The 2023 John Adjeleian Lecture and Awards Event
This year’s John Adjeleian Lecture was conducted in a hybrid format. With over 160 in-person and virtual attendees, including students, faculty, esteemed guests, and our exceptional graduate student award winners, we enjoyed a wonderful lecture on liquefaction by distinguished speaker Dr. Ross W. Boulanger.
Dr. Boulanger talked about how knowledge gaps and limitations hinder the efficient evaluation and mitigation of liquefaction hazards. He suggests the needs and future directions for more effectively addressing liquefaction hazards. Dr. Boulanger walked us through various aspects to consider when addressing liquefaction such as site characterization, engineering analysis methods, challenging soil types, remediation methods, performance-based engineering procedures, and risk management.
Awards Event
The in-person venue celebrated the achievements of Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate students who were awarded scholarships, fellowships, and bursaries between 2022 – 2023.
Students received their awards and enjoyed connecting with members of our faculty and the distinguished guests.
Check out the smiles from our student award winners!
Sepideh Mirshekar Syahkal is the recipient of the John Adjeleian Graduate Scholarship. Photo left to right: Sepideh Mirshekar Syahkal, Ms. Elizabeth Adjeleian, Department Chair Yasser Hassan, Professor Jag Humar.
David and Rachel Epstein Scholarship, Graduate Scholarship in Civil Engineering, and Gordon Shields Memorial Scholarship
Pictured left to right: Ali Ihssian, Prof. Ismail, Salah Fakhoury, and Rulla Al-Haideri.
Pictured left to right: Narges Zaeri Esfahani, Brodie Hobson, Milad Rostami, and Santinah Green-Mignacca. Absent members Shane Ferreira and Andre Markus.
Alfred J. Wise Scholarship
Charles Shrubsole Graduate Scholarship
CU 75th Anniversary Scholarship
John Ruptash Fellowship
Gordon Shields Memorial Scholarship
Marie Carter Memorial Scholarship
SFPE NCC Fire Safety Engineering
Jagmohan Humar Graduate Scholarship
Kochar Family Scholarship
Kochar Family Scholarship
Alice E. Wilson, F.R.S.C. Scholarship and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship
22-23 NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships – Master’s program and the Graduate Scholarship in Civil Engineering
Abd El Halim Scholarship
Alfred and Isabel Bader Student Travel Awards
CUASA Scholarship
Ata Khan Sustainable Transport Graduate Scholarship
Ontario Graduate
Fred Cinkant Bursary
Graduate Scholarship in Civil Engineering and Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Kochar Family Scholarship
Kochar Family Scholarship
John Braaksma Transportation Scholarship
Congratulations to Andre Markus and Alyssa Bernier for winning the Ontario Graduate Scholarships.
We thank those who attended the event either virtually or in-person.
Special thanks to the speakers: Dr. Ross W. Boulanger for his excellent lecture, Vice-President Research & International Rafik Goubran for his welcoming remarks, the Master of Ceremony for the evening Jag Humar, Department Chair Yasser Hassan, Prof. Siva Sivathayalan, Prof. Jeff Erochko, and Prof. Karim Ismail.
Big thanks to our John Adjeleian committee members for their hard work and dedication!
A successful event overall and we can’t wait for the 2024 John Adjeleian Lecture!