Defences

Upcoming Defences:

• June 18, 2020 – Remote Detection of Sodium and Potassium Atomic Emission Signatures as an Indicator of Liquid Carry Over into Flare Systems in North Dakota, Southern Saskatchewan, and Ecuador – Zachary Milani (M.A.Sc.)
• June 22, 2021 – Advanced Modelling and Control Methods for Precision Robotic Machining Tasks – Steffan Llyod (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
• June 28, 2021 – Characterization of Building Integrated Phase Change Materials Using Experiments and Simulation – Calene Treichel (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
• July 26, 2021  – Fusion welding of AI7075 alloy with nanoparticle-enhanced filler metal – Alireza Abdollahi (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)

Past 2020 Defences:

• January 6, 2020 – Terrain Draping and Following Using Low-Cost Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems for Geophysical Survey Applications – Salman Shafi (M.A.Sc.)
• January 9, 2020 – CALPHAD Based Cellular Model of Dendrite Growth in Welds – Ghazi Alsoruji (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
• January 10, 2020 – Oxidation Resistance of Additively Manufactured Inconel 718 for Gas Turbine Applications – Adria Barcelo Singh (M.A.Sc.)
• January 10, 2020 – Health monitoring system for the 10 MW Supercritical carbon dioxide S-CO2 gas turbine power plant – Ibrahim Ali (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
• January 13, 2020 – Technoeconomic Analysis of Air Based Solar Assisted Heat Pump Water Heaters for Canadian and American Cities – Calene Treichel (M.A.Sc.)
• January 13, 2020 – Developing Techniques to 3D Print Electric Motors for Self-Replicating Machines  – Abdurrazag Elaskri (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
• January 14, 2020 – Control of spaceborne manipulators for onorbit servicing especially looking at bio-inspired control using forward – Collins Ogundipe (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
• April 6, 2020 – An approach to data-driven sensing and predictive supervisory control for commercial buildings with in-situ evaluation – Jason Bursill (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
• April 23, 2020 – An Experimental Investigation of Polymer Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace Applications – Hayat El Fazani (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
• April 27, 2020 – Analysis of Variables which affect the Mechanical and Fracture Properties of Porcine Skin – Trevor Irwin (M.A.Sc)
• April 29, 2020 – Phase Field Modelling of Bainitic Transformation – Fawzi Elhigazi (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
• May 01, 2020 – The Integration of Heat Pumps and Thermal Storage for Residential Demand Side Management – Christopher Baldwin
• May 20, 2020 – Effects of Brain Ggyrification on Impact-induced Strain Measurements with a Preliminary Study on viable ex vivo Porcine Brain – Ashley Mazurkiewicz (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
• May 22, 2020 – A Study of Particle Surface Effects on the Spall Strength of Particle-Reinforced Polymer Matrix Composites – Anton Lebar (M.A.Sc)
• June 5, 2020 – Sensor Fusion in Autonomous Navigation using Fast SLAM 3.0 – An improved SLAM Method – Zheng Wang (M.A.Sc.)
• June 8, 2020 – Design and Validation of a Force-Sensing Piano Key to Assess Pianist Biomechanics – Francesca Tsimiklis (M.A.Sc.)
• June 10, 2020 – Optimized Surface Roughening by Pulsed Water-jet for Suitable Adhesion Strength of Plasma Transferred Wire Arc Coating – Nicolas O’Neil (M.A.Sc)
• June 11, 2020 – The Robotic Molecular Biologist – Automated Processing of Astrobiological Samples for Planetary Missions – Shubhank Sondhiya (M.A.Sc.)
• June 15, 2020 – Experimental and Modeling Studies of Thermal Barrier Coating Failure under Isothermal Oxidation and Solid Particle Erosion – Samia Essa (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
• June 23, 2020 – Transient Mathermatical Modelling of Loop Heat Pipes and Experimental Validation – Hooman Jazebizadeh (Ph.D)
• July 03, 2020  – SPS Thermal Barrier Coating System – Modelling and Performance Characterization Under Isothermal and Cyclic Oxidation Conditions – Bingjie Xiao- (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
• August 14, 2020 – Development of an Anti-Sway Control System and Real-Time Operator-in-the-loop Simulator for Shipboard Cranes – Iain Martin (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
• August 17, 2020 – Numerical and Experimental Optimization for Specific Fatgiue Life Maximization of Additively Manufactured Ti-6AI-4V Aerospace Components – Eric Trudel (M.A.Sc.)
• August 19, 2020 – Multiscale Design Optimization of Hopper Cars Employing Functionally Graded Honeycomb Sandwich Composites – Ayman Al-Sukhon (M.A.Sc.)
• August 20, 2020 – Microstructure-Based Computational Fatigue Life Prediction of Structural Materials – Siqi Li (M.A.Sc.)
• August 24, 2020 – Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Residual Stresses in Shot Peened Flange Pin of Landing Gears – Yinda Cheng (M.A.Sc.)
• August 24, 2020 – Communication HVAC Operation Through A Thermostat Interface: An In-Situ Implementation to Improve Perceived Control and Thermal Comfort in Offices – Connor Brackley (M.A.Sc.)
• September 02, 2020 – Sensor Fusion INS/GNSS based on Fuzzy Logic Adaptive Error-State Kalman Filter and Unscented Kalman Filter – Gabriel de Cunto (M.A.Sc.)
• September 11, 2020 – Quantification of Black Carbon Emissions from Gas flaring and Standardization of the Sky-LOSA Measurement Technique – Bradley Conrad (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
• September 14, 2020 – An Experimental Investigation of Polymer Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace Applications – Hayat El Fazani (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
• September 17, 2020 – A Study of the Impact Response of Discrete Regions of the Human Cadaver Brain – Scott Dutrisac (M.A.Sc.)
• September 21, 2020 – Raman spectroscopy-based analysis of cartilage composition with applications on finite element modeling – Daniel Mason (M.A.Sc.)
• September 22, 2020 – Pressurized Metered-Dose (pMDI) Aerosol Spray Deposition in LArge-and-Medium-Volume Spacers – Nicholas Ogrodnik (M.A.Sc.)
• September 22, 2020 – Investigations of sliding-induced solute transport in articular cartilage – Kathryn Culliton (M.A.Sc.)
• September 25, 2020 – Development for a Digital Twin for Maritime Launch & Recovery Operation – Cassidy Westin (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
• September 28, 2020 – Development of a Planar Shipboard Skid-equipped Rotary-wing Aircraft Manoeuvring and Securing Simulation – Alexander Schock (M.A.Sc.)
• October 16, 2020 – Aerodynamic and Structural Design of Flow Conditioning, Flow Seeding and Testing Sections of a High-Speed Wind Tunnel – Chanon Pretorius (M.A.Sc.)
• November 5, 2020 – Autonomous GN&C of Spacecraft Formation Flying on Highly Elliptical Orbits in the Presence of Gravitational, Third-Body, Drag and Solar Radiation Pressure Perturbations – Ahmad Chihabi (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
• November 6, 2020 – Thermal performance of a sub-slab thermal storage system for coupling to a heat pump: modelling and optimization – Luminita Dumitrascu (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
• November 23, 2020 – Development of 3D Print Electric Motors – Elaskri Abdurrazag (PhD. Comprehensive Exam)
• November 25, 2020 – Adaptive Control and Control Allocation for Spacecraft Formation Flying under Perturbations – Raha Hojjati (M.A.Sc.)
• December 15, 2020 – Microstructure and Performance Studies of a Novel Cobalt High Entropy Alloy – Xueyao Wu (M.A.Sc.)
• December 17, 2020 – Techno-economic Analysis of a Solar Adsorption Cooling System for Residential Applications in Canada – Jordan McNally (M.A.Sc)
• December 18, 2020 – Effects of Porosity, Wall Thickness and Length on the Filtration Efficiency of Gasoline Particulate Filters – Fadi Araji (M.A.Sc.)
• January 13, 2021 – Pilot study for cutting force model of robotic deburring – Grael Miller (M.A.Sc.)
• January 22, 2021 – Multi-Objective Shape Optimization of a Boundary Layer Ingesting Engine Intake – Ayesh Sudasinghe (M.A.Sc.)
• April 16, 2021 – 1:00PM – Investigation into the Performance of a Canadian Passive Solar House with Hydronic Floor Energy Capture System – Sarah Brown (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
• May 5, 2021 – 10:00AM – Sensitivity analysis and experimental validation of plunger-type wavemakers modelled with a steady flow – Stephanie Lowell (M.A.S.c)
• May 12, 2021 – 1:00PM – Algebraic input-output equations of four-bar kinematic chains; planar spherical; spatial – Mirja Rotzoll (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
• May 13, 2021 – 9:00AM – Cascaded Lyapunov Vector Fields for Spacecraft Relative Trajectory Tracking in Rotating Reference Frames Under Acceleration Constraints – Jeffrey Hough (M.A.S.c)
• May 17, 2021 – 9:00AM – Durability Characterization of a High Performance Building Envelope with Vacuum Insulation Panels and Energy Recovery Ventilation – Christopher Campbell (M.A.Sc.)
• May 21, 2021  1:00PM – Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Wing Shape identification using Vision System – Julius Adoghe (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
• May 25, 2021 – 1:00PM – Health monitoring system for the 10 MW Supercritical carbon dioxide S-CO2 gas turbine power plant – Ibrahim Ali (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
• May 26, 2021 – 12:30PM – sEMG-Based Lower Limb Intention Detection using Artifical Intelligence and its Impact on Assistive Human-Robot Interaction – Hasto Khiabani (M.A.Sc.)
• May 27, 2021 – 1:00PM – Computer Vision for Real-time Navigation with Unknown, Uncooperative and Tumbling – Setareh Yazdkhasti (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
• May 27, 2021 – via Video Conference – A Holistic Model for the Combined Weld Arc-Pool System – Matthew Gibson (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
• May 27, 2021 – 2:00PM – Development of 3D Printed Electric Motors – Abdurrazag Elaskri (M.A.S.c)