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September 2009

CEE Faculty Member Designated
Diplomate, Water Resources Engineer (D.WRE)

Congratulations are extended to our own Dr. Slobodan Simonovic for
receiving the designation of Diplomate, Water Resources Engineer (D.WRE) from the American
Academy of Water Resources Engineers (AAWRE).

The Academy has conferred the Honorary Diplomate (Hon.D.WRE)
status to 18 individuals and the D.WRE certification to 500 professional
engineers. Each professional engineer has demonstrated the highest level of
achievement in water resources engineering through their water resources
engineering experience, advanced level of education, and contributions to the
engineering profession. These individuals exemplify and embody the very best in
the broad field of water resources engineering; from academia, public service,
and private practice. AAWRE celebrate these outstanding leaders that have made
significant contributions to the field of water resources engineering and
leading by example in furthering AAWRE's mission to improve the practice,
elevate the standards, and advance the profession of water resources
engineering.

March 2009

City of London Design Competition Results

Left to Right: Kyle Howe, Eric Simon, Tiffany Palmer,
Marcin Blazejowski, and Cameron Laffin of Cliffton Engineering; and Ryan
Devries, Haider Ahmed, and David Williams (absent: Roman Elazar and Jennifer
Francis) of Team Enviro Spirit.

Congratulations to all our student teams for a very successful evening on
March 3, 2009 -- the presentations for the City of London Design Competition
were all excellent.  The judges were impressed with the quality of
submissions this year.

Special congratulations to our two first place and
second place winning teams:

Cliffton
Engineering: Marcin Blazejowski, Kyle Howe,
Cameron Laffin, Tiffany Palmer, Eric Simon

Team Enviro Spirit: Haider Ahmed, Ryan Devries, Roman Elazar, Jennifer
Francis, David Williams

Mifflin-Dunder Engineering and Associates:
Alexandra Moore, Travis Parker, Jennifer Simich, Matthew Stead, Michelle
Welch

Left to Right: Alexandra Moore, Matthew Stead, Jennifer Simich, Travis Parker, Michelle Welch of
Mifflin-Dunder Engineering and Associates.

Western
News

February 2009

CEE Western
Engineering Design Day Completion Results

The Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering held it's Western Engineering Design Day Competition
on Friday, February 13, 2009 in the Great Hall.

Congratulations to our winning teams:

First Place and overall
winner:
Telford
Engineering: Jeffrey Blaylock, David Hendry, Bradley McKellar, Pauline
Sceviour, Corey Voisin. For their CN Bridge-CN4 CPCI girders and RC slab
design.
Telford Engineering will represent CEE in Western Engineering
Design Days – Final Presentations scheduled on Tuesday, March 24,
2009.

DeMarco Family Green Technologies
Award:
Right to Water: Taryn Meyers, Tyler
Rosen.  CEE International Development students with their portable water
purification system design.

Institute for Catastrophic Loss
Reduction Award:
Auspicious: Neramith Khamvongsa,
Melissa Meems, David Mizzen, Kenneth Shannon, Sarah Stenabaugh
Acala
Engineering: Ali Al-Saady, Alexander Dolson, Terri Janzen, Johnnathan
Vargas, Sheryl Sotomil

November 2008

2008 Polar Stick Competition a smashing success

Congratulations all of our 2008 Polar Stick Bridge
Competition contestants.  The night was full of a polar stick splintering
fun and excitement as more that 20 bridges constructed of polar sticks (donated
by Nestle Canada), dental floss (donated by the Faculty of Dentistry) and a
bottle of white glue were stressed to destruction. Contestants included high
school students from A.B. Lucas SS, Oakridge SS, H.B. Beal SS; and first year
students from Fanshawe College, and Western Engineering. It came down to a very
tight race with a difference of only  0.6 N separating the winners from
their closest competitors.  The winning team of the Best Overall Bridge was
the duo of Laura Bujouves and Gretta Janitz from H.B. Beal Secondary School with
their bridge, Bridgette.  They also took the prize for the Best
Bridge by a High School Student or Team.  Other winners of the night were:
Western Engineering students Colin Lee and Gary Chan for the Best Bridge by a
First Year Student or Team; and from Oakridge SS Hojun Pyo and Brody Kim for the
Most Aesthetically Pleasing Bridge.

Polar
Stick Competition winners Gretta Janitz and Laura Bujouves with the night's MC
Dr. Southen (UWO) and event sponsor representatives Katelyn Smith (CSCE) and
Gary Deonarine (Stantec Inc.)

July 2008

CEE
Researcher Receives $395,000 from CFCAS and City of London

Congratulations to Civil and Environmental
Engineering's Dr. Slobodon Simonovic. His successful grant proposals to the City
of London and the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences
(CFCAS) total $395,200 over two years.

The City of London will fund an update of rainfall
intensity-duration-frequency curves for the City under the changing climate for
$20,000 over three months. As well as a study of vulnerability of infrastructure
to climate change for $180,000 over 18 months.

The CFCAS will provide $195,000 over 24 months to fund
the research project Quantifying the Uncertainty in Modelled Estimates of Future
Extreme Precipitation Events.

This research will be supported by Dr. Simonovic's
graduate students: Ms. Angela Peck (MESc), Ms. Elisabeth Bowering (MESc), Mrs.
Tarana Solaiman (PhD); and one postdoctoral fellow.

May 2008

Concrete Canoe
Team Launch in Halifax, NS

Concrete Canoe Team members (L to R) Katie Down, Mira Pavan, and Jeff
Blaylock visualizing victory

The Boat Floats! While the inclement weather in Halifax
did not allow the teams gathered from across Canada to race their canoes, our
Western Concrete Canoe team shone winning the Best Rookie Team of the Year
Award, and beating out veteran teams from Queens and Dalhousie in the overall
marking of their Final Product.  The entire Western Concrete Canoe team is
made up of: Adam Crookes, Alexandra Moore, Ben Riddell, Brad McKellar, Chris
Blust, Jake Elliott, James Mann, Jeffrey Blaylock, Jonathon Chan, Katie Down,
Pauline Sceviour, and Mira Pavan. For more information about this student
association check out their website: http://www.eng.uwo.ca/cc/Default.htm.

Team
"Top Gun" in Halifax (L to R): Katie Down, Mira Pavan,
Alexandra Moore,
Adam Crookes, Jeffrey Blaylock, Ben Riddell

First International
Development Students Arrive in Ghana

Civil and Environmental Engineering students Taryn
Meyers and Tyler Rosen have landed in Ghana to embark on their summer placement
as part of their International Development program.  (more)

Taryn & Tyler under a coconut tree at
Lake Bosomtwe.

To follow along with Taryn and Tyler on their adventures in Ghana they
invite you visit their blogs. Here also is a link to their photo gallery.

April 2008

Ph.D. student featured on news for work on Confederation
Bridge

Civil Engineering Ph.D. student Bilal Bakht appeared in several
news sources in April, including CBC television and CBC.ca for his work on
Prince Edward Island’s Confederation Bridge. (more)

March 2008

NSERC Strategic Special Projects Grant

Western Engineering certainly has a good track record
in the last two NSERC Strategic Grant rounds !!! We recently found out that our
Strategic Grant proposal has been funded. Dr. Paul Van Geel from Carleton
University is the principle investigator with Civil and Environmental
Engineering’s Dr. Jason Gerhard and Dr. Denis O’Carroll as the co-principle
investigators. The project entitled, Real World Soil-NAPL Wettability: Tools
for Site Assessment and Implications for Site Remediation, is funded for
$98,900 and $91,900 respectively over two years. Approximately 2/3 of this
funding will come to Western.

City of London Design Competition Results

Left to Right: Travis Goodhand, Robyn
Gaebel, Michael Napper, Tyler Ing, Jonathan Schlemmer, and Ashley McManus of
Green Concrete Solutions and Mark Carney, Sandor Nagy, Christopher Ledsham and
Scott Young of SMCS Engineering Associated Inc.

Congratulations to all our student teams for a very successful evening on
March 4, 2008 -- the presentations for the City of London Design Competition
were all excellent.  The judges were impressed with the quality of
submissions this year.

Special congratulations to the two winning
teams:

SMCS Engineering
Associates Ltd: Mark Carney, Chris Ledsham,
Sandor Nagy and Scott Young

Green Concrete Solutions:  Robyn Gaebel, Travis Goodhand, Tyler Ing,
Ashley McManus, Mike Napper, Jon Schlemmer

Western News

February 2008

CEE Western Engineering Design Day Completion Results
The Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering held it's Western Engineering Design Day Competition on Friday,
February 22, 2008 in the Great Hall.

Congratulations to our winning teams:

First Place and overall
winner:
Triton Engineering: Julie Graham, Jennifer
McDonald, Katie Reipas, Mark Torrie, Gregory Williams
Triton Engineering
will represent CEE in Western Engineering Design Days – Final Presentations
scheduled on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 4:30 p.m.

DeMarco
Family Green Technologies Award:
Green Tech
Consulting: Elisabeth Bowering, Christian Concolino, Bruno Ferreira,
Sand Mansor, Angela Peck, Lukasz Sadoch

Honourable
mentions: (alphabetically according to team name)
Green
Concrete Solutions: Robyn Gaebel, Travis Goodhand, Christopher Ing,
Ashley Mcmanus, Michael Napper, Jonathan Schlemmer
Green
Masons: Mark Bruder, Alia Callaghan, Jennifer Hinton, Joshua Kaye,
Nikolai Mattison, Jonathan Vis
SMCS Engineering Associates
Inc: Mark Carney, Christopher Ledsham, Sandor Nagy, Scott
Young
VERTex Inc.: Richard Blair, Timothy Fernihough,
Christopher Lynes, Ashley Munroe, Darryl Twynstra, Claire
Walker

July 2007

Western Engineering goes ‘green’ in Ghana
Engineering students continue to think green with their
research, class projects and extracurricular activities – and faculty is also
leading environmental pursuits.

CEE Students Leaving a Positive Impact A World a Way

Ernest Yanful, Department Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
is co-organizing the first International Conference on Environmental Research,
Technology and Policy (ERTEP 2007) in Accra, Ghana, from July 16 to
19.

“The idea of the conference started in July 2005 at another
international conference in Sweden,” says Yanful. “A number of us felt that the
time has come for researchers, practitioners and policy makers to meet together
in one forum to discuss ways of protecting the world’s fragile ecosystem.” Click
here
for more info.

GRC Awards
The Geotechnical Research Centre
honoured its top students at the GRC Awards Ceremony in the Spencer Engineering
Building on Wednesday, July 21.

The 2007 GRC Award recipients pose with Mrs. Carolyn
Brown, presenter of the L.G. Soderman Award; K.Y. Lo, Director, Geotechnical
Research Centre; and Mrs. Marian Quigley, presenter of the R.M. Quigley Award.

Milos Novak Memorial Award
This Award was setup in memory of
Professor Milos Novak. The award is normally awarded annually to an engineer to
pursue graduate studies in Geotechnical Engineering at The University of Western
Ontario. Special consideration will be given to students working in the area of
dynamics and soil-structure interaction who have demonstrated a sound academic
background and a potential for contribution to the engineering profession in
general.
Award recipients: Alper Turan and Mrinmoy
Kanungo

R.M. Quigley Award
The R.M. Quigley Award is
named after Dr. R.M. Quigley, the founding director of the Geotechnical Research
Centre and a distinguished Canadian Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineer.
The award is typically awarded annually to an engineer or scientist to pursue
graduate studies in Geotechnical Engineering at The University of Western
Ontario. Special consideration will be taken of a candidate's academic,
professional and general contributions to the engineering
profession.
Award recipients: Xueying Liu and Muluken
Yeheyis

L.G. Soderman Award
The L.G. Soderman Award,
established in memory of the late Professor L.G. Soderman, distinguished
Canadian Geotechnical Engineer, is awarded annually to an engineer to pursue
graduate studies in Civil Engineering at The University of Western Ontario. The
candidate's academic and professional qualifications, and general contribution
to the engineering profession, are also taken into consideration.
Award
recipients: Amnart Rittirong

John Booker Award
The John
Booker Award was setup to commemorate a distinguished scientist and engineer,
teacher, researcher and mentor who, while a professor at the University of
Sydney, had close research collaboration with the Geotechnical Research Centre,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Western
Ontario. In addition to being an outstanding researcher, John Booker was known
for fostering new talent as well as developing collaborative relationships in
many different areas of research. The award is normally presented annually to an
engineer or scientist to pursue graduate studies in Geotechnical or
Geoenvironmental Engineering at The University of Western Ontario. Special
consideration will be taken of a candidate's academic and professional
contributions to the engineering profession with preference to students
conducting research in computational geomechanics.
Award recipient:
Erin Cullen

June 2007

New CEE Undergraduate Program
Starting in Fall
2007 our Department will be offering the new and adventurous program in Civil
Engineering and International Development. Students will be encouraged to
complete a summer placement in an ‘at-need community in Canada or in a
developing country in the summer between third and fourth year, and will
complete a final year design project that addresses a social need from an
appropriate engineering perspective. Download the program document here.

May 2007

CEE Department Web Maintenance
Our Department
website will be undergoing a complete overhaul and maintenance until July. We
apologize for any inconvenience that this may have.

Award
for Research Excellence
The Society of Graduate Students has conferred
upon CEE Ph.D. candidate M. Shahria Alam (supervisors: M. Nehdi and M.A.
Youssef) The Award for Research Excellence for his second place oral
presentation of "Development of a Smart RC Building Utilizing Superelastic Shape
Memory Alloys" in the Physical Sciences Session, Given at the 20th Annual
Western Research Forum, May 9th-11th, 2007.

February 2007

Three Little Pigs Facility Gets New Name
The
Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) is providing $500,000 to support
ground-breaking research conducted by Western's Faculty of Engineering. The
research is being conducted at a one-of-a-kind facility now called The Insurance
Research Lab for Better Homes (formerly the Three Little Pigs project). Click here
for more info.

10th Anniversary for Student Design Competition
Since its debut, the competition has yielded 11
projects by way of 71 designs as well as eight environmental projects selected
from 18 designs --involving a total of 400 students. Click here
for more info.

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