{"id":9121,"date":"2026-11-02T14:57:40","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T19:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/?p=9121"},"modified":"2026-11-02T14:57:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T19:57:40","slug":"two-wins-for-carleton-students-at-the-2026-cacsma-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/2026\/two-wins-for-carleton-students-at-the-2026-cacsma-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Wins for Carleton Students at the 2026 CACSMA Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Two Wins for Carleton Students at the 2026 CACSMA Awards\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two Carleton University students have been recognized by the Canadian Association for Composite Structures and Materials (CACSMA) with prestigious student awards in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dr. Peyman Shabani<\/strong> received the <strong>Timotei Centea Memorial Award for Best PhD Thesis<\/strong> for his dissertation, <em>\u201cVirtual Testing of Aerospace Composite Laminates: Impact and Fatigue.\u201d<\/em> The award recognizes outstanding doctoral dissertations completed at Canadian institutions in the field of composites and closely related areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Aurora Pilkington<\/strong> was also recognized with a <strong>CACSMA Undergraduate Award<\/strong>, which honours outstanding undergraduate work in composite design, research, manufacturing, and testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These two awards highlight the achievements of Carleton students at both the undergraduate and doctoral levels and reflect the university\u2019s strong contributions to research and education in composite structures and materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations to Peyman and Aurora on their achievements!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cacsma.ca\/awards\/\">here<\/a> to view the full list of CACSMA awards and recipients.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Carleton University students have been recognized by the Canadian Association for Composite Structures and Materials (CACSMA) with prestigious student awards in 2026. Dr. Peyman Shabani received the Timotei Centea Memorial Award for Best PhD Thesis for his dissertation, \u201cVirtual Testing of Aerospace Composite Laminates: Impact and Fatigue.\u201d The award recognizes outstanding doctoral dissertations completed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":9209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9122,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121\/revisions\/9122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}