APEGS VIEW : COLLEGE CORNER

Faculty of Engineering
and Applied Science, University of Regina

University of Regina Engineering students received a number of recognitions and awards over the past few months:

Diego Castro-Hernandez, Electronics Systems Engineering Ph.D. candidate supervised by Dr. Raman Paranjape, won the best student paper at the 117th International Network Strategy and Planning Symposium September 26-28, 2016, for his paper “Walk Test Simulator for LTe/LTE-A Network Planning”.

Skyler Nicholas Hladun won the University Prize in Engineering and Applied Science and the Dean’s Medal, awarded at the University of Regina’s 43rd Fall Convocation on Friday, Oct. 21.

Dr. Zhong Li, EVSE graduated under Dr. Gordon Huang, was awarded the President’s Distinguished Graduate Award, announced at the University of Regina’s 43rd Fall Convocation on Friday, October 21.

At the research front, a number of faculty members received external research funding from the SK Ministry of Environment (Dr. Gordon Huang), Mitacs  Accelerate Program (Drs. Gordon Huang and Mehran Mehrandezh), SaskTel (Dr. Raman Paranjape), PetroTech Engineering (Qinddao) Co. Ltd. (Dr. Tony Yang), Natural Resources Canada (Dr. Dena McMartin) and the Sylvia Fedoruk Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation: (Drs. Irfan Al-Anbagi, Esam Hussein, Gordon Huang,  Babak Mehran, Dena McMartin and Satish Sharma, and Mr. Doug Wagner); along with Drs. Grant Ferguson, and Ramakrishna (Rama) Gokaraju (U of S Engineering) and Dr. Joseph Piwowar (U of R  Arts), Drs. Stephen Bend, Janis Dale and Kathryn Bethune (U of R Science), and Dr. Dwight Newman (U of S Law).

The faculty introduced in the fall a new research seminar series. Four presentations were made:

Applications of Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Analysis and Modeling of Industrial Systems, Dr. Christine Chan, December 19.

Mindset and Perception:
Engineering versus Intuitive Thinking,
Dr. Esam Hussein, Nov. 21.

Modeling of Energy and Environmental Systems, Dr. Gordon Huang, Oct. 31.

Meeting the 1.5 C UNFCCC scenario: The role of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in the U.K.Dr. Iain Macdonald, Imperial College Centre for Carbon Capture and Storage (IC4S), Sept. 16.

Please email amr.henni@uregina.ca, if you are interested in receiving notifications for incoming seminars.

The faculty also hosted a symposium entitled “The Smart Grid and the Evolution of the Power System,” on September 23, presented by the South Saskatchewan Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): www.uregina.ca/external/communications/feature-stories/current/2016/09-21.html

Schlumberger Reservoir Laboratories has donated a considerable amount of teaching and research equipment to our Petroleum Systems Engineering Program.
Engineers Without Borders at the University of Regina took the lead to make the campus fair trade: leaderpost.com/business/students-at-university-of-regina-taking-steps-to-make-the-campus-fair-trade.

We are also proud of our alumni:
Ms. Leah Lawrence, a 1994 graduate from industrial systems engineering, was named the winner of the Female Executive of the Year Award by the Stevie Awards for Women in Business.

Adam Serblowski, electronic systems engineering, 2008, was a member of the team involved in the development of Shell’s Frontline Sensabot Robot to monitor the Kazakh Site.

Kelly Scherr (nee Wyatt), regional environmental systems engineering, 1997, was appointed the top city engineer, London, ON.