Enginuity Spring 2003 - The Schulich School of Engineering ...
Enginuity Spring 2003 - The Schulich School of Engineering ...
Enginuity Spring 2003 - The Schulich School of Engineering ...
- No tags were found...
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
FacultyDr. Michael G. Sideris, P.Eng., Associate Dean (Research) and Geomatics <strong>Engineering</strong>Pr<strong>of</strong>essor, is elected Vice President <strong>of</strong> the International Association <strong>of</strong> Geodesy (IAG).Dr. Sideris, who is currently the President <strong>of</strong> IAG Section III “Determination <strong>of</strong> theGravity Field”, will assume his position in July <strong>2003</strong> during the General Assembly <strong>of</strong> theInternational Union <strong>of</strong> Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) held in Sapporo, Japan. Dr Siderishas also been appointed Associate Dean (<strong>Engineering</strong>) in the Faculty <strong>of</strong> Graduate Studies fora two year term, which began April 1, <strong>2003</strong>.BooksDr. Francis Hartman’s second book,<strong>The</strong> Ten Commandments <strong>of</strong> SMARTContracting: A Practical Guide toAdding Value through better SupplyChain Management is due forpublication in Summer <strong>2003</strong>.Dr. Janice Thomas and two PhDstudents from our program,Kam Jugdev and Connie Delisle, areauthors <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>of</strong> thenew and less expensive paperbackedition <strong>of</strong> Petroleum ReservoirSimulation.<strong>The</strong> text is highly relevantand <strong>of</strong>fers a coherent presentation <strong>of</strong>the fundamentals <strong>of</strong> simulationtechnology.CollaborationsCivil <strong>Engineering</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>essorsDr. Janaka Ruwanpura andDr. George Jergeas have started anew research partnership with aleading group <strong>of</strong> constructioncontractors to improve the productivity<strong>of</strong> the Alberta construction industry interms <strong>of</strong> human, managerial andexternal factors.GraduateExcellenceGeomatics <strong>Engineering</strong>Cameron Ellum,Georgia Fotopoulos andKyle O’Keefe, have each been awarded anIzaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship.In addition, Fotopoulos has been awarded aRalph Steinhauer Award <strong>of</strong> Distinction.Both Ellum and Fotopoulos hold a BSc andan MSc in Geomatics <strong>Engineering</strong> from theU <strong>of</strong> C. O’Keefe holds a BSc in Physicsfrom the University <strong>of</strong> British Columbiaand a BSc in Geomatics <strong>Engineering</strong> fromthe University <strong>of</strong> Calgary. Ellum is studyingunder the supervision <strong>of</strong> Dr. N. El-Sheimy,Fotopoulos under the joint supervision <strong>of</strong>Dr. El-Sheimy and Dr. M. G. Sideris, andO’Keefe under the supervision <strong>of</strong>Dr. G. Lachapelle.Yong Hu, PhD candidate, andDr. Vincent Tao, Adjunct Pr<strong>of</strong>essor, wonthe Talbert Abrams Grant Award <strong>of</strong> theAmerican Imaging and GeospatialInformation Society (ASPRS), including aplaque and $5000 US for their paper AComprehensive Study <strong>of</strong> the RationalFunction Model for PhotogrammetricProcessing, published in Photogrammetric<strong>Engineering</strong> & Remote Sensing.Civil <strong>Engineering</strong>Sherif S. Abdelatif has been awarded theIzaak Walton Killam MemorialScholarship.He is studying under thesupervision <strong>of</strong> Dr. Marc A. Maes in the area<strong>of</strong> risk analysis and reliability-based design.He is developing new probabilistic methodsfor the optimization <strong>of</strong> life cycle costsrelated to civil engineering infrastructure.PhD student Kam Jugdev was therecipient <strong>of</strong> the Project ManagementInstitute Student Paper <strong>of</strong> the YearAward for her paper called ProjectManagement Maturity Models: <strong>The</strong>Silver Bullets <strong>of</strong> CompetitiveAdvantage, as well as the Gaylord E.(Gary) Christle Award from PMI’sCollege <strong>of</strong> PerformanceManagement.PhD student Ramy Zaghloul andDr. Francis Hartman wereawarded the Donald S. Barrie Awardfor their paper ConstructionContracts and Risk Allocation: <strong>The</strong>Cost <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>of</strong> the AlbertaLearning’s AchievementScholarship.10enginuity