc., ISAS 

R. Gillies, Ph.D., ISAS 

D. McColl, B.E., PPL 

C. Roth, ISAS 

J. Wiid, ISAS 

Senior Departmental Assistant 

Y. Pahatourogou, B.Sc., M.Sc. 

Laboratory Coordinators 

L. Sander, B.Sc. 

S. Shadick, B.Sc., M.Sc. 

B. Zulkoskey, B.Sc., M.Sc. 

Technicians, Draftsmen, Storekeepers 


P. Balon, Department 

C. Cederstrand, Department 

B. Chomyshen, Department 

C. Jelinski, ISAS 

W. Marshall, ISAS 

T. Toporowski, Department 

Clerical 

M. Granrude, Department 

D. Parker, Department 

II. HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL 


Number of female students: 11 

Number of Visa students: 21 






Bourassa, A.E. 

$20,000 Remote Sensing Processes and Trends in the Middle Atmosphere, NSERC 


$16,000 Analysis of Canadian Satellite Observations to Quantify the Influence of 

Lightning on Upper Tropospheric Ozone, Canadian Space Agency Space 

Science Enhancement Fund, 1/3 

$186,000 CFI Development of Spectral Imaging Instrumentation for Space-Based 

Atmospheric Remote Sensing 

Bradley, M.P. 

$27,500 New Methods & Ideas for Silicon Electroluminescent Devices, NSERC 


Chang, G.S. 

$15,000 NSERC Discovery Grant, Development of high spin-polarization spintronic 

devices based on organic molecular semiconductors 

$4,000 USTEP fund, Fabrication and magnetic I-V characterization of spintransistor/memory 

devices based on organic molecular semiconductors, May 

1, 2011 – August 31, 2011. 

$7,000 Tri-Council Bridge Funding for NSERC Project, Study of Metal-Organic 

Hybridization in Thin Film Devices for Organic Electronics and Spintronics 

Degenstein, D.A. 

$40,000 NSERC Discovery Grant, 2/5 

$299,100 Operations for Odin OSIRIS, Public Works and Government Services of 

Canada (PWGSC) in collaboration with the Canadian Space Agency, 3/3 

$197,500 Characterizing Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange Using OSIRIS and ACE 

Observations, Canadian Space Agency Space Science Enhancement Fund, 

2/3 

$193,000 Constraints on the variability of ozone in the upper troposphere and lower 

stratosphere provided by data from the OSIRIS and ACE-FTS satellite 

instruments, Canadian Space Agency Space Science Enhancement Fund, 

2/2 

$57,160 OSIRIS OSIRIS ECV Support, Public Works and Government Services of 

Canada (PWGSC) in collaboration with the Canadian Space Agency 


(December 2010 – May 2012) 

$98,175 OSIRIS on Odin Phase E, Public Works and Government Services of 

Canada (PWGSC) in collaboration with the Canadian Space Agency 

(January 2011- December 2011) 

Dick, R. 

$35,000 Extensions of the Standard Model in Cosmic Rays and Astroparticle Physics, 

NSERC Subatomic Physics Individual Research Grant, 4/5 

Ghezelbash, A.M. 

$20,000 M-Branes, Kerr/CFT Correspondence, Horava Gravity and Noncommutative 

Geometry, NSERC Discovery Grant, 2/5 

Hirose, A. 

$82,475 NSERC RTI Combined Raman and Fourier Transformed Infra-Red (FTIR) 

Upgrade 

$144,865 NSERC SPG (No. 2) Development of Compact Torus Injector, 1/3 

$200,000 Canada Research Chair (Tier 1), 3/7 

$60,000 NSERC Discovery 2 nd installment 

$122,200 Diamond coating, NSERC Strategic Project Grant, 3/3 (with Xiao) 

Hussey, G.C. 

$87,000 e-POP Science Support, CSA contract (co-PI) 

$200,000 The SuperDARN/PolarDARN Component of CGSM program, Canadian 

Space Agency Contract 9F007-070232, $200,000 per year for 5 years, 

2007-2012. GCH supervision and access to technical support, 4/5. (also 

Koustov & McWilliams) 

Koustov, A. (also see Hussey) 

$28,000 NSERC Discovery Grant Electric fields and currents and their effects in the 

near Earth Space, 1/5 

$136,400 The Canadian SuperDARN/PolarDARN Facility, NSERC MRS (Major 

Resource Support) (Sofko G.J. et al.), 3/5 

McWilliams, K.A. (also see Hussey & St. Maurice) 

$22,922 Operating Funds (IOF) for Canada Foundation for Innovation Leaders 

Opportunity Fund, CFI #15764, 2/3 

$39,700 Multi-Instrumental Studies from Ground and Space of Solar-Terrestrial 


Coupling and Magnetospheric Dynamics, NSERC Discovery Grant, 4/5 

$33,693 The CaNoRock Student Sounding Rocket Collaboration, Space Learning 

Grants and Contributions Program, Canadian Space Agency, grant 

managed by the University of Alberta. Supports students from the 

Universities of Alberta, Calgary and Saskatchewan to participate in rocket 

science field course at Andøya Rocket Range, Andenes, Norway. $303,240 

over 3 years (2010-2012). One third of grant supports U of S students. 

Moewes, A. 


$87,193 Canadian Foundation for Innovation IOF Grant 

$50,000 Canada Research Chair Tier 2, 5/5 

Pywell, R.E. 

$50,000 Research Tools and Instruments Grant, NSERC, “Highly segmented 

scintillating fibre target for the TREK T-Violation Expt at J-PARC”, (Coapplicant, 

PI is Mike Hasinoff, UBC)Year 2 of 2 

$36,000 Subatomic Physics, NSERC Individual Discovery Grant, 1/5 

$120,000 Search for non Standard Model Physics using the T-Violating Transverse 

Muon Polarization in Kaon Decay, Subatomic Physics Project Grant, 

NSERC, $120,000, 4/3 (PI is Mike Hasinoff, UBC) Extended. 

Rangacharyulu, C. 

$22,000 NSERC Discovery Grant (1 st installment of 5 (2011-16)) 

$10,000 Global Partnership Grant for establishing links with Nelson Mandela African 

Institute of Science and Technology, Tanzania 

$2,500 India – Canada Nuclear Workshop Fund with Jerzy Szpunar of Mechanical 

Engineering (total grant $25,000, Chary’s share is 10%) 

Smolyakov, A.I. 

$48,000 Nonlinear Processes in Plasma and Fluids, NSERC Discovery Grant, 1/5 

Steele, T.G. 


St-Maurice, J.P. (also see McWilliams) 

$3M The Resolute Bay Incoherent Scatter Radar: A Space Science Initiative in 


Nunavut, $2M from Canada Foundation for Innovation New Initiatives Fund, 

and $1M from Province of Saskatchewan. Part of $24.3M joint CFI to fund 

National Radar Facility (Eric Donovan (U Calgary), et al.) (with McWilliams) 

$86,057 A study of physical mechanisms involved in the coupling between the 

ionosphere the magnetosphere and the thermosphere: an ionospheric 

perspective, NSERC Discovery Grant, 4/5 

$200,000 Research Chair in Environmental Sciences, Canada Research Chair (Tier I), 

1/7 (renewed for 7 years) 

Tanaka, K. 

$22,000 Inhomogeneity and Quantum Effects on Superconductivity, NSERC 

Discovery Grant 

Tse, J. 

44,000 Driving Discovery: Energy Storage in Lithium Ion Batteries, Auto 21 (one 

year extension) 

$200,000 Research Chair in Theoretical Materials Science, Canada Research Chair 

(Tier 1), 1/5 

$127,000 Research Chair in Theoretical Materials Science, Province of Saskatchewan 

Supplement to CRC (Tier 1), 1/5 

$10,000 Carnegie-Canada Project 

Competitive beamline allocated at ESRF, APS, Spring8, NSLS and CLS 

Competitive computer resource allocation – 64 core-year fiscal 2011– 

Westgrid 

Xiao, C. (also see Hirose) 

$31,600 Plasma Physics and Engineering for Fusion research and Material 

Processing, NSERC Discovery Grant, 4/5 

$26,000 Overseas Talent Program, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2/3 



Name Degree Thesis Title Supervisor 

Bathgate, M.Sc. Modelling Polarized Radiative Transfer A. Bathgate 

Anthony 

for Improved Atmospheric Aerosol 

Retrieval with OSIRIS Limb Scattered 

Spectra 

Bewer, Brian Ph.D. Development of an X-Ray Prism for a 

Combined Diffraction Enhanced Imaging 

and Fluorescence Imaging System 

D. Chapman 

Briand, Lorin M.Sc. Finding Periods in the High Mass X-Ray 

Binary Stars of the Magellanic Clouds 

G. Sarty 

Choudhury, M.Sc. Spectroscopic Study of Transition Metal G.S. Chang/A. 

Sanjukta 

Compounds 

Moewes 

Frias, Winston M.Sc. Energy Flow and Forces in Multi-Layer A. Smolyakov/A. 

Dielectric Structures 

Hirose 

Gillies, Robert Ph.D. Transionospheric Modelling for ePop and 

SUPERDARN 

G. Hussey 

McLeod, John M.Sc. Structural Characterization of Arsenic- 

Doped Amorphous Selenium 

A. Moewes 

Paul, Percy M.Sc. Quantum Field Theory, Effective 

Potentials and Determinants of Elliptic 

Operators 

T. Steele 

Perry, Gareth M.Sc. Optimization of a 50Mhz Frequency 

Modulated Continuous wave radar 

system for the study of Auroral E-Region 

Coherent Backscatter 

G. Hussey 

Ratzlaff, M.Sc. Second-Order Contributions to the Non- T. Steele/D. 

Melissa 

Exotic (Jpc=1--) Light Hybrid Meson 

Correlation Function in the Chiral Limit. 

Harnett 

Sadowski, M.Sc. Interplay of Charge Density Modulations K. Tanaka 

Jason 

and Superconductivity 

Wurtz, Ward Ph.D. The Photodisintegration of Lithium 

Isotopes 

R. Pywell 

Wunderle, Kai Ph.D. Fermionic Fields with Mass Dimension 

One as Supersymmetric Extension of the 

O’Raifeartaigh Model 

R. Dick 

Varady, M.Sc. Resonant Transmission Through A. Smolyakov 

Koloman 

Negative Permittvity Materials 







Published Discussion/ Note: 0 

A COMPLETE LIST OF PUBLICATIONS MAY BE FOUND IN PART IV, 8. 


Rangacharyulu, C. (2011). Elected as a Senior Member of the Institute for Electrical 

and Electronics Engineers (http://www.ieee.org), June. 


PART III 


DECEMBER 2011 

DIVISION / DEPARTMENT LISTS OF GRADUATE 

STUDENTS, POST‐DOCTORAL FELLOWS & VISITING 

SCHOLARS

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING – LIST HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL 

Graduate Students 

Name Degree Supervisor(s) Support Area 

Burnett, M.Sc. Johnston Supervisor Bone density is linked to 

W. 

osteoarthritis-related knee pain 

Cao, N. M.Sc. Chen / David 

Experimental Study on Tissue 

Schreyer* 

Engineered Nerve Constructed 

by Schwann Cells and 

Biodegradable Materials 

Cheema, I. Ph.D. Zhang TBA 

Chen, B. Ph.D. Wu CSC TBA 

Chen, J. PGD Mark Eramian* Self TBA 

Cheng, W. Ph.D. Zhang TBA 

Gao, T. M.Sc. Supervisor TBA 

Ghorpade, Ph.D. 

A. 

Zhang Supervisor TBA 

Gopalan, M.Sc. Panigrahi AAFC-ABIP Development and 

S. 

Characterization of Hemp 

nanocomposite using PLA and 

nanoclay for various biomedical 

applications. 

Guan, Y. M.Sc. Chen / Supervisor Characterization of Alginate 

Chapman 

Scaffolds Using X-ray Imaging 

Techniques 

Hou, H. M.Sc. Chen / David 

Schreyer* 

Supervisor TBA 

Izadifar, M.Sc. Baik Supervisor A POROUS MEDIA 

M. 

APPROACH TOWARDS A 

DYNAMIC MECHANISTIC 

MODEL OF DRUG 

ELIMINATION BY THE LIVER 

Izadifar, Z. M.Sc. Baik Supervisor Ultrasound assisted extraction 

of phenolic compounds from 

dried distilled grains 

Izadifar, Z. Ph.D. Chen Articular Cartilage Repair Using 

Hybrid Scaffold Tissue 


Kannan, M.Sc. Dean 

TBA 

B. 

Chapman* 


Kaur, R. M.Eng. Niu / Dalai TBA 

Khan, M. M.Eng. Chen Self TBA 

Khan, S.K. M.Sc. Chen / 

Fabrication of Bovine Serum 

Schreyer, 

Albumin (BSA) Encapsulating 

David* 

Chitosan Microspheres. 

Kumarai, 

S. 

M.Eng. Lal Kushwaha* Supervisor TBA 

Li, J. PGD Zhang Self TBA 

Li, J. Ph.D. Chen / Zhang Study and Control of Vibrations 

on Beamlines at the Canadian 

Light Source 

Lin, W. Ph.D. Wu / Zhang NSERC Tandem mass spectra data 

analysis 

Little, C. M.Sc. Chen / William Dean's Fabrication of Composite 

Kulyk* Scholarship Scaffolds Impregnated with an 

Optimized Fibrin-Alginate 

Hydrogel for Cartilage Tissue 


Lu, H. M.Sc. Zhang TBA 

Maley, J. Ph.D. Zhang / K. 

Hirose* 

Self TBA 

Mandal, A. Ph.D. Panigrahi AAFC-ABIP Development of nano-magnetic 

and antimicrobial functionalized 

biocompatible collagen scaffold 

for biomedical applications 

Mani, A. Ph.D. Jack Gray* TBA 

Morrell, B. M.Sc. Kasap TBA 

Muzar, E. M.Sc. Kasap / Dean 

Chapman* 

Supervisor TBA 

Napa, A.K. M.Sc. Chapman Self High Level Data Link Controller 

Protocol 

Rajaram, Ph.D. Chen / David 

Bioengineered scaffolds with 

A. 

Schreyer* 

incorporated Schwann cells for 

peripheral nerve regeneration 

Rhoades, M.Sc. A. Rosenberg* / Supervisor TBA 

G. 

Dean 

Chapman* 

Saha, S. M.Sc. Chen / David AAFC-ABIP Data Analysis of Chemosensor 

Schreyer* 

Bead Array for Olfactory Model 

Shah, W. M.Sc. Wahid Data Analysis of Chemosensor 

Bead Array for Olfactory Model 

Shi, J. Ph.D. Wu NSERC Inference of proteins from 


Song, K. Ph.D. Gupta / Zhang NSERC 

tandem mass spectra 

Formation of Controlled Uniform 

Microspheres by MEMS for 

Effective Drug Delivery 

Sun, J. M.Sc. Wu NSERC Parallelizing RT-PSM 

Tao, X. M.Sc. Zhang TBA 

Tian, X. Ph.D. Chen Development of Cell Damage 

Laws for Bio-Manufacturing 

Processes 

Vahedi, S. Ph.D. Kasap TBA 

Wang, L. M.Sc. Chen Supervisor TBA 

Wang, M. M.Sc. Chen / David 

Schreyer* 

Wellens, 

V. 

Synergistic Effects of 

Crosslinked HA-based 3D 

Porous Scaffolds, Schwann 

Cells and Growth Factors for 

SCI Repair 

M.Sc. Lanovaz Self Heel Compliance and Walking 

Mechanics Using the Niagara 

Foot Prosthetic 

Xu, H. M.Sc. Zhang TBA 

Yan, Y. Ph.D. Wu State 

Scholarship Fund 

(CSC) 

TBA 

Yang, C. M.Sc. Zhang TBA 

Yuan, Z. M.Sc. Wu NSERC Deisotoping of tandem mass 

spectra 

Zhai, P. M.Sc. Chen / David 

Hyaluronic Acid Scaffolds 

Schreyer* 

Modified with Nogo-66 

Receptor Antagonist for Repair 

of Spinal Cord Injury in vitro 

Zhang, C. Ph.D. Yang Chinese 

Shcolarship 

Council and 

NSERC 

DLC for biomedical applications 

Zhang, Q. M.Sc. Shi / Ko CGSR 

Scholarship / 

NSERC Strategic 

Project Grant 

TBA 

Zhang, T. Ph.D. Zhang Scholarship TBA 

Zhu, N. Ph.D. Chapman / 

3-Dimensional Designed and 

Chen 

Funcional Poly (L-lactic 

acid)/Chitosan Scaffolds for 

Peripheral Nerve Tissue 


Zhu, Y. Ph.D. Chapman 

Zhu, Y. Ph.D. Zhang / R. 

Sammynaiken* 

Post-Doctoral Fellows and Visiting Scholars 


Biomedical Engineering – Research Report 2010-11 Page 133 

TBA 

Name Country Collaborator(s) 

Niwas, I. (VS) India Zhang 

• RE - Research Engineer 

• PDF - Post-doctoral Fellow 

• VS - Visiting Scholar 

• RA - Research Associate 

• SS - Summer Student

DIVISION OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING – LIST OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED 

PERSONNEL 



Dsouza, L. M.Eng. Nemati Self Co-biodegradation of linear and 

aromatic naphthenic acids in a 

circulating packed-bed 

bioreactor 

Eruvwetaghware, M.Eng. Kushwaha 

V. 

TBA 

Issariyakul, T. Ph.D. Dalai Supervisor Biodiesel Production From 

Various Vegetable Oils 

Kamal, A. Ph.D. Boulfiza Towards a Better Understanding 

of the Mechanisms Controlling 

the Durability of FRP 

Composites in Concrete 

Lloyd, T. M.Eng. Maule / Kells Self Statistical Investigation of 

Deviation Between Stream 

Discharge Measurements 

Mahto, S. M.Eng. Dalai / Niu TBA 

Tian, L. PGD Wang Supervisor TBA 

Vosoughi, V. Ph.D. Dalai Supervisor TBA 

Yu, F. M.Sc. Lin UGS 

Scholarship 



Process modeling of very-highgravity 

fermentation system 

under redox potential-controleld 

conditions 


CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING – LIST OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED 

PERSONNEL 



Adapa, P.K. Ph.D. Tabil Self Enhancement and Preprocessing 

of Cereal 

Straw as Feedstock 

Agnew, J.M. Ph.D. Lague Measurement and 

Modeling of Greenhouse 

Gas and Odour 

Emissions Arising from 

the Land Application of 

Manure 

Annand, H. M.Sc. Fonstad 

Arun, N. Ph.D. Dalai NSERC/CRC Hydroprocessing of Gas 

Oils 

Aryee, E. Ph.D. Dalai / John 

Adjaye* 

Fundamentals of Bitumen 

Fouling in Fluid Coker 

Strippers 

Avala, V. M.Eng. Peng / Lin Process Simulation of 

Bioethanol Production 

Using Algae as Raw 

Material 

Badoga, S. M.Sc. Dalai NSERC/CRC Catalyst Development for 

Hydrodeoxygenation of 

Vegetable Oils 

Baroi, C. Ph.D. Dalai ABIN, NSERC, 

CRC 

Binsirawanich, 

P. 

Biodiesel Production 

Using Solid Acids 

M.Sc. Noble Industry Contract Development of a Mass 

Flow Sensor for 

Pneumatically Conveyed 

Seeds 

Biswas, P. M.Sc. Dalai / John 

Adjaye* 

Boahene, P. M.Sc. Dalai Syncrude/ NSERC/ 

U of S Scholarship 

Catalytic Performances 

of NiMo/Zr-SBA-15 

Catalysts for the 

Hydrotreating of Bitumen 

Derived Heavy Gas Oil 

Effect of Pore Diameter 

Variation of Fe-W/SBA- 

15 Supported Catalysts 


Bolster, J. M.Sc. Evitts / Robert 

Besant* 

Botchwey, C. Ph.D. Dalai NSERC/ Syncrude 

Canada Ltd. 

on Hydrotreating of 

Heavy Gas Oil from 

Athabasca Bitumen 

Particle Systems for Heat 

and Moisture Transfer 

Systems 

Synthesis, 

Characterization and 

Kinetic Modeling Studies 

of Nickel-Tungsten 

Nitride Catalysts for 

Hydrotreating of Gas Oils 

Choudhary, M. M.Sc. Pugsley 

Cortes, G. M.Sc. Maule Organic waste 

identification for City of 

Saskatoon (M.SEMS, 

SENS) 

Cortus, E. Ph.D. lemay* 

Daalkhaijav, U. M.Sc. Nemati ADF Removal of ammonia 

(nitrification) in 

conventional and 

microbial fuel cell type 

bioreactors 

Dadgar, S. M.Sc. 

Ding, N. M.Sc. Kozinski / 

Dalai 

Donald, J. Ph.D. Dalai / C. Xu* NSERC and ABIN Conversion of 

Lignocellulosic Biomass 

to fermatable sugars via 

Supercritical water 

Technology 

Fung, J. Ph.D. Tabil CGSR Dean's 

Scholarship - 

University of 

Saskatchewan/ 

Biofiber Industries 

Rubber based composite 

material for housing 

industries 

Gao, Z. M.Sc. Guo / Noble ADF Dehumidification of 

greenhouses 

Gaudet, M. M.Sc. Fonstad 

George, E. M.Sc. Tabil / Meda FOBI Debranning of Wheat and 

Pelleting of Wheat Bran 

and Condensed Distillers 

Solubles in an Ethanol 


Plant 

Georgison, R. M.Sc. Roberge 

Gervais, J. M.Sc. Noble Industry Contract Prediction of Meter Roller 

Performance from Design 

Parameters 

Gibb, C. M.Sc. Maule Low Impact Development 

Strategies for Saskatoon 

(M.SEMS, SENS) 

Godwin, J. M.Sc. Evitts Development of 

Mediatorless Electrodes 

for Microbial Fuel Cells 

Graff, L.J. M.Sc. Crowe 

Griffith, J. M.Sc. Roberge 

Guzman Perez, 

C. 

M.Sc. Soltan Application of 

heterogeneous catalysts 

in ozonation of model 

compounds in water 

Han, J. Ph.D. Guo Sask ADF Dehumidification 

Requirement 

Determination and 

Dehumidifier Evaluation 

for Humidity Control in 

Greenhouses 

Hasan, S. M.Sc. Peng Excess Enthalpy for 

Binary and Ternary 

Systems Involving 

Hydrocarbons and Ethers 

Hossain, T. M.Sc. Peng 

Hui, C.K. Ph.D. Crowe 

Iroba, K. Ph.D. Tabil FOBI - CBioN Effect of pretreatment 

and densification on the 

breakdown of 

lignocellulosic matrix in 

biomass feedstock 

Jacobson, K. M.Sc. Dalai ABIN/ NSERC/ 

CRC 

Jeevan, G. M.Sc. Dalai NSERC/ CRC/ 

SCDC 

Valorization of Bio-oil 

from Maple Sawdust for 

Transportation Fuels 

Production of Valueadded 

Fuel Additives 

from Glycerol 

John, S. M.Eng. Peng / Soltan Degradation of Micro- 

Pollutants in Water 

Kennell, G. Ph.D. Evitts 


Keykavoos M.Sc. Soltan Catalytic Oxonation in 

Amand, R. 

Water Treatment 

Klassen, C. M.Sc. Maule Rainwater Harvesting on 

Lakewood Civic Center 

(M.SEMS, SENS) 

Kondratowicz, 

T. 

M.Sc. Crowe 

Kumar, P. Ph.D. Hill / Nemati Chemical and biological 

remediation of petroleum 

contaminants 

Li, J. M.Sc. Wang Kinetics Study and 

Process Simulation of H2 

Production from H2S 

Liao, B. M.Sc. Hill / B. 

Roesler, 

Biochemistry* 

Liu, C. Ph.D. Lin / Dalian 

University of 

Technology* 

The Effect of 

Oxidoreduction Potential 

on Very High Gravity 

Ehtanol Fermentation 

and Studies of 

Underlying Mechanisms ( 

Lung, P. M.Sc. Fonstad Solid State Anaerobic 

Digestion of Ethanol Byproducts 

Malek Abbaslou, 

M. 

Ph.D. Dalai NSERC/ ABIN/ 

CRC 

Iron Catalyst Supported 

on Carbon Nanotubes for 

Fischer-Tropsch 

Synthesis: Experimental 

and Kinetic Studies 

Mandal, A. Ph.D. Meda Biomedical 

Mapiour, M. M.Sc. Dalai Syncrude/ NSERC Effects of Hydrogen 

Partial Pressure on 

Hydroprocessing of 

Heavy Gas Oil 

Mohanty, S. M.Sc. Dalai / John 

Adjaye* 

Development of Mixed 

Oxide Supports for 

Hydroprocessing of Gas 

Oils 

Moniri, A. Ph.D. Wang Process integration of H2 

production from H2S 

splitting 

Moreno, L. Ph.D. Nemati ADF Treatment of organic 


Mosqueda, M.P. Ph.D. Tabil Feed Opportunities 

in the Bioethanol 

Industry (FOBI) 

Network 

Narayanasarma, 

P. 

wastewaters in microbial 

fuel cell bioreactors 

(jointly with B. Predicala) 

Physico-chemical 

characterization and 

evaluation of drying 

technologies of distillers 

grains 

M.Sc. Dalai Syncrude Mesoporous Carbon 

Supported NiMo Catalyst 

for the Hydrotreating of 

Coker Gas Oil 

Neufeldt, M. M.Sc. Maule Self Agrochemical Fate From 

a Saskatchewan Grain 

Farm (M.SEMS, SENS) 

Nuncio, P. M.Sc. Wang Study on Reaction 

Between H2S and 

H2SO4 for H2 Profuction 

from H2S Splitting Cycle 

Paterson, G. M.Sc. Dalai NSERC Biodiesel Production 

Using Solid Resins 

Pratt, D. Ph.D. Fonstad 

Rana, A. Ph.D. Evitts SMA-ADF & AAFC- 

ABIP 

Development of flaxseed 

oil based biopolymer for 

natural fiber based 

biocomposites 

Ranjbar, Z. M.Sc. Dalai / Niu Ethanol Dehydration 

Using Biosorbents in a 

Pressure Swing 

Adsorption Process 

Remoue, T. M.Sc. Roberge 

Rezaei 

Geshnizgani, E. 

Ph.D. Soltan Low temperature 

oxidation of VOCs in air 

by catalytic ozonation 

Rinas, C. M.Sc. Fonstad Saskatchewan 

Agriculture and 

Food - Agriculture 

Development Fund 

Rizwan, D. M.Sc. Dalai Syncrude and 

NSERC 

Sanchez Ph.D. Pugsley NSERC CRD / 

Careaga, F. 

Syncrude 

Schnaider, J. M.Sc. Roberge 

Contaminant Plume 

Development and 

Dissipation: A laboratory 

study 

Hydroprocessing of Gas 

Oils 

Foundations of Thermal 

Bitumen Conversion 


Sekhon, J. M.Eng. Peng / Dalai 

Shakouri, M. M.Sc. Wang CO2 Reforming of CH4 in 

Membrane Reactor Using 

Ni-Co Bimettalic Catalyst 

Siaotong, B. Ph.D. Tabil CGSR Dean's 

Scholarship 

Sigurdson, S. M.Sc. Dalai NSERC, Auto21, 

CRC 

Soleimani, M. Ph.D. Tabil ADF and Iranian 

Government 

Scholarship 

Use of flax nanofibres as 

reinforcement in 

bionanocomposites 

Effects of Pore Diameters 

of CNTs on 

Hydroporcessing of Gas 

Oils 

Employment of an 

integrated process for 

production of xylitol and 

biocomposites from 

lignocellulosic biomass 

Sooriya M.Sc. Tabil AAFC-ABIP Life cycle analysis of 

Arachchilage, K. 

alfalfa for the production 

of ethanol 

Srinivasan, S. M.Sc. Lin The Variation of CO2 

Concentration Profile 

During Very-High-Gravity 

Fermentation 

Sripada, P. M.Sc. Dalai ADF and ABIN Catalytic Gasification of 

Bio-oils 

Sun, Y. M.Sc. Nemati NSERC DG Denitrification and 

desulphurization using 

sulphur and H2S 

Surisetty, V. Ph.D. Dalai CRC/SRC/ABIN Research and 

Development of Co and 

Rh-Promoted Alkali- 

Modified Molybdenum 

Sulfide Catalysts for 

Higher Alcohols 

Synthesis from 

Swaminathan 

Raamanathan, 

S. 

M.Sc. Tabil Hydrolysis of 

Lignocellusic Biomass as 

Affected by Pretreatment 

and Pelleting Operations 

Tajallipour, M. M.Sc. Dalai / Niu Ethanol Dehydration 

using Bio-adsorbents 

Trepanier, M. Ph.D. Dalai NSERC/CRC Promoted Co-CNT Nanocatalyst 

for Green Diesel 

Production Using 


Fischer-Tropsch 

Synthesis in a Fixed Bed 

Reactor 

Tripathy, A. Ph.D. Evitts AAFC-ABIP Life cycle analysis of 

bioethanol derived from 

lignocellulosic biomass 

from wheat, canola, 

barley, and switch grass 

Ulaganathan, M. M.Sc. Peng 

Veikle, E. Ph.D. Meda CNH contract, 

(comprehensive 

complete) 

Crop Flow Optimiation in 

a Rotary Feeding and 

Cutting System (RFCS) 

Verma, A. M.Sc. Meda NSERC Degradation of 

Phenolcompunds in 

water using MW & UV 

effects 

Wensley, C. M.Sc. Fonstad 

Woytiuk, K. Ph.D. Pugsley 

Yang, L. M.Sc. Wang HI Production in H2 

Production Cycle of H2S 

Splitting 

Post-Doctoral Fellows, Visiting Scholars and Other HQP 

Name Collaborator(s) 

Arthur, M. (SS) Phoenix 

Assaaoudi, H. (RA) Kozinski 

Azargohar, R. (PDF) Dalai 

Baylak, T. (SS) Niu 

Bhamidipati, V. (VS) Dalai 

Bhandari, K. (VS) Dalai 

Bilkhu, A. (SS) Dalai 

Boyko, M. (SS) Noble 

Burlinguette, N. (RA) Crowe 

Choudhary, M. (SS) Dalai 

Clarke, T. (SS) Dalai 

Das, S. (VS) Dalai 

Dasila, P. (VS) Dalai 

Dhabhai, R. (VS) Dalai 

Dirksen, R. (SS) Noble 


Egan, J. (VS) Tabil / Meda 

Ell, J. (SS) Dalai 

Emami, S. (PDF) Meda 

Fairbairn, D. (SS) Guo 

Feng, S. (SS) Lin 

Fraser, S. (SS) Noble 

Gerspacher, R. (RA) Pugsley 

Gibson-Burlinguette, N.A. (RE) Crowe 

Granovskiy, M. (RE) Pugsley 

Hanson, K. (SS) Evitts 

Herzog, I. (SS) Fonstad 

Hildebrand, P. (SS) Kushwaha 

Hoffman, A. (SS) Evitts 

Hrenyk, K. (SS) Dalai 

Jaffer, N. (SS) Niu / Dalai / Pugsley 

Karmakar, S. (PDF) Lague 

Kashaninejad, M. (RA) Meda / Tabil 

Kathpalia, V. (VS) Soltan 

Kaur, R. (SS) Niu / Dalai 

Kotikalapudi, C. (PDF) Dalai 

Kukha-Bryson, A. (SS) Tabil 

Kumar, P. (RA) Niu / Dalai 

Landry, H. (PDF) Lague 

Liu, J. (PDF) Kushwaha 

Mapiour, M. (RA) Dalai / Wang 

McMaster, I. (SS) Soltan 

Meadows, C. (SS) Evitts 

Mertins, P. (RA) Wang 

Miryala, B. (VS) Dalai 

Murugasamy, A. (VS) Tabil / Meda 

Nelson, D. (SS) Tabil 

Nie, R. (RE) Evitts / Robert Besant* 

Ollivier, J. (SS) Kushwaha 

Opoku, A. (RA) Meda / Tabil 

Panigrahi, P. (RA) Kushwaha 

Pastl, D. (SS) Noble 

Perera, A. (PDF) Meda 

Plews, I. (SS) Evitts 


Pratt, D. (SS) Kozinski 

Roberge, R. (RA) Crowe 

Robertson, E. (SS) Tabil 

Robertson, J. (SS) Soltan 

Roshani, B. (PDF) Dalai / Soltan 

Saraka, C. (SS) Evitts 

Schalm, P. (SS) Hwang 

Shahbaz, M. (RE) Panigrahi 

Shaw, S. (SS) Fonstad 

Shen, Y. (VS) Wang 

Shrestha, B. (PDF) Baik 

Sigurdson, S. (RA) Dalai 

Silversides, A. (SS) Fonstad 

Sloan, R. (SS) Tabil 

Soni, C. (RA) Dalai 

Soni, K. (PDF) Dalai 

Sridharan, V. (RA) Evitts 

Stobbs, J. (SS) Soltan / Dalai / R. Azargohar* / K. Salim* 

Strawford, M. (RA) Crowe 

Stuart, M. (SS) Helgason 

Surisetty, V. (PDF) Dalai / J. Kozinski* 

Tekale, D. (VS) Dalai 

Thiyyagura, S. (VS) Tabil / Meda 

Thomas, M. (PDF) Kozinski 

Trivedi, S. (SS) Tabil 

Voke, E. (RE) Tabil 

Wang, G. (VS) Tabil 

Wang, H. (VS) Niu 

Wickens, C. (SS) Niu 

Yu, Z. (PDF) Guo 

Zaidi, S. (PDF) Wang 

Zhao, X. (VS) Wang 

Note: RE - Research Engineer; PDF - Post-doctoral Fellow; VS - Visiting Scholar; RA – 

Research Associate; SS - Summer Student 


CIVIL AND GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING – LIST OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED 

PERSONNEL 



Abdul Rahman, 

G. 

M.Sc. Berthelot Mechanistic 

Characterization of 

Tire Shred in Roads 

Ahmed, K. M.Sc. Feldman Canadian Masonry 

Design Centre and 

College of 

Engineering, 

Departmental 

Scholarship 

Allen, N. M.Sc. Sparks TBD 

Beauregard, C. M.Sc. Sparling / 

Wegner 

Graduate 

scholarship, NSERC 

Discovery (shared by 

B.Sparling & L. 

Wegner) 

Bell, L. M.Eng. Sharma NSERC IPS with 

Golder Associates 

Saskatoon 

Evaluation of Contact 

and Non-Contact Lap 

Splices in Concrete 

Block Masonry 

Specimens 

Vibration Based 

Damage Detection 

for Timber Bridges 

Elastic parameters of 

a cross-anisotropic 

soil using lateral 

stress oedometer 

Bergerman, M. M.Sc. Haug TBD 

Bullock, P. M.Eng. Sharma NA Suitability of GRS 

system for 

stabilization of steep 

cuts and slopes 

Caughlin, P. M.Eng. Sharma NA Foundation systems 

for hoisting structures 

with large overturning 

moments 

Caurse, L. Ph.D. Barbour / 

Queen's 

University, 

Belfast* 

Influence of climate 

change on long-term 

slope stability 

Chan, J. Technical Berthelot Modeling of 

Staff 

Transport Safety 

Coode, J. M.Sc. Sparks Feasibility of and 

Business Case for 

the Development of a 


Cossette, D. M.Sc. Mazurek 

Debusschere, A. M.Sc. Barbour / Bing 

Si* 

Syncrude and 

Scholarship 

Technology 

Management Centre 

within the Coll. of 

Eng, U of S 

A Comparison of the 

Water Storage 

Capacity of Peat 

Mineral Mixes and 

LFH in Reclamation 

Covers for Coarse 

Textured Soils 

Ebrahimi-Birang, Ph.D. 

N. 

Samarasekera 

Fleming, M. M.Sc. Fleming CONRAD Hydrocarbons in the 

root zone 

Forster, K. M.Sc. Milne 

Foth, M. M.Sc. Berthelot Holistic 

Environmental 

Sustainability Model 

of Alternate Road 

Construction 

Systems 

Fung, K. M.Sc. Berthelot Mechanistic 


HMAC Concrete 

Mixes 

Garner, M. M.Sc. Kells NSERC/Project 

funding (Part time) 

Model Study of the 

Hydraulics Related to 

Fish Passage 

Through Embedded 

Culverts 

Gautam, B. M.Sc. Putz NSERC CRD Grant Modelling streamflow 

in Boreal Shield 

watersheds using 

SWAT 

Gauthier, S. M.Eng. Putz Self funded Modelling sediment 

and phophorus 

export from forested 

watersheds on the 

Boreal Plain 

Guenther, D. M.Sc. Berthelot Mechanistic 


Urban Recycled 


Haichert, R. M.Sc. Berthelot 

Roads 

Mechanistic- 

Chemical 


Recycled Asphalt 

Cement Binders 

Hamilton, C. M.Sc. Hawkes / Milne PCS Research Grant Hydrogeolical 

Investigation of the 

Mabou Siltstone, 

New Brunswick 

Hassan, N. M.Sc. Feldman Departmental 

Scholarship, New 

Faculty Graduate 

Student Support 

Program 

Hendry, M. Ph.D. Barbour University of Alberta 

CRD with CN Rail 

Splice Tests of Plain 

Reinforcing Steel 

The Effects of Cyclic 

Train Loading on the 

Rail-track Structure, 

Embankment and 

Underlying Peat 

Foundation 

Hilderman, J. M.Sc. Barbour S.L. Barbour Net Percolation as a 

Function of 

Topographic 

Variation in a 

Reclamation Cover 

over a Saline-Sodic 

Overburden Dump 

Huang, C. M.Sc. Peng Office of the Vice- 

President Research 

(OVPR), and UofS 

scholarship 

Janfada, A. Ph.D. Barbour Syncrude Canada 

Ltd. 

Jansen, A. M.Sc. Sharma / 

Barbour 

Syncrude Canada 

Limited Sulphur 

Grant 

Phosphorus 

Fractionation in 

Eutrophic Lake 

Sediments Using 

XANES 

Spectroscopy and 

Sequential 

Phosphorus 

Extraction 

An evaluation of 

contaminant loading 

to end pit lakes in the 

oil sands, Syncrude 

Canada Ltd. 

Effect of strong acid 

on geotechnical 

properties of clays 


Keshta, N. Ph.D. Elshorbagy Graduate 

Scholarship/NSERC 

DG 

Toward designing a 

sustainable 

watershed 

reclamation strategy 

Klemmer, S. M.Sc. Milne Research Contract 

with Cameco 

Korbas, T. M.Sc. Fleming CONRAD Hydrocarbon 

degradation and 

mobility in oilsands 

waste 

Larsen, A. M.Sc. Hawkes Petroleum 

Technology 

Research Centre 

Ledding, J. M.Sc. Barbour / Jim 

Hendry* 

Syncrude Canada 

Ltd. and NSERC IPS 

Laboratory 

Investigation of the 

Sealing Properties 

A characterization of 

the flow processes in 

the variably saturated 

fractured porous 

hydrophobic sulphur 

material 

Lewis, H. M.Sc. Fleming Suncor Hydrocarbon Mobility 

from Oilsands 

Tailings 

Li, G. M.Sc. Boulfiza 

Lu, Z. M.Sc. Peng Office of the Vice- 

President Research 

(OVPR), and UofS 

scholarship 

MacLeod, A. M.Sc. Sparling / 

Wegner 

Mahoney, T. M.Sc. Hawkes / Tom 

Kotzer, 

Geological 

Sciences* 

Identify Dominant 

Benzene-Degrading 

Microorganisms 

Using Microbial 

Profiling and 

Synchrotron FTIR 

Spectramicroscopy 

City of Saskatoon Structural health 

research contract and monitoring of the 

NSERC Discovery Victoria Avenue 

Grant 

Bridge 

Petroleum 

Technology 

Research Centre 

Micron Scale 

Analysis of Carbon 

Dioxide - Carbonate 

Mineral Reactions 

Mathison, K. M.Sc. Fleming SALT/Golder Laboratory tests for 

evaluation of organic 

content and methane 

potential of MSW 

McAllister, M. M.Eng. Hawkes Petroleum 

Technology 

Investigation of Lea 

Park Shales in the 


McArthur, T. M.Sc. Kells U. of S. 

Scholarship/Project 

funding/Self 

McClernon, M. Ph.D. Barbour / 

Queen's 

University in 

Belfast* 

Meier, A. M.Sc. Fleming / 

Barbour 

Research Centre Weyburn Oilfield 

using Geophysical 

Logs 

Hudson Bay Mining & 

Smelting, NSERC 

IPS 

Mekonnen, B. Ph.D. Putz / Mazurek Sask. Ministry of 

Environment Grant 

Mukherjee, R. M.Sc. Haug 

Nguyen, T.H. M.Sc. Haug Moir Haug 

Parisien, J. M.Sc. Park TBD 

Parratt, T. M.Sc. Putz / Dr. Ellie 

Prepas, 

Lakehead 

Univ.* 

Podborochynski, 

D. 

Lakehead University 

student, NSERC 

CRD Grant 

A model study of the 

hydraulics related to 

fish passage through 

embedded culverts 

Effect of climate 

cycling on slope 

deformations 

Field-scale trials of 

Geosynthetic 

Capillary Break 

Developing a 

methodology to 

assess cumulative 

flow and pollutant 

loadings in 

Saskatchewan 

watersheds 

Determining the 

importance of riparian 

buffers in fate and 

transport of 

phosphorus 

M.Sc. Berthelot Characterize Cold- 

Mix Black Base 

Recycled Asphalt 

Pavement Structures 

for Saskatoon Urban 

Street Infrastructure 

Prang, C. M.Sc. Berthelot Integration of 

Structural Information 

into an Urban 

Pavement Asset 

System 

Prebble, D. M.Sc. Mazurek / Putz Sask. Ministry of 

Environment Grant 

Estimating non-point 

source loading in the 

Qu'Apelle and South 

Saskatchewan 


watersheds 

Ramadani, T. M.Sc. Boulfiza 

Reid, C. M.Sc. Fleming TransGas Degradation of PHC 

under anaerobic 

denitrifying conditions 

Relland, K. M.Sc. Barbour / 

Three dimensional 

David Hughes* 

hydrogeological 

modeling of till 

drumlins in Northern 

Ireland 

Riben, I. M.Eng. Putz Self funded Statistical 

assessment of the 

effects of buffer 

zones on streamflow 

and water quality 

following tree 

harvesting 

Sahaji, R. M.Sc. Park 

Salewich, C. M.Sc. Sharma / Saskatchewan Mechanism of 

Barbour Department of deformation of a 

Highways and retrogressive 

Transportation landslide near Prince 

Albert 

Sanchez, D. M.Sc. Feldman The Effect of Splice 

Length and Distance 

Between Lapped 

Reinforcing Bars in 

Concrete Block 

Specimens 

Scammell, J. M.Sc. Sharma Saskatchewan Reassessing the 

Watershed Authority stability of Gardiner 

Dam 

Schmid, B. M.Eng. Barbour N/A 

Sekulovic Mac- M.Sc. Feldman NSERC Discovery The Effects of 

Lean, M. 

Grant, Departmental Casting Position and 

Scholarship Bar Shape on the 

Lap Length of Plain 

Steel Bars in 

Concrete Splice 

Specimens 

Serediak, N. Ph.D. Putz / Dr. Ellie Lakehead University Predictive models for 

Prepas, student, NSERC small stream nutrient 

Lakehead CRD Grant exports under 

Univ.* 

mixedwood and 


Sibley, B. M.Sc. Putz NSERC Discovery 

coniferous cover 

types in the Canadian 

Boreal Forest 

Utilization of water 

treatment plant 

residual solids for 

phosphorous control 

Smith, L. Ph.D. Barbour / Jim 

Hendry* 

Hydrogeochemistry 

of Cretaceous Shale 

Aquitards in 

Saskatchewan 

Song, V. Ph.D. Boulfiza 

Stevens, D. M.Sc. Fleming City of Saskatoon Rapid Stabilization of 

MSW and enhanced 

LFG production 

Stone, J. M.Eng. Fredlund / 

Barbour 

unfunded 

Tallon, L. Ph.D. Barbour / Bing 

Si* 

Syncrude and 

Scholarship 

Thomson, J. M.Sc. Hawkes Cameco Research 

Contract 

Spatial and Temporal 

variabity of water and 

energy in mine waste 

cover systems, 

School of the 

Environment and 

Sustainability 

Hydrogeolical 

Investigations for 

Shaft Sinking 

Operations 

Tong, P. M.Eng. Sparling None Calibration of the 

patch load method for 

guyed masts 

Udey, A. M.Sc. Sparling NSERC Discovery, 

Saskatchewan 

Centre for Masonry 

Design 

Usova, N. M.Sc. Fleming Saskatoon Light & 

Power 

Realsitic wind loads 

on unreinforced 

masonry walls 

Numerical Analysis of 

Gas Flow in landfilled 

MSW 

Violot, M. M.Sc. Milne 

Wandzura, C. M.Sc. Berthelot Investigate the use of 

Crushed Concrete as 

an Aggregate Supply 

in Hot Mix Asphalt 

Concrete Mixes 


Wang, Y. Ph.D. Wegner / 

Sparling 

Yang, M. Ph.D. Barbour / 

Howard 

Wheater* / 

Andrew 

Ireson* 

Vibration-based 

damage detection on 

a multi-girder bridge 

superstructure 

Water and salt 

transport dynamics 

TBD in soil covers 

over saline-sodic 

shale at oil sands 

mine sites. 

Durability of flax fibrereinforced 

concrete 

Yaremko, C. M.Sc. Wegner Agricultural 

Development Fund 

Young, J. M.Sc. Park TBD 

Yousif, S. M.Sc. Berthelot Modeling of 

Intelligent 

Transportation 

Systems within 

Alternative Funding 

Mechanisms for 

Public Transportation 

Projects 

Zacaruk, J. Ph.D. Sparling / None Reliability Based 

Feldman 

Service Life 

Prediction of Existing 

and Repaired Bridge 

Structures 

Zettl, J. M.Sc. Barbour S. Lee Barbour Infiltration Testing of 

coarse textured 

layered soils 

Post-Doctoral Fellows, Research Associates and Visiting Scholars 


Agarwal, S. (VS) India Berthelot 

Bews, B. (RE) Barbour 

Coziahr, C. (RA) Park 

Huang, M. (RA) China Barbour 

Khodashenas, S. (VS) Iran Mazurek / Kells 

Kumar, S. (PDF) Putz / E. Prepas - Lakehead University* 

Lahmira, B. (PDF) Barbour 

Latimer, M. (SS) Barbour 

Nazemi, A.R. (PDF) Elshorbagy 


Scale, K. (SS) Fleming 

Sharma, V. (RA) Mazurek 

Soltanzadeh, H. (PDF) Hawkes 

Szabo, A. (SS) Canada Sparling / Sharma 

Tadikonda, V. (PDF) India Sharma 

Watson, B. (PDF) Putz 

Watson, B. (RA) Putz 

Yan, B. (VS) China Kells 

Young, J. (RA) Park 

Zettl, J. (RE) Barbour 

Note: SS – Summer Student; PDF - Post-doctoral Fellow; VS - Visiting Scholar; RA – 

Research Associate; RE – Research Engineer 


ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING – LIST OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED 

PERSONNEL 



Ajami, R. M.Sc. Dinh Self Embedded Network 

Firewall on FPGA 

Aldahami, A. M.Eng. Dinh 

Alferidi, A. M.Sc. Billinton / Karki 

Alzahawi, T. Ph.D. Sachdev / 

Gokaraju 

Andalibi, Z. Ph.D. Nguyen / Salt TRLabs, 

Supervisors 

Babiy, M. M.Sc. Gokaraju NSERC DG, U of S 

Teaching 

Assistantships 

NSERC DG. Design and Implementation 

of a Special Protection 

Scheme for Online Voltage 

Instability Prevention 

Channel Estimation and 

Frequency Synchronization 

in Coded MIMO-OFDM 

Systems 

Turn-to-Turn Fault 

Detection in Transformers 

Using Negative Sequence 

Currents 

Baker, G. M.Sc. Gokaraju Working fulltime 

with Littlefuse 

Startco (Self- 

Supported), 

ARc Flash Detection 

Bakhsh, R. M.Sc. Faried Coordinated Control of Two 

FACTS Controllers for 

Damping Power System 

Oscillations 

Balakrishnan, 

P. 

M.Sc. Wahid 

Ballendine, J. M.Sc. Kasap Anrad Grant Modeling of Time-of-Flight 

Transient Photocurrent in 

a-Se Photoconductors 

Berscheid, B. M.Sc. Nguyen / Salt Self FPGA-Based DOCSIS 

Upstream Demodulation 

Chandrasekar, 

S. 

M.Sc. Gokaraju NSERC DG Short Circuit Models for 

Variable Speed Wind 

Turbine Generators 

Chen, D. Ph.D. Ko NSERC DG Algorithms and 

Architectures for Decimal 


Chen, Z. M.Sc. Teng / Dinh 

Transcendental Function 

Computation 

Droplet Routing for Digital 

Microfluidic Biochips Based 

on Microelectrod Dot Array 

Architecture 

Chow- 

Sawatsky, T. 

Ph.D. Gokaraju NSERC Industrial 

Postgraduate 

Scholarship (IPS). 

U of S Scholarship. 

Coordination of Generator 

Protection with Excitation 

System and Transmission 

Line Controls 

Churko, J. M.Sc. Dinh Supervisor Virtual Environment 

Training for Upper Extreme 

Amputee 

Das, M. M.Sc. Wahid 

Dechka, K. M.Sc. Salt Predistortion to correct for 

imperfections in RF-DAC 

Dhungana, D. M.Sc. Karki 

Duong, X.Q. M.Sc. Nguyen Supervisor Digital Resampling and 

Timing Recovery in QAM 

Systems 

El-Kharbawe, 

N. 

Ph.D. Faried Scholarship and 

Supervisor 

Elsamahy, M. Ph.D. Faried Egyptian 

Goverment 

Scholarship 

Errington, A. Ph.D. Daku Industry 

Parthership 

Fan, L. M.Eng. Chen 

Fentie, D. M.Sc. Gokaraju / 

Faried 

NSERC Industrial 

Postgraduate 

Scholarship with 

Magna Electric 

(IPS-1). U of S 

Scholarship. 

Damping Power System 

Oscillations using Static 

Phase Shifters 

Impacts of Midpoint FACTS 

Controllers on the 

Coordination Between 

Generator Phase Backup 

Protection and Generator 

Capability 

3D Positioning and 

Mapping in Underground 

Mines 

Transient Modeling and 

Protection of the Sen 

Transformer 

Fogal, B. Ph.D. Kasap Supervisor's Grant Characterization of the 

Electrical Properties of a- 

Se Photoconductors for Xray 

Image Detector 


Applications 

Fretz, T. M.Sc. McCrosky / 

Dodds 

Frey, J. M.Sc. Kasap Supervisor's Grant Dark Current in Modern a- 

Se Image Detectors 

Grant, H. M.Sc. Dodds Self Acquisition and Tracking of 

Weak GPS Signals as 

Received by Cellular 

Telephones 

Grant, H. Ph.D. Nguyen / Salt (Topic yet to be 

determined) 

Griffiths, D. M.Sc. McCrosky TRLabs 

Scholarship 

Gyawali, U. Ph.D. Chen / Karki 

Haluzan, D. Ph.D. Klymyshyn / 

Achenbach 

NSERC PGSD, 

TRLabs 

Fellowship, ECE 

Department 

Scholarship, 

NSERC Discovery 

Grants, TRLabs 

Scholarship. 

RF MEMS 

capacitors/switches using 

XRL 

Hashemi, M. Ph.D. Achenbach TSE Solid-State Nanopores 

Electrophoretic Prion 

Detector Fabrication 

Hawkins, W. M.Sc. Daku (Part Time) Investigation of Data 

Fusion Algorithms for an 

Underground In-Mine 

Vehicle Positioning System 

Hosseini, M. Ph.D. Klymyshyn NSERC Discovery 

Grant (D. 

Klymyshyn) 

Islam, A.M. M.Sc. Wahid Hardware Implementation 

of Duabechies Wavelet 

Transforms Using Folded 

AIQ Mapping 

Janbakhsh, M. M.Eng. Dinh 

Jiang, Y. Ph.D. Chen Thesis not completed. 

Jin, X. M.Sc. Ko 

Julius, S. M.Sc. Dinh TRLabs Design and Implementation 

of an ETSI-SDR-OFDM 

Transmitter with Power 

Amplifier Linearizer 


Kalra, V. M.Sc. Dinh / Wahid Self Comparative Analysis of 

H.264 with the Other Video 

Codecs: DIRAC PRO-VC2 

and AVS CHINA-P7 

Kang, D. Ph.D. Gokaraju / 

Chen 

Khan, T.H. Ph.D. Wahid 

Kowalyshen, 

M. 

M.Sc. Kasap / 

Johanson 

Working full-time 

with March 

Consulting (Self- 

Supported). 

Wide-Area Protection: 

Coordination of Zone 3 

Protection 

Photoinduced Dichroism in 

Amorphous As2Se3 Thin 

Films 

Li, S. Ph.D. Daku Optimizing the Location 

Estimate of an Acoustic 

Source Producing a Finite- 

Duration, Small Time- 

Bandwidth Product Signal 

Liu, H. Ph.D. Ko NSERC SPG / 

NSERC DG 

Liu, P. M.Eng. Faried Power System Dynamics 

Liu, X. Ph.D. Klymyshyn NSERC Discovery 

Grant (D. 

Klymyshyn) 

Loi, C.K. M.Sc. Ko Dean''s 

Scholarship / 

NSERC IPS 

Loi, K. Ph.D. Ko 

Maddela, G. M.Sc. Gokaraju Teaching 

Assistantships and 

Self-Supported 

Field-Programmable Gate- 

Array (FPGA) 

Implementation of Low- 

Density Parity-Check 

(LDPC) Decoder in Digital 

Video Broadcasting - 

Risk Assessment of Power 

Systems 

Maingi, G. M.Eng. Karki 

Malhotra, U. M.Sc. Gokaraju NSERC DG, U of S An Adaptive Add-On 

Scholarship. Control System for a 

Unified Power Flow 

Controller 

Martuza, M. M.Sc. Wahid 

Meyer, T. Ph.D. Johanson / 

Kasap 

Mondol 

Ahmed, M. 

Ph.D. Teng High-Performance 

Computing Architecture for 


Mortensen, D. M.Sc. Kasap 

Biological Neural 

Simulations 

Supervisor's Grant Charge Trapping in a-Se 

and Scholarship Based X-ray 

Photoconductors 

Mostafa, A. M.Sc. Wahid / Ko 

Najafee, S.B. Ph.D. Nguyen Spectrum Sensing in 

OFDM-Based Cognitive 

Radio (student studying 

under the Western Deans' 

Agreement from the 

University of Manitoba 

Nguyen, X. Ph.D. Nguyen U of S Scholarship, Cooperative Techniques in 

Supervisor Wireless Communication 

Networks 

Noete (nee M.Sc. Klymyshyn NSERC IPS and High Aspect Ratio 

Schaffer), M. 

TRLabs Fellowship Microstructure Coupler 

Okada, G. Ph.D. Kasap 

Pachai Chettiar M.Sc. 

Sadasivam, K. 

Kasap 

Pajuelo, E. Ph.D. Gokaraju NSERC DG, U of S Co-ordination of Generator 

Scholarship. Protection with Excitation 

Control & Generator 

Capability 

Pan, S. M.Sc. Faried / NSERC DG Damping Power System 

Gokaraju 

Oscillations Using A Phase 

Imbalanced Hybrid Series 

Capacitive Compensation 

Scheme 

Panigrahi, S. M.Sc. Kasap Supervisor's Grant Europium and Samarium 

Doped 

Fluorochlorozirconate 

(FCZ) Glasses for 

Optoelectronics 

Applications: Thermal and 

Optical Properties 

Pham, T.T. Ph.D. Nguyen U of S Scholarship, Wireless Relay Networks 

Supervisor with Imperfect Channel 

State Information 

Pourhaj, P. M.Sc. Teng Scalable Parallel 

Architecture For Biological 

Neural Simulation On 

Hardware Platforms 


Qian, Z. M.Sc. Takaya 

Rai, D. Ph.D. Gokaraju / 

Faried 

NSERC Alexander 

Graham Bell 

Canada Graduate 

Scholarship. 

Rashidian, A. Ph.D. Klymyshyn TRLabs 

Scholarship 

Power System Dynamics 

Enhancement Through 

Phase Unbalanced and 

Adaptive Control Schemes 

in Series FACTS 

X-Ray lithography for batch 

fabrication of polymerbased 

antenna structures 

with improved performance 

characteristics 

Ren, Y. Ph.D. Chen / Karki 

Rowe, M. M.Sc. Dinh 

Salooja, M. PGD Dodds Self 

Sandhu, K. M.Eng. Wahid 

Schneider, J. M.Sc. Teng Adaptive filtering for 

removal of body motion 

artifact in ECG 

Sehgal, P. M.Sc. Sachdev Supervisor 

Shakya, B. M.Sc. Karki / Billinton Reliability Worth Evaluation 

of Power Distribution 

System 

Sharma, P. M.Sc. Gokaraju NSERC DG Stability Analysis of Power 

Systems with Distributed 

Generation 

Shrestha, B. M.Sc. Gokaraju NSERC DG, U of S 

Scholarship. 

Out-of-Step Protection and 

Stability Analysis Using 

State-Plane Analysis 

Shrestha, S. M.Sc. Wahid Hybrid DWT-DCT 

Algorithm for Image and 

Video Compression 

Applications 

Siourounis, M. M.Sc. Daku 

Srinivasan, S. M.Sc. Gokaraju Working full-time 

with Intergraphics 

(Self-Supported). 

A Functional Link Network 

Based Adaptive Power 

System Stabilizer 

Tajallipour, R. M.Sc. Wahid Efficient Data Encoder for 

Endoscopic Imaging 

Applications 

Tayfeh 

Aligodarz, M. 

Ph.D. Klymyshyn TRLabs 

Fellowship, ECE 

Department 

Scholarship, 


NSERC Discovery 

Grant (D. 

Klymyshyn) 

Thapa, S. Ph.D. Karki / Billinton Operating Risk Analysis of 

Wind Integrated Generation 

Systems 

Tran, T. M.Eng. Karki No Thesis Completed. 

Uddin, S. M.Sc. Chen Radiation Hardening of a 

Operational Amplifier 

Ullah, N. M.Eng. Faried 

Unal, I. M.Sc. Faried Damping Power System 

Oscillations Using an 

SSSC-Based Hybrid Series 

Capacitive Compensation 

Scheme 

Voykin, A. M.Eng. Bolton 

Walornyj, M. M.Sc. Kasap 

Wang, G. Ph.D. Teng Field programmable digital 

microfluidics 

Wang, T. Ph.D. Chen / Dinh NSERC PCS & 

Supervisor 

Radiation Tolerant Analog 

Circuits 

Wang, X. Ph.D. Dinh / Teng Biomedical Radar Sensing 

and Sensor 

Communications Using 

Ultra Wideband 

Technology 

Wang, Z. M.Sc. Dinh / Ko 

Windels, N. M.Sc. Teng NSERC IPS Reconfigurable Digital 

Microfluidics Platform 

Architecture Using High- 

Power CMOS Processes 

Xia, X. M.Sc. Teng Body Motion Capture for 

Near-Fall Detection Using 

Wireless Sensor Network 

Yan, X. Ph.D. Chowdhury 

Yang, X. M.Sc. Chen / Dinh Supervisor A Wearable Real-Time 

System for Physical Activity 

Recognition and Fall 

Detection 

Zacharias, D. M.Eng. Gokaraju Self-Supported. Digital Control of Power 

Systems 

Zhang, J. M.Eng. Chen / Karki 


Zhang, Z. Ph.D. Chen / Dinh 

Post-Doctoral Fellows, Research Associates and Visiting Scholars 


Belev, G. (RA) Kasap 

Campbell, D.A. (SS) Achenbach 

Choi, Y. (PDF) Dinh / Shi 

Hui, S.L. (SS) Johanson / Kasap 

Koughia, K. (RA) Kasap 

Nguyen, T.N. (VS) USA Nguyen 

Pelet, E. (PDF) Salt 

Rashidian , A. (PDF) Klymyshyn 

Sivaramakrishnan, R. (VS) Hyderabad, India Gokaraju 

Srinivas, E. (VS) Hyderabad, India Gokaraju 

Subramanian, V. (PDF) Achenbach / Klymyshyn 

Tonchev, D. (RA) Kasap 

Vadlamudi, V.V. (VS) India Karki 

Wells, J.G. (RE) Achenbach / Klymyshyn 

Wyatt, K. (SS) Achenbach 

Note: RE - Research Engineer; PDF - Post-doctoral Fellow; VS - Visiting Scholar; RA – 



MECHANICAL ENGINEERING – LIST OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL 



Abbas, M. M.Sc. Schoenau / 

Burton 

Adesola, A.O. M.Sc. Odeshi Microstructural 

aspects of the 

mechanical 

response of 

Aluminum 2099 

and 6061alloys to 

dynamic shock 

loading 

Akbari, S. M.Sc. Simonson / 

Besant 

NSERC/Venmar CRD 

Grant 

Neural network 

modeling of 

RAMEE 

Akhiani, H. Ph.D. Szpunar NSERC Strategic Zr Alloys For 

Supercritical 

Water 

Environment 

Akon, A. M.Sc. Bugg 

Alvani, S. Ph.D. Fotouhi NSERC/Self Strength of Thinwalled 

Jointed 

Connections using 

Finite Element 

Analysis- a Plastic 

Investigation 

Amanie, J. Ph.D. Oguocha / 

Yannacopoulos 

Amini, M. M.Sc. Szyszkowski / 

Johnston 

Self Effect of 

Submerged Arc 

Welding 

Parameters on the 

Microstructure of 

SA516 and A709 

Steels 

Mechanics and 

Stiffness of the 

Proximal Tibial 

Bone in 

Osteoarthritic 

Conditions: a 

Simulation Study 


Amini, M. Ph.D. Johnston / 

Szyszkowski 

Finite element 

analyses of the 

osteoarthritic joint 

Arafin, M. Ph.D. Szpunar Role of the Grain 

Boundaries and 

Microstructure on 

the Environment 

Assisted Cracking 

of Pipeline Steels 

Armin, A. Ph.D. Fotouhi / 

Szyszkowski 

U of S scholarship/ 

NSERC 

Mechanics of the 

soil-tool interaction 

in robotic assisted 

farming 

Bawolin, N. Ph.D. Chen / Zhang Modeling the 

Time-Dependent 

Mechanical 

Properties of 

Tissue 


Scaffolds 

Beriault, D. M.Sc. Simonson / 

Besant 

NSERC/ Venmar CRD 

Grant 

Membrane 

selection and 

RAMEE prototype 

testing 

Active RAMEE 

Beshr, M.H. Ph.D. Besant / NSERC/ Venmar CRD 

Simonson Grant 

Boire, S.E. Ph.D. Szyszkowski / 

High Power X-ray 

Chapman 

Diffractive Optics 

for Synchrotron 

Biomechanical 

Research 

Cao, L. Ph.D. Zhang 

Cao, Y. Ph.D. Chen Discrete modeling 

of hysteresis and 

sliding mode 

control for 

piezoelectric 

actuators 

Einian, M. Ph.D. Bergstrom / Mechanical 

Large-eddy 

Sumner Engineering Graduate simulation of the 

Scholarship/ 

flow around a 

supervisors 

surface-mounted 

finite square prism 

Eldeeb, R.M. M.Sc. Simonson Dean's Scholarship TRNSYS 


Eslami Samani, 

M. 

Ph.D. Bergstrom Dean's 

Scholarship/supervisor 

modeling of HAMP 

Large eddy 

simulation of flows 

over obstacles 

Farhat, H. Ph.D. Evitts / Oguocha Libya Government 

Fauchoux, M. Ph.D. Simonson / Torvi NSERC DG Heat and moisture 

transfer panel 

Gao, S. M.Sc. Besant / Evitts 

Ghadiri 

Ph.D. Simonson / NSERC/ Venmar CRD Testing single 

Moghaddam, D. 

Besant Grant 

LAMEE panels 

Ghazy, A. Ph.D. Bergstrom Mechanical 

Engineering Graduate 

Gholizadeh, H. Ph.D. Burton / 

Schoenau 

Hall, B. M.Sc. Achenbach / 

Yang 

Heidari Khormizi, 

S. 

Scholarship/ supervisor 

Computational 

models for fire 

flows 

NSERC and CRC MEMS for sensor 

applications 

Ph.D. Fotouhi NSERC/GTF Navigation of 

wheeled mobile 

robot in outdoor 

setting 

Hemingson, H.B. M.Sc. Simonson / 

Besant 

Hossain, S. Ph.D. Bergstrom / 

Chen 

NSERC CGS The Impacts of 

Outdoor Air 

Conditions and 

Non-Uniform 

Exchanger 

Channels on a 

Run Around 

Membrane Energy 

Exchanger 

Computational 

fluid dynamics for 

modeling flow 

through tissue 

scaffolds 

Huang, J. Ph.D. Zhang 

Huang, J. M.Sc. Zhang 

Huenison, H. Ph.D. Lanovaz / Chen Investigation into 

the influence of 

tissue properties 

due to obesity on 

knee joint 

malalignment 


Igbalajobi, A. M.Sc. Sumner / 

Bergstrom 

The effect of a 

splitter plate on 

the flow around a 


finite circular 

cylinder 

Javadian, S. Ph.D. Szpunar Contract Nanostructural 

MgO Coating for 

Special 

Applications 

Kang, D. Ph.D. Chen / Burton abc 

Kuppa, K.S. M.Sc. Besant / Evitts 

Lei, L. M.Sc. Zhang / 

Bergstrom 

Li, J. M.Eng. Chen Project based 

thesis. 

Li, M. Ph.D. Chen Modeling of the 

Dispensing-Based 

Tissue Scaffolds 

Fabrication 

Processes 

Li, W.(. Ph.D. Burton / Habibi Scholarship 

Lin, Y. Ph.D. Burton / Co- 

Supervised with 

Yang Shi* 

Liu, C. M.Sc. Chen / Bugg Fabrication of 

Living Cell 

Scaffolds and 

Visualization with 

SR 

Liu, L. Ph.D. Wu / Zhang NSERC Biological system 

modeling and 

parameter 

estimation 

Mamun, S. M.Eng. Yang NSERC and CRC Processing 

conditions on the 

fabrication of 

diamond nanotips 

Miao, Y. M.Sc. Zhang A New Strain 

Sensor Based on 

Pure CNT Films. 

Moazamigoodarzi, 

N. 

Ph.D. Bergstrom Large eddy 

simulation of finite- 


size particles in a 

turbulent flow 

Modi, S. M.Sc. Zhang 

Mondragon, C.A. M.Sc. Fotouhi NSERC Dynamics and 

Motion Control of 

a Robot 

Manipulator 

Mostaghimi- 

Ghomi, H. 

M.Sc. Odeshi Adiabatic shear 

localization in AISI 

1340 and 4340 

steels: The 

influence of 

microstructure and 

geometry 

Muddada, R. M.Sc. Zhang Supervisor Towards Resilient 

Supply Chain 

Networks. 

Namvar, R. M.Sc. Simonson / 

Besant 

NSERC/ Venmar CRD 

Grant 

Transient LAMEE 

performance 

Nezakat, M. Ph.D. Szpunar NSERC Strategic Stainless Steels 

for Supercritical 

Water 

Environment 

Nguyen, T. M.Eng. Johnston / Prof. 

Saija 

Kontulainen* 

MRI-based 

characterizations 

of hip 

morphometry and 

strength 

Niakan, H. Ph.D. Yang / Szpunar NSERC and CRC Diamond-like 

carbon based 

nanocomposite 

thin films for 

aerospace 

applications 

Onyeka, I. M.Sc. Yang / Prof. A. 

Hirose - Physics 

and Engineering 

Physics* 

Paakkonen (at U 

of Oulu), T. 

NSERC and CRC CVD of 

Nanocrystalline 

diamond thin films 

Ph.D. Simonson CFD modeling of 

heat exchanger 

fouling 

NSERC/ Venmar CRD VOC transfer in 

Besant Grant 

RAMEE system 

Patel, H. M.Sc. Simonson / 

Peng, J. Ph.D. Chen Modeling and 


Preiss, T. M.Sc. Burton / 

Schoenau 

Graduate Scholarship - 

$16,000.00/yr. 

Control of 

Piezoelectric 

Actuators 

Rahman, K. M.Sc. Szpunar 3-d Synchrotron 

Imaging of 

Nucleation and 

Growth of Cracks 

in Aluminum 

Alloys 

Rasouli, M. M.Sc. Simonson NSERC/Venmar CRD 

Grant 

Razavi Tousi, S. Ph.D. Szpunar 

Rezaei, M. PGD Oguocha Self NA 

Rezazadeh, M. Ph.D. Torvi University of 

Saskatchewan Ph.D. 

Graduate Scholarship, 

NSERC 

Riihimaki (at U of 

Oulu), M. 

Ph.D. Simonson NSERC DG (at U of S: 

Feb-May 2010) 

Robson, L. M.Sc. Torvi UofS Scholarship, 

NSERC 

Rostamy, N. Ph.D. Sumner / 

Bergstrom 

Mechanical 

Engineering Graduate 

Scholarship 

Building Energy 

Simulation of a 

Run-Around 

Membrane Energy 

Exchanger 

(RAMEE) 

Fouling of heat 

exchanger 

surfaces 

The near-wake 

structure of a 


finite circular 

cylinder 

Saad, G. Ph.D. Bugg 

Saba, O. M.Sc. Odeshi The effects of heat 

flux and 

temperature on 

the mechanical 

behaviour of fibre 

reinforced epoxy 

matrix composites 

Schenstead, A. M.Sc. Bugg 

Sharbati, E. Ph.D. Szyszkowski Dept. Scholarship (Jan Active control of 


Shen, S. M.Sc. Oguocha / Spiro 

Yannacopoulos* 

1/07 - Dec 31/10) vibrations through 

mass 

configuration 

Self Effects of Welding 

Parameters on 

Mechanical and 

Fatigue Properties 

of Submerged Arc 

Welded HSLA 

Steel Joints 

Shi, W. Ph.D. Zhang / Prof. Li. 

Chen - Electrical 

and Computer 

Engineering* 

Shi, Y. M.Sc. Oguocha Self Effects of cooling 

rate on properties 

of leade-free 

solders 

Soh, T. Ph.D. Szpunar Direct Conversion 

of Nuclear Fission 

Energy into 

Electricity 

Tang, Y. Ph.D. Yang CRC and NSERC Plasma and Ion 

Beam Enhanced 

Chemical Vapour 

Deposition of 

Diamond and 

Diamond-Like 

Carbon 

Umoh, U.B. M.Sc. Szyszkowski / 

Johnston 

Mechanics and 

Stiffness of the 

Distal Radius 

Bone in 

Osteporosis 

Conditions: a 

Simulation Study 

Wang, J. Ph.D. Zhang Supervisor 

Woods, S. M.Sc. Szyszkowski Analysis and 

computer 

simulation of 

optimal vibrations 

of under-actuated 

mechanical 

system 


Yackulic, M.M. M.Sc. Burton / 

Schoenau 

Yan, X. M.Sc. Bergstrom / 

Chen 

Yang, L. Ph.D. Yang Chinese Scholarship 

Council and NSERC 

Yu, M. M.Eng. Besant / Evitts / 

Yang 

Investigation in the 

Application of 

Complex 

Algorithms to 

Recurrent 

Generalized 

Neural Networks 

for Modeling 

Dynamic System. 

Modeling of fluid 

flow in perfusion 

and non-perfusion 

bioreactors 

Transformation of 

carbon nanotubes 

to diamond 

Characterization 

Of Caking Process 

In A Potash Bed 

Yu, M. Ph.D. Zhang / Yang NESERC and CRC CNT thin films for 

sensor 

applications 

Zaman, A. M.Sc. Bergstrom Two-fluid models 

for developing 

gas-particle flows 

in a duct 

Zettl, B.A. Ph.D. Zhang 

Zhan, E.J. M.Sc. Zhang CIHR Fundamental 

Study of 

Measurement of 

Low Concentration 

Hydrogen Sulfide 

in Sera Using 

Carbon Nanotube. 

Zhang, C. Ph.D. Yang Chinese schorship 

council and NSERC 

DLC for 

biomedical 

applications 

Zhang, L. M.Sc. Zhang 

Zhang, L. M.Sc. Yang NESERC and CRC C-B-N thin films 

Zhang, X. PGD Wu 

Zhang, Z. M.Sc. Zhang Modeling and 

Studying of 

Directional Friction 

on the Fully 


Lubricated 

Surface with 

Regular 

Anisotropic 

Asperities 

Zhang, Z. M.Sc. Zhang / Chen Self Modeling and 

Understanding of 

Directional Friction 

on the Fully 

Lubricated 

Surface with 

Regular 

Anisotropic 

Asperities 

Zhao, N.F. M.Eng. Chen Fabrication and 

Characterization 

of Anisotropic- 

Friction Surfaces 

Postdoctoral Fellows, Summer Students, Visiting Scholars, Etc. 


Akhtar, P.M. (VS) India Bergstrom 

Backstrom, K. (VS) Zhang 

Barari, S. (VS) Zhang 

Cheng, L. (PDF) Zhang 

Fu, Y. (VS) Chen 

Gellert, C. (SS) Johnston 

Han, L. (VS) Shi 

Han, L. (PDF) Wu 

Hemingson, H.B. (M.Sc.) 

Hussain, T. (VS) Yang 

LePoudre, P. (VS) Simonson / Besant 

Liu, S. (VS) Chen 

Mahmood, G. (RA) Simonson / Besant 

Muddada, S. (SS) Zhang 

Niwas, S. (PDF) India Zhang 

Pyra, D. (SS) Simonson / Besant 

Robson, L. (SS) Torvi 

Seung Ho, C. (VS) Burton 


Talukdar, P. (VS) India Simonson / Torvi 

Talukdar, P. (VS) Simonson 

Tao, Z. (VS) Zhang 

Vakil, M. (PDF) Canada Nikiforuk / Fotouhi 

Wang, Y. (SS) Johnston 

Note: RE - Research Engineer; PDF - Postdoctoral Fellow; VS - Visiting Scholar; RA - 



PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING PHYSICS – LIST OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED 


PERSONNEL 

Name Degree Supervisor Support Area 

Barua, A. M.Sc. J.P. St. Maurice Supervisor ISAS 

Bassey, B. M.Sc. N. Sidhu Self-funded Med. 

Physics 

Bathgate, A. M.Sc. D. Degenstein Supervisor ISAS 

Bazylewski, P. M.Sc. G.S. Chang GTF/Devolved/ 

Supervisor 

P&EP 

Bertwistle, D. M.Sc. J. Bergstrom CLS 

D. Sanders 

CLS 

Bewer, B. Ph.D. D. Chapman Anatomy & Cell Med. 

Biology 

Physics 

Boots, M. M.Sc. A. Moewes PGS NSERC/GEA/ 

Supervisor 

P&EP 

Boyko, T. Ph.D. A. Moewes PGS NSERC/GEA/ 

Supervisor 

P&EP 

Briand, L. M.Sc. G. Sarty Self-funded Med. 

Physics 

Choudhury, S. M.Sc. A. Moewes GTF/Devolved/ P&EP 

G.S. Chang Supervisor 

Chowdhury, M. Ph.D. J.P. St. Maurice GTF/Devolved/ 

Supervisor 

ISAS 

Crewson, C. M.Sc. C. Ranagacharyulu Supervisor P&EP 

Ding, Y. M.Sc. A. Hirose Equity 

Schol/Supervisor 

PPL 

Elgriw, S. Ph.D. C. Xiao GTF/Devolved/Currie/ PPL 

Supervisor 

Esmailikhadir, S. M.Sc. C. Xiao Supervisor PPL 

Fiori, R. Ph.D. A. Koustov Self-funded ISAS 

Forrest, J. M.Sc. G.S. Chang Devolved/Supervisor P&EP 

Frias, W. Ph.D. A. Smolyakov Devolved/Supervisor PPL 

Ghezelbash, M. M.Sc. A. Koustov Devolved/Supervisor ISAS 

Gillies, M. Ph.D. J.P. St. Maurice Supervisor ISAS 

Gillies, R. Ph.D. G. Hussey Supervisor ISAS 

Green, R. Ph.D. A. Moewes PGS NSERC/GEA/ 

Supervisor 

P&EP 

Hthu, K. M.Sc. A. Hirose Supervisor PPL 

Hubney, M. M.Sc. C. Xiao GTF/Devolved/ 

Supervisor 

PPL 


Hunt, A. Ph.D. A. Moewes PGS NSERC/GEA/ 

Supervisor 

P&EP 

Hunter, D. M.Sc. M. Bradley Supervisor PPL 

Husain, M. M.Sc. G.S. Chang Devolved/Supervisor P&EP 

Huyghebaert, D. M.Sc. K. McWilliams Devolved/Supervisor ISAS 

Iserhienrhien, B. Ph.D. J.P. St. Maurice Supervisor ISAS 

Janzen, D. Ph.D. R. Dick Supervisor P&EP 

Johnson, N. M.Sc. A. Moewes Devolved/Supervisor P&EP 

Kleiv, R. Ph.D. T. Steele Univ. GTF/Supervisor P&EP 

Krueger, K. M.Sc. C. Xiao GTF/Devolved PPL 

Litt, S. Ph.D. A. Smolyakov Devolved/Supervisor PPL 

Liu, Y. M.Sc. A. Hirose GTF/ 

Devolved/Supervisor 

PPL 

McDermott, E. M.Sc. A. Moewes GTF/ 


P&EP 

McLeod, J.A. Ph.D. A. Moewes PGS NSERC/GEA/ 

Supervisor 

P&EP 

McLeod, J.R. M.Sc. M. Bradley Self Funded PPL 

Mori, D. M.Sc. A. Koustov Devolved/Kim/ 

Supervisor 

ISAS 

Muir, D. Ph.D. A. Moewes GTF/Johns/ 


P&EP 

Normand, E. M.Sc. A. Bourassa Equity 

Schol/Supervisor 

ISAS 

Oraji, R. Ph.D. M. Ghezelbash Herzberg Schol. P&EP 

Paul, P. Ph.D. T. Steele Supervisor P&EP 

Perry, G. Ph.D. J.P. St. Maurice Kavadas/Supervisor ISAS 

Purdy, S. Ph.D. M. Bradley GTF/ 


PPL 

Ratzlaff, M. M.Sc. T. Steele Equity P&EP 

Regier, T. Ph.D. J. Tse/D. Jiang CLS CLS 

Rieger, L. M.Sc. A. Bourassa New Faculty Graduate 

Student Funding 

ISAS 

Sadowski, J. M.Sc. K. Tanaka GTF/ 


P&EP 

Sage, F. M.Sc. R. Dick GTF/Supervisor P&EP 

Thalheimer, T. M.Sc. D. Degenstein Devolved/Supervisor ISAS 

Varady, K. M.Sc. A. Smolyakov Supervisor PPL 

Wang, Z. M.Sc. T. Steele Supervisor P&EP 

Wiensz, T. Ph.D. D. Degenstein Univ. GTF/Supervisor ISAS 

Wunderle, K. Ph.D. R. Dick Supervisor P&EP 

Wurtz, W. Ph.D. R. Pywell Supervisor P&EP 

Yang, J. Ph.D. J. Tse Devolved/Hartz/ 

Supervisor 

P&EP 

Zarifi, N. Ph.D. J. Tse Devolved/Supervisor P&EP 



Name Country Area Collaborator 

Li, Y. China PPL A. Hirose 

Liang, Y. P&EP J. Tse 

Liu, D. China PPL A. Hirose 

Onchi, T. Japan PPL A. Hirose 

Xu, X. ISAS A. Manson 

Tang, Y. China PPL A. Hirose 



DECEMBER 2011 

PART IV DIVISION / DEPARTMENT LISTS OF PUBLICATIONS

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING – LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 




DIVISION OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING – LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 




CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING – LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 

Refereed Journal Publications 

Abbaslou, R.M., Soltan, J. and Dalai, A.K. (2011). Iron catalyst supported on carbon 

nanotubes for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis: Effects of Mo promotion, Journal of Fuel, 90, 

1139-1144. 

Adapa, P.K., Tabil, L.G. and Schoenau, G.J. (2010). Compression characteristics of 

non-treated and steam exploded barley, canola, oat and wheat straw grinds, Applied 

Engineering in Agriculture, 26(4), 1-16. 

Adapa, P.K., Tabil, L.G. and Schoenau, G.J. (2011). Grinding performance and physical 

properties of non-treated and steam exploded barley, canola, oat and wheat straw, 

Biomass and Bioenergy, 35, 549-561. 

Adapa, P.K., Tabil, L.G., Schoenau, G.J. and Opoku, A. (2010). Pelleting characteristics 

of selected biomass with and without steam explosion pretreatment, International 

Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, 3(3), 62-79. 

An, S., Stone, H. and Nemati, M. (2011). Biological removal of nitrate by an oil reservoir 

culture capable of autotrophic and heterotrophic activities: Kinetic evaluation and 

modeling of heterotrophic process, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 190(1-3), 686-693. 

Available online at: http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2011.03.102 

Boahene, P.E., Soni, K., Dalai, A.K. and Adjaye, J. (2011). Hydrotreating of coker light 

gas oil on Ti-modified HMS supports using Ni/HPMo catalysts, Applied Catalysis B: 

Environmental, 101(3-4), 294-305. 

Chang, J., Lin, Y., Huang, L. and Duan, K. (2011). The effect of fermentation 

configuration and FAN supplementation on ethanol production from sorghum grains 

under very-high-gravity fermentation, J Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers, 42, 1-4. 

Dadgar, S., E. S. Lee, T. L. V. Leer, T. G. Crowe, H. L. Classen and P. J. Shand. 

(2011). Effect of acute cold exposure, age, sex and lairage on broiler breast meat 

quality. Poultry Science, 90, 444-457. 

Dalai, A.K. and Bassi, A. (2010). Bioenergy and Green Engineering. Preface, Energy & 

Fuels, 24(9), 4627-4627. 


Deep, A., K. Schwean-Lardner, T. G. Crowe, B. I. Fancher and H. L. Classen. (2010). 

Effect of light intensity on broiler production, processing characteristics and welfare. 

Poultry Science, 89, 2326-2333. 

Godwin, J. and Evitts, R.W. (2010). Polypyrrole/poly(methylene blue) Composite 

Electrode Films on Stainless Steel, Electrochem. Soc. Trans, 33(27), 181-188. 

Guzman-Perez, C., Soltan, J. and Robertson, J. (2011). Kinetics of Catalytic Ozonation 

of Atrazine in the Presence of Activated Carbon, Separation and Purification 

Technology, 79, 8-14. 

Hasan, N.S.M. and Peng, D. (2010). Excess Molar Enthalpies of Di-n-propyl ether + Din-butyl 

ether + (1-Hexene or Tetrahydrofuran) at 298.15 K., Journal of Chemical and 

Engineering Data, 56(4), 946-950. 

Hasan, N.S.M. and Peng, D. (2011). Excess molar enthalpies of ternary mixtures (1hexene+tetrahydrofuran+2,2-dimethylbutane 

or 2,3-dimethylbutane) at the temperature 

298.15 K., Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 43(3), 323-328. 

Hasan, N.S.M. and Peng, D. (2011). Excess molar enthalpies of ternary mixtures 

(dibutyl ether or dipropyl ether + 2,2-dimethylbutane + 2,3-dimethylbutane) at the 

temperature 298.15 K., Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 43(9), 1355-1360. 

Headley, J.V., Peru, K.M., Mishra, S., Meda, V., Dalai, A.K., McMartin, D.W., Mapolelo, 

M.M., Rodgers, R.P. and Marshall, A.G. (2010). Characterization of oil sands 

naphthenic acids treated with ultraviolet and microwave radiation by negative ion 

electrospray Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry, Rapid 

Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 24, 3121-3126. 

Issariyakul, T. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Biodiesel production from greenseed canola oil, 

Energy & Fuels, 24(9), 4652-4658. 

Issariyakul, T., Dalai, A.K. and Desai, P. (2010). Evaluating esters derived from mustard 

oil (Sinapis alba) as potential diesel additives, J American Oil Chemists Society, 88(3), 

391-391. 

Kashaninejad, M. and Tabil, L.G. (2011). Effect of microwave-chemical pretreatment on 

compression characteristics of biomass grinds, Biosystems Engineering, 108, 36-45. 

Kashaninejad, M., Maghsoudlou, Y., Khomeiri, M. and Tabil, L.G. (2010). Resistance to 


airflow through bulk pistachio nuts (Kalleghochi variety) as affected by moisture content, 

airflow rate, bed depth and fill method, Powder Technology, 203(2), 359-364. 

Kumar, P., Nikakhtari, H., Nemati, M. and Hill, G.A. (2010). Oxidation of phenol in a 

bioremediation medium using chlorine dioxide., Journal of Chemical Technology and 

Biotechnology, 85(5), 720-725. Available online at: 

http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1002/jctb.2366 

Lin, Y., Chien, W., Duan, K. and Chang, P. (2011). Effect of aeration timing and interval 

during very-high-gravity ethanol fermentation, Process Biochemistry, 46, 1025-1028. 

Liu, C., Lin, Y. and Bai, F. (2011). Ageing vessel configuration for continuous redox 

potential-controlled very-high-gravity fermentation, J Bioscience and Bioengineering, 

111, 61-66. 

Liu, C., Lin, Y. and Bai, F. (2011). Development of redox potential-controlled schemes 

for very-high-gravity fermentation, J Biotechnology, 153, 42-47. 

Malek Abbaslou, R.M., Soltan, J. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Effects of nanotubes pore size 

on the catalytic performances of iron catalysts supported on carbon nanotubes for 

Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, Applied Catalysis A: General, 379, 129-134. 

Malek Abbaslou, R.M., Tavasoli, A., Soltan, J. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Effects of carbon 

concentration in the precursor gas on the quality and quantity of carbon nanotubes 

synthesized by CVD method., Applied Catalysis A: General, 372, 147-152. 

Mapiour, M., Sundaramurthy, V., Dalai, A.K. and Adjaye, J. (2010). Effects of hydrogen 

partial pressure on hydrotreating of heavy gas oil derived from oil-sands bitumen: 

Experimental and kinetics, Energy & Fuels, 24(2), 772-784. 

Mapiour, M.L., Sundaramurthy, V. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Effects of the operating 

variables on hydrotreating of heavy gas oil: Experimental, Modeling, and Kinetic 

Studies, Fuel, 89, 2536-2543. 

Mishra, S., Meda, V., Dalai, A.K., Headley, J.V., Peru, K.M. and McMartin, D.W. (2010). 

Microwave treatment of naphthenic acids in water, Journal of Environmental Science 

and Health, Part-A, 45, 1240-1247. 

Mishra, S., Meda, V., Dalai, A.K., McMartin, D.W., Headley, J.V. and Peru, K.M. (2010). 

Photocatalysis of Naphthenic Acids in Water, Journal of Water Resource and 


Protection, 2(7), 644-650. 

Mohapatra, D., Mishra, S. and Meda, V. (2010). Plantains and their postharvest uses: 

On overview. Stewart Postharvest: Review, International Journal for Reviews in Postharvest 

Technology biology and Technology; Stewart Post harvest Review, 5(5), 1-11. 

Monnier, J., Sulimma, H., Caravaggio, G. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Hydrodeoxygenation 

of oleic acid and canola oil over alumina-supported metal nitrides., Applied Catalysis A: 

General, 382, 176-180. 

Mosqueda, M.R. and Tabil, L.G. (2011). Drying characteristics and lysine content of 

wheat distiller's grain with solubles under three drying methods, Drying Technology, 

29(7), 797-807. 

Mungroo, R., Goud, V.V., Pradhan, N.C. and Dalai, A.K. (2011). Modification of 

epoxidized canola oil for lubricant formulations, Special Theme Review, Asia-Pacific 

Journal of Chemical Engineering, 6, 14-22. 

Naik, S., Goud, V.V., Rout, P.K. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Supercritical CO2 fractionation 

of bio-oil produced from wheat-hemlock biomass, Bioresource Technology, 101(19), 

7605-7613. 

Naik, S., Goud, V.V., Rout, P.K., Jacobson, K. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Characterization 

of Canadian biomass for alternative renewable biofuel., Renewable Energy, 35(8), 

1624-1631. 

Nie, X.D., Evitts, R.W., Besant, R.W. and Bolster, J. (2011). A New Technique to 

Determine Convection Coefficients with Flow through Particle Beds, Journal of Heat 

Transfer, 133(4), 1-8. 

Nikakhtari, H., Kumar, P., Nemati, M. and Hill, G.A. (2010). Scale up of diesel oil 

biodegradation in a baffled roller bioreactor, Chemosphere, 79(10), 1010-1016. 

Available online at: http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2010.03.001 

Opoku, A., Tabil, L.G., Wang, G., Asbil, W., Broadbent, B. and Crerar, B. (2010). 

Mechanical compression for the disinfestation of Hessian fly puparia in timothy hay: 

effects of pressure, storage time and hay properties, Applied Engineering in Agriculture, 

26(5), 909-917. 

Pathak, K., Reddy, M.K. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Catalytic conversion of glycerol to value 


added liquid products, Applied Catalysis A: General, 372(2), 224-238. 

Peng, D. and Hasan, N.S.M. (2011). Comment on "Isobaric (vapour + liquid) equilibria 

for the (1-propanol + 1-butanol) binary mixture at (53.3 and 91.3) kPa"., Journal of 

Chemical Thermodynamics, 43(3), 511-513. 

Pickett, W., A.G. Day, L. Hagel, X. Sun, L. Day, B. Marlenga, R.J. Brison, P. Pahwa, 

T.G. Crowe, D. Voaklander and J. Dosman. (2011). Socioeconomic status and injury in 

a cohort of Saskatchewan farmers. The Journal of Rural Health, 27, 245-254. 

Pinder, S.D., T.G. Crowe and P.N. Nikiforuk. (2011). Experimental testing of parametricmodel-based 

takeoff performance monitoring strategy. Journal of Aircraft, 48, 56-65. 

Powell, E.E., Bolster, J., Evitts, R.W. and Hill, G.A. (2011). Microbial Fuel Cell With a 

Photosynthetic Microalgae Cathodic Half Cell Coupled to a Yeast Anodic Half Cell, 

Energy Sources Part A: Recovery Utilization and Environmental Effects, 33(5), 440-448. 

Shrestha, B. and Baik, O. (2010). THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY, SPECIFIC HEAT, AND 

THERMAL DIFFUSIVITY OF SAPONARIA VACCARIA SEED PARTICLES, 

TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASABE, 53(5), 1717-1725. 

Siaotong, B.A.C., Tabil, L.G., Panigrahi, S. and Crerar, B. (2010). Extrusion 

compounding of flax fiber-reinforced polyethylene composites: effects of fiber content 

and extrusion parameters, Journal of Natural Fibers, 7(4), 289-306. 

Soni, K., Boahene, P.E. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Hydrotreating of gas oil on Ti-HMS 

supported heteropolyacid catalysts, American Chemical Society, 55(2), 43-44. 

Soni, K., Boahene, P.E., Mouli, K.C., Dalai, A.K. and Adjaye, J. (2011). Hydrotreating of 

coker light gas oil on Ti-HMS supported heteropolytungstic acid catalysts, Applied 

Catalysis A: General, 398, 27-36. 

Soni, K., Mouli, K.C., Dalai, A.K. and Adjaye, J. (2010). Influence of frame connectivity 

of SBA-15 and KIT-6 supported NiMo catalysts for hydrotreating of gas oil., Catalysis 

Letters, 136(1-2), 116-125. 

Srilatha, K., Issariyakul, T., Lingaiah, N., Prasad, P.S., Kozinski, J. and Dalai, A.K. 

(2010). Efficient esterification and transesterification of used cooking oil using 12- 

Tungstophosphoric acid (TPA)/Nb205 catalyst, Energy & Fuels, 24(9), 4748-4755. 

Surisetty, V.R., Dalai, A.K. and Kozinski, J. (2010). Alkali-promoted trimetallic Co-Rh- 


Mo sulfide catalysts for higher alcohols synthesis from synthesis gas: Comparison of 

MWCNT and activated carbon supports, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 

49, 6956-6963. 

Surisetty, V.R., Dalai, A.K. and Kozinski, J. (2010). Effect of Rh promoter on MWCNTsupported 

alkali-modified MoS2 catalysts for higher alcohols synthesis from CO 

hydrogenation., Applied Catalysis A: General, 381(1-2), 282-288. 

Surisetty, V.R., Dalai, A.K. and Kozinski, J. (2010). Intrinsic reaction kinetics of higher 

alcohols synthesis from synthesis gas over sulfided alkali-promoted Co-Rh-Mo 

trimetallic catalyst, Energy & Fuels, 24, 4130-4137. 

Surisetty, V.R., Dalai, A.K. and Kozinski, J. (2010). Synthesis of higher alcohols from 

synthesis gas over Co-promoted alkali-modified MoS2 catalysts supported on 

MWCNTs, Applied Catalysis A: General, 385, 153-162. 

Surisetty, V.R., Dalai, A.K. and Kozinski, J. (2011). Influence of porous characteristics of 

the carbon support on alkali-modified trimetallic Co-Rh-Mo sulfided catalysts for higher 

alcohols synthesis from synthesis gas, Applied Catalysis A: General, 393(1-2), 50-58. 

Surisetty, V.R., Hu, Y.F., Dalai, A.K. and Kozinski, J. (2010). Structural characterization 

and catalytic performance of alkali (K) and metal (Co and Rh)-promoted MoS2 catalysts 

for higher alcohols synthesis, Applied Catalysis A: General, 392(1-2), 166-172. 

Tang, K., An, S. and Nemati, M. (2010). Evaluation of autotrophic and heterotrophic 

processes in biofilm reactors used for removal of sulphide, nitrate and COD, 

Bioresource Technology, 101(21), 8109-8118. Available online at: 

http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2010.06.037 

Tavasoli, A., Trepanier, M., Dalai, A.K. and Abatzoglou, N. (2010). Effects of 

confinement in carbon nanotubes on the activity, selectivity, and lifetime of Fischer- 

Tropsch Co/Carbon nanotube catalysts, J Chemical & Engineering Data, 55, 2757- 

2763. 

Trepanier, M., Dalai, A.K. and Abatzoglou, N. (2010). Synthesis of CNT-supported 

cobalt nanoparticle catalysts using a microemulsion technique: Role of nanoparticle size 

on reducibility, activity, and selectivity in Fischer-Trophsch reactions., Applied Catalysis 

A: General, 374, 79-86. 

Tripathy, A., Meda, V. and Panigrahi, S. (2010). Effect of Drying Methods on the 


Physical and Structural Changes in Oil-Seed Flax Fiber, SAE International Journal of 

Commercial Vehicles, 3(1), 284-297. Available online at: 

http://saecomveh.saejournals.org/content/3/1/284.abstract 

Wang, H., Wang, D.M. and Chuang, K.T. (2011). A Sulfur Removal and Disposal 

Process through H2S Adsorption and Regeneration: Breakthrough Behaviour 

Investigation, Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 89, 53-60. 

Yu, Z., Guo, H. and Lague, C. (2010). Livestock Odor Dispersion Modeling: A Review, 

Transactions of the ASABE, 53(4), 1231-1244. 

Yu, Z., Guo, H. and Lague, C. (2011). Development of a Livestock Odour Dispersion 

Model (LODM): Part I. Model Theory and Development, Journal of The Air And Waste 

Management Association, 61(March), 269-276. 

Yu, Z., Guo, H. and Lague, C. (2011). Development of a Livestock Odour Dispersion 

Model (LODM): Part II. Evaluation and Validation, Journal of The Air And Waste 

Management Association, 61(March), 277-284. 

Refereed Conference Proceedings 

Boahene, P.E., Soni, K., Dalai, A.K. and Adjaye, J. (2011). Application of FeW catalysts 

for hydroprocessing of heavy gas oil: Effect of different supports., 241st American 

Chemical Society, Division of Petroleum Chemistry, New Orleans, USA, January 27-31, 

Paper No. 55 (2). 

Bryan, M. A., K. S. Schwartzkopf-Genswein, T. G. Crowe, L. González and J. Kastelic. 

2010. Effect of cattle liner microclimate on core body temperature and shrink in market 

weight heifers. Journal of Animal Science. 88 (E-Suppl 2): 20 (abstract). 

Burlinguette, N. A., M. L. Strawford, J. M. Watts, K. P. C. Hui, T. G. Crowe, H. L. 

Classen and P. J. Shand. 2010 (Invited). Thermal conditions within B-train trailers 

transporting broiler chickens in Western Canada. Poultry Science. 89 (Suppl. 1): 802 

(abstract). 

Dadgar, S., H. L. Classen, T. G. Crowe and P. J. Shand. (2010). Exploring the 

biochemical basis of DRD in broiler breast and thigh meat. Poultry Science. 89 (Suppl. 

1): 366 (abstract). 

Deep, A., K. Schwean-Lardner, T. G. Crowe, B. I. Fancher and H. L. Classen. (2010). 

Impact of light intensity on broiler biological rhythms and welfare. Poultry Science. 89 

(E-Suppl 1): 522 (abstract). 


Emami, S., Meda, V., Tyler, R.T. and Pickard, M. (2010). Impact of micronization on 

rapidly digestible, slowly digestible and resistant starch concentrations in normal, highamylose 

and waxy barleys., 5th International Technical Symp on Food Processing, 

Monitoring Tech in Bioprocesses and Food Quality Management, Co, Potsdam, Berlin, 

Germany, August 29- Sept 2, (CD Rom). 

Goldhawk, C., E. Janzen, L. González, T. G. Crowe, J. Kastelic, E. Pajor and K. 

Schwartzkopf-Genswein. (2010). Temperature during summer transport of Canadian 

feeder cattle at high and low loading densities. Journal of Animal Science. 88 (E-Suppl 

2): 318 (abstract). 

Goldhawk, C. E. Janzen, L. A. Gonzá, T. G. Crowe, J. Kastelica and K. Schwartzkopf- 

Genswein. 2011. Predicting internal trailer THI based on space allowance and ambient 

THI during transport of fall-weaned beef calves. Canadian Journal of Animal Science. 

91: 506 (abstract). 

Greer, T., K. Schwartzkopf-Genswein, T. G. Crowe and L. A. Gonzá. 2011. The effect of 

transport distance on cattle liner microclimate, live weight loss and carcass quality of 

finished heifers during summer transport. Canadian Journal of Animal Science. 91: 512 

(abstract). 

Schwartzkopf-Genswein, K. S., L. A. González and T. G. Crowe. (2010). Cattle 

transport in North America – Current welfare research and future directions. Journal of 

Animal Science. 88 (E-Suppl 2): 802-803 (abstract). 

Soni, K., Boahene, P.E., Dalai, A.K. and Adjaye, J. (2011). Application of different 

mesoporous supported Ni2P catalysts for the hydrotreatment of coker light gas oil., 

241st American Chemical Society, Division of Petroleum Chemistry, New Orleans, USA, 

January 27-31, Paper No. 55 (2). 

Watts, J. M., L. J. Graff, M. L. Strawford, T. G. Crowe, N. A. Burlinguette, H. L. Classen 

and P. J. Shand. (2010). Heat and moisture production in broilers during simulated 

winter transport. Poultry Science. 89 (Suppl. 1): 522-523 (abstract). 

Non-refereed Conference Proceedings 

Bolster, J., Evitts, R.W. and Besant, R.W. (2011). Moisture Transfer with Silica Gel 

Agglomerate Coating, 5th International Granulation Workshop and Conference, 

Lausanne, Switzerland, June 20 - 22, (6 pages) (CD Rom). 

Gao, S., Besant, R.W. and Evitts, R.W. (2011). Experimental Study on the Hygroscopic 


Relationship to Fracture Strength of Potash Particulate Test Specimens, 5th 

International Granulation Workshop and Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 20 - 

22, (6 pages) (CD Rom). 

Mosqueda, M.R.P., Tabil, L.G., Rentsen, B. and Opoku, A. (2010). Drying 

Characteristics of Wheat Distillers Grains with Solubles Under Three Methods, 

ASABE/CSBE North Central Intersectional Conference, South Dakota State University, 

Brookings, SD, September 18-19, Paper No. SD09-902. 

Nie, X.D., Evitts, R.W. and Besant, R.W. (2011). Salt Deposit at Particle Contact Points, 

5th International Granulation Workshop and Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 

20 - 22, (6 pages) (CD Rom). 

Conference Presentations / Poster Presentations 

Azargohar, R. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Study the effects of operating conditions on 

supercritical CO2 extraction process of dehydrated bio-oil., Oral presentation at the 60th 

Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Saskatoon SK, Canada, October 24-27. 

Baroi, C. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Biodiesel production using solid acid catalysts, 60th 

Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Saskatoon, SK, Octobr 24-27, 2010. 

Baroi, C. and Dalai, A.K. (2011). Biodiesel Production Using Solid Acid Catalysts, 

Presentation at the North American Catalysis Society Conference, Detroit, June 5-10. 

Baroi, C., Issariyakul, T., Kalaru, S., Jacobson, K. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Biodiesel 

production using soild acid catalysts, Nanocatalysis for Fuels and Chemicals, 

Pacifichem 2010, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 15-20, 2010, Paper No. 481. 

Biswas, P. and Dalai, A.K. (2011). Catalytic performance of NiMo/Zr-SBA-15 catalyst for 

the hydrotreating of bitumen derived heavy gas oil, University of Alberta Oilsands 

Conference 2011, Edmonton, AB, February 22-24. 

Biswas, P., Dalai, A.K. and Adjaye, J. (2010). Hydrotreating activity study of NiMo/Zr- 

SBA-15 catalyst using bitumen derived HGO, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering 

Conference, Saskatoon, SK, Octobr 24-27, 2010. 

Boahene, P. and Dalai, A.K. (2011). Synthesis, characterization and catalytic 

performance evaluation of different pore diameter SBA-15-supported FeW catalysts of 

heavy gas oil hydrotreatment, 22nd North American Meeting, Detroit, USA, June 5-10, 

2011. 


Boahene, P.E., Dalai, A.K. and Adjaye, J. (2010). Application of different pore diameter 

SBA-15 catalyst supports for heavy gas oil hydrotreatment using Fe-W catalyst, 

Nanocatalysis for Fuels and Chemicals, Pacifichem 2010, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 

15-20, 2010, Paper No. 504. 

Boahene, P.E., Dalai, A.K. and Adjaye, J. (2010). Application of Fe-W catalysts for 

hydroprocessing of heavy gas oil: effect of using different supports, 60th Canadian 

Chemical Engineering Conference, Saskatoon, SK, Octobr 24-27, 2010. 

Boahene, P.E., Soni, K., Dalai, A.K. and Adjaye, J. (2011). Application of FeW catalysts 

for hydroprocessing of heavy gas oil: Effect of different supports, 241st ACS National 

Meeting & Exposition, Anaheim, CA, USA, March 27-31, 2011. 

Bolster, J., Evitts, R.W. and Besant, R.W. (2010). Silica Gel Conglomerates Used for a 

Novel Desiccant Coating, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, 

Saskatoon, SK, October 24th - 28th. 

Choudhary, O., Kotikalapudi, C.M. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Hydrogenation and ring 

opening of heavy molecules in light gas oil over Pt/Al-SBA-15 Catalysts, 60th Canadian 


Crowe, T. G., H. L. Classen, P. J. Shand and M. L. Strawford. 2011. Recent Research 

in Poultry Transportation. Ontario Fitness for Transport Committee. Skype. Saskatoon, 

SK. June 2. 

Daalkhaijav, U. and Nemati, M. (2011). Biological removal of ammonia from 

wastewaters using conventional and microbial fuel cell type bioreactors, World Water 

Day - Student and Young Professional Workshop (Canadian Water Resources 

Association and UofS), Saskatoon, 22 March. 

Dadgar, S. H. L. Classen, T. G. Crowe and P. J. Shand. (2010). Recent research in 

poultry transport. Canadian Meat Council Technical Symposium of Animal Care and 

Handling. Toronto, ON. Sept 29- Oct 1. 

Dadgar, S., M. L. Strawford, J. M. Watts, H. L. Classen, T. G. Crowe and P. J. Shand. 

(2011). Poultry transportation challenges during cold winter. Association des 

veterinaires en industrie animale (AVIA). Montreal, QC. Feb 23. 

Dadgar. S, J. M. Watts, M. L. Strawford, N. A. Burlinguette, H. L. Classen, P. J. Shand 

and T. G. Crowe. 2011. Poultry Transportation Challenges during Saskatchewan 


Winter. Presented to Staff at Prairie Pride (Saskatoon, SK.) and Lilydale (Wynyard, SK.) 

June 28 and 29. 

Dalai, A.K. (2011). Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences 

and Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemisytu, Shanxi Normal 

University, April 28-29. 

Dalai, A.K. (2011). Development of Iron and Cobalt Supported Carbon Nano-tubes: 

Promising Novel Fischer-tropsch Catalysis for Liquid Fuels, Presented at the Petroleum 

University, Champion, Beijing, School of Chemical Engineering, Tianjon University, 

Tianjin, April 25-26. 

Dalai, A.K., Adjaye, J. and Mapiour, M.L. (2010). Application of sulphur-promoted nitride 

NiMo/F03cAF052O3 on hydroprocessing of light gas oil, 60th Canadian Chemical 

Engineering Conference, Saskatoon, SK, Octobr 24-27, 2010. 

Dalai, A.K., Azargohar, R. and Shewchuk, S.R. (2010). Application of activated carbons 

prepared from biochar for soil amendment and crop yield improvement, 60th Canadian 


Dasila, P., Kotikalapudi, C.M. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Lumped kinetics of the 

hydrocracking process and the effect of the modified NH4Y zeolites on the cracking of 

LGO, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Saskatoon, SK, Octobr 24-27, 


Donald, J., Azargohar, R., Dalai, A.K. and Xu, C. (2010). Conversion of lignocellulosic 

materials in hot-compressed and sub/supercritical water to fermentable sugars, 60th 


Gao, S., Besant, R.W. and Evitts, R.W. (2010). Caking in Potash Fertilizers is a 

Problem Caused Primarily by Water Absorption, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering 

Conference, Saskatoon, SK, October 24th - 28th. 

Gao, S., Evitts, R.W. and Besant, R.W. (2010). Simulation of Potash Cake Strength by 

Discrete Element Method, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, 


Godwin, J. and Evitts, R.W. (2010). Polypyrrole/poly(methylene blue) Composite Films 

on Steel Electrodes, 218th ECS Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, USA, October 10 - 15. 


Godwin, J. and Evitts, R.W. (2010). Polypyrrole/poly(methylene blue) Composite Films 

on Steel Electrodes, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Saskatoon, SK, 

October 24th - 28th. 

Guzman-Perez, C., Robertson, J. and Soltan, J. (2010). Comparison of ozonation 

processes catalyzed by alumina and activated carbon for the removal of Atrazine in 

water, The 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, 

October 24-27. 

Hasan, N.S.M. and Peng, D. (2010). Excess Molar Enthalpies of Ternary Mixtures 

Involving Ethers and Alkanes at the Temperature 298.15 K., 60th Canadian Society for 

Chemical Engineering Conference, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Oct. 24-27. 

Huang, J., Nemati, M. and Hill, G.A. (2010). Bioremediation of naphthenic acids in a 

circulating-bed bioreactor, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, 

Saskatoon, Canada, 24-27 October, Paper No. 113ENV4. 

Huang, J., Nemati, M., Hill, G.A. and Headley, J.V. (2011). Batch and continuous 

bioremediation of waters contaminated with naphthenic acids, World Water Day - 

Student and Young Professional Workshop (Candian Water Resources Association and 

UofS), Saskatoon, 22 March. 

Huang, J., Nemati, M., Hill, G.A. and Headley, J.V. (2011). Biotreatment of linear and 

cyclic naphthenic acids in a circulating packed bed bioreactor, OILSANDS 2011, 

Edmonton, AB, 22-24 February. 

Issariyakul, T. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Kinetics of transesterification of palm oil, 60th 


Jacobson, K. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Valorization of bio-oil from maple sawdust, 60th 


Jacobson, K., Mapiour, M., Azargohar, R., Ding, N., Tilay, A. and Dalai, A.K. (2011). 

Wood pyrolysis oil upgrading via solvent extraction and hydroprocessing, Poster 

presentation, AUTO21 2011 Conference, Windsor, ON, Canada, May 25-28. 

Kennell, G.F. and Evitts, R.W. (2010). Beyond Dilute Solution Theory, 60th Canadian 

Chemical Engineering Conference, Saskatoon, October 24th - 28th. 

Kennell, G.F. and Evitts, R.W. (2010). Multi-component Multi-dimensional Transport of 


Charge and Mass with Corresponding Electric Field, 218th ECS Meeting, Las Vegas, 

NV, USA, October 10 - 15. 

Kotikalapudi, C.M., Dalai, A.K. and Adjaye, J. (2010). Hydrodesulphurization and 

hydrodenitrogenation of gas oils derived from Athabasca bitumen over Ni-Mo/ZrTi-SBA- 

15 catalysts, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Saskatoon, SK, Octobr 

24-27, 2010. 

Li, J. and Wang, H. (2010). Kinetics Study of the Bunsen Reaction for Hydorgen 

Production from H2S, 60th CSChE Conference, Saskatoon, SK, October 24-27. 

Li, J. and Wang, H. (2011). Hydrogen Production from Hydrogen Sulfide via a Chemical 

Splitting Cycle for Sustainable Oil Sand Bitumen Upgrading: Bunsen Reaction in 

presence of Organic Solvent, Oilsands 2011, Edmonton, AB, February 22-15. 

Lin, Y. (2010). Chen-Guang Liu, Yen-Han Lin, and Feng-Wu Bai "Growth characteristics 

of Saccharomyces cerevisiae under redox potential-controlled very-high-gravity 

conditions",, The 13th Asia Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering Congress, 

Taipei, Taiwan, Oct 5-8. 

Lin, Y. (2010). Chen-Guang Liu, Yen-Han Lin, and Feng-Wu Bai, "Kinetic modeling of 

redox potential-controlled very-high-gravity fermentation",, The 13th Asia Pacific 

Confederation of Chemical Engineering Congress, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct 5-8. 

Lin, Y. (2010). Sijing Feng and Yen-Han Lin "Redox potential driven yeast 

synchronization during high gravity ethanol fermentation",, Canadian Chemical 

Engineering Conference, Saskatoon, Sk, Oct 24-27. 

Liu, C., Lin, Y. and Bai, F. (2011). Process Design for Continuous Very-High-Gravity 

Ethanol Fermentation, Asian Congress on Biotechnology, Shanghai, China, May 11 - 

15. 

Malek Abbaslou, R.M., Soltan, J. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Kinetic study of promoted iron 

catalysts supported on carbon nanotubes for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, Nanocatalysis 

for Fuels and Chemicals, Pacifichem 2010, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 15-20, 2010. 

Malek Abbaslou, R.M., Soltan, J. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Promoted iron nano-catalysts 

for conversion of biosyngas to liquid fuels, Nanocatalysis for Fuels and Chemicals, 

Pacifichem 2010, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 15-20, 2010, Paper No. 441. 


Mapiour, M.L., Sundaramurthy, V., Dalai, A.K. and Adjaye, J. (2010). Application of 

sulphur-promoted nitride NiMo/cA2O3 on hydroprocessin of light gas oil, 60th Canadian 


Mohanty, S. and Dalai, A.K. (2011). Effects of Addition of Citric Acid and Phosphorus on 

the Hydrotreating Activity of NiMo/Al2O3 Catalysts., Presentation at the North American 

Catalysis Society Conference, Detroit, June 5-10. 

Mohanty, S., Kotikalapudi, C.M., Dalai, A.K. and Hu, Y. (2010). A study of dispersion of 

nimo oxide and sulfide phases on mesoporous alumino-silicate supports for 

hydrotreating reactions, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Saskatoon, 

SK, Octobr 24-27, 2010. 

Moreno, L., Loden, B., Nemati, M. and Predicala, B. (2010). Treatment of organic 

wastewaters using microbial fuel cell technology, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering 

Conference, Saskatoon, Canada, 24-27 October, Paper No. 117ENV4. 

Moreno, M., Nemati, M. and Predicala, B. (2011). Microbial fuel cells in treatment of 

contaminated waters, World Water Day- Student and Young Professional Workshop 

(Canadian Water Research Association and UofS), Saskatoon, March 22. 

Narayanasarma, P. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Hydrotreating activity of functionalized 

mesoporous carbon supports for gas oil., Oral presentation at the 60th Canadian 

Chemical Engineering Conference, Saskatoon SK, Canada, October 24-27. 

Narayanasarma, P., Dalai, A.K. and Adjaye, J. (2011). Hydrodesulphurization of coker 

gas oil using functionalized mesoporous carbon supports - Implication of variation in 

Molybdenum loading on catalyst properties and activity., 22nd North American Meeting, 

Detroit, USA, June 5-10. 

Nedunuri, R., Guzman-Perez, C., Himabindu, V. and Soltan, J. (2010). Adsorption of 2, 

4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid (2,4-D) on carbon nanotubes: Evaluation of equilibrium 

characteristics, The 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Saskatoon, SK, 

Canada, October 24-27. 

Nie, X.D., Evitts, R.W. and Besant, R.W. (2010). Re-crystallization Near Contact Lines 

between Salt Particles, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Saskatoon, 

SK, October 24th - 28th. 

Nikakhtari, H., Wanning, S., Hill, G.A. and Nemati, M. (2010). Scale-up effects on 


oxygen mass transfer in roller bioreactors, 3rd IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry, 

2010, Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, 15-19 Augus, Paper No. 177, ENG4. 

Nuncio, P., Wang, H. and Chuang, K.T. (2010). Study on Reaction between Hydrogen 

Sulfide and Sulfuric Acid for H2 Production from H2S Splitting Cycle, 60th CSChE 

Conference, Saskatoon, SK, October 24-27. 

Paterson, G. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Ion exchange resins as heterogeneous catalysts 

for the production of biodiesel, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, 

Saskatoon, SK, Octobr 24-27, 2010. 

Peng, D.Y. (2010). Application of a Reformulated Van Laar Equation., 60th Canadian 

Society for Chemical Engineering Conference, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, 

Oct. 24-27. 

Rambabu, N., Azargohar, R. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Production of steam-activated 

carbon from petroleum coke and effect of acid-treatment, 60th Canadian Chemical 

Engineering Conference, Saskatoon, SK, Octobr 24-27, 2010. 

Rezaei, E. and Soltan, J. (2010). Removal of formaldehyde from indoor air by catalytic 

ozonation., The 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Saskatoon, SK, 

Canada, October 24-27. 

Rizwan, D. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Inhibition and deactivation of catalyst active sites by 

non-basic nitrogen compounds and their selective removal using functionalized 

polymer, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Saskatoon, SK, Octobr 24- 

27, 2010. 

Schwartzkopf-Genswein, K., L. Gonzalez, M. Bryan and T. Crowe. 2010. Impact of Beef 

Cattle Transport on Welfare and Meat Quality. Canadian Meat Council Technical 

Symposium on Animal Care and Handling, Toronto, ON. Sept 30, 2010. 

Shewchuk, S.R. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). An elemental mercury emission control into the 

environment approach for Saskatchewan, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering 


Shewchuk, S.R., De, M., Azargohar, R. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). The design and analysis 

of activated biochar material for the control of elemental mercury emission from 

industrial facilities, 3rd International Biochar Conference, Brazil, September. 

Shewchuk, S.R., Smith, D., Azargohar, R., De, M. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). The design of 


activated biochar material for the control of elemental mercury emission from industrial 

facilities, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Saskatoon, SK, Octobr 24- 

27, 2010. 

Soleimani, M., Panigrahi, S., Tabil, L.G. and Oguocha, I.N. (2010). Crystallization and 

Mechanical Properties of Biofiber-Polypropylene Composites, 18th Annual Meeting of 

BioEnvironmental Polymer Society (BEPS)-Polymers & the Evironment: Emerging 

Green Technologies & Science, Toronto, Ontario, 13-15 October, Paper No. P37. 

Available online at: http://www.beps.org/downloads/BEPS_2010_DRAFT_Agenda.pdf 

Soni, C. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Gasification of wheat dry distiller?s grains using oxygen 

and steam as gasifying agents in a fixed bed reactor system, Third International 

Symposium on Energy from Biomass and Waste, Venice, Italy, November 8-11, Paper 

No. Abstract 397. 

Soni, C.G., Tavasoli, A., Ahangari, M.G. and Dalai, A.K. (2011). Medium Btu value gas 

and syngas via gasification process., ABIN Conference, London, ON, Canada, March 

14-16. 

Soni, K., Boahene, P.E., Mouli, K.C., Dalai, A.K. and Adjaye, J. (2010). Hydrotreating of 

coker light gas oil on Ti-HMS supported heteropolytungstic acid catalysts, 60th 


Sonntag, G.S., Surisetty, V.R., Dalai, A.K. and Scott, R. (2010). Catalytic activity of 

mono-dispersed alkali promoted MoS2 nanoparticles for higher alcohol synthesis from 

syngas, 2010 Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC) 

Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA) Poster Event, University of 

Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, August 27, 2010. 

Sontakke, J.B., Yadav, G.D., Kozinski, J. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Optimization of 

biodiesel production from canola oil using response surface methodology, 

Nanocatalysis for Fuels and Chemicals, Pacifichem 2010, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 


Strawford, M. L., J. M. Watts, P. J. Shand, H. L. Classen and T. G. Crowe. 2011. How 

core body temperature relates to physiological and behavioural responses of broiler 

chickens during simulated transport. Annual Animal Behaviour and Welfare Retreat. 

Waskesiu, SK. June 7-8. 

Sun, Y. and Nemati, M. (2011). Simultaneous desulfurization and denitrification of 

contaminated waters, World Water Day - Student and Young Professional Workshop 


(Canadian Water Research Association, UofS), Saskatoon, 22 March. 

Surisetty, V.R., Dalai, A.K. and Kozinski, J. (2010). An intrinsic kinetic model for higher 

alcohols synthesis from synthesis gas using sulfided alkali-promoted Co-Rh-Mo 

trimetallic catalyst supported on MWCNTs, CHEMCON, 2010, Annamalinagar, Tamil 

Nadu, India, December 27-29, 2010. 

Surisetty, V.R., Dalai, A.K. and Kozinski, J. (2010). Effect of textural properties of 

carbon supports on alkali-promoted trimetallic Co-Rh-Mo sulfide catalysts for higher 

alcohols synthesis from synthesis gas, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering 


Surisetty, V.R., Hu, Y., Dalai, A.K. and Kozinski, J. (2010). XANES characterization and 

catalytic performance of alkali and metal (Co and Rh)-promoted MoS2 catalysts for 

higher alcohols synthesis, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, 

Saskatoon, SK, Octobr 24-27, 2010. 

Trepanier, M., Dorval, C.A., Dalai, A.K. and Abatzoglou, N. (2010). Intrinsic kinetics of 

Fischer-Tropsch synthesis with a CNT-supported RuKCo catalyst in fixed-bed reactor, 

3rd International IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry, Ottawa, ON, August 27, 


Trepanier, M., Dorval-Dion, C., Abatzoglou, N. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Intrinsic kinetics 

of Fischer-Tropsch synthesis with a CNT-supported RuKCo catalyst in fixed-bed 

reactor, Nanocatalysis for Fuels and Chemicals, Pacifichem 2010, Honolulu, Hawaii, 

December 15-20, 2010, Paper No. 479. 

Wang, H., Marshall, C.L., Stair, P.C. and Elam, J. (2011). A Novel Pt-based Catalysts 

Made by ALD for Methanol Reforming, Catalysis Club of Chicago 2011 Spring 

Symposium, BP Naperville Campus, IL, USA, May 19. 

Wang, H., Miller, J.T. and Shakouri, M. (2011). XANES and EXAFS of Ni-Co Bimetallic 

Catalysts for CO2 reforming of CH4, 22nd North American Catalysis Society Meeting, 

Detroit, MI USA, June 5-10. 

Wang, H., Zhang, J., Xi, C., Hu, Y.F. and Dalai, A.K. (2010). Metal particle size and 

catalytic performances: Development of bimetallic Ni-Co nano particles on a stable 

catalyst for CO2 reforming of CH4, Nanocatalysis for Fuels and Chemicals, Pacifichem 

2010, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 15-20, 2010, Paper No. 445. 


Yang, L. and Wang, H. (2010). Iodine Solubility and Distribution in Aqueous Hydroiodic 

Acid and Organic Solvents for a Novel Process of Bunsen Reaction, 60th CSChE 

Conference, Saskatoon, SK, October 24-27. 

Keynote Conference Presentation 

Lin, Y. (Keynote) (2010). Yen-Han Lin, "Reduction-oxidation potential and very-highgravity 

fermentation",, The 13th Asia Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering 

Congress, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct 5-8. 

Peng, D.Y. (Keynote) (2010). A Simplified Van Laar Equation. 2010 APCChE 

Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct. 5-8., 13th Asia Pacific Confederation of Chemical 

Engineering Congress, Taipei, Taiwan, October 5 - 8. 

Invited Lecture/Talk 

Baik, O. (Invited) (2011). Ultrasound application as a pretreatment for efficient 

extraction of bioactive compounds from plant based materials, 2011 MACC International 

Symposium, Gangneung, South Korea, April 26-27. 

Baik, O. (Invited) (2011). University of Saskatchewan and Food & Bioprocess 

Engineering Research, Gyongsang National University, Tongyoung, April 28. 

Dalai, A.K. (Invited) (2010). Clean Technology for Bioenergy and Petroleum 

Processing, The second IASTED International Conference on Environmental 

Management and Engineering, Banff, Alberta, July 15-17. 

Dalai, A.K. (Invited) (2010). Novel CNT applications for Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis, 

University of Munich, Topsoe and Topsoe Inc., Kopenhaven, August 16-20. 

Dalai, A.K. (Invited) (2011). Biomass and Bioenergy: Utilization Strategy in Canada: An 

Overview, World Renewable Energy Technology Congress; Engage India, New Delhi, 

India, April 21-23. 

Dalai, A.K. (Invited) (2011). Frontiers in Catalysis for Meeting Climate Change Issues in 

the 21st Century., The Second IASTED International Conference on Environmental 

Management and Engineering, Banff, AB, July 15, 2010. 

Dalai, A.K. (Invited) (2011). Recent trends in the catalyst development for biodiesel 

production from vegetable oils., BITs 1st Annual World Congress of Bionergy, Dalian, 

China, April 25-30, 2011. 


Guo, H. (Invited) (2010). Dehumidification in Greenhouses, 2010 Annual 

Saskatchewan Green Trades Conference, Saskatoon, SK, Nov. 12-13. 

Lin, Y. (Invited) (2010). Yen-Han Lin, "Bioethanol production during very-high-gravity 

fermentation",, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, Oct 8. 

Peng, D.Y. (Invited) (2010). Representation of Equilibrium Properties in Chemical 

Engineering Process Simulation., National Taiwan University of Science and 

Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct. 6. 

Surisetty, V.R., Dalai, A.K. and Kozinski, J. (Invited) (2011). Biomass and Gasification: 

An Overview, International Conference on Renewable Energy (ICRE 2011), Organized 

by the Centre for Non-Conventional Energy Resources Univers, Jaipur, India, January 

17-21, 2011. 

Wang, H. (Invited) (2010). Problem-Solving, Industry-Oriented Research in Energy and 

Environmental Areas,, UOP LLC, Des Plaines, IL, USA, November 18. 

Wang, H. (Invited) (2010). Problem-Solving, Industry-Oriented Research in Energy and 

Environmental Areas,, UOP LLC, Des Plaines, IL, USA, November 18. 

Wang, H. (Invited) (2011). Recycling and Repeating for Sustainable Energy Production 

and Friendly Environment, BP Refining Technology, Naperville, IL, USA, April 1. 

Wang, H., Zhang, J., Xi, C. and Shakouri, M. (Invited) (2011). From Sour Gas to 

Portable Fuels: Industrial catalyst development to make CH4-CO2 mixture into syn-gas, 

Catalysis Club of Chicago 2011 Spring Symposium, BP Naperville Campus, IL, USA, 

May 19. 

Plenary Lecture/Talk 

Baik, O. (Plenary) (2010). Computer simulation technology for efficient design of 

industrial bioprocesses, The 13th International Symposium on the Efficient Application 

and Preservation of Marine Biological Resources, Ganneung, June 03-05. 

Technical Report 

Dalai, A.K. (2010). Biooil Upgrading over Ct-ZSM-5 and 2.5% Ni/ZSM-5, Submitted to 

AAFC, December, (11 pages). 

Dalai, A.K. and Azargohar, R. (2010). 2nd Generation biofuels for sustainable 

transportation. Period April 1-September 30, 2010, Auto21 Interim Status Report, 


October, (10 pages). 

Dalai, A.K. and Azargohar, R. (2011). 2nd Generation biofuels for sustainable 

transportation., Auto21 Network Researcher Year-end Status Report, April, (7 pages). 

Dalai, A.K. and Azargohar, R. (2011). Participation and Collaboration report (2009- 

2011), Submitted to ABIN Program, May, (5 pages). 

Dalai, A.K. and Jacobson, C. (2011). Biomass Characterization, Submitted to SRC, 

January, (6 pages). 

Dalai, A.K. and Jacobson, K. (2010). Pyrolysis Literature Review, Submitted to SRC- 

ADF, November, (23 pages). 

Dalai, A.K. and Kotikalapudi, C.M. (2010). Final report on the project Effects of Pore 

Diameter of SBA-15 Supports on Hydrotreating of Heavy gas Oil from Athabasca 

Bitumen over Ni-Mo Catalysts., Syncrude Canada Ltd., July, (163 pages). 

Dalai, A.K. and Soni, C. (2010). Comprehensive Report on Pre-processing and Storage 

of Biomass., Submitted to SRC, September, (18 pages). 

Dalai, A.K., Azargohar, R., Surisetti, V. and Baroi, C. (2010). Semi-annual report (April 

2010-October 2010), Submitted to ABIN Program, November, (8 pages). 

Dalai, A.K., Azargohar, R., Surisetti, V. and Baroi, C. (2011). Semi-annual report(Nov. 

2010-March 2011)., Submitted to ABIN Program, April, (7 pages). 

Dalai, A.K., Hill, G. and Basu, P. (2011). Ethanol and Methane Production from Biomass 

and Phenols Extraction from Bio-oils using Supercritical fluids, Final Report, Submitted 

to NSERC_CRD Program, April, (43 pages). 

Dalai, A.K., Rambabu, N. and Azargohar, R. (2011). Lightweight Hybrid Composite 

Materials, Progress Report, June, (5 pages). 

Dalai, A.K., Soni, K. and Chandra Mouli, K. (2010). Application of Mesoporous Carbon, 

Carbon Nanohorns and M-SBA-15 (M=Zr and Ti) as Support to Ni-Mo Hydrotreating 

Catalysts, Annual NSERC-CRD Report, November, (11 pages). 

Dalai, A.K., Soni, K. and Chandra Mouli, K. (2010). Effects of Pore Diameter of Carbon 

Nanotubes and SBA-15 Supports on Hydrotreating of Heavy Gas Oil from Athabasca 


Bitumen over Ni-Mo Catalysts, NSERC-CRD Progress Report, July, (29 pages). 

Guo, H. and Yu, Z. (2011). Setting An Odour Guideline For The Purpose Of Ambient Air 

Quality Criteria For Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment, March, (41 

pages). 

Guo, H., Brad, R., Waterer, D., Duyvendyke, R., Gao, Z. and Han, J. (2011). 

Dehumidification for greenhouses, Saskatchewan Agricultural Development Fund, 

March, (109 pages). 

Nemati, M., Moreno, L.D., Daalkhaijav, U. and Predicala, B. (2011). Treatment of swine 

and food processing wastewaters and generation of electricity using microbial fuel cell 

technology, Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture,, (18 pages). 

Niu, C. and Dalai, A.K. (2011). Ethanol Dehydration with Canola Meal., Submitted to 

SADF, April, (9 pages). 

Soltan, J. (2010). Treatment of Micro-Pollutants in Water Using Catalytic Ozonation 

(Progress Report), Communities of Tomorrow, (5 pages). 

Soltan, J. and Rezaei, E. (2011). Potentials of application of Catalytic Ozonation in 

Removing VOC?s from Indoor Air, MITACS, (89 pages). 

Published Book Chapter 

Ebadi, A., Soltan, J. and Shafiei, S. (2011). Ozonation and adsorption of MTBE in the 

presence of perfluorooctyl alumina as a catalyst or adsorbent, in: Water Production and 

Wastewater Treatment, Edited by B. Antizar-Ladislao, R. Sheikholeslami, Nova Science 

Publishers, Inc., New York, USA, 159-177. 

Patent 

Dalai, A.K. and Bakhshi, N.N. (2011). Process for Conversion of Glycerol to Value 

Added Chemicals, United States, Serial No. 60/954,687, May 5. 

Dalai, A.K. and Surisetty, V.R. (2011). Catalysts for the Conversion of Synthesis Gas to 

Alcohols, United States & Canada, 61/482,669, May 5. 

Dalai, A.K., Naik, S.N., Meher, L.C., Kulkarni, M.G. and Gopinath, R. (2010). 

Continuous Production of Biodiesel from Karanja (Pongamia Pinnata) Oil Using 

Supported Sulphated Zirconia as a Catalyst., Industry Liaison Office, University of 

Saskatchewan, Serial No 60/954, September 2010. 


Wang, H., Zhang, J. and Dalai, A.K. (2011). Catalyst for Production Synthesis Gas, 

USA, 9,985,710, June 30. 


CIVIL AND GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING – LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 


Azinfar, H. and Kells, J.A. (2011). Drag force and associated backwater effect due to a 

spur dike field in an open channel, Journal of Hydraulic Research, IAHR, 49(2), 248- 

256. 

Berthelot, C., Haichert, R., Podborochynski, D., Wandzura, C., Taylor, B. and Guenther, 

D. (2010). Mechanistic Laboratory Evaluation and Field Construction of Recycled 

Concrete Materials for Use in Road Substructures, Journal of the Transportation 

Research Board of the National Academies, 2167(October), 41-52. 

Berthelot, C., Podborochynski, D., Marjerison, B. and Saarenketo, T. (2010). 

Mechanistic Characterization of Cement Stabilized Marginal Base Materials for Road 

Construction., Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 37(Issue 12, December), 1613- 

1620. 

Berthelot, C., Podborochynski, D., Saarenketo, T., Marjerison, B. and Prang, C. (2010). 

Ground Penetrating Radar Evaluation of Moisture and Frost Across Typical 

Saskatchewan Road Soils, Advances in Civil Engineering, Hindawi Publishing 

Corporations, 2010(Article ID 416190, July), 1-9. 

Beskhyroun, S., Wegner, L.D. and Sparling, B.F. (2011). New methodology for the 

application of vibration-based damage detection techniques, Structural Control and 

Health Monitoring, 18(online 23 May), 1-18. Available online at: 

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/stc.456/full 

Bharat, T.V. and Sharma, J.S. (2010). Inverse modelling in geoenvironmental 

engineering using a novel particle swarm optimization algorithm, Lecture Notes in 

Computer Science, 6234, 448-455. 

Bharat, T.V. and Sharma, J.S. (2011). Prediction of compression and permeability 

characteristics of mine tailings using natural computation and large-strain consolidation 

framework, ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication, 211(5), 3868-3877. 

Birkham, T., Hendry, M.J., Barbour, S. and Lawrence, J.R. (2010). Controls and rates of 

acid production in commercial-scale blocks, Journal of Environmental Quality, 39, 834- 

844. 


Birkham, T., Hendry, M.J., Barbour, S., Carey, S., Lawrence, J.R. and Lewko, R. 

(2011). Water flow and storage in fractured, unsaturated sulphur blocks, Canadian 

Geotechnical Journal, 48(5) (May), 810-825. 

El-Baroudy, I., Elshorbagy, A.A., Carey, S., Giustolisi, O. and Savic, D. (2010). 

Comparison of Three Data-driven Techniques in Modelling Evapotranspiration Process., 

Hydroinformatics, 12(4), 365-379. 

Elshorbagy, A.A., Corzo, G., Srinivasulu, S. and Solomatine, D. (2010). Experimental 

Investigation of the Predictive Capabilities of Data Driven Modeling Techniques in 

Hydrology: II. Application., Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 14, 1943-1961. 

Elshorbagy, A.A., Corzo, G., Srinivasulu, S. and Solomatine, D. (2010). Experimental 

investigation of the predictive capabilities of soft computing techniques in hydrology- 

Part I: Concepts and methodology, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 14, 1931- 

1941. 

Fleming, I. (2011). A simple index value for waste mechanical behaviour, ASCE 

Geotechnical Special Publication, 209, 218-223. 

Hendry, M.J., Barbour, S., Zettl, J., Chostner, V. and Wassenaar, L.I. (2011). Controls 

on the long-term downward transport of δ²H of water in a regionally extensive, twolayered 

aquitard system, Water Resources Research, 47(W06505, 

doi:10.1029/2010WR010044), 1-13. 

Hossain, M., Elmoselhi, H., Elshorbagy, A.A. and Shoker, A. (2011). Sask Formula to 

Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate in Renal Transplant Patients., Nephron, Clinical 

Practice, 117, 135-150. 

Huang, M., Barbour, S., Elshorbagy, A.A., Zettl, J. and Si, B. (2011). Water availability 

and forest growth in coarse-textured soils, Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 91, 199- 

210. 

Huang, M., Barbour, S., Elshorbagy, A.A., Zettl, J.D. and Si, B. (2011). Infiltration and 

drainage processes in multi-layered coarse soils, Canadian Journal of Soil Science., 91, 

169-183. 

Huang, M., Elshorbagy, A.A., Barbour, S., Zettl, J. and Si, B. (2011). System dynamics 

modeling of infiltration and drainage in layered coarse soil, Canadian Journal of Soil 


Science, 91, 185-197. 

Izadifar, Z. and Elshorbagy, A.A. (2010). Prediction of hourly actual evapotranspiration 

using neural networks, genetic programming, and statistical models, Hydrological 

Processes, 24(23), 3413-3425. Available online at: www3.interscience.wiley.com 

Kells, J.A. (2010). Placed rock as protection against erosion by flow down steep slopes 

(discussion), Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (ASCE), 136(8), 555-556. 

Keshta, N. and Elshorbagy, A.A. (2011). Utilizing North American Regional Reanalysis 

for Modeling Soil Moisture and Evapotranspiration in Reconstructed Watersheds, 

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 36, 31-41. 

Kessler, S., Barbour, S., van Rees, K. and Dobhuck, B. (2010). Salinzation of Soil 

Covers over Saline-Sodic Waste from the Oil Sand Industry, Canadian Journal of Soil 

Science, 90, 637-647. 

Lee, C., Park, P.Y. and Abdel-Aty, M.A. (2011). Lane-by-lane Analysis of Crash 

Occurrence Based on Driver's Lane-Changing and Car-Following Behavior, Journal of 

Transportation Safety & Security, 3(2), 108-122. Available online at: 

www.tandfonline.com 

Park, P.Y. and Abdel-Aty, M.A. (2011). A Stochastic Catastrophe Model using Two- 

Fluid Model Parameters to Investigate Traffic Safety on Urban Arterials, Accident 

Analysis and Prevention, 43(3), 1267-1278. Available online at: www.sciencedirect.com 

Park, P.Y. and Lord, D. (2010). Investigating Regression-to-the-Mean in Before-and- 

After Speed Data Analysis, Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2165, 52-58. 

Available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2165-06 

Xiong, W. and Peng, J. (2011). Laboratory-Scale Investigation of Ferrihydrite-Modified 

Diatomite as a Phosphorus Co-precipitant, Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 215(February), 

45-54. 

Xiong, W., Peng, J. and Hu, Y. (2010). A non-destructive technique to analyze Si 

content in evaluation of pore blockage of ferrihydrite-modified diatomite using XANES 

and BET, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 133(September), 54-58. 

Xu, J. and Berthelot, C. (2010). Mechanistic Road Upgrade Structural Design 

Evaluation Using Rapid Triaxial Frequency Sweep Testing and Linear Elastic Modeling., 


Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 37(Issue 12, December), 1572-1580. 

Zettl, J.D., Barbour, S., Huang, M., Si, B.C. and Leskiw, L.A. (2011). Influence of 

textural layering on field capacity of coarse soils., Can. J. Soil Sci., 91, 133-147. 


Ahmed, K. and Feldman, L. (2010). An Evaluation of Contact and Non-Contact Lap 

Splices Using Double Pullout and Wall Specimens, 8th International Masonry 

Conference, Dresden, Germany, July 4-7, Paper No. 8IMC_100, (9 pages) (CD Rom). 

Alwash, M., Sparling, B.F. and Wegner, L.D. (2010). Use of impact excitation to 

measure the modal parameters of highway bridges, 8th International Conference on 

Short and Medium Span Bridges, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, August 3-6, Paper 

No. GC-256, (9 pages) (CD Rom). 

Berthelot, C., Haichert, R., Podborochynski, D., Guenther, D., Taylor, B. and Praski, S. 

(2010). Being Green: Recycling a City, Transportation Association of Canada Annual 

Conference, Halifax, NS, Canada, September 26-29, (CD Rom). 

Berthelot, C., Haichert, R., Taylor, B., Tate, M., Marjerison, B. and Anthony, A. (2010). 

Triaxial Frequency Sweep Mechanistic-Climatic Properties of Lime-Treated Asphalt 

Mixes in Saskatchewan, Canadian Technical Asphalt Association Annual Conference, 

Edmonton, AB, Canada, November 27-December 1, 353-369. 

Berthelot, C., Podborochynski, D., Kelln, R., Prang, C., Guenther, D. and Cherry, D. 

(2011). Comparison of Field Performance of Conventional and Recycled Drainage 

Systems using Non Destructive Structural Asset Management, TRB 90th Annual 

Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 23-27, 11-2133 (CD Rom). 

Berthelot, C., Taylor, B., Haichert, R., Podborochynski, D., Cherry, D. and Malone, M. 

(2010). Evaluation of Recycled Pavement Test Sections with Alternative Surfacing 

Systems, Transportation Association of Canada Annual Conference, Halifax, NS, 

Canada, September 26-29, (CD Rom). 

Berthelot, C., Taylor, B., Wandzura, C., Haichert, R., Guenther, D. and Praski, S. 

(2010). Successes in Crushing and Processing Reclaimed Concrete for Road 

Rehabilitation, Transportation Association of Canada Annual Conference, Halifax, NS, 

Canada, September 26-29, (CD Rom). 


Bharat, T.V. and Sharma, J.S. (2010). Inverse modelling of contaminant transport 

through soil using natural computation, 63rd Canadian Geotechnical Conference, 

Calgary, Alberta, Canada, September 12-16, 2010, (CD Rom). 

Birkham, T., Hendry, M.J., Barbour, S. and Cheema, T. (2010). Rates and controls of 

acid production in commercial-scale sulphur blocks, Canadian Geotechnical 

Conference, Calgary, AB, Sept. 16-18. 

Cossette, D. and Mazurek, K.A. (2011). Scour by a submerged vertical circular turbulent 

impinging jet in natural cohesive soils, 20th Canadian Hydrotechnical Conference, 

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June 14-17, 2011, Paper No. HY-034-1, 1-10 (CD Rom). 

Dobchuck, B., O'Kane, M. and Barbour, S. (2010). An Evaluation of the Direct 

Measurement of Net Percolation from Cover Systems: Lysimeter Design Methods and 

Case Study Performance., Global Waste Management Symposium, San Antonio, 

Texas, October 3-6. 

Feldman, L. and Ahmed, K. (2011). Evaluating the Effectiveness of Contact and Non- 

Contact Lap Splices in Double Pullout Masonry Specimens, 11th North American 

Masonry Conference, Minneapolis, MN, June 6 - 8, Paper No. 12, (CD Rom). 

Foth, M., Guenther, D., Haichert, R. and Berthelot, C. (2010). City of Saskatoon's Green 

Streets Program - A Case Study for the Implementation of Sustainable Roadway 

Rehabilitation with the Reuse of Concrete and Asphalt Rubble Materials, ASCE Green 

Streets and Highways Conference, Denver, CO, USA, November 14-17, Paper No. 80, 

(CD Rom). 

Guenther, D., Haichert, R., Foth, M. and Berthelot, C. (2011). Effect of Fines on the 

Structural Capacity of Base Course Materials, TRB 90th Annual Meeting, Washington 

DC, USA, January 23-27, 11-4093 (CD Rom). 

Haichert, R., Foth, M., Guenther, D. and Berthelot, C. (2011). Case Study Evaluation of 

the Sustainability of Recycled Aggregate Road Structure, TRB 90th Annual Meeting, 

Washington DC, USA, January 23-27, Paper No. 11-2150, (CD Rom). 

Hendry, M.T., Edwards, T., Martin, C.D. and Barbour, S. (2011). Assessing the 

Condition of Peat Subgrades Subjected to Heavy Axle Loads: Effectiveness of the use 

of Piles to Strengthen Embankment, 2011 International Heavy Haul Association 

Conference - Railroading in Extreme Conditions, Calgary, AB, June 19-22. 


MacLeod, A.B., Wegner, L.D. and Sparling, B.F. (2010). Monitoring the behaviour of a 

century-old steel through truss bridge, 8th International Conference on Short and 

Medium Span Bridges, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, August 3-6, Paper No. GC-241, 

(10 pages) (CD Rom). 

Mazurek, K.A., Amos, M., Thomson, J., Akhtar, A. and Hallett, A. (2011). Mitigating the 

drowning hazard at the Salmon River Sea Lamprey barrier, 34th IAHR World Congress, 

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, June 26-July 1, 2011, Paper No. 00000, 1-8 (CD 

Rom). 

Park, P.Y. and Abdel-Aty, M.A. (2011). Development of a Proactive Hotspot 

Identification Method for Urban Arterials Using a Stochastic Catastrophe Model, The 

90th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 23- 

27, Paper No. TRB11-0519, (26 pages) (CD Rom). Available online at: 

http://amonline.trb.org/12jn6d/12jn6d/1 

Podborochynski, D., Wandzura, C., Berthelot, C. and Kelln, R. (2011). Crushed 

Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) and Portland Cement Concrete (PCC) Aggregate 

Material Stabilization, TRB 90th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 23-27, 

Paper No. 11-2139, (CD Rom). 

Taylor, B., Berthelot, C., Kelln, R., Gorlick, R., Marjerison, B. and Theetge, M. (2011). 

Culvert Asset Management and Relining Case Study in Saskatchewan, TRB 90th 

Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 23-27, Paper No. 11-2092, (CD Rom). 

Taylor, B., Berthelot, C., Marjerison, B., Gerbrandt, R. and Gorlick, R. (2010). Innovative 

Culvert Asset Management and Re-Lining, Transportation Association of Canada 

Annual Conference, Halifax, NS, Canada, September 26-29, (CD Rom). 

Yan, B., Kells, J.A., Sparling, B.F., Garner, M.E., McArthur, T.J. and Katopodis, C. 

(2011). Turbulence characteristics of the flow in a corrugated steel pipe culvert in the 

context of fish passage, 20th Canadian Hydrotechnical Conference, Ottawa, ON, June 

14-17, (CD Rom). 

Zettl, J., Huang, M., Barbour, S. and Si, B.C. (2011). The influence of textural layering 

on forest productivity for coarse texture soil profiles., North American Forest Ecology 

Workshop (NAEFW) 2011 - Forest Land Reclamation Session, Roanoke, Virginia, June 

19-23 (Dr. Barbour was invited to present at this conference). 



Bachu, S., Brydie, J., Hauck, T., Lakeman, B., Palombi, D., Stoakes, F., Wendte, J., 

Lawton, D., Pooladi-Darvish, M., Hawkes, C.D., Chalaturnyk, R., Krawec, T. and 

Sawchuck, W. (2010). The Heartland Area Redwater CO2 storage project (HARP): 

Results of Phase I site characterization, 10th International Conference on Greenhouse 

Gas Control Technologies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 19-23, (8 pages). 

Hawkes, C.D., Gardner, C., Watson, T. and Chalaturnyk, R. (2010). Overview of 

Wellbore Integrity Research for the IEA GHG Weyburn-Midale CO2 Monitoring and 

Storage Project, 10th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control 

Technologies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 19-23, (9 pages). 

Kumar, S., Watson, B.M., Putz, G. and Prepas, E.E. (2011). Modelling nitrogen in 

streamflow from Boreal forest watersheds in Alberta, Canada using SWAT., 2011 

International SWAT Conference, University of Castilla La Mancha, Toledo, Spain, June 

15-17, (21 pages). Available online at: http://swatmodel.tamu.edu 

Nazemi, A., Elshorbagy, A.A. and Pingale, S. (2011). Uncertainties in the estimation of 

future annual extreme daily rainfall for the city of Saskatoon under climate change 

effects, 20th Canadian Hydrotechnical Conference, Ottawa, On, Canada, June 14-17, 

Paper No. HY-039, (10 pages) (CD Rom). 

Putz, G. and Watson, B.M. (2011). Comparison of temperature-index snowmelt models 

of varying complexity in SWATBF for predicting water yield in a cold region., 2011 

International SWAT Conference, University of Castilla La Mancha, Toledo, Spain, June 

15-17, (18 pages). Available online at: http://swatmodel.tamu.edu 

Putz, G., Watson, B.M., Belanger, J.A. and Prepas, E.E. (2011). Soil temperature 

damping depth in Boreal Plain forest stands and clear cuts: Comparison of measured 

depths versus predicted based upon SWAT algorithms., 2011 International SWAT 

Conference, University of Castilla La Mancha, Toledo, Spain, June 15-17, (12 pages). 

Available online at: http://swatmodel.tamu.edu 

Rostron, B., Johnson, J., Hawkes, C.D., Gardner, C., Chalaturnyk, R. and Whittaker, S. 

(2010). CO2 Storage Monitoring Efforts at the Weyburn-Midale Fields, Canada, 

AAPG/SEG/SPE Hedberg Conference, Vancouver, BC, August 16-19, 2009, Paper No. 

AAPG Discovery Article 90103, (3 pages). 



Russell, J.S., Prepas, E.E., Putz, G., Smith, D.W. and Germida, J. (2010). Developing 

models and processes to aid decision support for understanding land management 

changes in the Canadian boreal forest., International Union of Forestry Research 

Organizations (IUFRO), Landscape Ecology International Conference, Bragança, 

Portugal, Sept 21-27. 

Serediak, N., Prepas, E.E. and Putz, G. (2011). Exploratory database analysis and 

predictive model development for nutrient export from forested landscapes., North 

American Forest Ecology Workshop, Roanoke, VA, Jun 19-23. 

Yan, B. and Kells, J.A. (2011). Turbulence characteristics of the flow in a corrugated 

steel pipe culvert in the context of fish passage, CWRA/U. of S. World Water Day 

seminar, Saskatoon, SK, March 22. 


Hawkes, C.D. (Invited) (2011). Geomechanics at Weyburn, Redwater and Zama, IEA- 

GHG Combined Modelling and Wellbore Integrity Networks Meeting, Perth, Australia, 

April 27-29. 

Hendry, M.T., Martin, D. and Barbour, S. (Invited) (2011). An Investigation for the 

Hazard Assessment of Heavy Axle Loads over Soft Peat Foundations and the 

Determination of the Effectiveness of Remediation Measures, The Transportation 

Research Board 90th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 23-27, (P11-0145). 


Barbour, S., Chanasyk, D., Hendry, M.J., Leskiw, L., Macyk, T., Mendoza, C., Naeth, A., 

Nichol, C., O'Kane, M., Purdy, B., Qualizza, C., Quideau, S. and Welham, C. (2010). 

DRAFT Soil Capping Research in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Volume 1: 

Technology Synthesis, Syncrude Canada Ltd. - Internal Publication, (151 pages). 

Barbour, S., Chanasyk, D., Hendry, M.J., Leskiw, L., Macyk, T., Mendoza, C., Naeth, A., 

Nichol, C., O'Kane, M., Purdy, B., Qualizza, C., Quideau, S. and Welham, C. (2010). 

DRAFT Soil Capping Research in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Volume 2: Fact 

Sheets, Syncrude Canada Ltd. - Internal Publication, (146 pages). 

Fleming, M., Zettl, J., Barbour, S. and Si, B.C. (2010). Final Report: Evaluation of 

Alternative Capillary Breaks For Waste Rock Pile Cover Trials., Cameco Corp. (Dana 

Fenske), October 11, (13 pages). 


Hilderman, J., Barbour, S., Bews, B.E. and Zettl, J. (2011). The Effects of 

Mesotopography on the Performance of Engineered Soil Covers, CONRAD, January 

31, (7 pages). 

Huang, M., Zettl, J. and Barbour, S. (2011). Preliminary Soil-Water-Atmospheric 

Modeling of the Proposed Aurora Capping Treatments, Syncrude Canada Ltd., June 20, 

(57 pages). 

Soltanzadeh, H. and Hawkes, C.D. (2011). Three Dimensional Mechanical Earth Model 

(MEM) for the Heartland Area Redwater Project (HARP) - Phase 2, Alberta Innovates 

Technology Futures, (40 pages). 

van der Kamp, G., Anochikwa, C. and Barbour, S. (2010). Final Report: Numerical 

simulation of piezometer observations and estimation of hydraulic properties of the 

Deilmann TMF tailings., Cameco Corp. (Harm Maathuis), November, (11 pages). 

Zettl, J., Huang, M. and Barbour, S. (2011). . Final Report: Summary of Cover 

Performance and Hydrology - Mildred Lake Coke Watershed, Syncrude Canada Ltd., 

January 27, (60 pages). 


Christensen, P.N., Wegner, L.D. and Sparks, G.A. (2011). Life cycle savings of 

structural health monitoring: a value of information approach, Chapter 1, Monitoring 

Technologies for Bridge Management, Edited by Bakht, B., Mufti, A.A., and Wegner, 

L.D., Multi-Science Publishing Co. Ltd., Brentwood, Essex, U.K., 1-31. 

Wegner, L.D., Sparling, B.F. and Bagchi, A. (2011). Vibration-based Monitoring, 

Chapter 8, Monitoring Technologies for Bridge Management, Edited by Bakht, B., Mufti, 

A.A., and Wegner, L.D., Multi-Science Publishing Co. Ltd., Brentwood, Essex, U.K., 

207-258. 

Published Book 

Bakht, B., Mufti, A.A. and Wegner, L.D. (2011). Monitoring Technologies for Bridge 

Management, Edited by Bakht, B., Mufti, A.A., Wegner, L.D., Multi-Science Publishing 

Co. Ltd., Brentwood, Essex, U.K., (584 pages). Available online at: http://www.multiscience.co.uk/mtbm_bakht-book.htm 


Izadifar, Z. and Elshorbagy, A.A. (2010). Modeling and Analysis of Actual 

Evapotranspiration. Data Driven Modeling and Wavelet Analysis of Actual 

Evapotranspiration, VDM Verlag Dr. Muller, Saarbrucken, Germany, (145 pages). 


ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING – LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 


Akhavein, A., Fotuhi Firuzabad, M., Billinton, R., Farokhzad, D. (2010), Review of 

Reduction Techniques in the Determination of Composite System Adequacy 

Equivalents, Journal of Electric Power System Research (EPSR), vol. 80, 1385-1393. 

Andalibi, Z., Berscheid, B., Salt, J.E. and Nguyen, H. (2010). A Fast-Converging 

Equalizer for Up-stream DOCSIS Channels, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, 

56(September), 311-320. 

Andalibi, Z., Nguyen, H. and Salt, J.E. (2010). Channel Estimation in Bit Interleaved 

Coded Modulation with Iterative Decoding, IET Communications, 4(November), 2095- 

2103. 

Belev, G., Okada, G., Tonchev, D., Koughia, C., Varoy, C.R., Edgar, A., Wysokinski, T., 

Chapman, D. and Kasap, S. (2011). Valency Conversion of Samarium Ions Under High 

Does Synchrotron Generated X-Ray Radiation, Physica Status Solidi C: Current Topics 

in Solid State Physics (Wiley), 8(9), 2822-2825. 

Billinton, R. and Huang, D. (2010). Sensitivity of System Operating Considerations in 

Generating Capacity Adequacy Evaluation, Electric Power and Energy Systems, 32, 

178-186. 

Billinton, R. and Karki, R. (2010). Incorporating wind power in generating system 

reliability evaluation, International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and 

Management, 1(2), 120-128. 

Billinton, R., Gao, Y. and Karki, R. (2010). Application of a joint deterministicprobabilistic 

criterion to wind integrated bulk power system planning, IEEE Trans. on 

Power Systems, 25(3), 1384-1392. 

Billinton, R., Hu, P. and Karki, R. (2010). Reliability Evaluation of Generating Systems 

Containing Wind Power and Energy Storage, IET Generation, Transmission & 

Distribution, 8, 783-791. 

Bokharaiee, S., Nguyen, H. and Shwedyk, E. (2011). Blind Spectrum Sensing for 

OFDM-Based Cognitive Radio Systems, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 


60(March), 858-871. 

Chen, F., Wang, K., Fang, Y., Allec, N., Belev, G., Kasap, S. and Karim, S.K. (2011). 

Direct-Conversion X-Ray Detector Using Lateral Amorphous Selenium Structure, IEEE 

Sensors Journal (IEEE, Impact Factor = 1.47), 11(2), 505-509. 

Elsamahy, M., Faried, S.O. and Sidhu, T.S. (2011). Impact of Superconducting Fault 

Current Limiters on the Coordination between Generator Distance Phase Backup 

Protection and Generator Capability Curves, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, 

26(3), 1854-1863. 

Elsamahy, M., Faried, S.O., Sidhu, T.S. and Gokaraju, R. (2011). Enhancement of the 

Coordination between Generator Phase Backup Protection and Generator Capability 

Curves in the Presence of a Midpoint STATCOM using Support Vector Machines, IEEE 

Transactions on Power Delivery, 26(3), 1841-1853. 

Faried, S.O. and Elsamahy, M. (2011). Incorporating Superconducting Fault Current 

Limiters in the Probabilistic Evaluation of Transient Recovery Voltage, IET Generation, 

Transmission & Distribution, 5(1), 101-107. 

Faried, S.O., Billinton, R. and Aboreshaid, S. (2010). Probabilistic Evaluation of 

Transient Stability of a Power System Incorporating Wind Farms, IET Renewable Power 

Generation, 4(4), 299-307. 

Gunes, M., Johanson, R., Kasap, S., Finger, F. and Lambertz, A. (2010). The effect of 

aging on the dark conductivity and 1/f noise in hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon thin 

films, Physica Status Solidi C, 7(3-4), 658-661. 

Haluzan, D.T., Klymyshyn, D.M., Achenbach, S. and Boerner, M. (2010). Reducing pullin 

voltage by adjusting gap shape in electrostatically actuated cantilever and fixed-fixed 

beams, Micromachines, 1(2), 68-81. 

Jalla, U., Gupta, C.P., Singh, G.K. and Gokaraju, R. (2010). PSO and ANN-based Fault 

Classification for Protective Relaying, IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, 

Special Issue on Wide Area Monitoring, Protection and Control, 4(10, September), 

1197-1212. 

Jayatilaka, H.C., Klymyshyn, D.M., Boerner, M. and Mohr, J. (2011). Compact Thick 

Metal Diplexer with Multi-Coupled Folded Half Wavelength Resonators, Progress In 

Electromagnetics Research C (PIERC), 18, 1-8. 


Johanson, R., Kowalyshyn, M. and Kasap, S. (2011). Photoinduced Dichroism and the 

Lack of a Field Effect, Physica Status Solidi C: Current Topics in Solid State Physics 

(Wiley), 8(9), 2777-2780. 

Karki, N.R., Karki, R. and Verma, A.K. (2010). Estimation of Cost of Unserved Energy: 

A Customer Survey Approach, International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering 

and Management, 1(2), 157-162. 

Kasap, S., Frey, J.B., Belev, G., Tousignant, O., Mani, H., Greenspan, J., Laperriere, L., 

Bubon, O., Reznik, A., DeCrescenzo, G., Karim, S.K. and Rowlands, J.A. (2011). 

Amorphous and Polycrystalline Photoconductors for Direct Conversion Flat Panel X- 

Ray Image Sensors: Review, Sensors (MDPI, Switzerland, Impact Factor: 1.77), 11(5), 

5112-5157. 

Khan, T. and Wahid, K.A. (2011). A DVP-based Bridge Architecture to Randomly 

Access Pixels of High Speed Image Sensors, EURASIP Journal on Embedded 

Systems, 2011, 1-13. 

Khan, T. and Wahid, K.A. (2011). Lossless and Low-Power Image Compressor for 

Wireless Capsule Endoscopy, VLSI Design, Hindawi Publishing, 2011, 1-12. 

Klymyshyn, D.M., Boerner, M., Haluzan, D., Gono Santosa, E., Schaffer, M., 

Achenbach, S. and Mohr, J. (2010). Vertical High-Q RF-MEMS Devices for Reactive 

Lumped Element Circuits, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 

58(11), 2976-2986. 

Kolar, J., Wagner, T., Zima, V., Stehlik, S., Frumarova, B., Benes, L., Vlcek, M., Frumar, 

M. and Kasap, S. (2011). Ion Conductive Chalcohalide Glassesin LiI-Ga2S3-GeS2 

System, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids (Elsevier, Impact Factor: 1.47), 357, 2223- 

2227. 

Koughia, C., Edgar, A., Varoy, C.R., Okada, G., Seggern, H.V., Belev, G., Chang-Yong, 

K., Sammynaiken, R. and Kasap, S. (2011). Samarium-Doped Fluorochlorozirconate 

Glass-Ceramics as Red-Emitting X-Ray Phosphors, Journal fo the American Ceramic 

Society (American Ceramic Society, Impact Factor: 2.17), 94(2), 543-550. 

Koughia, C., Okada, G., Tonchev, D., Kasap, S., Edgar, A., Varoy, C.R. and Seggern, 

H.V. (2011). Optical and Selected Thermal Properties of Samarium-Doped 

Fluorochlorozirconate (FCZ) Glass-Ceramics: Formation and Growth of BaCl2 


Nanocrystals in FCZ Glass-Ceramics, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids (Elsevier, 

Impact Factor: 1.47), 357, 2272-2277. 

Koughia, C., Soundararajan, G., Okada, G., Tonchev, D., Edgar, A., Varoy, C., von 

Seggern, H. and Kasap, S. (2011). Trivalent Er and Sm ions in fluorochlorozirconate 

glasses: optical properties and X-ray luminescence, Physica Status Solidi C: Current 

Topics in Solid State Physics (Wiley), 8(9), 2657-2660. 

Majid, S. and Johanson, R. (2010). Excess noise in amorphous selenium p-i-n devices, 

Physica Status Solidi C, 7(3-4), 873-876. 

Meyer, T., Johanson, R. and Kasap, S. (2011). Effect of 1/f Noise in Integrating Sensors 

and Detectors, IET Proceedings on Circuits, Devices and Systems (IET formerly IEE 

Proceedings), 5(3), 177-188. 

Nguyen, D.H.N. and Nguyen, H. (2010). Power Allocation for Channel Estimation and 

Performance of Mismatched Decoding in Wireless Relay Networks, IEEE Transactions 

on Vehicular Technology, 59(November), 4639-4645. 

Nguyen, H.X. and Nguyen, H. (2010). Adaptive Relaying in Noncoherent Cooperative 

Networks, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 58(July), 3938-3945. 

Nguyen, H.X., Nguyen, H. and Le-Ngoc, T. (2010). Diversity Analysis of Relay Selection 

Schemes for Two-Way Wireless Relay Networks, Springer Wireless Personal 

Communications, 59(2), 173-189. 

Nguyen, H.X., Nguyen, H. and Le-Ngoc, T. (2010). Signal Transmission with Unequal 

Error Protection in Relay Selection Networks, IET Communications, 4(September), 

1624-2635. 

Pham, T.T., Nguyen, H. and Tuan, H.D. (2010). Power Allocation in MMSE Relaying 

over Frequency-Selective Rayleigh Fading Channels, IEEE Transactions on 

Communications, 58(November), 3330-3343. 

Pham, T.T., Nguyen, H. and Tuan, H.D. (2011). Beamforming in Non-Orthogonal 

Amplify-and-Forward Relay Networks, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 

60(March), 1258-1263. 

Rai, D., Faried, S.O., Gokaraju, R. and Edris, A. (2011). Damping Inter-Area 

Oscillations using Phase Imbalanced Series Compensation Schemes, IEEE 


Transactions on Power Systems, 26(3), 1753-1761. 

Salt, J.E. and Pelet, E.R. (2011). Incoherrent spatial diversity combining scheme for 

spread spectrum, IET Communications, 5(6), 819-826. 

Soundararajan, G., Koughia, C., Edgar, A., Varoy, C.R. and Kasap, S. (2011). Optical 

Properties of Erbium-Doped Fluorochlorozirconate Glasses, Journal of Non-Crystalline 

Solids (Elsevier, Impact Factor: 1.47), 357, 2475-2479. 

Suchitra, S. and Wahid, K.A. (2010). A Sub-sample Based Hybrid DWT-DCT Algorithm 

for Medical Imaging Applications, Journal of Selected Areas in Bioengineering (JSAB), 

Cyber Journals: Multidisciplinary Journals in Science and Technology, 01([Acceptance 

Rate: 39%].), 1-12. 

Tuan, H.D., Kha, H.H., Nguyen, H. and Luong, V.J. (2010). Optimized Training 

Sequences for Spatially Correlated MIMO-OFDM, IEEE Transactions on Wireless 

Communications, 9(September), 2768-2778. 

Wahid, K.A. (2011). An Efficient IEEE-Compliant 8x8 Inv-DCT Architecture with 24 

Adders, IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems, 131(5), 1081- 

1082. 

Wahid, K.A., Shimu, S., Islam, M., Lee, M. and Ko, S. (2010). Hybrid Architecture and 

VLSI Implementation of the Cosine-Fourier-Haar Transforms, Journal on Circuits, 

Systems, and Signal Processing, Springer, 29(6, December), 1193-1205. 

Wang, K., Feng, C., Allec, N., Fang, Y., Belev, G., Kasap, S. and Karim, S.K. (2011). 

Amorphous-Selenium-Based Three-Terminal X-Ray Detector With a Gate, IEEE 

Electron Device Letters (IEEE, Impact Factor: 2.71), 32(6), 782-784. 

Wang, T., Wang, K., Chen, L., Dinh, A.v., Bhuva, B. and Shuler, R. (2010). A RHBD LC- 

Tank Oscillator Design Tolerant to Single-Event Transients, IEEE Transactions on 

Nulcear Science, 57(December), 3620-3625. 

Xie, K., Hu, B. and Karki, R. (2011). Tracing the Component Unreliability Contributions 

and Recognizing the Weak Parts of a Bulk Power System, European Transactions on 

Electrical Power, 21(1), 254-262. 

Yin, W. and Saadat Mehr, A. (2011). Stochastic Analysis of Normalized Subband 


Adaptive Filter Algorithm, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular 

Papers, 58(5), 1020-1033. 

Wangdee, W., Li, W., and Billinton, R. (2010). Pertinent Factors Influencing an Effective 

Load Carrying Capability and its Application to Intermittent Generation, International 

Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management, vol. 2, 2(April-June), 146- 

156. 

Xie, K. and Billinton, R. (2011). Determination of the Optimum Capacity and Type of 

Wind Turbine Generators in a Power System Considering Reliability and Cost, IEEE 

Transactions on Energy Conversion, vol. 26, 1(March), 227-235. 

Yin, W. and Saadat Mehr, A. (2011) Identification of LPTV Systems in the Frequency 

Domain, Digital Signal Processing, vol. 21, January, 25-35. 

Yue, D.W. and Nguyen, H. (2010). Orthogonal DF Cooperative Relay Networks with 

Multiple SNR-Thresholds and Multiple Hard-Decision Detections, EURASIP Journal of 

Wireless Communications and Networking, 2010, 1-11. 

Yue, D.W. and Nguyen, H. (2010). Unified Scaling Factor Approach for Turbo Decoding 

Algorithms, IET Communications, 4(August), 905-914. 

Zadkhast, S., Fotuhi-Firuzabad, M., Aminifar, F., Billinton, R., Faried, S.O. and Edris, A. 

(2010). Reliability Evaluation of an HVDC Transmission System Tapped by a VSC 

Station, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, 25(3), 1962-1970. 

Zhang, Y., Chen, D., Choi, Y., Chen, L. and Ko, S.B. (2010). A High Performance ECC 

Hardware Implementation with Instruction-Level Parallelism over GF (2163), Journal of 

Microprocessors and Microsystems, Elsevier, 34(6), 228-236. 

Zhang, H., Shi, Y., and Saadat Mehr, A. (2011). Robust Weighted H_infinity Filtering for 

Networked Systems with Intermitted Measurements of Multiple Sensors, International 

Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, vol.25, 4(April), 313-330. 

Zhang, H., Shi, Y., and Saadat Mehr, A. (2011), Robust Non-Fragile Dynamic Vibration 

Absorbers with Uncertain Factors, Journal of Sound and Vibration, vol. 330, 

4(February), 559-566. 

Zhang, H., Shi, Y., and Saadat Mehr, A. (2010). Robust Energy-to-Peak Filtering for 

Networked Systems with Time-Varying Delays and Randomly Missing Data, IET Control 

Theory & Applications, vol. 4, 12, 2921-2936. 


Zhang, H., Saadat Mehr, A., and Shi, Y. (2010). Improved Robust Energy-to-Peak 

Filtering for Uncertain Linear Systems, Signal Processing, vol. 90, 9(September), 2667- 

2675. 


a Malhotra, U., Gokaraju, R. and Muthumuni, D. (2011). An Adaptive Supplementary 

Controller for a UPFC, International Conference on Power System Transients, Delft, 

The Netherlands, June 14-17, Paper No. 192, 1-6 (CD Rom). 

Aligodarz, M.T., Klymyshyn, D.M. and Rashidian, A. (2011). Air-Gap Standing Parallel 

Strips Waveguide for X-ray Lithography Fabrication: Characteristics and Antenna 

Application, Proc. 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (Eucap 

2011), Rome, Italy, April, 1526-1529. 

Alijan, M. and Salt, J.E. (2011). Complex digital compensator for RF filter Distortions, 

24th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Niagra Falls, 

Ontario, Canada, May 8-11, 1-4. 

Aoki, T., Daitou, D., Fujimoto, K., Fujihashi, C., Shimakawa, K., Koughia, C. and Kasap, 

S. (2010). Quadrature Frequency Resolved Spectroscopy (QFRS) of Radiative 

Transitions of Er3+ and Nd3+ Ions in Chalcogenide Glasses (ChGs), Proceedings of 16 

ISCMP: Progress in Solid State and Molecular Electronics, Ionics and Photonics, Varna, 

September 2010. 

Aoki, T., Saitou, D., Fujimoto, K., Fujihashi, C., Shimakawa, K., Koughia, C. and Kasap, 

S. (2010). Quadrature Frequency Resolved Spectroscopy (QFRS) of Radiative 

Transitions of Er3+ and Nd3+ Ions in Chalcogenide Glasses (ChGs), Journal of 

Physics: Conference Series, Varna, September 2010, Paper No. 253, 1-13. 

Arasu, C. and Ko, S. (2010). PAPR reduction for improving performance of OFDM 

system, Int'l Conf. on Communication Control and Computing Technologies, Tamil 

Nadu, India, October, 77-82. 

Arasu, C., Lakshminarayanan, G. and Ko, S. (2011). High Speed Reconfigurable Viterbi 

Decoder for Wireless Standards, Int'l Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing & 

Transmission, Jeonju, Korea, March, 114-119. 

Bokharaiee, S., Nguyen, H. and Shwedyk, E. (2010). Spectrum Sensing for OFDM- 

Based Cognitive Radio, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Ottawa, 

Ontario, Canada, September 6-9, (6 pages) (CD Rom). 


Elsamahy, M., Faried, S.O. and Gokaraju, R. (2010). Impact of Midpoint STATCOM on 

the Coordination between Generator Distance Phase Backup Protection and Generator 

Capability Curves, 2010 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PES GM), 

Minneapolis, Minnesota USA, July 25-29, Paper No. 1138. 

Faried, S.O., El-Kharbawe, N.E. and Edris, A. (2010). The Use of Static Synchronous 

Series Compensator for Improving Power System Stability in Response to Selective- 

Pole Switching, IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT) Conference, 

Gothenburg, Sweden, October 11-13, 2010, Paper No. 1992284. 

Faried, S.O., Elsamahy, M., Edris, A. and Al-Amr, S. (2010). Impact of Phase- 

Imbalanced Series Capacitive Compensation on the Transient Recovery Voltage, IEEE 

Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT) Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, October 


Gokaraju, R., Rai, D. and Gole, A.M. (2010). Model-Reference Adaptive Control of 

Power System Stabilizers Using Surrogate Type Modeling Concepts, National Power 

Systems Conference, Hyderabad, India, December 15-17, 1-6 (CD Rom). 

Han, L., Chen, D., Wahid, K.A. and Ko, S. (2011). Nonspeculative Decimal Signed Digit 

Adder, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Rio de 

Janeiro, May, 1053-1056. 

Kalra, V., Wahid, K.A. and Dinh, A.v. (2011). Video Codec Comparative Analysis 

between H.264 and DIRAC PRO/VC-2, IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and 

Computer Engineering (CCECE), Niagara Falls, May, 951-955. 

Karki, R., Alferidi, A. and Billinton, R. (2011). Reliability Modeling for Evaluating the 

Contribution of Photovoltaics in Electric Power Systems, 37th IEEE Photovoltaic 

Specialists Conference, Seattle, WA, USA, June 19-24, (CD Rom). Available online at: 

http://www.ieee-pvsc.org/PVSC37 

Khan, T. and Wahid, K.A. (2010). Design of a Bridge to Randomly Access High Speed 

Image Sensor Pixels in Embedded Systems, IEEE International Conference on 

Electrical & Computer Engineering (ICECE),, Dhaka, Dec, 450-453. 

Khan, T. and Wahid, K.A. (2011). Design of a DVP Compatible Bridge to Randomly 

Access Pixels of High Speed Image Sensors, IEEE International Conference on 

Consumer Electronics (ICCE), Las Vegus, Jan, 911-912. 


Khan, T. and Wahid, K.A. (2011). Towards Design of a Bridge to Enable High Speed 

Image Sensors for Random Access, IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics 

(ICM),, Egypt, Dec, 431-434. 

Khan, T., Kabir, L. and Wahid, K.A. (2010). Design and Implementation of a Low Cost 

Electricity Meter Testing Bench, IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics & 

Applications (ISIEA), Malayasia, Oct 2010, 34-39. 

Klymyshyn, D.M., Aligodarz, M.T., Rashidian, A., Boerner, M. and Mohr, J. (2011). 

Photoresist-based Resonator Antenna Array, Proc. German Microwave Conference 

(GeMic 2011), Darmstadt, Germany, March, (3 pages). 

Klymyshyn, D.M., Boerner, M., Kissling, S., Haluzan, D., Wells, G., Schaffer, M., Gono- 

Santosa, E., Achenbach, S., Meyer, P. and Mohr, J. (2011). Mechanical Planarization 

with Electropolishing to Improve the Performance of High-Aspect-Ratio RF MEMS 

Circuits, Proc. High Aspect Ratio Micro-Structure Technology (HARMST 2011), 

Hsinchu, Taiwan and Himeji, Japan, June, (2 pages). 

Ko, S. and Wang, Z. (2011). Design and Implementation of a Radix-100 Decimal 

Division, Int'l Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing & Transmission, Jeonju, 

Korea, March, 130-133. 

Mostafa, A., Wahid, K.A. and Ko, S. (2011). An Efficient YUV-based Image 

Compression Algorithm for Wireless Capsule Endoscopy, CCECE, Niagara Falls, May, 

943-946. 

Nguyen, N.T., Nguyen, H., Tuan, H.D. and Dodds, D.E. (2011). Designs of Training 

Signals for Spatially Correlated Multi-User MIMO-OFDM, IEEE International Conference 

on Communications (ICC)-Signal Processing for Communications Symposium, Kyoto, 

Japan, June 5-9, (6 pages) (CD Rom). 

Pajuelo, E., Gokaraju, R. and Sachdev, M.S. (2010). Coordination of Overexcitation 

Limiter, Field Overcurrent Protection and Generator Control, IEEE PES General 

Meeting, Minneapolis, USA, July 25-29, 2010, Paper No. 2010GM1560, Panel Paper, 

IEEE Excitation Systems & Control Subcommittee, 1-6 (CD Rom). 

Pan, S., Rai, D., Faried, S.O. and Gokaraju, R. (2011). Damping Power System 

Oscillations Using a Hybrid Series Capacitive Compensation Scheme, IEEE Trondheim 

PowerTech 2011, Trondheim, Norway, June 19-23, (CD Rom). 


Phan, A., Tuan, H.D., Kha, H.H. and Nguyen, H. (2010). Nonsmooth Optimization- 

Based Beamforming in Multiuser Wireless Relay Networks, International Conference on 

Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS), Gold Coast, Australia, 

December 13-15, (6 pages) (CD Rom). 

Rai, D., Gokaraju, R. and Faried, S.O. (2010). Model Reference Adaptive Control of 

FACTS, National Power Systems Conference, Hyderabad, India, December 15-17, 1-6 

(CD Rom). 

Ralhan, A. and Ko, S. (2011). A Study on Machine Learning Algorithms for Fall 

Detection and Movement Classification, Int'l Conf. on Information Science and 

Applications, Jeju Island, Korea, April, 1-8. 

Rashid, U., Tuan, H.D., Kha, H.H. and Nguyen, H. (2010). Optimized Power Allocation 

by Semidefinite Programming and Unscented Transformation for Nonlinear Sensor 

Network, International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems 

(ICSPCS), Gold Coast, Australia, December 13-15, (6 pages) (CD Rom). 

Rashid, U., Tuan, H.D., Kha, H.H. and Nguyen, H. (2011). Semi-Definite Programming 

for Distributed Tracking of Dynamic Objects by Nonlinear Sensor Network, IEEE 

International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 

Prague, Czech Republic, May 22-27, (6 pages) (CD Rom). 

Rashidian, A., Aligodarz, M.T., Klymyshyn, D.M., Boerner, M. and Mohr, J. (2010). 

Photodefinable Microcomposites for Antenna Applications, Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. on 

Antennas and Propagation (APS 2010), Toronto, Canada, July, (4 pages). 

Rashidian, A., Klymyshyn, D.M., Aligodarz, M.T., Boerner, M. and Mohr, J. (2010). SU-8 

Resonator Antenna, Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. on Antennas and Propagation (APS 2010), 

Toronto, Canada, July, (4 pages). 

Tuan, H.D., Kha, H.H. and Nguyen, H. (2011). Error-Entropy based Channel State 

Estimation of Spatially Correlated MIMO-OFDM, IEEE International Conference on 

Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Prague, Czech Republic, May 22- 


Tuan, H.D., Tran, S., Tuy, H. and Nguyen, H. (2011). Optimum Multi-user Detection by 

Nonsmooth Optimization, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and 

Signal Processing (ICASSP), Prague, Czech Republic, May 22-27, (6 pages) (CD 


Rom). 

Unal, I., Rai, D. and Faried, S.O. (2011). Damping Power System Oscillations Using an 

SSSC-Based Hybrid Series Capacitive Compensation Scheme, IEEE Trondheim 

PowerTech 2011, Trondheim, Norway, June 19-23, (CD Rom). 

Wahid, K.A., Islam, M. and Ko, S. (2011). Lossless Implementation of Daubechies 8-tap 

Wavelet Transform, IEEE Int'l Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Rio de Janeiro, 

May, 2157-2160. 

Wahid, K.A., Martuza, M., Das, M. and McCrosky, C. (2011). Resource Shared 

Architecture of Multiple Transforms for Multiple Video Codecs, IEEE Canadian 

Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), Niagara Falls, May, 

947-950. 


Babiy, M. and Gokaraju, R. (2010). Detecting Minor Internal Faults in Transformers 

Using Negative Sequence Currents, Poster Presentation, IEEE Power Engineering 

Society General Meeting, Minneapolis, July 25-29. 

Errington, A.F.C., Daku, B.L. and Prugger, A.F. (2010). Closure Monitoring in Potash 

Mines using LiDAR, IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference (IECON 2010), Phoenix, 

Arizona, USA, November 7-10. 

Errington, A.F.C., Daku, B.L. and Prugger, A.F. (2011). A Model Based Approach to 

Intensity Normalization for Terrestrial Laser Scanners, LiDAR and RADAR 2011 

Symposium, Nanging, P.R. China, May 26-29. 

Fentie, D., Gokaraju, R. and Faried, S.O. (2010). Transient Modeling of the Sen 

Transformer, Poster Presentation, IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 

Minneapolis, U.S.A., July 25-29. 

Rai, D., Gokaraju, R. and Faried, S.O. (2010). Model Reference Adaptive Control of 

FACTS, Poster Presentation, IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 

Minneapolis, July 25-29. 

Ren, Y., Chen, L., Wen, S., Wong, R., Lin, C., Vonno, N., Witulski, A. and Bhuva, B. 

(2011). Single Event Transient Analysis of a DC-DC Converter, Silicon Errors in Logic - 

System Effects (SELSE 7), University of Illinois, IL, USA, March 29-30. 


Sawatzky, T., Gokaraju, R. and Faried, S.O. (2010). Application of Support Vector 

Machines to Identify a Loss of Excitation Condition on a Power System, Poster 

Presentation, IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, Minneapolis, July 25- 

29. 

Shrestha, B., Gokaraju, R. and Sachdev, M.S. (2010). Out-of-Step Protection Using 

State Plane Analysis, Poster Presentation, IEEE Power Engineering Society General 

Meeting, Minneapolis, July 25-29. 

Varoy, C.R., Koughia, C., Belev, G., Okada, G., Tonchev, D., Edgar, A. and Kasap, S. 

(2010). Radiation and Photo-Induced Valence Changes in Samarium Doped Glasses, 

6th Asian Photochemistry Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, November 14-18. 

Wang, T., Wang, K., Chen, L., Dinh, A.V., Bhuva, B. and Shuler, R. (2010). A RHBDLC- 

Tank Oscillator Design Tolerant to Single-Event Transients., IEEE Nuclear and Space 

Radiation Effects Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA, July 19-23. 


Aoki, T., Saitou, D., Fujimoto, K., Fujihashi, C., Shimakawa, K., Koughia, C. and Kasap, 

S. (Invited) (2010). Quadrature Frequency Resolved Spectroscopy (QFRS) of Radiative 

Transitions of Er3+ and Nd3+ Ions in Chalcogenide Glasses (ChGs), 16th International 

School on Condensed Matter Physics: Progress in Solid State and Molecular 

Electronics, Ionics and Photonics, Varna, September 2010. 

Belev, G., Koughia, C., Tonchev, D., Okada, G., Wysokinski, T. and Kasap, S. (Invited) 

(2010). Recent Developments in Rare-Earth Doped Glasses and Ceramics for 

Radiation Detection, 16th International School on Condensed Matter Physics: Progress 

in Solid State and Molecular Electronics, Ionics and Photonics, Varna, September 2010. 

Wei, C., Joly, A., Brunet, S., Hoffmeyer, R., Zhu, A., Sham, T.K., Belev, G., Bergstrom, 

J., Blyth, R., Dejong, M., Regier, T., Vogt, J., Kasap, S. and Sammynaiken, R. (Invited) 

(2010). Time Resolved X-Ray Excited Optical Luminescence (TRXEOL) of CaF2:ZnO 

Scintillators for Potential Medical Applications, 4th International Conference on Optical, 

Optoelectronic and Phtonic Materials and Applications (ICOOPMA10), Budapest, 

Hungary, August 2010. 

Plenary Lecture/Talk 

Kasap, S., Belev, G., Reznik, A. and Rowlands, J.A. (Plenary) (2011). Direct 

Conversion Flat Panel X-Ray Image Detectors: From Science to Commercialization, 

and Selecting the Best X-Ray Photoconductor, Fifth International Conference on 


Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (AMN-5), Wellington, New Zealand, February 

7-11. 


Boerner, M., Berger, M., Hahn, L., Jahns, J., Klymyshyn, D.M. and Et, A.L. (2010). 

Research activities in the LIGA laboratory at ANKA, Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie 

(Germany), (24 pages). 

Karki, R. and Billinton, R. (2011). Basic Generation Adequacy Evaluation of the 

SaskPower System, SaskPower, March, (59 pages). 

Karki, R. and Billinton, R. (2011). Generation Adequacy Sensitivity Studies on the 

SaskPower System, SaskPower, June, (108 pages). 


Billinton, R., Gao, Y., Huang, D. and Karki, R. (2011). Adequacy Assessment of Wind- 

Integrated Composite Generation and Transmission Systems, Chapter 4, Innovations in 

Power Systems Reliability, Edited by Anders, George; Vaccaro, Alfredo, Springer, 

London, UK, 141-168. Available online at: www.springer.com 

Tonchev, D., Belev, G., Koughia, C., Panigrahi, S., Varoy, C.R., Edgar, A. and Kasap, 

S. (2011). Thermally Induced Nanostructures in Samarium-Doped Glass Ceramics for 

X-Ray Sensor Applications, Chapter 27 in Nanotechnological Basis for Advanced 

Sensors, Edited by J.P. Reithmaier, P. Paunovic, W. Kulisch, C. Popov, and P. Petkov, 

Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 241-248. 

Published Book 

Wahid, K.A. (2011). Error-Free Implementation of the Discrete Cosine Transform, 

Edited by (PhD thesis published as book by LAP), Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP), 

ISBN: 978-3-8433-7632-7, Germany, (215 pages). 


MECHANICAL ENGINEERING – LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 


Adapa, P.K., Tabil, L.G. and Schoenau, G.J. (2010). Compression characteristics of 

non-treated and steam exploded barley, canola, oat and wheat straw grinds, Applied 

Engineering in Agriculture, 26(4), 1-16. 

Adapa, P.K., Tabil, L.G. and Schoenau, G.J. (2011). Grinding performance and physical 

properties of non-treated and steam exploded barley, canola, oat and wheat straw, 

Biomass and Bioenergy, 35, 549-561. 

Adapa, P.K., Tabil, L.G., Schoenau, G.J. and Opoku, A. (2010). Pelleting characteristics 

of selected biomass with and without steam explosion pretreatment, International 

Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, 3(3), 62-79. 

Afshin, M., Simonson, C.J. and Besant, R.W. (2010). Crystallization limits of LiCl-water 

and MgCl2-water salt solutions as operating liquid desiccant in the RAMEE system, 

ASHRAE Transactions, 116(2), 494-506. 

Arafin, M. and Szpunar, J.A. (2010). Modeling of grain boundary character 

reconstruction and predicting intergranular fracture susceptibility of textured and random 

polycrystalline materials, Computational Materials Science, 50(2), 656-665. Available 

online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2010.09.031 

Arafin, M. and Szpunar, J.A. (2011). Effect of bainitic microstructure on the susceptibility 

of pipeline steels to hydrogen induced cracking, Materials Science and Engineering A, 

528(15), 4927-4940. 

Bawolin, N.K., Li, M.G., Chen, D. and Zhang, W. (2010). Modeling Material- 

Degradation-Induced Elastic Property of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds, ASME Journal 

of Biomechanical Engineering, 132(11), 111001-7. 

Bawolin, N.K., Zhang, W. and Chen, D. (2010). A Brief Review of the Modelling of the 

Time Dependent Mechanical Properties of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds, Journal of 

Biomimetics, Biomaterials, and Tissue Engineering, 6, 19-33. 

Bharathy, P.V., Nataraj, D., Yang, Q., Chang, D., Mangalaraj, D., Yang, D. and 

Webster, T.J. (2010). Effect of nickel incorporation on structural, nanomechanical and 


iocompatible properties of amorphous hydrogenated carbon thin films prepared by low 

energy biased target ion beam deposition, Thin Solid films, 519(5), 1623-1628. 

Bharathy, P.V., Nataraj, D., Yang, Q., Mangalaraj, D. and Kiran, M.S.R.N. (2010). Effect 

of Titanium incorporation on the structural, mechanical and biocompatible properties of 

DLC thin films prepared by reactive-biased target ion beam deposition method, Applied 

Surface Science, 257(1), 143-250. 

Bi, Z., Lin, Y. and Zhang, W. (2010). The general architecture of adaptive robotic 

systems for manufacturing applications. Robotics and Computer-Integrated 

Manufacturing, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 26(5), 403-540. 

Chen, L., Hou, Z.G., Tan, M., Lin, Y. and Zhang, W. (2010). Neural-Network-Based 

Adaptive Leader-Following Control for Multi-Agent Systems with Uncertainties, IEEE 

Transactions on Neural Network, 21(8), 1351-1358. 

Cheng, L., Hou, Z.G., Lin, Y., Tan, M., Zhang, W. and Wu, F.X. (2011). A Recurrent 

Neural Network for Non-Smooth Convex Optimization Problems with an Application to 

the Identification of Genetic Regulatory Networks,, IEEE Transaction on Neural 

Networks, 22(5), 714-726. 

Cho, S.H. and Burton, R.T. (2011). Position control of High performance hydrostatic 

actuation system using a simple adaptive control (SAC) method, Mechatronics, 

21(Jan.), 109-115. 

Ding, J.D., Shi, J.H. and Wu, F.X. (2011). SVM-RFE based feature selection for tandem 

mass spectrum quality assessment,, International Journal of Data Mining and 

Bioinformatics, 5(1), 73-88. 

Fauchoux, M., Bansal, M., Talukdar, P., Simonson, C.J. and Torvi, D.A. (2010). Testing 

and modeling of a novel ceiling panel for maintaining space relative humidity by 

moisture transfer, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 53, 3961-3968. 

Fukuda, H., Szpunar, J.A., Kondoh, K. and Chromik, R. (2010). The influence of carbon 

nanotubes on the corrosion behaviour of AZ31B magnesium alloy, Corrosion Science, 

52(12), 3917-3923. 

Ghazy, A. and Bergstrom, D.J. (2010). Numerical simulation of transient heat transfer in 

a protective clothing system during a flash fire exposure, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part 

A: Applications, 58(9), 702-724. 


Guruvenket, S., Azzi, M., Li, D., Szpunar, J.A., Martinu, L. and Klemberg-Sapieha, E. 

(2010). Structural, Mechanical, Tribological, and Corrosion Properties of a-SiC:H 

Coatings Prepared by PECVD, Surface and Coatings Technology, 204(21-22), 3358- 

3365. Available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2010.03.031 

Hemingson, H.B., Simonson, C.J. and Besant, R.W. (2011). Steady-state performance 

of a run-around membrane energy exchanger (RAMEE) for a range of outdoor air 

conditions, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 54, 1814-1824. 

Hoseini, M., Meratian, M., Toroghinejad, M. and Szpunar, J.A. (2010). The role of grain 

orientation in microstructure evolution of pure aluminum processed by equal channel 

angular pressing, Materials Characterization, 61(12), 1371-1378. 

Jamaati, R., Toroghinejad, M., Hoseini, M. and Szpunar, J.A. (2011). Texture 

development in Al/Al2O3 MMCs produced by anodizing and ARB processes, Materials 

Science and Engineering A, 528(10-11), 3573-3580. Available online at: 

http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.msea.2011.01.056 

James, C., Simonson, C.J., Talukdar, P. and Roels, S. (2010). Numerical and 

experimental data set for benchmarking hygroscopic buffering models, International 

Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 53, 3638-3654. 

Kumar, K., Szpunar, J.A. and He, Z. (2010). Preferential Precipitation of Hydrides in 

Textured Zircaloy-4 Sheets, Journal of Nuclear Materials, 403(1-3), 101-107. Available 

online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2010.06.005 

Li, D., Guruvenket, S., Hassani, S., Bousser, E., Azzi, M., Szpunar, J.A. and Klemberg- 

Sapieha, J. (2010). Effect of Cr interlayer on the adhesion and corrosion enhancement 

of nanocomposite TiN-based coatings deposited on stainless steel 410, Thin Solid 

Films, 519(10), 3128-3134. 

Li, J.W., Chen, D. and Zhang, W. (2011). Axiomatic Design Theory Based Approach to 

Modeling Linear High Order System Dynamics, IEEE/ASME Transactions on 

Mechatronics, 16(2), 341-350. 

Li, J.W., Matias, E., Chen, N., Kim, C.Y., Wang, J., Gorin, J., He, F., Thorpe, P., Lu, Y., 

Chen, W.F., Grochulski, P., Chen, D. and Zhang, W. (2010). Investigations of 

Mechanical Vibrations for beamlines at the Canadian Light Source, Journal of 

Synchrotron Radiation, 18, 109-116. 


Li, Y.S., Pan, T.J., Tang, Y., Yang, Q. and Hirose, A. (2011). Selective synthesis of 

diamond and CNT nanostructures directly on stainless steel substrates, Diamond and 

Related Materials, 20, 187-190. 

Li, Y.S., Tang, Y., Yang, Q., Xiao, C. and Hirose, A. (2010). Effects of nano-scale Ni, Al, 

and Ni-Al interlayers on nucleation and growth of diamond on Si, Journal of Vacuum 

Science & Technology B, 28(5), 1056-1059. 

Li, Y.S., Tang, Y., Yang, Q., Xiao, C. and Hirose, A. (2010). Growth and adhesion 

failure of diamond thin films deposited on stainless steel with ultra-thin dual metal 

interlayers, Applied Surface Science, 256(24), 7653-7657. 

Lin, Y., Shi, Y. and Burton, R.T. (2011). Modeling and Robust Discrete-Time Sliding 

Mode Control Design for A Fluid Power Electrohydraulic Actuator (EHA) System, 

Transactions on Mechatronics, 3(4), 23-56. 

Mahmud, K., Mahmood, G.I., Simonson, C.J. and Besant, R.W. (2010). Performance 

testing of a counter-cross-flow run-around membrane energy exchanger (RAMEE) 

system for HVAC applications, Energy and Buildings, 42, 1139-1147. 

Maley, J., Sham, T.K., Hirose, A., Yang, Q., Bradley, M.P. and Sammynaiken, R. 

(2010). Chemical Reactions and Applications of the Reductive Surface of Porous 

Silicon, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 10(10), 6332-6339. 

Moazed, R., Fotouhi, R., Szyszkowski, W. and Bitner, D.V. (2010). Welded T-joint 

connections of square thin-walled tubes under a multi-axial state of stress, Journal of 

Strain Analysis for Engineering Design, 45, 629-646. Available online at: http://DOI: 

10.1243/03093247JSA609 

Modi, S., Tiwari, K., Lin, Y. and Zhang, W. (2011). On the architecture of a Human- 

Centered CAD agent system, Computer-Aided Design, 43(2), 170-179. 

Nie, X.D., Evitts, R.W., Besant, R.W. and Bolster, J. (2011). A New Technique to 

Determine Convection Coefficients with Flow through Particle Beds, Journal of Heat 

Transfer, 133(4), 1-8. 

Pan, T.J., Li, Y.S., Yang, Q., Feng, R.F. and Hirose, A. (2011). Internal oxidation and 

phase transformations of multi-phase Fe-Ni-Al and Fe-Ni-Al-Cr alloys induced by KCl 

corrosion, Corrosion Science, 53(6), 2115-2121. 


Qin, W., Szpunar, J.A. and Umakoshi, Y. (2011). Electron or ion irradiation-induced 

phase-change mechanism between amorphous and crystalline state, Acta Materialia, 

59(5), 2221-2228. Available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2010.12.025 

Raei, M., Toroghinezjad, M., Ashrafizadeh, F., Hoseini, M. and Szpunar, J.A. (2010). 

Effect of ARB Process on Textural Evolution of AA1100 Aluminum Alloy, Materials 

Science & Engineering A, 527(26), 7068-7073. Available online at: 

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2010.07.089 

Rasouli, M., Simonson, C.J. and Besant, R.W. (2010). Applicability and optimum control 

strategy of energy recovery ventilators in different climatic conditions, Energy and 

Buildings, 42, 1376-1385. 

Roels, S., Talukdar, P., James, C. and Simonson, C.J. (2010). Reliability of material 

data measurements for hygroscopic buffering, International Journal of Heat and Mass 

Transfer, 53, 5355-5363. 

Salimyanfard, F., Toroghinezjad, M., Ashrafizadeh, F., Hoseini, M. and Szpunar, J.A. 

(2010). Texture Evolution of Cooper Produced by Equal Channel Angular Pressing with 

Routes A and B, Materials Science & Engineering A, 527(23), 6260-6269. Available 

online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2010.06.029 

Salmasi, H., Fotouhi, R. and Nikiforuk, P.N. (2010). On the Stability of a Friction 

Compensation Strategy for Flexible-Joint Manipulators, Advanced Robotics, 24, 2059- 

2086. Available online at: http://DOI:10.1163/016918610X534268 

Shinneeb, A.M., Balachandar, R. and Bugg, J.D. (2011). Confinement effects in 

shallow-water jets, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 137(3), 300-314. 

Shinneeb, A.M., Bugg, J.D. and Balachandar, R. (2011). Coherent structures in shallow 

water jets, Journal of Fluids Engineering, 133(1), 1-14. 

Sumner, D. (2010). Two circular cylinders in cross-flow: a review, Journal of Fluids and 

Structures, 26, 849-899. 

Tang, Y., Li, Y.S., Yang, Q. and Hirose, A. (2010). Study of Carbide-Forming Element 

Interlayers for Diamond Nucleation and Growth on Silicon and WC-Co Substrates, Thin 

Solid films, 519(5), 1606-1610. 


Tang, Y., Li, Y.S., Yang, Q. and Hirose, A. (2011). Characterization of Hydrogenated 

Amorphous Carbon Thin Films by End-Hall Ion Beam Deposition, Applied Surface 

Science, 257, 4699-4705. 

Tang, Y., Li, Y.S., Zhang, C., Yang, Q. and Hirose, A. (2011). Synthesis of 

Cobalt/Diamond-like Carbon Thin Films by Biased Target Ion Beam Deposition, 

Diamond and Related Materials, 20(4), 538-541. 

Tonui, N. and Sumner, D. (2011). Flow around impulsively started square prisms, 

Journal of Fluids and Structures, 27, 62-75. 

Uju, W.A., Gikunoo, E. and Oguocha, I.N. (2011). XRD and XANES study of reactions 

in particulate Al-Mg alloy composites, Canandian Metallurgical Quarterly, 50(1), 54-60. 

Available online at: www.ingentaconnect.com 

Vakil, M., Fotouhi, R. and Nikiforuk, P.N. (2010). End-effector trajectory tracking of a 

flexible link manipulator using integral manifold, Int. J. of Systems Science, 

00(December), 1-13. Available online at: http://DOI:10.1080/00207721003710631 

Vakil, M., Fotouhi, R. and Nikiforuk, P.N. (2010). On the zeros of the transfer function of 

flexible link manipulators and their non-minimum phase behaviour, Proceedings of the 

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 

224, 1-14. Available online at: http://DOI: 10.1243/09544062JMES2106 

Vakil, M., Fotouhi, R. and Nikiforuk, P.N. (2011). Energy-based Approach for Friction 

Identification of Robotic Joints, Mechatronics, 21(3), 614-624. Available online at: 

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2010.12.007 

Vakil, M., Fotouhi, R. and Nikiforuk, P.N. (2011). Trajectory tracking for the end-effector 

of a class of flexible link manipulators, Journal of Vibration and Control, 17(1), 55-68. 

Available online at: http://DOI: 10.1177/1077546309350554 

Vakil, M., Fotouhi, R., Nikiforuk, P.N. and Heidari, F. (2011). A study on the free 

vibration of flexible-link flexible-joint manipulators, Proceedings of the Institution of 

Mechanical Engineers, Part C, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 225, 614- 

624. Available online at: http://DOI:10.1177/0954406211399517 

von Baeyer, C.L., Torvi, D.A., Hemingson, H. and Beriault, D. (2011). Water Circulation 

and Turbulence in the Cold Pressor Task: Unexplored Sources of Variance Among 

Experimental Pain Laboratories, Pediatric Pain Letter, 13(1), 13-16. 


Wang, H.D., Niu, C.H., Yang, Q. and Badea, I. (2011). Study on protein conformation 

and adsorption behaviors in nanodiamond particle-protein complexes, Nanotechnology, 

22(14 (145703)), 1-10. 

Wang, S., Burton, R.T. and Habibi, S. (2011). Sliding Mode Controller and Filter Applied 

to an Electrohydraulic Actuator System., Jounal of Dynamic Systems and Control, 

133(2), 0245041-0245047. 

Wang, S., Habibi, S. and Burton, R.T. (2011). The Smooth Sliding Mode Controller and 

Filter, Journal of Control and Intelligent Systems, 38(3), 130-139. Available online at: 

http://link.aip.org/link/?JDS/133/024504 

Wu, F.X. and Huan, J. (2011). Special Focus on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, 

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 8(2), 292-293. 

Yi, W. and Yang, Q. (2010). CVD Growth and Field Electron Emission of Aligned 

Carbon Nanotubes on Oxidized Inconel Plates without Addition of Catalyst, Diamond 

and Related materials, 19, 870-874. 

Yi, W. and Yang, Q. (2010). CVD Growth of Secondary Carbon Nanotubes and Its 

Effect on Field Electron Emission, Diamond and Related materials, 19, 923-926. 

Yu, J.G., Huang, D.S., Huang, K.L., Yang, Q., Zeng, D.M. and Hong, Y. (2011). 

NEXAFS Spectroscopy Study of Polymer Modified Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, 

Chinese Journal of Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (English), 27(6), 1224-1228. 

Zhang, W. and VanLuttervelt, C. (2011). Towards a Resilient Manufacturing System, 

CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, 60, 469-472. 

Zhang, W., Chen, Z.H., Ouyang, P., Wang, Y. and Huang, J. (2011). A Novel Iterationbased 

Controller for Hybrid Machine Systems for Trajectory Tracking at the End- 

Effector Level, Robotica, 29(2), 317-324. 

Zhang, Z., An, Q., Zhang, W., Tang, Y., Yang, Q. and Chen, D. (2011). Modelling of 

directional friction on a fully lubricated surface with regular anisotropic asperities, 

Meccanica, 46(3), 535-545. 

Zhang, Z.M., An, Q., Zhang, W.J., Yang, Q., Tang, Y.J. and Chen, D. (2011). Modeling 


of Directional Friction on a Fully Lubricated Surface with Regular Anisotropic Asperities, 

Meccanica, 46(3), 535-545. 


Adesola, O.A. and Odeshi, A.G. (2010). A comparative study of the compressive 

behaviour of 2099-T6 and 6061-T6 aluminum alloys under dynamic and quasi-static 

loading, Materials Science and Technology Conference 2010, Houston Texas, October 

17-21, 2010, 2075-2084 (CD Rom). 

Arafin, M. and Szpunar, J.A. (2010). A microtexture - microstructure model to simulate 

intergranular stress corrosion crack propagation in pipeline steel, International Pipeline 

Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Sept 27-Oct 1, 1-8. 

Einian, M., Bergstrom, D.J. and Sumner, D. (2010). Numerical simulation of the flow 

around a surface-mounted finite square cylinder, ASME 2010 3rd Joint US-European 

Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting (FEDSM2010), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 

August 1-5, Paper No. FEDSM-ICNMM2010-30394. 

Fauchoux, M., Simonson, C.J. and Torvi, D.A. (2010). Flow Visualization of Airflow 

Through a Rectangular Duct With Combined Heat and Mass Transfer, 14th International 

Heat Transfer Conference, Washington, DC, August 8-13, Paper No. IHTC14-22881. 

Fauchoux, M., Simonson, C.J., Torvi, D.A. and Talukdar, P. (2011). CFD modelling with 

buoyancy effects for a heat and moisture transfer ceiling panel, Proceedings of the 

ASME/JSME 2011 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference (AJTEC2011), Honolulu, 

Hawaii, March 13-17, Paper No. AJTEC2011-44121, (8 pages) (CD Rom). 

Fotouhi, R., Salmasi, H., Waheed, I. and Vakil, M. (2010). Trajectory planning for a 

wheeled mobile robot and its robotic arm, ASME International Mechanical Engineering 

Congress & Exposition (IMECE2010), Vancouver, BC, November 12-18, Paper No. 

IMECE2010-40800, (10 pages) (CD Rom). 

Hemingson, H.B., Simonson, C.J. and Besant, R.W. (2011). Effects of non-uniform 

channels on the performance of a run-around membrane energy exchanger (RAMEE), 

12th International Conference on Air Distribution in Rooms (ROOMVENT 2011), 

Trondheim, Norway, June 19-22, (8 pages). 

Huang, J., Ouyang, P., Cheng, L. and Zhang, W. (2010). A Hybrid Approach to Force 

Balancing of Robotic Mechanisms, Proceedings of ASME 2010 International 

Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Vancouver, Canada, November 12-18. 


Kumar, K. and Szpunar, J.A. (2010). Texture Inhomogeneity in Zircaloy-4 and Zr-1%Nb 

Cladding Tubes, Uranium 2010, Proceedings of the 3-rd International Conference on 

Uranium, Edited by E.K. Lam, J.W. Rowson, E. Ozberg, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 

Aug 15-18, 221-232. 

Li, J.W., Matias, E., Chen, D. and Zhang, W. (2010). Design of photon beam vibration 

measurement system for the CLS HXMA beamline, The ASME 2010 International 

Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Vancouver, Canada, Nov. 12-18, 2010. 

Li, J.W., Matias, E., Chen, D. and Zhang, W. (2010). Mechanical vibration measurement 

system at the Canadian Light Source, The Eighth International Workshop on Personal 

Computers and Particle Accelerators, Saskatoon, Canada, October 5-8, 2010. 

Li, S., Burton, R.T., Habibi, S., Schoenau, G.J. and Wu, F.X. (2010). Investigation of the 

Acceleration Effect on Dynamic Friction of EHA System, Bath/ASME Symposium on 

Fluid Power and Motion Control (FPMC 2010), Bath, UK, Sept 15-18, Paper No. N/A, 

(CD Rom). 

Liu, L.Z., Wu, F.X., Han, L.L. and Zhang, W. (2010). Structure Identification and 

Parameter Estimation of Biological S-systems, IEEE BIBM2010, Hong Kong, China, 

December 18-21, 329-334. 

Moazed, R., Fotouhi, R. and Henry, J. (2010). Experimental and numerical study on the 

fatigue strengths of mechanical versus laser cut T-joints, ASME International 

Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE2010), Vancouver, BC, 

November 12-18, Paper No. IMECE2010-40841, (10 pages) (CD Rom). 

Niwas, S., Palanisamy, P., Zhang, W., Mat-Isa, N. and Chibbar, R. (2011). Log-gabor 

wavelets based breast carcinoma classification using least square support vector 

machine, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, 

Penang, Malaysia, May 17-18. 

Odeshi, A.G. (2010). Thermal and Mechanical Behavior of Carbon Fiber Reinforced 

Phenolic Matrix Composites, 18th International Conference on Composites Engineering 

(ICCE-18), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, July 4-10, 2010, Paper No. 205 : Published on-line 

by World Journal of Engineering, vol 1, Supplement 2, 2010, paper 205, (CD Rom). 

Available online at: wjoe.hebeu.edu.cn 

Ouyang, P., Zhang, W. and Huang, J. (2011). Domain Contour Control for Robotic 


System, The 6th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, Beijing, 

China, June 21-23. 

Qin, W., Kumar, K. and Szpunar, J.A. (2010). Role of Crystal Misorientation in the 

Formation of Interlinked Hydride Configuration in Zircaloy-4, Uranium 2010, 

Proceedings of the 3-rd International Conference on Uranium, Edited by E.K. Lam, J.W. 

Rowson, E. Ozberg. CIM, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Aug 15-18, 213-220. 

Raj, A.D., Yang, Q., Mangalaraj, D., Wang, H.D. and Hirose, A. (2010). Preparation and 

characterization of nanostructured vanadium oxide thin films by hot filament CVD, 

Proceedings of the International Conference on Nanotechnology: Fundamentals and 

Applications, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, August 4-6. 

Rostamy, N., Akbari, S., Sumner, D. and Bergstrom, D.J. (2010). Calibration of triplewire 

probes using an artificial neural network, ASME 2010 3rd Joint US-European 

Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting (FEDSM2010), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 

August 1-5, Paper No. FEDSM-ICNMM2010-31198. 

Rostamy, N., Bergstrom, D.J., Sumner, D. and Bugg, J.D. (2010). An experimental 

investigation of the skin friction in a plane turbulent wall jet over smooth and rough 

surfaces, ASME 2010 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting 

(FEDSM2010), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 1-5, Paper No. FEDSM- 

ICNMM2010-30519. 

Sinha, A., Tiwari, K. and Zhang, W. (2010). Co-Evolutionary Immuno Particle Swarm 

Optimization with Penetrated Hyper-Mutation, Int. Conf. on Swarm, Evolutionary and 

Memetic Computing, Chennai, India, December 16-18. 

Sun, Z., Zhang, B., Huang, J. and Zhang, W. (2010). On a Mechatronics Approach to 

Balancing of Robotic Mechanisms: Redundant Servo Motor, Proceedings of 

International Conference on Advanced Mechatronics, Osaka, Japan, October 4-6. 

Szpunar, B. and Szpunar, J.A. (2010). Theoretical Investigations of Structural and 

Mechanical Properties of Uranium Oxides, Uranium 2010, Proceedings of the 3rd 

International Conference on Uranium, Edited by E.K. Lam, J. W. Rowson, E. Ozberg, 

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Aug 15-18, 221-232. 

Szpunar, B., Szpunar, J.A. and Oh, D. (2010). Stuctural and Mechanical Properties of 

Urania Oxidized to U3O8, 11th International Conference on CANDU Fuel, Niagra Falls, 

Ontario, Canada, Oct 17-20. 


Szpunar, J.A., Qin, W., Li, H. and Kumar, K. (2011). Roles of Texture in Controlling 

Oxidation, Hydrogen Ingress and Hydride Formation in Zr Alloys, Second International 

Conference on Advances in Nuclear Materials, India, Feb 9-11, Paper No. S3-A-IT-2, 

(75 pages). 

Szyszkowski, W. and Hill, D. (2010). Structural Charakterization of Electro-thermally 

Driven Micro-Actuators with Immeasurable Temperature-dependent Material 

Characterictics, Computational Methods and Experimentals XV, Tallin, Estonia, July 25- 

28, 339-351. 

Tian, L.P., Liu, L.Z. and Wu, F.X. (2010). Detecting Nearly periodical Expressed Genes 

from Their Microarray Time-Course Expression, IASTED 2010, Cambridge, 

Massachusetts, USA, November 1 ? 3,, Paper No. 8. 

Tian, L.P., Liu, L.Z. and Wu, F.X. (2010). Parameter Estimation Method for Improper 

Fractional Models and Its Application to Molecular Biological Systems, IEEE 

EMBC2010, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 31-September 4, 1477-1480. 

Tian, L.P., Liu, L.Z. and Wu, F.X. (2010). Parameter estimation method for Periodical 

Gene Identification, iCBBE2011, Wuhan, Jiangsu, China, May 10-12, (4 pages) (CD 

Rom). 

Tian, L.P., Lu, H.Y. and Wu, F.X. (2011). Nonlinear Model-Based Clustering for 

Periodically Expressed Gene Profiles, The 7th International Symposium on 

Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA, 11), Changsha, Hunan, China, May 

27-29, 2011, 62-66 (CD Rom). 

Tonui, N. and Sumner, D. (2010). The flow around an impulsively started square prism, 

ASME 2010 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting 

(FEDSM2010), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 1-5, Paper No. FEDSM- 

ICNMM2010-30036. 

Vakil, M., Fotouhi, R. and Nikiforuk, P.N. (2010). Parameter Identification of a Friction 

Model for Robotic Joints, Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering 

Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conf, Montreal, 

Quebec, Aug 15-18, Paper No. DETC2010-29141, (6 pages) (CD Rom). 

Vakil, R., Fotouhi, R. and Nikiforuk, P.N. (2011). Joint flexibility Versus Link flexibility for 

Flexible-link flexible-joint manipulators, 13th World Congress in Mechanism and 


Machine Science (IFTOMM2011), Guanajuato, México, June 19-25, Paper No. IMD- 

123, (10 pages) (CD Rom). 

Wang, H.D., Niu, C.H., Yang, Q. and Badea, I. (2010). Nanodiamond Particles for 

Protein Adsorption, Proceedings of the International Conference on Nanotechnology: 

Fundamentals and Applications,, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, August 4-6. 

Wu, F.X., Liu, L.Z. and Xia, Z.H. (2010). Identification of gene regulatory networks from 

time course gene expression data, IEEE EMBC2010, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 

31-September 4, 795-798. 

Zhang, J., McQuillan, I. and Wu, F.X. (2011). Parallelizing Peptide-Spectrum Scoring 

Using Modern Graphics Processing Units, IEEE ICCABS'11, Orlando. Florida, USA, 

Feb 2-5, 208-213. 

Zhang, W., Marco, P.G. and Ip, W.J. (2010). Robust Management of Virtual Enterprise, 

ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and 

Information in Engineering Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 22-22. 

Zhang, W., Ouyang, P. and Sun, Z. (2010). A novel hybridization design principle for 

intelligent mechatronics systems, Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced 

Mechatronics, Osaka, Japan, October 4-6. 

Zhang, W., Sun, Z. and Zhang, B. (2010). Resilient mechanisms, 2010 International 

Conference on Mechanism and Machine Science, Shanghai, China, July 21-25. 

Zhang, W., Sun, Z. and Zhang, B. (2011). On the concept of the resilient machine, The 

6th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, Beijing, China, June 

21-23. 


Bolster, J., Evitts, R.W. and Besant, R.W. (2011). Moisture Transfer with Silica Gel 

Agglomerate Coating, 5th International Granulation Workshop and Conference, 

Lausanne, Switzerland, June 20 - 22, (6 pages) (CD Rom). 

Gao, S., Besant, R.W. and Evitts, R.W. (2011). Experimental Study on the Hygroscopic 

Relationship to Fracture Strength of Potash Particulate Test Specimens, 5th 

International Granulation Workshop and Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 20 - 



Nie, X.D., Evitts, R.W. and Besant, R.W. (2011). Salt Deposit at Particle Contact Points, 

5th International Granulation Workshop and Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 

20 - 22, (6 pages) (CD Rom). 


Adesola, A. and Odeshi, A.G. (2011). Adiabatic shear band formation in AA 2099 

aluminum alloy, 23rd Canadian Materials Science Conference, Kelowna, BC, Canada, 

June 22 - 24. Available online at: http://2011cmsc.ok.ubc.ca/CMSC%20Program.pdf 

Bharathy, P.V., Pazhanivel, P., Nataraj, D., Yang, Q. and Mangalaraj, D. (2011). 

Antibacterial activity of carbon nitride and nickel incorporated carbon nitride 

nanocomposite thin film, First International conference on Composites and 

Nanocomposites, Kerala, India, January 6-9. 

Bharathy, P.V., Yang, Q., Nataraj, D., Silvestre-Albero, J., Yang, L. and Webster, T.J. 

(2010). Structural, mechanical and biocompatible properties of titanium incorporated 

diamond like carbon thin films prepared by low energy biased target ion beam 

deposition technique, Diamond 2010, Budapest, Hungary, September 5-10, Paper No. 

256. 

Bolster, J., Evitts, R.W. and Besant, R.W. (2010). Silica Gel Conglomerates Used for a 

Novel Desiccant Coating, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, 


Dolovich, A.T. (2010). Three-Dimensional Rigid Body Dynamics Using Only an Inertial 

Frame, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) Symposium, Saskatoon, 

Saskatchewan, September 7. 

Gao, S., Besant, R.W. and Evitts, R.W. (2010). Caking in Potash Fertilizers is a 

Problem Caused Primarily by Water Absorption, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering 

Conference, Saskatoon, SK, October 24th - 28th. 

Gao, S., Evitts, R.W. and Besant, R.W. (2010). Simulation of Potash Cake Strength by 

Discrete Element Method, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, 


Lanke, U., Walker, T., Olorunda, V., Stauffer, M., Odeshi, A.G., Quann, M., Trevors, A., 

Mason, S., O'Reilly, A., MacDonald, P., Saulnier, A., d'Entremont, J., Flett, E. and 

Cripps, K. (2010). Detection of magnetic circular dichroism in an extraterrestrial object: 

X-ray Photo Emission Electron Microscopy of an iron meteorite, 7th LEEM/PEEM 


International Workshop (LEEM-PEEM), New York, USA, August 8 - 13. Available online 

at: http://www.bnl.gov/leempeem7/files/pdf/program.pdf 

Li, Y.S., Tang, Y., Zhang, C., Yang, L., Yang, Q. and Hirose, A. (2011). Nanocrystalline 

diamond films deposited on Ti alloys, The International Conference On Metallurgical 

Coatings And Thin Films, San Diego, California, USA, May 1-6, Paper No. 68. 

Mostaghimi-Ghomi, H. and Odeshi, A.G. (2011). The effects of microstructure and 

geometry on mechanical properties of AISI 1340 steel under dynamic shock loading, 

23rd Candaian Materials Science Conference, Kelowna, BC, June 22-24, 2011, 

Kelowna, BC, Canada, June 22 - 24. Available online at: 

http://2011cmsc.ok.ubc.ca/CMSC%20Program.pdf 

Mostaghimi-Ghomi, H., Lanke, U. and Odeshi, A.G. (2010). XPEEM investigation of 

adiabatic shear bands in metal alloys, 7th International Conference on PEEM/LEEM, 

Ney York, USA, August 8-13, 2010. Available online at: 

http://www.bnl.gov/leempeem7/files/pdf/program.pdf 

Mostaghimi-Ghomi, H., Uday, L. and Odeshi, A.G. (2011). Investigation of damage 

evolution in HSLA steel under dynamic shock loading using X-ray Photoemission 

Electron Microscopy, Pipeline Materials Reliability Workshop for NSERC Strategic 

Network, Calgary, AB, Canada, April 8, 2011. 

Niakan, H., Yang, Q. and Sazpunar, J.A. (2010). Diamond-Like Carbon Thin Films by 

Ion Beam Deposition and Ion Beam Sputtering, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering 

Conference, Saskatoon, October 24-27, Paper No. 99. 

Niakan, H., Yang, Q. and Sazpunar, J.A. (2011). Effects of ion beam energy on 

structure and properties of diamond ]like carbon films synthesized by Ion Beam 

Deposition and Sputtering, 23rd Canadian Materials Science Conference, Kelowna, BC, 

June 22-24, Paper No. 55. 

Nie, X.D., Evitts, R.W. and Besant, R.W. (2010). Re-crystallization Near Contact Lines 

between Salt Particles, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Saskatoon, 

SK, October 24th - 28th. 

Odeshi, A.G. (2011). A novel approach to energy efficient manufacture of 

carbon/carbon composites, 23rd Canadian Materials Science Conference, Kelowna, 

BC, Canada, June 22- 24. Available online at: 

http://2011cmsc.ok.ubc.ca/CMSC%20Program.pdf 


Robson, L.D., Obach, M.R., Torvi, D.A. and Weckman, E.J. (2011). Predicting Full- 

Scale Fire Test Results of Polyurethane Foam Using Cone Calorimeter Data, 10th 

International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, College Park, MD, June 19-24. 

Saad, G. and Bugg, J.D. (2010). Velocity field measurements around a Taylor bubble 

rising in stagnant liquids, 2010 Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering, Saskatoon, 

SK, Canada, October 24-27. 

Samani, M.E. and Bergstrom, D.J. (2010). Use of POD to investigate large-scale 

structures in turbulent flow with rib-roughness, 63rd Annual Meeting of the Division of 

Fluid Dynamics (APS), Long Beach, California, Nov 21 - 23, Paper No. ED 4. 

Soleimani, M., Panigrahi, S., Tabil, L.G. and Oguocha, I.N. (2010). Crystallization and 

Mechanical Properties of Biofiber-Polypropylene Composites, 18th Annual Meeting of 

BioEnvironmental Polymer Society (BEPS)-Polymers & the Evironment: Emerging 

Green Technologies & Science, Toronto, Ontario, 13-15 October, Paper No. P37. 

Available online at: http://www.beps.org/downloads/BEPS_2010_DRAFT_Agenda.pdf 

Tang, Y., Li, Y.S., Yang, Q. and Hirose, A. (2011). A novel design of interlayers for 

diamond coatings growth on WC ]Co cutting tools, 23rd Canadian Materials Science 

Conference, Kelowna, BC, June 22-24, Paper No. 56. 

Wang, H.D., Yang, Q. and Niu, C.H. (2010). Fabrication of Nanodiamond Thin Films by 

Layer-by-Layer Assembly, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, 

Saskatoon, SK, Canada, October 24-27, Paper No. 41. 

Wang, H.D., Yang, Q. and Niu, C.H. (2010). Immobilization of Protein onto 

Nanodiamond Particles, Diamond 2010, Budapest, Hungary, September 5-10, Paper 

No. 344. 

Wang, H.D., Yang, Q., Niu, C.H. and Badea, I. (2011). Adsorption of Azo Dye onto 

Nanodiamond Surface, 23rd Canadian Materials Science Conference, Kelowna, BC., 


Xu, L.S., Yang, Q. and Chen, X.H. (2010). Controlled synthesis of High-orientated aaxis 

and c-axis AlN films by dual ion beam sputtering, Diamond 2010, Budapest, 

Hungary, September 5-10, Paper No. 364. 

Yang, L., Yang, Q., Li, Y.S., Zhang, C. and Tang, Y. (2011). Synthesis of 


diamond/carbon nanotube composite thin films by microwave plasma enhanced CVD 

and hot filament CVD, 23rd Canadian Materials Science Conference, Kelowna, BC, 


Zhang, C. and Yang, Q. (2010). Abrasive Wear Behavior of Diamond-like Carbon 

Coatings as Orthopedic Joint Material, 60th Canadian Chemical Engineering 

Conference, Sakatoon, SK, Canada, October 24-27, Paper No. 47. 

Zhang, C., Li, Y.S., Tang, Y., Yang, L., zhang, L. and Yang, Q. (2011). Adherent 

Nanocrystalline Diamond Thin Films Grown on Ti6Al4V Alloy, 23rd Canadian Materials 

Science Conference, Kelowna, BC, June 22-24, Paper No. 60. 


Dolovich, A.T. (Invited) (2011). The University Course and Learning - Is there a 

Connection?, Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness (GMCTE) Course 

Design Workshop, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 9. 

Simonson, C.J. (Invited) (2010). Air-to-air energy exchange for smart solar buildings, 

Solar Buildings Research Network (SBRN) and Industry and Stakeholders Workshop, 

Concordia University, Montreal, QC, August 25. 


Mahmood, G.I. and Simonson, C.J. (2011). Testing of NovelAire's enthalpy wheel 

during cold/frosting conditions, NovelAire Technologies LLC, January, (20 pages). 


Mirpuri, K., Szpunar, J.A. and Wendrock, H. (2010). Texture and Microstructure 

Dependence of Electromigration Defect Nucleation in Damascene Cu Interconnect 

Lines Studies in Situ by EBSD, Nanoelectronics, Chapter 2, Chapter 2, 

Nanoelectronics, McGraw-Hill Professional, NY, USA, 29-60. 

Shi, J.H. and Wu, F.X. (2010). Assigning probabilities to Mascot peptide identification 

using logistic regression, Advances in Computational Biology, Edited by Arabnia, Hamid 

R, Springer, New York, 229-236. 


PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING PHYSICS – LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 

Refereed Journals Publications 

Angus, J. R., Krasheninnikov, S. I. & Smolyakov, A. I. 2010. Kinetic theory of 

electromagnetic plane wave obliquely incident on bounded plasma slab. Physics of 

Plasmas, 17, 102115, pp.10. 

Asai, T., Itagaki, H., Numasawa, H., Terashima, Y., Hirano, Y. and Hirose, A. (2010). A 

compact and continuously driven supersonic plasma and neutral source. Review of 

Scientific Instruments, Volume: 81 Issue: 10 Article Number: 10E119. 

Bazylewski, P.F., Kim, K.H., Forrest, J.L., Tada, H., Choi, D.-H. and Chang, G.S. 

(2011). Side-chain effects on electronic structure and molecular stacking arrangement 

of PCBM spin-coated films. Chemical Physics Letters 508, 90-94, 5 pages. 

Beyer, P. B. P., De Solminihac, F., Leconte, M., Garbet, X., Waelbroeck, F. L., 

Smolyakov, A. I. & Benkadda, S (2011). Turbulence simulations of barrier relaxations 

and transport in the presence of magnetic islands at the tokamak edge. Plasma Physics 

and Controlled Fusion, 53, 054003, pp14. 

Bouaine, A., Green, R.J., Colis, S., Bazylewski, P., Chang, G.S., Moewes, A., Kurmaev, 

E.Z. and Dinia, A. (2011). Appearance of Ferromagnetism in Co-Doped CeO2 Diluted 

Magnetic Semiconductors Prepared by Solid-State Reaction. Journal of Physical 

Chemistry C 115, 1556-1559, 5 pages. 

Bourassa, A. E., McLinden, C. A., Sioris, C. E., Brohede, S., Bathgate, A. F., Llewellyn, 

E. J., and Degenstein, D. A (2011). Fast NO2 retrievals from Odin-OSIRIS limb scatter 

measurements, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 4, doi:10.5194/amt-4-965- 

2011, 965-972. 

Braun, C., Börger, S., Boyko, T., Miehe, G., Ehrenberg, H., Höhn, P., Moewes, A. and 

Schnick, W. (2011). Ca3N2 and Mg3N2: unpredicted high-pressure behaviour of binary 

nitrides, Journal of the American Chemical Society 133, 4307-4315. 

Chen, B., Ghezelbash, A.M., Kamali, V. and Setare, M.R. (2011). Holographic 

description of Kerr-Bolt-AdS-dS Spacetimes, Nuclear Physics B, 848, 108. 

Chishtie, F.A., Hanif, T., Jia, J., Mann, R.B., McKeon, D.G.C., Sherry, T.N. and Steele, 

T.G. (2011). Can the Renormalization Group Improved Effective Potential be used to 

estimate the Higgs Mass in the Conformal Limit of the Standard Model? Phys. Rev. 

D83 105009, 19 pages. 

Cooper, M., Martin, R.V., Sauvage, B., Boone, C.D., Walker, K.A., Bernath, P.F., 

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of ACE-FTS and OSIRIS Satellite retrievals of ozone and nitric acid in the tropical upper 

troposphere: Application to ozone production efficiency, Journal of Geophysical 

Research, 116, D12306, doi:10.1029/2010JD015056. 

Dick, R. (2010). Dimensional effects on electric potentials and fields in high-permittivity 

thin films and interfaces. Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS) 

6, doi:10.2529/PIERS100105131405, 569-575. 

Dreval, M., Xiao, C., Elgriw, S., Trembach, D., Wolfe, S., Hirose, A. (2011). 

Determination of radial location of rotating magnetic islands by use of poloidal soft x-ray 

detector arrays in the STOR-M tokamak. Review of Scientific Instruments Volume: 82 

Issue: 5 Article Number: 053503, May, 8 pages. 

English, N.J. and Tse, J.S. (2011). Density Fluctuations in Liquid Water, Physical 

Review Letters, 106, 037801, 4 pages. 

English, N.J. and Tse, J.S. (2011). Thermal conduction and phonon propagation in 

pressure-amorphized ices, Physical Review B, 83, 184114, 9 pages. 

English, N.J., Tse, J.S. and Gallagher, R. (2010). Thermal conductivity in amorphous 

ices from molecular dynamics, Physical Review B, 82, 092201, 4 pages. 

English. N.J. and Tse, J.S. (2011). Dynamical Properties of Hydrogen Sulphide Motion 

in its Clathrate Hydrate from Ab Initio and Classical Isobaric−Isothermal Molecular 

Dynamics, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 115, 6226, 7 pages. 

Evans, W.F.J., Gattinger, R.L., Slanger, T.G., Degenstein, D.A. and Llewellyn, E.J. 

(2010). Discovery of the FeO orange bands in the terrestrial night airglow spectrum 

obtained with OSIRIS on the Odin spacecraft, Geophysical Research Letters, 37, 

L22105, doi:10.1029/2010GL045310 – GRL Highlight paper and Research Spotlight 

paper in EOS. 

Gattinger, R.J., Evans, W.F.J., Degenstein, D.A. and Llewellyn, E.J. (2011). A spectral 

model of the FeO orange bands with a comparison between a laboratory spectrum and 

a night airglow spectrum observed by OSIRIS on Odin, Canadian Journal of Physics, 

89, doi:10.1139/P11-003, 239-248. 

Ghezelbash, A.M. (2010). Cosmological Solutions in Five Dimensional Minimal 

Supergravity, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 27, 245025. 

Ghezelbash, A.M., Kamali, V., Setare, M.R. (2010). Hidden Conformal Symmetry of 

Kerr-Bolt Spacetimes, Physical Review D, 82, 124051. 

Ghezelbash, A.M., Oraji, R. (2011). M-Branes on k-Center Instantons, International 

Journal of Modern Physics A, 26, 2927. 


Gillies, R.G., Hussey, G.C., Sofko, G.J., Ponomarenko, P.V. and McWilliams, K.A. 

(2011). Improvement of HF coherent radar line-of-sight velocities by estimating the 

refractive index in the scattering volume using radar frequency shifting, Journal of 

Geophysical Research, 116, A01302, doi:10.1029/2010JA016043. 

Green, R.J., Chang, G.S., Zhang, X.Y., Dinia, A., Kurmaev, E.Z. and Moewes, A. 

(2011). Identifying local dopant structures and their impact on the magnetic properties 

of spintronic materials. Physical Review B 83, 115207, 6 pages. 

Harnett, D., Kleiv, R.T., Moats, K., Steele, T.G. (2011). Near-Maximal Mixing of Scalar 

Gluonium and Quark Mesons: A Gaussian Sum-Rule Analysis. Nuclear Physics A 850, 

110-135. 

Haywood, J.M., Jones, A., Clarisse, L., Bourassa, A.E., Barnes, J., Telford, P., Bellouin, 

N., Boucher, O., Agnew, P., Clerbaux, C., Carslaw, K., Degenstein, D.A. and Braesicke, 

P. (2010). Observations and simulations of the eruption of the Sarychev volcano using 

the HadGEM2 climate model, Journal of Geophysical Research, 

doi:10.1029/2010JD014447. 

Ilgisonis, V. I., Lakhin, V. P., Smolyakov, A. I. & Sorokina, E. A. (2011). Geodesic 

acoustic modes and zonal flows in rotating large-aspect-ratio tokamak plasmas. Plasma 

Physics and Controlled Fusion, 53, 065008, pp 19. 

Ivko, S. V., Denysenko, I. B., Smolyakov, A. I. & Azarenkov, N. A. (2010). Dispersion of 

the surface magnetoplasmons. Problems of Atomic Science and Technology, 373-375, 

pp 3. 

Ivko, S., Smolyakov, A., Denysenko, I. & Azarenkov, N. A. (2010). Controlled 

anomalous transmission through plasma layers. Problems of Atomic Science and 

Technology, 129-131. 

Ivko, S., Smolyakov, A., Denysenko, I. & Azarenkov, N. A. (2011). Resonant 

transparency of a two-layer plasma structure in a magnetic field. Physical Review E, 84, 

016407, pp 7. 

Jang, M.H., Park, S.J., Park, S.J., Cho, M.-H., Kurmaev, E.Z., Finkelstein, L.D. and 

Chang, G.S. (2010). The Origin of the resistance change in GeSbTe films. Applied 

Physics Letters 97, 152113, 3 pages. 

Kleiv, R.T., Steele, T.G. (2011). Two-Loop QCD Renormalization and Anomalous 

Dimension of the Scalar Diquark Operator. Journal of Physics G38, 025001, 8 pages. 

Klug, D.D., Tse, J.S., Zhao, J.Y., Struhahn, W. and Alp, E. (2011). Dynamics of Kr in 

dense clathrate hydrates, Physics Review B, 83, 184116, 6 pages. 


Kozlovsky, A., Shalimov, S., Koustov, A., Lukianova, R. and Turunen, T. (2011). 

Spectral width of ionospheric F region HF radar echoes dependence upon electric field. 

In: XXV Geofysiikan paivat Oulussa, 11-12.05.2011, Geofysiikan Seura, Oulu, pp.63-66. 

Kozlovsky, A., Shalimov, S., Koustov, A.V., Lukianova, R. and Turunen, T. (2011). 

Dependence of spectral width of ionospheric F region HF echoes on electric field. 

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 116, Issue A7, A07302, 

doi:10.1029/2011JA016804. 

Lakhin, V. P., Ilgisonis, V. I. and Smolyakov, A. I. (2010). Geodesic acoustic modes 

and zonal flows in toroidally rotating tokamak plasmas. Physics Letters A, 374, 4872- 

4875. 

Leitch, A.A., Lekin, K., Winter, S.M., Downie, L.E., Tsuruda, H., Tse, J.S., Mito, M., 

Desgreniers, S., Dube, P.A., Zhang, S., Liu, Q., Jin, C.Q., Ohish, Y. and Oakley, R.T. 

(2011). From Magnets to Metals: The Response of Tetragonal Bisdiselenazolyl 

Radicals to Pressure, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133, 6051, 10 pages. 

Lekin, K., Winter, S., Downie, L, Bao, X., Tse, J.S., Desgreniers, S., Secco, R., Dube, P. 

and Oakley, R. (2010). Hysteretic Spin Crossover between a Bisdithiazolyl Radical and 

its Hypervalent -σ-Dimer, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132,16212, 13 

pages. 

Li, H., Xiao, C., Zhang, E., Singh, A.K. and Hirose, A. (2011). Measurement of neutral 

gas temperature in inductively coupled plasmas. Radiation Effects and Defects in 

Solids: Incorporating Plasma Science and Plasma Technology, 166, June, 399-407. 

Li, Y.S., Pan, T.J., Tang, Y., Yang, Q., Hirose, A. (2011). Selective synthesis of 

diamond and CNT nanostructures directly on stainless steel substrates. Diamond and 

Related Materials, Volume: 20 Issue: 2 Pages: 187-190. 

Li, Y.S., Tang, Y., Yang, Q. and Hirose, A. (2010). Effects of nanoscale Ni, Al, and Ni- 

Al interlayers on nucleation and growth of diamond on Si. Journal of Vacuum Science & 

Technology B, Volume: 28 Issue: 5 Pages: 1056-1059. 

Li, Z., Tse, J.S. and Qin, C.J. (2010). Bonding in the “111” Type Ferropnictide 

Superconductor LiFeAs. J. Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, 23, 579, 3 pages. 

Lim, W.L., Tse, J.S. and Iitaka, T. (2010). Pressure-induced structural changes and 

intermolecular interactions in crystalline silane-hydrogen, Physical Review Letters, 105, 

21550, 4 pages. 

Ma, J.G.Z., Hirose, A. and St-Maurice, J.-P. (2011). Nonlinear electrostatic ion-acoustic 

"oscilliton" waves driven by charge non-neutrality effects. Annales Geophysicae, 

Volume: 29 Issue: 1 Pages: 123-145. 


McLeod, J.A., Lukoyanov, A.V., Kurmaev, E.Z., Finkelstein, L.D. and Moewes, A. 

(2011). Nature of the electronic states involved in the chemical bonding and 

superconductivity at high pressure in SnO, JETP Letters 94, 146-150. 

Melnikov, A.V., Eliseev, L.G., Jiménez-Gómez, R., Ascasibar, E., Hidalgo, C., Chmyga, 

A.A., Ido, T., Khrebtov, S.M., Konies, A., Komarov, A.D., Kozachek, A.S., Krasilnikov, 

I.A., Krupnik, L.I., Liniers, M., Lysenko, S.E., Mavrin, V.A., Nagaoka, K., Ochando, M.A., 

De Pablos, J.L., Pedrosa, M.A., Perfilov, S.V., Smolyakov, A.I., Taschev, Y.I., Ufimtsev, 

M.V., Yamamoto, S. and Zhezhera, A.I. (2010). Study of Alfvén Eigenmodes in the TJ-II 

Stellarator, Plasma and Fusion Research, Volume 5, S2019. 

Motozaki, W., Nagatani, Y., Kimura, Y., Endo, K., Takemura, T., Kurmaev, E.Z. and 

Moewes, A. (2011). Evaluation of Antioxidant Activity and Electronic Structure of 

Aspirin and Paracetamol, Journal of Molecular Structure 985, 63-69. 

Pan, T.J., Li, Y.S., Yang, Q., Feng, R.F. and Hirose, A. (2011). Internal oxidation and 

phase transformations of multi-phase Fe-Ni-Al and Fe-Ni-Al-Cr alloys induced by KCl 

corrosion. Corrosion Science, Volume: 53 Issue: 6 Pages: 2115-2121. 

Ponomarenko, P. V., Waters, C. L. and St‐Maurice, J.‐P. (2010). Upstream Pc3‐4 

waves: Experimental evidence of propagation to the nightside 

plasmapause/plasmatrough, Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L22102, 

doi:10.1029/2010GL045416. 

Ponomarenko, P.V., St.-Maurice, J.-P., Hussey, G.C. and Koustov, A.V. (2010). HF 

ground scatter from the polar cap: Ionospheric propagation and ground surface effects. 

Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, A10310, doi:10.1029/2010JA015828. 

Raitses, Y. R. Y., Kaganovich, I. D., Khrabrov, A., Sydorenko, D., Fisch, N. J. and 

Smolyakov, A. (2011). Effect of secondary electron emission on electron cross-field 

current in e x b discharges. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 39, 995-1006. 

Sheese, P. E., Llewellyn, E.J., Gattinger, R.L., Bourassa, A.E., Degenstein, D.A., Lloyd, 

N.D. and McDade, I.C. (2011). Mesopause temperatures during the polar mesospheric 

cloud season, Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L11803, doi:10.1029/2011GL047437. 

Sheese, P.E., Llewellyn, E.J., Gattinger, R.L., Bourassa, A.E., Degenstein, D.A., Lloyd, 

N.D. and McDade, I.C. (2010). Temperatures in the Upper Mesosphere and Lower 

Thermosphere from OSIRIS observations of O2 A-band emission spectra, Can. J. 

Phys., 88, 919-925, doi:10.1139/P10-093. 

Smolyakov, A. I., Fourkal, E., Krasheninnikov, S. I. and Sternberg, N. (2010). Resonant 

modes and resonant transmission in multi-layer structures. Progress in 

Electromagnetics Research-PIER, 107, 293-314. 

St.-Maurice, J.‐P., Ambili, K. M. and Choudhary, R. K. (2011). Local electrodynamics of 


a solar eclipse at the magnetic equator in the early afternoon hours. Geophysical 

Research Letters, 38, L04102, doi:10.1029/2010GL046085. 

Taha, G., Rault, D. F., Loughman, R. P., Bourassa, A. E., and von Savigny, C (2011). 

SCIAMACHY stratospheric aerosol extinction profile retrieval using the OMPS/LP 

algorithm, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 4, doi:10.5194/amt-4-547-2011, 547- 

556. 

Tang, Y., Li, Y.S., Yang, Q. and Hirose, A. (2010). Study of carbide-forming element 

interlayers for diamond nucleation and growth on silicon and WC-Co substrates. Thin 

Solid Films, Volume: 519 Issue: 5 Pages: 1606-1610. 

Tang, Y., Li, Y.S., Yang, Q. and Hirose, A. (2011). Characterization of hydrogenated 

amorphous carbon thin films by end-Hall ion beam deposition. Applied Surface 

Science, Volume: 257 Issue: 10 Pages: 4699-4705. 

Tang, Y., Li, Y.S., Zhang, C.Z., Wang, J., Yang, Q. and Hirose, A. (2011). Synthesis of 

cobalt/diamond-like carbon thin films by biased target ion beam deposition. Diamond 

and Related Materials, Volume: 20 Issue: 4 Pages: 538-541. 

Titov, A.N., Yarmoshenko, Yu.M., Bazylewski, P., Yablonskikh, M.V., Kurmaev, E.Z., 

Wilks, R., Moewes, A., Tsurin, V.A., Fedorenko, V.V., Suvorova, O.N., Ketkov, S.Yu., 

Neumann, M., Chang, G.S. (2010). Charge Tranfer and band gap of ferrocene 

intercalated into TiSe2. Chemical Physics Letters 497, 187-190, 4 pages. 

Tse, J.S., Wang, X.D., Jiang, D.T., Chen, N. and Jiang, J.Z. (2010). High Energy 

Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction study of lead oxide silicate glasses at the Canadian Light 

Source, Nuclear Instruments and Methods, A, 144, 626, 3 pages. 

Uspensky, M.V., Janhunen, P., Koustov, A.V. and Kauristie, K. (2011). Volume cross 

section of auroral radar backscatter and RMS plasma fluctuations inferred from 

coherent and incoherent scatter data: a response on backscatter volume parameters. 

Annales Geophysicae, 29, 1081-1092. 

Vernier, J.-P., Thomason L., Pommereau , J.-P., Bourassa , A.E., Pelon , J., Garnier, 

A., Hauchecorne , A., Blanot , L., Trepte, C., Degenstein, D. A. and Vargas, F. (2011). 

Major influence of tropical volcanic eruptions on the stratospheric aerosol layer during 

the last decade, Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L12807, 

doi:10.1029/2011GL047563. 

Watanabe, M., Sofko, G.J., Yan, X., McWilliams, K.A., St.-Maurice, J.-P., Koustov, A.V., 

Hussey, G.C. and Hairston, M.R. (2010). Ionospheric convection signatures of the 

interchange cycle at small IMF clock angles, Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 

115, A12230, 2010 doi:10.1029/2009JA015041, 20 pp. 

Wilks, R.G., Chang, G.S., Kim, K.H., Choi, D.-H. and Moewes, A. (2011). Molecular 


orientation and optical luminescence properties of soluble star shaped oligothiophene 

molecules for organic electronic applications. Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and 

Related Phenomena 184, 355-359 (5 pages). 

Zatsepin, D.A., Kurmaev, E.Z., Moewes, A. and Cholakh, S.O. (2011). Electronic 

Structure of the Si-C-N Amorphous Films, Physics of the Solid State 53, 1806-1810. 

Zhang, W., Chang, J.F., Wan, B.N., Xu, G.S., Xiao, C.J., Li, B., Xu, C.S., Yan, N., 

Wang, L., Liu, S.C., M. Jiang, and P. Liu (2010). Fast reciprocating probe system on 

the EAST superconducting tokamak. Review of Scientific Instruments 81 113501, 

November, 7 pages. 

Conference Proceedings 

Bazylewski, P. and Chang, G.S. (2011). Side-chain Effects on Electronic Structure and 

Molecular Stacking Arrangement of PCBM spin-coated Films. 14th CLS Annual Users’ 

Meeting, June, Saskatoon, Canada. 

Bryant, C., McWilliams, K.A. and Frey, H. (2011). Localized Dayside Proton-Induced 

Auroral Emissions in the Cusp and Polar Cap, Abstract presented at 2011 Chapman 

Conference, The Relationship Between Auroral Phenomenology and Magnetospheric 

Processes, 27 February - 4 March, AGU, Fairbanks, Alaska. 

Bryant, C.R., McWilliams, K.A. and Frey, H.U. (2010). Localized Dayside Proton- 

Induced Auroral Emissions in the Cusp and Polar Cap, Abstract SM11A-1681 presented 

at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, 13-17 December, San Francisco, California. 

Chang, G.S. (2010). Spectroscopic characterization of organic semiconductors using 

XANES/XES. The 3rd PLS Summer School & Tutorials (5th Asia-Oceania Forum for 

Synchrotron Radiation Research Joint Conference), July, Pohang, Korea. 

Chang, G.S. (2011). Molecular Orbital Configuration and Stacking Order of 

pentacene/perfluoropentacene Blend Thin Films. 219 th Electrochemistry Society (ECS) 

Meeting and 3 rd International Symposium on Organic Semiconductor Materials, Devices 

and Processing, May, Montreal, Canada. 

Chang, G.S. (2011). Substrate dependence of molecular orbital reconfiguration of 

organic semiconductors. 6th International Conference on Molecular Electronics and 

Bioelectronics (M&BE6). March, Sendai, Japan. 

Chang, G.S., Bazylewski, P., Forrest, J. and Tada, H. (2010). Spectroscopic 

Determination of Molecular Stacking Structure for PCBM Thin Films. 9th International 

Conference on Nano-Molecular Electronics (ICNME 2010), December, Kobe, Japan. 


Chang, G.S., Kurmaev, E.Z. and Dinia, A. (2010). Local Electronic Structure of 3d- 

Impurities in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors. IV Euro-Asian Symposium “Trends in 

Magnetism“: Nanospintronics (EASTMAG-2010), July, Ekaterinburg, Russia. 

Forrest, J. and Chang, G.S. (2011). X-ray Spectroscopic Studies of Poly-chlorinated 

Biphenyls: Relation between Toxicity and Structure. 14th CLS Annual Users’ Meeting, 

June, Saskatoon, Canada. 

Frias, W., Smolyakov, A. and Hirose, A. (2010). Non-local energy transport in tunneling 

and plasmonic structures. In: SCHRIEMER, H. P. & KLEIMAN, R. N. (eds.) Photonics 

north 2010. Volume 7750, 27, pp11, Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering, Bellingham, 

Washington. 

Gamudi, S., Xiao, C. and Hirose, A. (2011). Studies of resonant interaction between 

magnetic islands and resonant helical fields in the STOR-M tokamak, CAP Annual 

Congress 2011, Physics in Canada, Vol. 67, no. 2, p. 37, June, Memorial University, St. 

John’s, Newfoundland. 

Garbet, X., Abiteboul, J., Benkadda, S., Bourdelle, C., Casati, A., Clairet, F., Dubuit, N., 

Falchetto, G., Fenzi, C., Futatani, S., Grandgirard, V., Guirlet, R., Gurcan, O. D., 

Hennequin, P., Heuraux, S., Hoang, G. T., Honore, C., Sabot, R., Sarazin, Y., Segui, J. 

L., Smolyakov, A., Trier, E., Vermare, L. and Villegas, D. (2010). Measurements and 

modeling of turbulent transport in the tore supra tokamak. In: SEN, A. & SHARMA, S. 

(eds.) International symposium on waves, coherent structures, and turbulence in 

plasmas, Volume: 1308 Pages: 75-84, AIP Conference Proceedings, American Institute 

of Physics - Melville, New York. 

Garbet, X., Abiteboul, J., Sarazin, Y., Smolyakov, A., Allfrey, S., Grandgirard, V., 

Ghendrih, P., Latu, G. and Strugarek, A. (2010). Entropy production rate in tokamak 

plasmas with helical magnetic perturbations. In: GARBET, X. & SAUTER, O. (eds.) 

Theory of fusion plasmas: Joint Varenna-Lausanne International Workshop, Journal of 

Physics: Conference Series 260 012010, pp7, Bristol: Iop Publishing Ltd., 30 August – 3 

September, Varenna, Italy. 

Green, R.J., Chang, G.S., Kurmaev, E.Z. and Moewes, A. (2011). Chasing Down High- 

Speed Computing. 14th CLS Annual Users’ Meeting, June, Saskatoon, Canada. 

Hubeny, M., Xiao, C. and Hirose, A. (2011). Geodesic acoustic mode on STOR-M 

tokamak, CAP Annual Congress 2011, Physics in Canada Vol. 67, no. 2, p. 37, June, 

Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland. 

Jimenez-Mier, J., Herrera-Perez, G., Olalde-Velasco, P., Carabali, G., Chavira, E., de la 

Mora, P., Yang, W.L., Denlinger, J., Moewes, A. and Wilks, R. (2011). Electron 

dynamics of transition metal compounds studied with resonant soft x-ray scattering, 

Proceedings of 6th International Symposium on Radiation Physics, – Revista Mexicana 

de la Fisica 57, 6-13, March 7-10, Zacatecas, Mexico. 


Li, X., He, L., Li, Y. and Hirose, A. (2011). Direct Coating Diamond Film on Fe-base 

Alloy Substrate: A Detailed TEM Analysis of the Microstructure and Composition at the 

Interface. 2011 World Carbon Conference (Carbon’2011), July 24-29, Shanghai, China. 

Li, Y. and Hirose, A. (2011). Adherent diamond coatings directly grown on transition 

metals: a synchrotron-assisted analysis. The 6th International Symposium on Functional 

Coatings and Surface Engineering, June 5-8, Montreal, Canada. 

Li, Y.S. and Hirose, A (2010). Synthesis of cobalt/diamond-like carbon thin films by 

biased target ion beam deposition. 21 st European Conference on Diamond, Diamond- 

Like Materials and Carbon Nanotubes, September 5-9, Budapest, Hungary. 

Li, Y.S., Tang, Y., Yang, Y. and Hirose, A. (2011). Adherent nanocrystalline diamond 

coatings deposited on Ti substrate at moderate temperatures. 38 th International 

Conference on Metallurgical Coatings & Thin films, May 2-6, San Diego, California, 

USA. 

Liu, D., Xiao, C. and Hirose, A. (2011). Physical Design and Performance Prediction of 

the Saskatchewan Torus Upgrade (STOR-U) Tokamak. 32ND Annual Candian Nuclear 

Society Conference, paper 85, CD-ROM ISBN # 978-1-926773-04-9, June 5-8, Niagara 

Falls, Ontario, Canada. 

McLeod, J.A., Green, R.J., Skorikov, N.A., Finkelstein, L.D., Abu-Samak, M., Kurmaev, 

E.Z. and Moewes, A. (2011). Valence Structure of Alkaline and Post-Transition Metal 

Oxides, Vol. 7940, Article number 79400R, proceedings of the SPIE2011, January 23, 

San Francisco, California. 

McWilliams, K.A. and Huyghebaert, D.R. (2010). The Influence of Solar Sector 

Structure on the Ionosphere, Abstract SM14A-06 presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, 

13-17 December, San Francisco, California. 

Onchi, T., Xiao, C., Asai, T., Liu, D. and Hirose, A. (2011). Plasmoid injection 

experiments in STOR-M tokamak, CAP Annual Congress 2011, Physics in Canada Vol. 

67, no. 2, p. 37, June, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland. 

Poyé, A., Agullo, O., Smolyakov, A., Benkadda, S. and Garbet, X. (2011). Global profile 

effects on magnetic islands and current sheets formation. P1.075, pp4, 38th European 

Conference on Plasma Physics, 27 June – 1 July, Strasbourg, France. 

Rangacharyulu, C. and Haven, E. (2010). Structures and Symmetries in Physics, 

Proceedings for First Interdisciplinary CHESS Interactions Conference (227-240), Eds., 

World Scientific Publishing. 

Sadowski, J. and Tanaka, K. (2011). Nanoscale Inhomogeneity in a Superconductor, 

CAP Congress Abstracts, June, St. John’s, Newfoundland. 


Sadowski, J. and Tanaka, K. (2011). Interplay of Charge Density Modulations and 

Superconductivity, APS Annual Meeting Abstracts, 21-25 March, Dallas, Texas. 

Smolyakov, A., Benkadda, S., Garbet, X. and Agullo, O. (2010). The interchange and 

geodesic acoustic type modes in two-fluid theory, 52nd Annual Meeting of the APS 

Division of Plasma Physics, Volume 55, Number 15, BAPS.2010.DPP.PP9.119, 8-12 

November, Chicago, Illinois. 

Sorokina, E., Ilgisonis, V., Lakhin, V., Smolyakov, A. and Khalzov, I. (2010). Global 

Geodesic Acoustic Modes in Tokamak Plasmas, 52nd Annual Meeting of the APS 

Division of Plasma Physics, Volume 55, Number 15, BAPS.2010.DPP.BP9.133, 8-12 

November, Chicago, Illinois. 

Tanaka, K. and Tse, J.S. (2011). Hydrides under pressure: structure and 

superconductivity, an invited paper, the Study of Matter at Extreme Conditions -- 

SMEC2011 International Conference, 27 March – 2 April, Depart from Miami, Florida 

(Caribbean Cruise). 

Tang, Y., Li, Y.S., Yang, Q. and Hirose, A (2011). A novel design of interlayers for 

diamond coatings growth on WC‐Co cutting tools. 23 rd Canadian Materials Science 

Conference, June 22 – 24, University of British Columbia - Okanagan Campus, 

Kelowna, BC. 

Xiao, C., Elgriw, S., Liu, D., Trembach, D., Asai, T. and Hirose, A. (2010). Control of 

MHD Instabilities in the STOR-M Tokamak using Resonant Helical Coils. IAEA Fusion 

Energy Conference 2010, Rep. of Paper No. EXS/P5-15, 

http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Meetings/PDFplus/2010/cn180/cn180_papers/exs_p5- 

15.pdf, 11-16 October, Daejon, Korea. 

Books, Chapters in Books, Expository and Review Articles 

English, N.J. and Tse, J.S. (2010). Perspectives on Hydrate Thermal Conductivity, 

Energies, 3, 1934, (9 pages). 

Li, Y. and Hirose, A (2011). Chapter 10 “Plasma Enhanced CVD Diamond Coatings on 

Transition Metal Substrates: An Interfacial Chemistry Study by Synchrotron Radiation,” 

in Diamonds: Properties, Synthesis and Applications, edited by Timm Eisenberg and 

Emilie Schreiner, Nova Science Publishers, Inc. (Accepted: June 15). 

Tse, J.S. (2010). Intrinsic hardness of Crystalline Solids, J. Superhard Mater., 32, 177- 

191, (14 pages). 

Tse, J.S. and Boldyreva, E.V. (2011). Electron density of crystalline solids at high 

pressure, in Modern Charge Density Analysis, ed. C. Gatti and P. Macchi, Springer- 

Verlag, (41 pages+28 figures). 

Tse, J.S. and Yang, J.J. (2011). Theoretical methods for the modeling of Li ion battery 


materials, in Lithium Ion Batteries: Advanced Materials and Technologies, ed. X. Yuan, 

H. Liu and J. Zhang, Francis and Taylor, CRC Press (50 pages). 

Conference Presentations (including meetings, lectures) 

Bourassa, A.E. (2011). OSIRIS Aerosol Measurements and Comparisons, SPARC 

(Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate) Data Initiative, June, Bern, 

Switzerland. 

Bourassa, A.E., Degenstein, D.A., Lloyd, N.D. and the OSIRIS Team (2010). OSIRIS 

Measurements of Stratospheric Aerosol, COSPAR Scientific Assembly, July, Bremen, 

Germany. 

Bryant, C.R., Sofko, G.J. and McWilliams, K.A. (2011). Bartels Sector Index and the 

solar cycle, Canadian Association of Physicists, Division of Atmospheric and Space 

Physics (DASP) Meeting, 21-22 February, Saskatoon, SK, Canada. 

Chang, G.S. (2010). Spectroscopic Characterization of Organic Semiconductors using 

XANES and XES. Invited Lecture at the Division of Materials Physics, Osaka University, 

October, Osaka, Japan. 

Chang, G.S. (2011). Spectroscopic Characterization of Molecular Orbitals and Stacking 

of Organic Semiconductor Films. Invited Lecture at Institute of Applied Physics, 

University of Giessen, May, Giessen, Germany. 

Chang, G.S. (2011). Spectroscopic Characterization of Molecular Orbitals and Stacking 

Order of Organic Molecules. Invited Lecture at Department of Environmental Science 

and Ecological Engineering, Korea University, June, Seoul, Korea. 

Cooper, M., Martin, R.V., Sauvage, B., Boone, C.D., Walker, K.A., Bernath, P.F., 

McLinden, C.A., Degenstein, D.A. Volz-Thomas, C. and Wespes. (2010). Evaluation of 

ACE-FTS and OSIRIS Satellite Retrievals of Ozone and Nitric Acid in the Upper 

Troposphere: Application to Ozone Production Efficiency, iCACGP-IGAC Assembly, 

July, Halifax Canada. 

Degenstein, D.A. (2010). The OSIRIS Overview, Joint OSIRIS--‐Ace Science Team 

Meeting, October, Toronto, Ontario. 

Degenstein, D.A. and Bourassa, A.E. (2010). The OSIRIS Stratospheric Aerosol Time 

Series, CASS Science Team Meeting, October, Toronto, Ontario. 

Degenstein, D.A. and Bourassa, A.E. (2011). The OSIRIS Aerosol Time Series, 

SPARC (Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate) Data Initiative, November, 

Bern, Switzerland. 


Degenstein, D.A., Bourassa, A.E., Lloyd, N.D. and the OSIRIS Team (2010). OSIRIS 

on Odin - Nine Years of Vertical Ozone Profiles, COSPAR Scientific Assembly, July, 

Bremen, Germany. 

Degenstein, D.A., Bourassa, A.E., McLinden, C. and Lloyd, N.D. (2010). OSIRIS on 

Odin: A decade of data, Eos Trans. AGU, 91(26), Meeting of the Americas, Abstract 

A21C-07, August, Brazil. 

Dick, R. (2010). Dimensional Effects on Electric Potentials and Fields in High- 

Permittivity Thin Films and Interfaces. Invited talk at PIERS (Progress in 

Electromagnetics Research Symposium). The invitation was issued by Dr. Tarek 

Habashy, Schlumberger Doll Research, 5-8 July, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

Elgriw, S., Xiao, C., Hirose, A, Asai, T. and Liu, D. (2011). Studies of Resonant 

Interaction between Magnetic Islands and Resonant Helical Fields in the STOR-M 

Tokamak, Abstract 177-(T3-6-2), CAP Annual Congress, June 13-17, Memorial 

University, Newfoundland, Canada. 

Evans W.F.J., Gattinger, R.L., Llewellyn, E.J., Degenstein, D.A. and Slanger, T.G. 

(2010). Discovery of a new orange feature from FeO in the night airglow with the 

OSIRIS spectrograph, Abstract SA52A-08 presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, 13-17 

December, San Francisco, California. 

Fiori, R.A.D., Boteler, D. and Koustov, A.V. (2011). Magnetometer and radar study of 

the ionospheric convection response to sudden changes in the interplanetary magnetic 

field. Abstracts of SuperDARN-2011 Workshop, p. 21, May 30-June 3, Dartmouth 

College, Hanover, NH, USA. 

Ghezelbash, M. (2011). Holographic Description of Kerr-Bolt-(A)dS Spacetimes, Black 

Holes VIII, May 11, Niagara Falls, Canada. 

Ghezelbash, M. (2010). Cosmological Solutions in Einstein-Maxwell Theory, 19th 

international conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR19), July 6, New 

Mexico, Mexico. 

Ghezelbash, M. (2010). Supersymmetric Fully Localized Intersecting D-Brane Systems, 

18th International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental 

Interactions, (SUSY 10), August 23, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany. 

Ghezelbash, M. (2011). Hidden Conformal Symmetry of Spacetimes with NUT Twists, 

Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) 2011 Congress, June 17, Memorial 

University of Newfoundland, Newfoundland, Canada. 

Ghezelbash, M., Koustov, A.V., Mori, D. and André, D. (2011). PolarDARN HF echo 

occurrence near winter magnetic noon. ePOP Science Meeting #14, May 16-19, 

Calgary, Alberta. 


Ghezelbash, M., Liu, H., Koustov, A.V. and Andre, D. (2011). F-region echo occurrence 

in the polar cap: A comparison of PolarDARN and Saskatoon data. Abstracts of 

SuperDARN-2011 Workshop, p. 13, May 30-June 3, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 

USA. 

Ghezelbash, M., Liu, H., Koustov, A.V. and Andre, D. (2011). PolarDARN radar echo 

occurrence in the polar cap. Abstracts of DASP (CAP) Annual Meeting, p. 9. Feb 21-22, 

Saskatoon. 

Gillies, D.M., St. Maurice, J.-P., McWilliams, K. and Milan, S. (2011). The effect of 

sudden storm commencement associated with geomagnetic storms on ionospheric 

properties detected by the SuperDARN radar network, Canadian Association of 

Physicists, Division of Atmospheric and Space Physics (DASP) Meeting, 21-22 

February, Saskatoon, SK, Canada. 


(2011). Electron density estimates of the radar scattering volume for the Radio 

Receiver Instrument (RRI)-SuperDARN experiment on the ePOP mission, 2011 

SuperDARN Workshop, 30 May – 3 June, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA. 


(2011). Improving velocity measurements made by HF coherent radars by estimating 

the electron density and refractive index in the scattering volume using radar frequency 

shifting, Canadian Association of Physicists, Division of Atmospheric and Space 

Physics (DASP) Meeting, 21-22 February, Saskatoon, SK, Canada. 

Heard, I.P.C., Manning, A.J., Haywood, J.M., Witham, C., Redington, A., Jones, A., 

Clarisse, L. and Bourassa, A. (2011). A comparison of atmospheric dispersion model 

predictions with observations of SO2 and sulphate aerosol from volcanic eruptions, 

AGU Chapman Conference on Advances in Lagrangian Modeling of the Atmosphere 

Hirose, A. and Weiland, J. (2011). Two-fluid analysis of the geodesic acoustic mode in 

tokamaks. CNR-Chalmers Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena in Fusion Plasmas, 

June 8-10, Varenna, Italy. 

Hubeny, M., Xiao, C. and Hirose, A. (2011). Geodesic acoustic mode on STOR-M 

tokamak” Abstract 241-(T3-6-4), CAP Annual congress, June 13-17, Memorial 


Hultgren, K., Gumbel, J., Degenstein, D.A., Bourassa, A.E., McLinden, C. and Lloyd, 

N.D. (2010). Tomographic Studies of Noctilucent Clouds, Abstract SA21A-1761 

presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, 13-17 December, San Francisco, California. 

Hussey, G.C. (2011). Electron density investigations of radar, scattering volumes in the 

ionosphere, Spring 2011 Seminar Series “At the bleeding-edge of EAS”, Earth and 

Atmospheric Sciences, 16 February, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. 


Hussey, G.C., Gillies, R.G., Sofko, G.J. and James, H.G. (2011). The radio wave power 

distribution at HF frequencies as modeled for Radio Receiver Instrument (RRI) 

investigations on the ePOP satellite mission, 2011 SuperDARN Workshop, 30 May – 3 

June, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA. 

Huyghebaert, D. and McWilliams, K.A. (2011). Solar sector structure correlations with 

SuperDARN groundscatter and incoherent scatter radar readings, Canadian 

Association of Physicists, Division of Atmospheric and Space Physics (DASP) Meeting, 

21-22 February, Saskatoon, SK, Canada. 

Koustov, A.V., Ponomarenko, P.V. and Gelleta, J. (2011). PolarDARN radars: Skip 

distance and the equatorward edge of the ionospheric F-region scatter. ePOP Science 

Meeting #14, May 16-19, Calgary, Alberta. 

Koustov, A.V., Shalimov, S. and Kozlovsky, A. (2010). Dependence of spectral width of 

polar cap HF echoes upon electric field. Abstracts of the 2010 AGU Fall Meeting, 

SM11A-1683, 13-17 December, San Francisco, California. 

Koustov, A.V., Toderian, S. and Jayachandran, P.T. (2011). Spectral width of F-region 

PolarDARN echoes, a statistical assessment. Abstracts of SuperDARN-2011 Workshop, 

p. 13, May 30-June 3, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA. 

Koustov, A.V., Toderian, S. and Jayachandran, P.T. (2011). Spectral width of 

PolarDARN echoes. Abstracts of DASP (CAP) Annual Meeting, p. 15, February 21-22, 

Saskatoon, SK. 

Liu, D., Xiao, C. and A. Hirose (2010). Physical Design and Transport Simulation of the 

STOR-U Tokamak, Abstract: CP9.00077, 52nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of 

Plasma Physics, November 8–12; Chicago, Illinois. 

Liu, D., Xiao, C. and Hirose, A. (2011). Physical Design and Performance Prediction of 

the Saskatchewan Torus Upgrade (STOR-U) Tokamak. Annual Conference of the 

Canadian Nuclear Society, (Presented by D. Liu), June, Niagara Falls, Ontario. 

Lloyd, N D, Degenstein, D.A., Bourassa, A.E. and McLinden, C. (2010). Odin-OSIRIS 

Tangent Altitude Registration Techniques and Results, AGU Meeting of the Americas, 

August, Brazil. 

Lloyd, N.D, Degenstein, D.A., Bourassa, A.E. and McLinden, C. (2010). Odin-OSIRIS 

Tangent Altitude Registration Techniques and Results, Eos Trans. AGU, 91(26), Meet. 

Am. Suppl., Abstract A31A-03. 

Moewes, A. (2010). Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy with synchrotron radiation as 

a powerful tool for Materials Research, Invited lecture at third CLS Teacher’s workshop, 

9 August, Saskatoon, SK. 


Moewes, A. (2011). Invited talk at International Workshops on Photoionization and 

Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering, May 22-27, Las Vegas, Nevada. 

Mori, D., Toderian, S., Koustov, A.V. and Jayachandran, P.T. (2011). PolarDARN 

velocities: Are they consistent with SuperDARN and CADI measurements? Abstracts of 

DASP (CAP) Annual Meeting, p.19, Feb 21-22, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. 

Onchi, T., Liu, D., Asai, T., Xiao, C., Hirose, A. and Wolfe, S. (2011). Plasmoid injection 

experiment in STOR-M Tokamak Abstract CAP Annual congress, June 13-17, Memorial 


Perry, G. and St-Maurice, J.-P. (2011). The interconnection between cross-polar cap 

convection and the luminosity of polar cap patches. Oral presentation at the DASP, 

Saskatoon meeting of Feb 2011 and Student poster at the CEDAR annual workshop, 

June, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

Perry, G.W. and Hussey, G.C. (2010). Optimization of a 50 MHz Frequency Modulated 

Continuous Wave Radar system for the study of auroral E-region coherent backscatter, 

AGU 2010 Fall Meeting, 13–17 December San Francisco, CA, USA. 

Perry, G.W. and Hussey, G.C. (2011). Optimization of a 50 MHz Frequency Modulated 

Continuous Wave radar system for the study of auroral E-region coherent backscatter, 

2011 DASP Winter Workshop, 20–22 February, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. 

Ponomarenko, P., Koustov, A. and St. –Maurice, J.P. (2011). Expanding Diagnostic 

Capabilities of Super Dual Auroral Radar Network, XXV IUGG General Assembly, 

Program handbook, p.220, 28 June-07 July, Melbourne, Australia. 

Ponomarenko, P., Waters, C. and St. –Maurice, J.P. (2011). Observation of Upstream 

Pc3-4 ULF Waves Near the Nightside Plasmapause, XXV IUGG General Assembly, 

Program handbook, p.156, 28 June-07 July, Melbourne, Australia. 

Ponomarenko, P., Wiid, J., Koustov, A. and St.-Maurice, J.-P. (2011). Making sense of 

SuperDARN elevation: Phase offset and variance, SuperDARN 2011 Workshop, 

Program and Abstracts, p. 7, 29 May-03 June, Thayer School of Engineering, 

Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA. 

Ponomarenko, P., Wiid, J., Koustov, A. and St.-Maurice, J.-P. (2011). Making sense of 

SuperDARN elevation: Ionospheric diagnostics, SuperDARN 2011 Workshop, Program 

and Abstracts, p. 15, 29 May-03 June, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth 

College, Hanover, NH, USA. 

Ponomarenko, P.V., St.-Maurice, J.-P., Hussey, G.C. and Koustov, A.V. (2011). 

Mountains, ice and waves: Statistics of HF ground scatter from the Northern polar cap, 

2011 DASP Winter Workshop, 20–22 February, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. 


Crewson, C., Bassey, B., Roh, C.K. and Rangacharyulu, C. (2011). Measurement of 

Photon Mass Attenuation Coefficients, Canadian Nuclear Association/Canadian Nuclear 

Society Annual Conference, June 5-8, Niagara Falls, Ontario. 

Rangacharyulu, C. (2010). New Projects in India @ Engaging India conference, 

October 28, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK. 

Rangacharyulu, C. (2010). Laser Back Scatter Photons for Nuclear and Allied 

Research, December, Department of Physics, University of Regina. 

Rangacharyulu, C. (2011). Laser Back Scatter Photon Facility at CLS, Presentation to 

Advisory Committee of CLS, May 12, Saskatoon, SK. 

Rangacharyulu, C. (2011). Laser Back Scatter Photons for Nuclear and Allied 

Research, School of Physics, January 20, University of Hyderabad, India. 

Rangacharyulu, C. (2011). Laser Backscatter Photon Facility at CLS LCS@CLS, May 

31, Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Tohoku, Japan. 

Rangacharyulu, C. (2011). Neutron and Photon Transmutations for Nuclear and Allied 

Fields, January 16, India- Canada Nuclear Workshop, Goa, India. 

Robock, A., Kravitz, B., Bourassa, A., Deshler, T., Wu, D., Mattis, I., Finger, F., 

Hoffmann, A., Ritter, C., Bitar, L., Duck, T.J. and Barnes, J.E. (2011). Simulation and 

observations of stratospheric aerosols from the 2009 Sarychev volcanic eruption, EGU 

Meeting, April, Vienna. 

Sadowski, J. and Tanaka, K. (2010). Nanoscale Inhomogeneity in a Superconductor, a 

talk at the CAP Congress, (presented by J. Sadowski, who was awarded a Best Student 

Presentation Award in Condensed Matter Physics) June, Toronto, Ontario. 

Sadowski, J. and Tanaka, K. (2011). Interplay of Charge Density Modulations and 

Superconductivity, a talk at the APS Annual Meeting, (presented by J. Sadowski), 

March, Dallas, Texas. 

Scoular, G., Ponomarenko, P. and St.-Maurice, J.-P. (2011). Short-period Doppler shift 

variations in the polar cap: ULF waves or something else? SuperDARN 2011 

Workshop, 29 May-03 June, Program and Abstracts, p. 11, Thayer School of 

Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA. 

Scoular, G., Ponomarenko, P. and St.-Maurice, J.-P. (2011). Study of Polar Cap Wave 

Activity in the ULF Frequency Range Using PolarDARN HF Radars, [This presentation 

won best student paper at the DASP meeting]. Division of Atmospheric and Space 

Physics (DASP) Meeting, 20-22 February, Park Town Hotel, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 

Canada. 


Scoular, G., Ponomarenko, P. and St.-Maurice, J.-P. (2011). Study of Polar Cap Wave 

Activity in the ULF Frequency Range Using PolarDARN HF Radars, Student poster at 

the CEDAR annual workshop, June, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

Sheese, P., Degenstein, D.A., Bourassa, A.E., Gattinger, R.L. and Llewellyn, E.J. 

(2010). Albedo Effects in Satellite Observations of O2 A-band limb spectra, COSPAR 

Scientific Assembly, July, Bremen, Germany. 

Sheese, P., Degenstein, D.A., Bourassa, A.E., Gattinger, R.L. and Llewellyn, E.J. 

(2010). Albedo Effects in Satellite Observations of O2 A-band limb spectra, , COSPAR 

Scientific Assembly, July, Bremen, Germany. 

Smolaykov, A. (2011). Parallel momentum balance and toroidal rotation. Invited talk at 

the Chalmers Institute of Technology (Sweden) - Istituto di Fisica del Plasma (Italy) 

Workshop, June 8-10, Varenna, Italy. 

Smolyakov, A. (2011). Zonal Flows in Magnetised Plasmas and Geostrophic Fluids, 

Invited seminar, Prairie Lecture Series, February, University of Lethbridge/University of 

Calgary. 

Sofko, G.J., McWilliams, K.A. and Bryant, C.R. (2011). A disruption zone 

magnetospheric substorm model, Canadian Association of Physicists, Division of 

Atmospheric and Space Physics (DASP) Meeting, 21-22 February, Saskatoon, SK, 

Canada. 

St.-Maurice, J.-P. (2010). Small scale processes in ionosphere-magnetosphere 

coupling, from an ionospheric perspective, 38th COSPAR General Assembly, July, 

Bremen, Germany. 

St.-Maurice, J.-P. (2010). A partial review of current progress with our understanding of 

small scale ionospheric irregularities and of some of the remaining challenges, 

SCOSTEP, July, Berlin, Germany. 

St.-Maurice, J.-P. (2010). A peek at some of the physical processes at work in the 

aurora borealis, Colloquium presentation at the Physical Research Laboratory, October 

20, Ahmedabad, India. 

St.-Maurice, J.-P. (2010). Auroral Research in the 21st century, International Seminar 

on Space Science and Technology, N.S.S. Hindu college, October 12, Changanacherry, 

Kerala, India. 

St.-Maurice, J.-P. (2010). Ionospheric E region irregularities, invited seminar at the 

Physical Research Laboratory, October 18, Ahmedabad, India. 

St.-Maurice, J.-P. (2010). Ionospheric Research in Saskatchewan and in Canada, 

invited seminar at the Space Physics Laboratory, VSSC, September 27, Trivandrum, 

India. 


St.-Maurice, J.-P. (2010). Keynote address, International Seminar on Space Science 

and Technology, N.S.S. Hindu college, October, 12, Changanacherry, Kerala, India. 

St.-Maurice, J.-P. (2010). The Fascinating and mysterious aurora borealis, Public 

Lecture for the Indian National Science Academy, Physical Research Laboratory, 

October 19, Ahmedabad, India. 

St.-Maurice, J.-P. (2011). Renormalizing the nonlinear Farley-Buneman instability 

theory, Invited presentation, workshop on nonlinear plasma processes, CEDAR-GEM 

workshop, June, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

Steele, T. (2011). Chiral Violating Effects and the Mixing of Glueballs and Quark 

Mesons, Canadian Association of Physicists Congress, June, St. John’s, 

Newfoundland. 

Steele, T. (2010). Radiative Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and Strongly-Coupled 

Theories: A Motivation for Lattice Studies, Invited Seminar, Department of Physics & 

Astronomy, November, York University, Toronto, Ontario. 

Steele, T. (2011). Near-Maximal Mixing of Scalar Gluonium and Quark Mesons, Invited 

seminar, Department of Physics, April, University of Shanghai, Shanghai, China. 

Steele, T. (2011). Near-Maximal Mixing of Scalar Gluonium and Quark Mesons, Invited 

Seminar, Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics, April, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 

China. 

Tanaka, K. and Tse, J.S. (2011). Hydrides under pressure: structure and 

supeconductivity, an invited talk presented (by J. S. Tse) at the Study of Matter at 

Extreme Conditions -- SMEC2011 International Conference on March 28, Miami, 

Florida. 

Tse, J. (2010). Mechanisms for thermal conduction in various polymorphs of methane 

hydrate, 12 th International Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Ice, September 

Sapporo, Japan. 

Tse, J. (2010). Mott insulator-metal transition in heavy heter-atom organic radicals, 14 th 

International High Pressure Semiconductor Physics, August, Jilin, China. 

Tse, J. (2010). Characterization of materials at high pressure with synchrotron 

radiation, 37 th International Conference on Vacuum UltraViolet and X-ray Physics, July, 

Vancouver, BC. 

Tse, J. (2010). Unusual Electronic and Dynamical Structure under Pressure, 5th Asian 

Conference on High Pressure Research, November, Matsue, Japan. 


Tse, J. (2010). Electron density and chemical bonding at high pressure, Gordon 

Research Conference on Electron Distribution and Chemical Bonding, July, South 

Hadley, MA. 

Tse, J. (2010). How Chemical Principles can be applied at High Pressure, 

PACIFICHEM, December, Hawaii. 

Tse, J. (2011). Correlated Methods in Bandstructure Calculations, Institute for High 

Performance Computing, May, Singapore. 

Tse, J. (2011). A Holistic View of Water and Ice, Mini-workshop on Aqueous Interfaces 

in Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Academica Sinica, November, Taiwan. 

Tse, J. (2011). Recent Research and comments on the superconductivity of Hydrides 

under pressure, State Key Laboratory for High Pressure Research, May, Jilin, China. 

Tse, J. (2011). Hydrides under pressure - structure and superconductivity and 

Chemistry under Pressure, Study of Matter at Extreme Conditions, March, Miami, 

Florida. 

Tse, J. (2011). The Design of Energy Materials – A perspective, York University, April, 

Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 

Tse, J. (2011). Towards the design of a Superconductor, Center for Computational 

Science, May, Beijing, China. 

Xiao, C. (2011). Fuelling Tokamak by Compact Torus Injection, South western Institute 

of Physics, March 9, Chengdu, China. 

Xiao, C. (2011). Ion Temperature Measurement - Collaboration between Canadian and 

Chinese Tokamak Research Teams, CAP Annual congress, June 13-17, Memorial 


Xiao, C. (2011). Ion Temperature Measurements in SOL and Edge-region Using a 

Retarding Field Analyzer (RFA), South western Institute of Physics, February 26, 

Chengdu, China. 

Xiao, C. and STOR-M team (2010). Control of Confinement and MHDModes in STOR- 

M by External Current Pulses, International RFP Workshop, University of Science and 

Technology of China, October 18-20, Hefei, China.

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