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

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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

Friday, December 4, 2020

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

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

Thursday, February 20, 2020

Prof. Onita Basu receives the 2020 PEO Ottawa Chapter Citizenship Award

Congratulations to Prof. Onita Basu to win the 2020 PEO Ottawa Chapter Citizenship Award. The award program is for Professional Engineers from the Ottawa Chapter who have improved the quality of life through the ingenious application of their engineering skills, going above and beyond the normally high standards of the profession. The presentation... More

Thursday, February 20, 2020

Meet the Boreal Builders team

Students teamed up with Gull Bay First Nation to create housing solutions shaped by resiliency and sustainability. The group was supervised by Professor Scott Bucking, and they conducted this site visit to learn more about the existing microgrid and survey potential land plots which could be used for the development of the project. For... More

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

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

The conservation project on the Tomb of King Tutankhamen completed. This was led by Professor Mario Santana Quintero and its team.

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