Upcoming Defences:
- September 24, 2019 – Development of a Landing Period Indicator and the use of Signal Prediction to Improve Landing Methodologies of Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles on Maritime Vessels – Shadi Abujoub
- September 26, 2019 – “Design Fabrication and Calibration of Compliant Mult-Axis, Fiber-Optic Force/Torque Sensors for Biomechanical Measurements” – Osama Al-Mai (Ph.D.)
- October 3, 2019 – Ultrasonic Localization of a Quadrotor using a Portable Beacon – John O’Keefe (M.A.Sc.)
- December 2, 2019 – Optimization and Testing of Flat-Plate Trailing Edge Serration Geometry for Reducing Broadband Airfoil Self-Noise – Basim Al Tlua (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
- December 9, 2019 – Hygrothermal Response of Vacuum Insulation Panels in New and Retrofit Canadian Construction – Brock Conley (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
- December 10, 2019 – Steady-State Fracture Propagation and Low-Cycle Fatigue of Ductile Materials – Chris Bassindale (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
- December 16, 2019 – Combustion Characteristics of n-heptane Through Temperature Variation Measurements Using Ignition Quality Tester – Osama Hmood (Ph.D.)
- December 17, 2019 – Analysis of Microstructure Evolution and Mechanical Properties of Linear Friction Welded Titanium Alloys – Sidharth Rajan (M.A.Sc.)
- December 17, 2019 – Assessing tradeoffs between solar thermal and wind energy integration in an isolated community electrical-thermal grid – Keelia LaFreniere
- December 19, 2019 – Validating the Deployment of a Novel Tether Design for Net-Based Orbital Debris Removal Missions – Kevin Stadnyk (M.A.Sc.)
- December 20, 2019 – Development of a Computer Vision Framework for Improved Remotely Piloted Aircraft Operations – Brenden Ooi (M.A.Sc.)
- 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.)
- 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)
Past 2019 Defences:
- September 16, 2019 – Large Angle Washout Algorithms for Flight Simulators – Mikayla Micomonaco (M.A.Sc.)
- September 10, 2019 – “Cartilage Biomechanical and Mechanobiological Response to Physiological Biaxial Loads” – Ali Shegaf (Ph.D.)
- September 6, 2019 – “Numerical and experimental investigations of solidification in an initially emptied horizontal turbulent pipe flow” – Shawn Somers-Neal (M.A.Sc.)
- August 19, 2019 – “Intelligent Learning Assistive Devices” – Abdallah Zreiba (M.A.Sc.)
- August 16, 2019 – “Control, Simulation, and Testbed Development for Improving Maritime Launch and Recovery Operations” – Johanna McPhee (M.A.Sc.)
- May 7, 2019 – “Pose Tracking Control for Spacecraft Proximity Operations Using the Udwadia-Kalaba Framework” – Abin Alex Pothen (M.A.Sc.)
- May 6 2019 – “Validation of a computational model for predicting fatigue life” – Nilesh Gaonkar (M.A.Sc.)
- May 6, 2019 – “Application of an Optical Diagnostic (LII/ELS) to Measure Soot Formation Trends within Turbulent Buoyant Non-Premixed Flames” – Jasvardan Singh Sethi (M.A.Sc.)
- May 2, 2019 – “Spectroscopic Measurements of Path-Averaged Species Correlations in Turbulent Flare Plumes” – Scott Seymour (M.A.Sc.)
- May 1, 2019 – “Design and Adaptive Control of a Tendon-Driven Manipulator for the Capture of Non-Cooperative” – Justin Kernot (M.A.Sc.)
- April 29, 2019 – “Constrained Optimization and Radial Basis Functions in Computational Engineering” – Graeme Schmidt (Ph.D.)
- April 17, 2019 – “Experimental and Modeling Study of Sliding Wear Performance for Selected Molybdenum Stellite Alloys” – Rachel Collier (M.A.Sc.)
- March 19, 2019 – “Multiscale Mechanics and Metallurgical based Design Optimization of Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V Lattice Materials” – Peter Walker (Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam)
- March 15, 2019 – “Optical Co-orbital Measurements in Low Earth Orbits” – Kevin Bernard (M.A.Sc.)
- January 14, 2019 – “Spacecraft Pose Estimation Using a Monocular Camera” – Jian Feng Shi (Ph.D.)
- January 14, 2019 – “Passive flow control of rotary-wing and fixed-wing aircraft airfoils via Surface-based Trapped Vortex Generators” – Khinder Al-Jaburi (Ph.D.)