Graduate Research Excellence Awards

The Faculty of Engineering is pleased to announce the new Graduate Student Research Excellence Awards. These awards are designed to recognize the highest quality research being undertaken by graduate students in the Faculty of Engineering. The major selection criteria of this award is research accomplishment while registered in the program (particularly originality of research and potential scholarly impact).

Each award consists of a $1000 cash prize, a certificate and a letter of commendation from the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. The prize is presented at the spring meeting of the Engineering Faculty Council. A maximum of 10 awards are awarded annually to eligible graduate students registered in graduate programs in the Faculty of Engineering. Each of the faculty’s five departments recommends up to two nominees, one from a thesis-based master’s program and another from a doctoral program.

Congratulations to this year’s recipients:

• Paola Vottero, PhD, Department of Biomedical Engineering
• Yimei Chen, PhD, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
• Tae Hyun (Calvin) Chung, PhD, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Jason Chee Ming Wong, PhD, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Xuzi Zhang, PhD, Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Vida Dehghan Niestanak, MSc, Department of Biomedical Engineering
• Daniel Felipe Cartagena Perez, MSc, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Mingyuan Zhang, MSc, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering