Defences

Upcoming Defences:
January 7, 2026 – The Effect of Neck Stiffness on Headform Response and Intracranial Strain – Ashley Yip (MASc.)
January 6, 2026 – Integrating Hybrid Models and Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems for Engineering Last-Mile Delivery Logistics – Armin Mahmoodi (Ph.D. )
January 8, 2026 – Influence of TiO₂ Nanoparticles on Direct Energy Deposition of Ti-6Al-4V: Process Optimization, Microstructure, and Mechanical Properties – Shamaita Shabnam (MASc.)
January 8, 2026 – Off-Grid Solar Utilization and Optimization Study for a Low Energy Residential Building in a Cold Climate – Matthew Domsy (M.A.Sc.)
January 9, 2026 – Calibration of Hygrothermal Models for In-Situ Modelling and Monitoring for Scalable Retrofit Solution – Jordan McNally (Ph.D.)
January 9, 2026 – Fabrication and Characterization of High-Strength Digital Dentures Using Dual-Material PEEK System – Rohan Rughani (MASc.)
January 12, 2026 – Laser Direct Energy Deposition of CoCrFeNiTi High-Entropy Alloy: Optimization of Parameters and Evaluation of Microstructure and Mechanical Properties – Saber Goodarzi (MASc.)
January 16, 2026 – A Study of Microwave Assisted Aluminum Particle Oxidation in Carbon Dioxide Environments – Evangelina Schonfeldt (MASc.)
January 20, 2026 – Vibration and Sound Exposure During Neonatal Patient Transport – Keely Gibb (Ph.D.)

Recent Defences:

December 18, 2025 – Electrothermal State Estimation of Lithium-Ion Cells for Cold-Climate Battery Management – Shane Hu (MASc.)
December 17, 2025 – Novel Aeroservoelastic Analysis Framework Using the Lagrange Multipliers Method within MSC.Nastran – Hugo Truong (MASc.)
December 16, 2025 – Investigation of Bubble Sizes in Naturally-Aspirated Venturi Flows – Chintan Prajapati (MASc.)
December 16, 2025 – Pose Estimation of Unstructured Resident Space Objects with Actor-Critic Deep Feature Detection and Matching – Isaac Csekey (MASc.)
December 15, 2025 – Development of a Computational Multibody Biodynamic Passive Pilot Model for Investigating Aircraft-Pilot-Coupling – Daniel Nelson (MASc.)
December 15, 2025 – Virtual Testing of Aerospace Composite Laminates: Impact and Fatigue – Peyman Shabani (Ph.D.)
November 27, 2025 – Stiffness-Tailored Digital Materials for Additively Manufactured Prosthetic Sockets – Joshua Bertram (MASc)
November 25, 2025 – Numerical Investigation of a sub-1 kN Turbojet Combustor: Quantification and Reduction of the Combustor Pressure Loss – Jedidiah Nevo (MASc.)
November 14, 2025 – Koopman Expectation-Based Optimization for Offline Spacecraft Rendezvous Guidance Under Parametric Uncertainties – Lakshay Arora (Ph.D.)
September 18, 2025 – Dynamic Routing Strategies for Hybrid RPAS–Public Transit Delivery Networks – Seyedehleila Hasheminoudehi (PhD Comprehensive)
September 12, 2025 – Calibration and Performance of Residential Deep Energy Retrofits Under Future Climate Projections Using Building Energy and Hygrothermal Models – Myles Zagar (MASc)
September 11, 2025 – Multiphase flow behavior in Venturi aspirator systems – Anshuman Vyas (MASc)
September 11, 2025 – The Development of High Fidelity Experimental Reduced-Order Hybrid Stick Model for Aerospace Applications – Jackson Reid (MASc)
September 8, 2025 – Driving Accident Risk Assessment and Reduction Through Machine Learning, Optimal Planning and Shared Control – Arash Abarghooei (PhD)
August 28, 2025 – Computational Prediction of Total Fatigue Life with An Integrated Approach – Siqi Li (PhD)
August 26, 2025 – Deep Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Control: Robotic Motion Planning and Assistive Tasks – Masoud Karimi (PhD)
August 19, 2025 – Advanced Plasma Simulations for Propulsion – Katrina Mullane (PhD Comprehensive)
August 18, 2025 – Path Planning for Space-based Robotic Manipulators via Admissible Subspace Trajectory Optimization – Andrew Kiefte (MASc)
August 8, 2025 – Implementing a Sapient Airfoil Design System for Optimum Aeroacoustic and Aerodynamic Performance – Behzad Amirsalari (PhD Comprehensive)
July 29, 2025 – Sparse Point Cloud Generation of Unknown Spacecraft using a Neuromorphic Camera – Alex Crain (PhD Comprehensive)
July 10, 2025 – Modelling and Optimization of Scalable Hydrogen Fuel Cell Systems for Aviation – Adam Sherwood (MASc)
June 19, 2025 – Investigation of Transient Dynamic Behaviour of Small-scale Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines – Saeid Fadaei Naeini (PhD)
June 18 , 2025 – Studies of Anisotropic Ductile Fracture Behaviour in Pipeline Steels – Arnav Rana (PhD)
June 16, 2025 – Untethered Ferromagnetic Soft Robotics with Shape-Morphing Shell Structure – Mohammadjavad Javadi Sigaroudi (PhD)
June 2, 2025 – Optimizing the Integration of Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide into the Canadian Energy System – Erick Arwa (PhD)
May 21, 2025 – Autonomous Guidance, Navigation, and Control of Spacecraft Rendezvous and Formation Flying on Perturbed Highly Elliptical Orbits – Yazan Chihabi (PhD)

May 6, 2025 – Whirl Flutter Investigation for Rotor Discs and Two-Bladed Systems – Nikoo Etemadi (MASc)
May 6, 2025 – Unifying Impedance and Admittance Control for Improved Robot Interaction – Nicholas Berezny (PhD)
May 5, 2025 – Aeroacoustic Investigation on Self-noise of Porous Samples for Noise Reduction in Acoustic Wind Tunnels – Nicholas Cunnington-Bourbonniere (MASc)
May 5, 2025 – Design and Validation of BVLOS RPAS Flight Corridor in Low-Level Airways – Nishkarsh Chavda (MASc)

April 28, 2025 – TSO-DSO Integration in Modern Power Grids – Luis Lopez Diaz (Ph.D Comprehensive)
April 25, 2025 – From Slip Estimation to Collaborative Localization of Multi-Robot Systems Using Multi-Sensor Networks – Mahboubeh Jalalabadi Zarei (PhD)

April 24, 2025 – Damage Identification and Mitigation in Multi-Legged Robotic Systems – Sahand Farghdani (PhD)
April 24, 2025 – Black Carbon Emissions from Turbulent Buoyant Non-Premixed Flames
Representative of Flares in The Upstream Oil and Gas Sector and The Effects
of Crosswind – Alexis Tanner (Ph.D Comprehensive)

April 8, 2025 – Methodologies for Using Neural Networks to Facilitate an Aerial Vehicle’s Fully Automated and Uncrewed Landing on a Moving Ship – Kameron Palmer (MASc)
March 28, 2025 – Multiscale Design Optimization of Heatsinks Employing Functionally Graded Lattice Materials for Enhanced Thermal Management in Aerospace Systems – Ossama Hafeez (Ph.D. Comprehensive)
March 27, 2025 – Artificial Intelligence for Fatigue-Life Prediction of Additively Manufactured Lattice Materials: A Machine Learning Approach – Qasim Amin (Ph.D. Comprehensive)
March 20, 2025 – Optimization of Building Integrated Phase Change Materials Using Experiments and Simulation – Nathan Hay (MASc)
March 19, 2025 – Development of a residential-scale PV/T driven combined cooling, heating, and power system – Cem Kalkan (PhD)
February 3, 2025 – Sheng Xu (Ph.D. Comprehensive)
January 24, 2025 – Integrating Hybrid Models and Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems for Enhancing Last-Mile Delivery Logistics – Armin Mahmoodi (M.A.Sc.)
January 21, 2025 – Numerical Analysis of Electrical Parameter Effects on a Nanosecond Pulsed Dielectric Barrier of Discharge Actuator – Katrina Mullane (M.A.Sc.)
January 20, 2025 – Rheological Damper Characterization and Control with Application to a Drop Tower for Replicating the Impact Profiles of High Speed Craft – Mohammed Mujeeb (M.A.Sc.)
January 14, 2025 – Autonomous Aerial Drone Landing Site Selection on a Maritime Vessel – Eric Giroux (M.A.Sc.)
January 13, 2025 – Neural Networks for Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Aerospace Structures – Olivia Chamberland (Ph.D. Comprehensive)
January 8, 2025 – Effects of Impact Conditions on Intracranial Displacements and Deformation in Post-Mortem Human Subjects – Jean-Jacques Demiannay (M.A.Sc)
January 7, 2025 – Machine Learning-Based Human Motion Intention Detection In Controlling Assistive Devices – Sayyed Hossein Sadat Hosseini (Ph.D. Comprehensive)
January 3, 2025 – Novel Quaternion-based Non-linear Kalman-type Filters for GPS-denied 6-Dof 3D Visual-Inertial Navigation – Khashayar Ghanizadegan (M.A.Sc.)
December 18, 2024 – The Role Of Aluminum, Titanium, and Molybdenum In Enhancing Environmental Performances Of Transition Metal High Entropy Alloys – Anne Bastin (Ph.D. Comprehensive)
December 10, 2024 – Automated Fine-tuning CNN Using Firefly Algorithm for Bearing Fault Diagnostics – Xinyi Ma (M.A.Sc.)
December 3, 2024 – Investigating cellular responses to their mechanical environment using proximity labelling – Sarah Desroches (M.A.Sc.)
November 26, 2024 – Spacecraft Obstacle Avoidance and Rendezvous using Gradient Vector Fields – Matthew Murray (M.A.Sc.)
November 19, 2024 – Development and Experimental Validation of Advanced Adaptive Charging Technology for Lithium-ion Batteries – Ahmed Abdelrahman (Ph.D. Comprehensive)
October 11, 2024 – Nonlinear Disturbance Estimation-Enhanced Simple Adaptive Control of a Space Robot – Patrick Bell (M.A.Sc.)
October 10, 2024 – Sustainable Cogeneration of Energy, Valuable Metal Oxides, and Gaseous Fuels (H2 and CO) with Combustion of Metal Particles – Mahsa Salehi Mobarakeh (Ph.D. Comprehensive )
October 9, 2024 – Designing a Common Platform for Modelling Soot in Flames and Reactors – Mo Adib (Ph.D. Comprehensive)
August 28, 2024 – Life Cycle Analysis Frameworks in Sustainable Aviation – Chloe Richard (M.A.Sc.)
August 28, 2024 – Development of Panelized Exterior Retrofit Solutions for Commercial and Institutional Buildings – Thomas Dalkowski (M.A.Sc.)
August 28, 2024 – How regional climate and energy infrastructure affect the deployment of liquid-solvent Direct Air Capture: predictions from an open-source model – Patrick Shorey (M.A.Sc.)
August 27, 2024 – Experimental Response and System Identification-Based Biodynamics Model of Pilots for Aircraft Pilot Coupling and Pilot Induced Oscillations – Mohamed Fraga (Ph.D. Comprehensive)
August 26, 2024 – Assessment of Tensile Strain Capacities in X70 and X100 Pipeline Steels – Xinping (Carl) Yu (M.A.Sc.)
August 22, 2024 – Aerodynamic Analysis of a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Using Computational Fluid Dynamics – Erica Heiber (M.A.Sc. Sustainable Energy)
August 20, 2024 – A Framework for Assessing Aircraft Detect and Avoid Systems Using Monte Carlo Simulations – Samuel Kingma (M.A.Sc.)
August 19, 2024 – Sensitivity Analysis and Multi-Objective Optimization of Forced Steering Bogies of Railway Transit Cars using Coupled Surrogate Models and NSGA-III – Phillip Okotete (M.A.Sc.)
August 19, 2024 – Safe Geometric Control of Orbital Manipulators for Non-cooperative Debris Mitigation – Borna Monazzah Moghaddam (Ph.D.)
August 14, 2024 – Converting Carbon Dioxide into Synthetic Aviation Fuels: A Techno-Economic Assessment – Fawziyyah Olumoh (M.A.Sc. Sustainable Energy)
August 12, 2024 – Reducing Space Conditioning Loads and Improving Thermal Comfort in Residential Buildings with Phase Change Material Wall Coatings – Magdelena McClure (M.A.Sc. Sustainable Energy)
August 12, 2024 – Thermal Desorption Amperometry of Hydrogen in Metals – James Corrigall (Ph.D.)
August 9, 2024 – Pseudo-Homogeneous Sinusoidal Infill using Non-Planar FFF Techniques for Use in RPAS Structures – Samuel Nadler (M.A.Sc.)
July 29, 2024 – Characterizing the response of neural cells and tissues to pathological mechanical loading conditions – Gia Kang (Ph.D. Comprehensive)
July 22, 2024 – Investigation into the Effects of Heat Treatment and Nanoparticles on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of SLM’ed AlSi10Mg Alloy – Dolly Clement (Ph.D.)
June 13, 2024 – Multiscale Design of Nanoparticles by Gas Phase Synthesis – Hossein Rahbar (Ph.D. Comprehensive)
June 6, 2024 – Relative Pose Determination of a Non-Cooperative Spacecraft using Thermal Imagery – Apeksha Budhkar (M.A.Sc.)
May 31, 2024 – Vehicle Dynamics Modelling and Simulation for Use in the Development of a Self-Healing Auto Cyber Security System (SHACS) Proof-of-Concept – Mohammad Almalak (M.A.Sc.)
May 29, 2024 – Shared Control of Driving Based on Human-Machine State Detetion, Risk Model, and Assistive Haptic Controllers – Arash Abarghooei (Ph.D. Comprehensive)
May 15, 2024 – Development and Comparative Analysis of Wind-Tunnel Test Setups for Inter-Turbine Duct Studies – Riley Simpson (M.A.Sc.)
May 2, 2024 – The influence of manufacturing method and collagen on the mechanical performance of sodium alginate-based scaffolds for cartilage tissue engineering – Aaryn Lavallee (M.A.Sc.)
April 29, 2024 – Technoeconomic analysis of a solar thermal driven adsorption chiller space conditioning system for Canadian multi-unit residential buildings – Colin Ward (M.A.Sc.)
April 26, 2024 – Modelling and Optimization of Absorption-Based Direct Air Capture Facilities – Milad Shakouri Kalfati (Ph.D. Comprehensive)
April 23, 2024 – Influence of Composition and Processing Methods on the Microstructure and Properties of Co-Cr-Fe-Mn-Ni High Entropy Alloys – Devin Wang (M.A.Sc.)
April 22, 2024 – Investigating and enhancing the fusion weldability of Al7075 alloy. – Alireza Abdollahi (Ph.D.)
April 16, 2024 – Continuous Approximate Kinematic Synthesis of Planar, Spherical, and Spatial Four-bar Function Generating Mechanisms – Zach Copeland (Ph.D.)
April 12, 2024 – Adaptive Robust Control for VTOL-UAVs on Lie Group – Ali Mohamed Ali (Ph.D. Comprehensive)
March 13, 2024 – Control of Shape Morphing Untethered Ferromagnetic Soft Robots – Mohammadjavad Javadi Sigaroudi (Ph.D. Comprehensive)
February 29, 2024 – Sound and Vibration Exposure During Ontario’s Neonatal Patient Transport – Keely Gibb (Ph.D. Comprehensive)
January 26, 2024 – Spacecraft Swarm Establishment using Boids Control Theory – Dhrumil Soni (M.A.Sc.)
January 16, 2024 – Development of a Real-Time Physics-Based Digital Twin of a Marine Towed Cable-Body System – Cassidy Westin (Ph.D.)
January 15, 2024 – A Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectrometer for the Detection of Volatile Compounds in Lunar Regolith – Alexander Gmerek (M.A.Sc.)
January 11, 2024 – Investigation of the Axial and Torsional Low Cycle Fatigue Properties of Notched High Strength Steels for Application to Landing Gear Fuse Pins – Mary Patrick (M.A.Sc.)
January 11, 2024 – Measuring and Evaluating RPAS Performance in Arctic-like Conditions – Alex Urquhart (M.A.Sc.)
January 10, 2024 – Guidance Navigation and Control for a Mobile Robot based on Vision System and Adaptive Particle Filter – Hamdan Alatresh Bitlmal (M.A.Sc.)
January 10, 2024 – Bio-Inspired Adaptive Control of Robotic Manipulators for Space Debris Removal and On-Orbit Servicing – Collins Ogundipe (Ph.D.)
January 10, 2024 – Microstructural Characterization and Phase Prediction of High Entropy Alloys using Empirical and Machine Learning Based Methodologies- Aron Mohammadi (M.A.Sc.)
January 10, 2024 – Development and Qualification of a Drone-Based Anemometry Platform – Aman Basawanal (M.A.Sc.)

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