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Thursday, December 19, 2019

Saving the Planet with Energy Efficiency

Between trying to save money and the environment, energy efficiency is something we’ve all thought about at one point or another. Master’s student Brodie Hobson in the Civil Engineering program has been working towards finding new ways to bring about energy efficiency in existing buildings. Read more here  ... More

Monday, December 2, 2019

Al-Zouaghi wins third place at Innovation Challenge

        Aisha Al-Zouaghi, an undergraduate student,  who is supervised by Professor Paul Simms, won third place at an Innovation Challenge event hosted by Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO). As part of Carleton’s Tailings Research Group (https://paulsimms0.wixsite.com/tailings-carleton), Al-Zouaghi researches how to end... More

Monday, December 2, 2019

ACSE students win at APT

  Congratulations to the team of ACSE student who won first place in the 2019 Association of Preservation Technologies (APT) competition. The competition involved the design and construction of an unreinforced masonry arch. The team worked on this significant undertaking for close to a year. Consisting of three phases, they successfully... More

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Grad students showcase research at CONnexion

Graduate students Ahmed Hassan, Geoffrey Davidson and  Zhimeng Yu under the supervision of Professor David Lau, showcased their research projects at the CONnexion Industry and Education event that was held in November 2019. The CONnexion event was hosted by The Canadian Construction Association (CCA) , the Ottawa Construction Association (OCA)... More

Friday, September 20, 2019

Carleton mourns loss of Professor A. O. Abd El Halim

    It is with sadness that we share the news that our esteemed colleague A. O. Abd El Halim passed away suddenly on Thursday, Sept 19 after he was admitted to the hospital the night before. Halim had over 38 years of service with many outstanding academic and professional contributions to the department... More

Friday, September 13, 2019

PhD student finalist in IEEE CASE 2019 best paper award

The Environmental Engineering PhD student, Darwish Darwazeh, supervised by Professors Burak Gunay (CEE) and Jean Duquette (MAE) was one of the six finalists among 461 for the best paper award at the IEEE CASE (International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering 2019) in... More

Thursday, September 5, 2019

Graduate students supervised by Professors O’Brien, Gunay, Santana, and Bucking wins the first prize at the (IBPSA) conference in Rome, Italy

Graduate students Tareq Abuimara, Luminita Dumitrascu, Michael Gutland, Larissa Ide , and Adrian Soble  supervised by Professors O'Brien, Gunay, Santana, and Bucking won the first prize at the Student Modeling Completion at the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) conference (http://buildingsimulation2019.org/) in... More

Monday, July 15, 2019

Building a sustainable community

Buildings of the future will need to be designed and operated to have a much smaller environmental footprint. That’s why the professors of Carleton’s Building Performance Research Centre are eking out every efficiency they can from building designs. Their goal is to develop tools, technologies, and methods to reduce energy use and greenhouse... More

Friday, July 5, 2019

Graduate student, Aba Owusu and Profs. Salem and Hadjisophocleous received the Outstanding Paper Award

Master of Applied Science student, Aba Owusu and Professors Sam Salem and George Hadjisophocleous received the Outstanding Paper Award at the 6th International Conference on Applications of Structural Fire Engineering (ASFE'19), 13 - 14 June 2019, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore for a paper entitled " Fire Performance of Concealed... More

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Carleton Fire Safety Engineering Group hosted IFireSS 2019

The Fire Safety Engineering Group of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering organised the 3rd International Fire Safety Symposium IFireSS 2019, at Carleton University on June 5-7, 2019.  The goal of the IFireSS Symposia is to contribute to the exchange of ideas and knowledge among experts in the field of fire safety and... More

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Woods receives University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work

  Former Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering student Josh Woods has been awarded the University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work – Doctoral Level for his thesis entitled "Advances in Retrofit and Testing of Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls: Part 1 - Seismic Retrofit of Deficient Walls with Fiber-reinforced Polymer Sheets,... More

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Carleton students win 2019 Mike Sheflin student paper competition

A Carleton University Civil Engineering design project group supervised by Ata Khan won first prize in Ontario Public Works Association (OPWA) Mike Sheflin Student Paper Competition held on Friday, April 10, 2019. At this annual event, Carleton University and University of Ottawa Civil Engineering students showcase their best efforts in the area... More

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