Enginuity Spring 2003 - The Schulich School of Engineering ...

FacultyDr. Michael G. Sideris, P.Eng., Associate Dean (Research) and Geomatics EngineeringProfessor, is elected Vice President of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG).Dr. Sideris, who is currently the President of IAG Section III “Determination of theGravity Field”, will assume his position in July 2003 during the General Assembly of theInternational Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) held in Sapporo, Japan. Dr Siderishas also been appointed Associate Dean (Engineering) in the Faculty of Graduate Studies fora two year term, which began April 1, 2003.BooksDr. Francis Hartman’s second book,The Ten Commandments of SMARTContracting: A Practical Guide toAdding Value through better SupplyChain Management is due forpublication in Summer 2003.Dr. Janice Thomas and two PhDstudents from our program,Kam Jugdev and Connie Delisle, areauthors of Selling Project Managementto Senior Executives: Framing theMoves that Matter, a new book (2002)from the Project Management Institute.Dr. Khalid Aziz andDr. Antonin Settari are authors of thenew and less expensive paperbackedition of Petroleum ReservoirSimulation.The text is highly relevantand offers a coherent presentation ofthe fundamentals of simulationtechnology.CollaborationsCivil Engineering ProfessorsDr. Janaka Ruwanpura andDr. George Jergeas have started anew research partnership with aleading group of constructioncontractors to improve the productivityof the Alberta construction industry interms of human, managerial andexternal factors.GraduateExcellenceGeomatics EngineeringCameron Ellum,Georgia Fotopoulos andKyle O’Keefe, have each been awarded anIzaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship.In addition, Fotopoulos has been awarded aRalph Steinhauer Award of Distinction.Both Ellum and Fotopoulos hold a BSc andan MSc in Geomatics Engineering from theU of C. O’Keefe holds a BSc in Physicsfrom the University of British Columbiaand a BSc in Geomatics Engineering fromthe University of Calgary. Ellum is studyingunder the supervision of Dr. N. El-Sheimy,Fotopoulos under the joint supervision ofDr. El-Sheimy and Dr. M. G. Sideris, andO’Keefe under the supervision ofDr. G. Lachapelle.Yong Hu, PhD candidate, andDr. Vincent Tao, Adjunct Professor, wonthe Talbert Abrams Grant Award of theAmerican Imaging and GeospatialInformation Society (ASPRS), including aplaque and $5000 US for their paper AComprehensive Study of the RationalFunction Model for PhotogrammetricProcessing, published in PhotogrammetricEngineering & Remote Sensing.Civil EngineeringSherif S. Abdelatif has been awarded theIzaak Walton Killam MemorialScholarship.He is studying under thesupervision of Dr. Marc A. Maes in the areaof risk analysis and reliability-based design.He is developing new probabilistic methodsfor the optimization of life cycle costsrelated to civil engineering infrastructure.PhD student Kam Jugdev was therecipient of the Project ManagementInstitute Student Paper of the YearAward for her paper called ProjectManagement Maturity Models: TheSilver Bullets of CompetitiveAdvantage, as well as the Gaylord E.(Gary) Christle Award from PMI’sCollege of PerformanceManagement.PhD student Ramy Zaghloul andDr. Francis Hartman wereawarded the Donald S. Barrie Awardfor their paper ConstructionContracts and Risk Allocation: TheCost of Mistrust, presented by Ramyat the PMI Symposium. RamyZaghloul also received the BestGraduate Student Paper Award forhis paper Trust: Murder by ContractDocuments, presented at Projects &Discontinuities Conference, Vienna,Austria, as well as first prize for hispaper submitted to PM ResearchNetwork (Europe).Victor Sohmen, MBA graduate witha specialization in ProjectManagement, received theRobert J. Yourzak Scholarshipsponsored by PMI MinnesotaChapter.MSc students Ganyo Nutakor andVaroujan Minassian both receivedscholarships from AACEInternational. Ganyo was also the2002 recipient of the AlbertaLearning’s AchievementScholarship.10enginuity