Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Meet our Faculty, Prof. Christian Viau

An Ottawa native, Dr. Christian Viau received his B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Ottawa. Prior to joining Carleton, Dr. Viau was an assistant professor of the Department of Civil Engineering at the Royal Military College (RMC) in Kingston, where he continues to maintain strong ties and research... More

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Fall 2021 Graduate Students Orientation

Copies of the PowerPoint slides for the Fall 2021 departmental orientation for graduate students are linked below: Graduate Student Orientation Engineering Computer Laboratories and... More

Friday, September 3, 2021

Hubson wins best paper award in the eSim 2021 Conference

Big congratulations to Brodie Hobson for winning the Best Paper competition during the eSim 2021 Conference hosted by the University of British Columbia. Brodie is a current Ph.D. student supervised by Prof. Burak Gunay. His current research focus is on occupant and occupancy-centric smart building operations to improve energy efficiency and... More

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Meet our Faculty, Prof. Elena Zabolotnii

Prof. Elena Zabolotnii has practiced engineering since 2011 across Canada. She has been a professional engineer since 2013. On her doctoral research at the University of Alberta, she focused on the 2014 failure of the Mount Polley Tailings Storage Facility in British Columbia, Canada. Prof. Zabolotnii’s research interests span the fields of... More

Monday, August 23, 2021

Bernier receives the 2021 CTAA Graduate Scholarship

Congratulations to Alyssa Bernier who won the 2021 Canadian Technical Asphalt Association’s Graduate Scholarship. Alyssa is a current Carleton student pursuing a Master’s in Transportation Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Kamal Hossain. Her research focus is on the use of rejuvenators in asphalt mixes and their use in the Canadian... More

Thursday, July 29, 2021

Prof. Hossain and grad students developed a new Canadian asphalt binder selection tool

  Professor Kamal Hossain, along with his graduate students, Alyssa Bernier and Surya Teja Swarna, introduces a binder selection tool that determines the Asphalt Binder Grade needed to construct roads specifically in Canada. To determine the asphalt binder, this tool captures regional climate parameters in Canada. For more information and to... More

Thursday, July 15, 2021

Sangal wins A&WMA Ottawa Valley Chapter, Steve Hart Award

Congratulations to Aashirwad Sangal for winning the Steve Hart Award, Best Presentation Award - Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) Ottawa Valley Chapter on April 15th, 2021. Sangal is a recent graduate in the Master of Environmental Engineering supervised by Prof. Abid Hussain. His presentation is titled Hydrolysis of Food Waste in... More

Monday, July 5, 2021

Darwazeh won 3rd place in the 2021 Herrick Conferences Best Student Awards

Congratulations to Darwish Darwazeh for winning third place in the 2020ne Herrick Conferences Best Student Paper Awards, 6th International High-Performance Buildings Conference for his paper titled “Performance evaluation of three virtual metering methods to estimate zone-level perimeter heater energy requirement.” Darwazeh is supervised by... More

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Celebrating Women in Engineering

  In celebration and recognition of women’s contribution in the field of Engineering, we highlight five outstanding women in Civil, and Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Engineering in completing their Capstone design project. Kristen Dam, Alexandra LeBarron, Megan Lawlor, Julia Starkiewicz and Sydney Wilkins all formed the... More

Friday, June 11, 2021

Örmeci wins the 2021 Water’s Next Award in Category – People: Academic Leader

Congratulations to Professor Banu Örmeci for winning the 2021 Water’s Next Award in the Category – People: Academic Leader! This specific award is given to an individual who has demonstrated leadership in the academic sector through their administration of water programs, involvement in the operation of water programming, research of water... More

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Robinson wins the 2020-2021 Outstanding TA Award

Congratulations to Brandon Robinson, a Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering, for winning the 2020 – 2021 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award! Robinson is one of five award recipients recognized for exceptional contribution and support as a TA. He played an essential role in establishing a positive learning environment and in implementing... More

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Prof. Hossain heads research to improve asphalt mixture in St. John’s roads

There are several factors that cause potholes on pavements. There are studded tires and climate and temperature change, to name a few. To provide a solution, Prof. Kamal Hossain, Assistant Professor of Pavement Engineering at Carleton University, is heading a research team for a three-year project with the City of St. John’s to find... More

Friday, April 23, 2021

O’Brien researches changes in Covid-19 electricity demand

According to Liam O’Brien, Associate Professor in Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Engineering, there is a significant change in home energy use. This may be due to the fact that as more people work from home, more electricity is used during midday. People do their chores such as laundry and cooking and use their furnace... More

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Carleton Teams win in Bench Competition

A team of Carleton students won second place in the first-ever Precast Concrete Wellness Bench Competition for Architectural and Engineering students organized by The Canadian Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (CPCI). Professor Ahmed Hassan, along with distinguished colleagues from the Architecture department, supervised the team to present... More

Thursday, March 18, 2021

Prof. Basu receives the 2020-21 Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award

Congratulations to Professor Onita Basu for receiving one of the seven 2020-21 Faculty Graduate Mentoring Awards! Below we highlight some of what the nominators say about her. As a 22-year-old international student migrating to Canada, there were a number of challenges I faced. Chief among those being adjusting to a new environment and... More

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Prof. Basu, recipient of 2021 Teaching Achievement Award

Congratulations to Professor Onita Basu for receiving the 2021 Teaching Achievement Award. Through her program, Prof. Basu aims to shape Carleton engineering students with a global mindset that allows students to share their skills and knowledge with compassion and caring. This is done by engaging students to support work in developing nations and... More

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Örmeci and her team to test wastewater from Ottawa homeless shelters for Covid-19

The research lead by Prof. Banu Örmeci, director of Global Water Institute at Carleton, is part of the province-wide initiative to test wastewaters for Covid-19. The goal of the research is to predict possible Covid-19 outbreaks before it happens. To read the full story, visit the Ottawa Citizen website. A CBC Radio interview with... More

Monday, February 1, 2021

Gunay comments on buildings’ light usage during pandemic

Read the full story on the CBC News... More

Thursday, December 10, 2020

Venis 2nd in Carleton’s 3MT Contest

Congratulation to Robbie Venis for winning 2nd place in Carleton’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Contest. Venis, a Ph.D. student in Civil & Environmental Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Basu, earned his place through his research project When Local Women Take the Lead: Water Technology Adoption in Rural Tanzania.   About 3MT: 3MT... More

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Prof. Santana Quintero elected as Secretary-General of ICOMOS

Congratulations to Professor Mario Santana Quintero for his election as secretary-general of the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). Prof. Santana Quintero joined ICOMOS in 1996. During his long trajectory, Santana served as president of the ICOMOS/ISPRS International Committee on Heritage Documentation between 2010 and 2014,... More

Thursday, December 3, 2020

Gunay and Abuimara research COVID-19 transmission in indoor environments

The primary purpose of heating and cooling systems in commercial buildings is temperature control. They were not designed to limit the spread of an airborne virus. In their research, Professor Burak Gunay and Instructor Tareq Abuimara try to understand the issues that regular HVAC configurations have when providing and maintaining sufficient... More

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Professor Emeriti Jagmohan Humar Appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada

With great pride, we congratulate Professor Emeriti Jagmohan Humar, former Department Chair, for being appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada. The Governor General appoints him as per the recommendation of the Advisory Council for the Order of Canada for his contributions to structural engineering, commitment to education, and his... More

Thursday, October 15, 2020

UNESCO Magazine features article by Santana

Professor Mario Santana Quintero has authored the featured piece in the UNESCO World Heritage Magazine (No.95 - July 2020). The magazine on "Interpretations and COVID-19" can be found here. The article “Accessing World Heritage sites from home: Digital technologies for remote interpretation and monitoring” can be viewed... More

Thursday, October 15, 2020

Carleton places 3rd in APT competition and wins best structural analysis

A team from Carleton placed 3rd in the international competition put on by the Association of Preservation Technologists (APT). They also won the award for best structural analysis. Master's student and team leader, Natalie Smith, also won the PETC award for most promising preservationist. As part of the APT National Trust Conference, teams of... More

Friday, September 18, 2020

Congratulations TA Award Winners and Honourable Mentions!

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering would like to congratulate the winners and honourable mentions of the department’s 2019-2020 TA Excellence Award.   Thank you everyone for your support in enhancing the students’ learning experience. We recognize and celebrate your dedication and accomplishments.... More

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Sadeghian, Tanyous, and Mirshekar wins Best Paper Award at ConMat ’20

Congratulations to Carleton University Professor Vahid Sadeghian and his students, Mark Tanyous and Sepideh Mirshekar, for winning the Best Paper of ConMat ‘20 for their exceptional work on “Modelling FRP-strengthened beam-column joints in performance assessment of RC frames." Their paper was examined by the scientific committee using five... More

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Babaoglu wins at CGS student competition

Yagmur Babaoglu, a Ph.D. student of Dr. Paul Simms, won second place in the Canadian Geotechnical Society (CGS)’s graduate student presentation competition in 2020. She has developed techniques to rapidly assess the effectiveness of treatments for dewatering and strengthening oil sands tailings deposit. These new techniques will increase the... More

Thursday, June 25, 2020

Faculty sends message to graduated students

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Friday, June 19, 2020

Spring 2020 Virtual Graduation Ceremony

To see the Spring 2020 Virtual Graduation Ceremony, visit the link below.  ... More

Thursday, June 4, 2020

Bucking, Ormeci, Sadeghian and Erochko obtain CU COVID-19 Rapid Research Response Grants

Professors Bucking, Ormeci, Sadeghian and Erochko were the recipients of research monies to provide seed funding for individuals or teams of researchers for original, innovative, and time-sensitive research to propose solutions to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, or to apply to external research grant competitions targeting the... More

Thursday, April 30, 2020

Whitehead named 2019 Undergraduate co-op student of the year

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is pleased to announce that fourth year Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Engineering student Johanna Whitehead has been named the 2019 winner of Carleton’s Co-op Student of the Year Award. Whitehead is completing a 16-month work term, which began in May 2019, as an Intern... More

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Gardien recipient of annual Provost Scholar Award

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is thrilled to announce that Jonique Gardien, a graduating Architecture Conservation and Sustainability student is one of the recipients of the 2020 Provost Scholar Award. This award recognizes exceptional undergraduate students who exemplify excellence in research, community engagement and/or... More

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Ormeci responds to COVID-19 questions asked to Global Water Institute

Carleton Global Water Institute professor answers question about water/wastewater in the COVID pandemic.      ... More

Friday, February 28, 2020

Congratulations to Prof. Mario Santana Quintero for winning the Faculty of Engineering and Design 2020 Teaching Excellence Award

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Friday, February 28, 2020

Prof. Banu Örmeci receives the 2020 Ottawa Chapter PEO Engineering Excellence Award. 

Congratulations to Professor Banu Örmeci to win the 2020 Ottawa Chapter PEO Engineering Excellence... More

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