Awards and recognition

2010

Uttandaraman Sundararaj

Laleh Behjat

Thomas Brown

Elizabeth Cannon

John Chen

Robert Day

Naser El-Sheimy

Francis Hartman

Ian Gates

Amin Ghali

Fadhel Ghannouchi

Peihua Gu

James Haslett

Josephine Hill

Gerard Lachepelle

Om Malik

Janet Ronsky

William Rosehart

Janaka Ruwanpura

Nigel Shrive

Qiao Sun

U.T. Sundararaj

Chan Wirasinghe

Ludi Zanzotto

2014

Josephine Hill

2017

Joule Bergerson

2019

Lina Kattan

2008

U.T. Sundararaj, Medal of Distinction for Engineering Education

2009

Laura Lucier, Young Engineer Achievement Award

2011

Ed Nowicki, Medal for Distinction in Engineering Education

2013

Arindon Sen, Medal for Distinction in Engineering Education
Josephine Hill, Award for the Support of Women in the Engineering Profession
Elizabeth Cannon, Gold Medal Award

2015

Connor Scheu (APEGA student member), Gold Medal Student Award

Robert Brennan

Leo Bruton

Elizabeth Cannon

Gerald Carson

Vincent Chiew

Michael Collins

Anil Kumar Mehotra

S. Chan Wirasinghe

Nigel Shrive

2001

Jim Haslett

2006

William Svrcek

2009

Fadhel Ghannouchi

2014

S. Chan Wirasinghe

2017

Lynne Cowe Falls
Jocelyn Hayley

2019

Zhangxing (John) Chen
Uttandaraman (U.T.) Sundararaj

2020

Mamdouh El-Badry
Raafat El-Hacha
Josephine Mary Hill

2022

Orly Yadid-Pecht

2023

Yang Gao 
Henry Leung
Anil Mehrotra 
Bill Rosehart

2024

Steven Bryant
Naser El-Sheimy
Elise Fear
Janaka Ruwanpura
Svetlana Yanushkevich

1994

Leo Bruton
Walter Dilger

2002

Gerard Lachapelle

2004

Elizabeth Cannon

2008

Leo Behie

2009

Graham Jullien

2010

Fadhel Ghannouchi

2013

Walter Herzog

2016

Rangaraj Rangayyan
Nigel Shrive

2020

Zhangxing (John) Chen

2006

Nader Mahinpey, Synergy Award for Innovation

2016

John Chen, Synergy Award for Innovation

International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Awards

2020

Derek Lichti, The Schwidefsky Medal

2021

Roberto Aguilera, SPE Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award

Steven Bryant, SPE Sustainability and Stewardship in the Oil and Gas Industry Award

2021

Janaka Ruwanpura

Fellowships

Amin Ghali (1986)

Walter Dilger (1988)

Robert Loov (1988)

John Morrall (1998)

Thomas Brown (1999)

Chan Wirasinghe (2001)

Mamdouh El Badry (2005)

Nigel Shrive (2006)

Lynne Cowe Falls (2010)

Patrick Hettiaratchi (2011)

Janaka Ruwanpura (2014)

Gopal Achari (2016)

Raafat El-Hacha (2018)

1993

Amin Ghali, A.B.Sanderson Award

2002

Walter Dilger, A.B.Sanderson Award

John Morrall, Sanford Fleming Award

2007

Lynne Cowe Falls, Sanford Fleming Award

2010

Robert Loov, A.B.Sanderson Award

2012

Janaka Ruwanpura, Walter Shanly Award

2013

Patrick Hettiaratchi, Albert E. Berry Medal

2014

Thomas Brown, A.B.Sanderson Award

2020

Gopal Achari, James A. Vance Award

Mamdouh El Badry, A.B.Sanderson Award

2022

Janaka Ruwanpura

2017

Schulich School of Engineering, Canadian Natural Resources Engineering Complex, Engineering Award

Each year, APEGA recognizes professional engineers and professional geoscientists who have made outstanding contributions to the professions or to the community. Up to 11 awards are presented each year, chosen from nominations sent in by fellow members, colleagues, students and the public.

2000

Gerard Lachapelle, Frank Spragins Technical Award
Anil Kumar Mehrotra, Excellence in Education Award

2003

Jim Haslett, Excellence in Education Award

2004

Jocelyn Hayley, Early Accomplishment Award
Ron Hugo, Excellence in Education Award

2005

Naser El-Sheimy, Excellence in Education Award

2006

Anil Kumar Mehrotra, L.C. Charlesworth Professional Service Award

2007

Shelley Lissel, Early Accomplishment Award
U.T. Sundararaj, Excellence in Education Award

2009

Fadhel Ghannouchi, Alberta Ingenuity Fund Research Excellence Award
Patrick Hettiaratchi amd Anil Kumar Mehrotra, Environment and Sustainability Award
Jim Haslett, Frank Spragins Technical Award

2010

Leo Behie, Alberta Ingenuity Fund Research Excellence Award

2012

Josephine Hill, Women in Engineering and Geoscience Award
Arin Sen, Excellence in Education Award

2015

David Wood, Environment and Sustainability Award
Laleh Bejat, Women in Engineering and Geoscience Award

2017

Jocelyn Hayley, Women in Engineering and Geoscience Award
Josephine Hill, Research Excellence Award

2018

Yang Gao, Research Excellence Award
Nashaat Nassar, Early Accomplishment Award
Lynne Cowe Falls, Women in Engineering and Geoscience Award

2019

Ayodeji Jeje, Outstanding Mentor Award
Nigel Shrive, Centennial Leadership Award
Ian Gates, Frank Spragins Technical Award
Nader Mahinpey, Research Excellence Award

2020

Marcelo Epstein, Frank Spragins Technical Award

2022

Derek Lichti, Research Excellence Award
Qiao Sun, Women in Engineering and Geoscience Award
Hadis Karimipour, Early Accomplishment Award

2023

Quazi Hassan, Environment and Sustainability Award 
Lina Kattan, Research Excellence 
Mohammad Moshirpour, Excellence in Education 

2024

Leonid Belostotski, Research Excellence
Kerry Black, Community Service Award
Ahmad Ghasemloonia, Excellence in Education 
Bill Rosehart, Centennial Leadership Award Recipient 

The ASTech Awards recognize and celebrate our brightest minds and the greatest achievements of outstanding individuals and organizations in the Alberta science and technology innovation community.

2001

Jocelyn Hayley, Leaders of Tomorrow Award

2002

Michael Kallos, Leader of Tomorrow Award

2004

Gerard Lachapelle, Outstanding Leadership in Alberta Technology Award

2009

Ian Gates, Outstanding Commercial Achievement in Alberta Science and Technology (Gushor Inc.)

2014

Alex Ramirez-Serrano, Outstanding Achievement in Applied Technology and Innovation Award
Fadhel Ghannouchi, Outstanding Leadership in Alberta Technology Award

2015

Brig Maini, Innovation in Oil Sands Research
Yonathan Dattner, Luxmux Technology, Outstanding Science and Technology Start-Up (Doctoral student)

2016

Ian Gates, Innovation in Oil Sands Research Award

2017

Schulich Engineering Outreach Team, Excellence in Science and Technology Public Awareness Award

2018

Reza Maalek, Derek Lichti and Janaka Ruwanpura, Outstanding Achievement in Applied Technology Innovation
Orly Yadid-Pecht, Outstanding Achievement in Technology

2019

Joo-Hwa (Andrew) Tay, Outstanding Achievement in Technology
Steve Liang, Outstanding Science and Technology Start Up
Nader Mahinpey, Outstanding Achievement in Energy and Environmental Innovation
Fadhel Ghannouchi, Special Award: Outstanding Contribution to Wireless Technology

2016

Schulich School of Engineering, Award of Distinction

2018

Laleh Bejhat

Awarded for leadership and distinguished service at the regional/local level. 

2023

Jocelyn Hayley

For more than two decades, Avenue’s Top 40 Under 40 presented in association with the University of Calgary has celebrated younger Calgarians who are moving the city forward.

2008

Steven Boyd

2009

Michael Kallos

2010

Jocelyn Hayley

2013

David Rival 
Steve Liang
Mohamed Elhabiby

2019

Emily Marasco

Recognizing the outstanding achievements of Calgary’s immigrants and refugees in arts and culture, civics, academics and industry. 

2014

Om Malik, Lifetime Achievement Award

2015

S. Chan Wirasinghe, Lifetime Achievement Award

2016

Janaka Ruwanpura, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

2018

Gopal Achari, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
Marjan Eggermont, Arts and Culture
Thomas Brown, Lifetime Achievement

2019

Janaka Ruwanpura

2005

Chan Wirasinghe

2005

Patrick Hettiaratchi

2003

David Irvine-Halliday

These awards are funded by the Killam Trust, established in memory of Izaak Killam by his wife, Dorothy to support advanced education and research.

2010

Ayodeji Jeje, Leadership in Teaching Award

2011

Nigel Shrive, Interdisciplinary Research Award
Arin Sen, Innovation in Teaching Award
Alex De Visscher, Emerging Research Leader Award

2012

U.T. Sundararaj, Annual Professors Award
Elise Fear, Interdisciplinary Research Award
Mike Smith, Interdisciplinary Research Award

2013

Ian Gates, Innovation in Teaching Award

2014

Gerard Lachapelle, Graduate Supervision & Mentoring Award
Lina Kattan, Emerging Research Leader Award

2016

Steve Liang, Killam Emerging Research Leader Award
Raafat El-Hacha, Killam Annual Professors Award

2017

Walter Herzog, Killam Memorial Chair
Josephine Hill, Killam Annual Professors Award
Michael Kallos, Killam Annual Professors Award
Ron Hugo, McCaig-Killam Teaching Award
Laleh Behjat, Graduate Supervision and Mentorship Award
Steven Chien, Killam Visiting Scholar
Adedapo Awolayo, Killam Pre-doctoral Laureate (First Year)
Sagar Kumar Dhar, Killam Pre-doctoral Laureate (First Year)
Rania, Sayed Eid, Killam Pre-doctoral Laureate (First Year)
Peng He, Killam Pre-doctoral Laureate (First Year)
Annamaris Olmo-Velazquez, Killam Pre-doctoral Laureate (First Year)
Scott Sibole, Killam Pre-doctoral Laureate (First Year)
Jessica Kupper, Killam Pre-doctoral Laureate (Second Year)
Muhammad Omer, Killam Pre-doctoral Laureate (Second Year)
Tushar Sharma, Killam Pre-doctoral Laureate (Second Year)
Daniel Oloumi, Killam Post-doctoral Laureate
Tanaji More, Killam Post-doctoral Laureate

2018

Elise Fear, Killam Annual Professors Award
Kenneth Ng, Killam Annual Professors Award
Ian Gates, Killam Annual Professors Award
Craig Johansen, Killam Emerging Research Leader Award
Milana Trifkovic, Killam Award for Undergraduate Mentorship
Walter Herzog, Canada Council Killam Prize in Engineering
Adedapo Awolayo, Killam Pre-doctoral Laureates (Second Year)
Rania Sayed Eid, Killam Pre-doctoral Laureate (Second Year)

2019

Walter Herzog, Killam Memorial Chair
Ali Zeraati, Killam Pre-doctoral Laureates (Second Year)
Nasser Sabet, Killam Pre-doctoral Laureates (Second Year)

2020

Dr. Zhangnxing (John) Chen, Killam Annual Professors Award
Milad Ahmadi Khoshooel, Killam Pre-doctoral Laureates (First Year)
Mohammadali Ahmadi, Killam Pre-doctoral Laureates (First Year)

Hosted by the University of Calgary Senate, the Lecture of a Lifetime series showcases the talent and achievements of leading scholars and celebrates outstanding service to the university, its students and the greater community.

2011

Ayodeji (Ayo) Jeje

2018

Lynne Cowe Falls (watch video)

Celebrating the accomplishments of UCalgary scholars whose academic work in knowledge engagement, entrepreneurship, tech transfer, innovation or collaborative research has resulted in a positive social or economic impact in our communities.

2012-2014

Michal Okoniewski
Michel Fattouche
Mohamed Youssef
Angus Chu
Elise Fear
Gerard Lachapelle
Haris Afzal
Jeremie Bourqui
Valerie Renaudin
Yonathan Dattner

2014

Carolyn Anglin
Naser El-Sheimy
Ian Gates
Simon Park
Nigel Shrive

2015

Ian Gates
David Wood
Patrick Hettiaratchi
Steve Liang

2016

Fadhel Ghannouchi
Maen Husein Jarrar
Joo Hwa (Andrew) Tay
Orly Yadid-Pecht

2017

Elena Di Martino
Janet Ronsky
Kristina Rinker
Marjan Eggermont
Zhangxing (John) Chen

2018

Joule Bergerson
Alex Bruton
Lina Kattan
Hamidreza Zareipour

2019

Jiaxun (Jennifer) He
Pedro Pereira Almao
Derek Lichti
Amir Senati Nezhad

2020 (COVID-19 Innovation Excellence)

Michael Kallos

Recognizing outstanding contributions to learning by individuals and groups in diverse teaching contexts.

2015

Norm Bartley, Award for Full-Time Academic Staff

2016

Chris Simon, Award for Non-Academic Staff

2018

Milana Trifkovic, Elise Fear and Laleh Behjat, Award for Team Teaching

2019

Uttandaraman Sundararaj, Award for Education Leadership (Informal)

2020

The Engineering Attributes Project Team: Kim Johnston, Robyn Paul, Destiny Dedemus, Melissa Boyce, Award for Educational Leadership (Group)

2022

Bioengineering Summer Institute Curriculum Development Team (Dr. Qiao Sun, PhD, Dr. Laleh Behjat, PhD, Dr. Elena Di Martino, PhD, Miriam Nightingale, Alina Ismaguilova, Robyn Paul and Kat Dornian), Award for Curriculum Development

The Students' Union Teaching Excellence Awards enable students to recognize UCalgary instructors who positively impacted their undergraduate learning experiences and academic careers.

2014

Mark Petovello
Leszek Sudak

2015

Norm Bartley (Hall of Fame)
Michael Collins
Markus Dann
Milana Trifkovic (Honourable mention)

2016

Chris Morton
Uttandaraman U.T. Sundararaj

2017

Ahmad Ghasemloonia
Markus Dann
David Ledo (Teaching Assistant)
Yousry Elsabrouty (Honourable mention)
George Jergeas (Honourable mention)

2018

Uttandaraman (U.T.) Sandararaj
Ahmad Ghasemloonia
David Ledo (Teaching Assistant)
Chris Morton (Honourable mention)

2019

Alireza Fazlirad 
Ryan Hamilton 
Uttandaraman (U.T.) Sundararaj (Honourable mention)

2020

Mina Iskander
Qi Zhou
Brandon Ferguson (Teaching Assistant)
Kerry Black (Honourable mention)
Allen Sandwell (Honourable mention)

2021

Alexander Mark Bruton
Yves Pauchard
Nigel Shrive (Honourable mention)

Recognizing individuals and teams who exemplify excellence, reach above and beyond the expected to make the university a great place to learn and work. 

2009

Suzanne Dauner
George Jergeas

2010

Andrea Cortes
Karen Knoll Williams

2011

Jamie McInnis
Sarah Stevenson

2014

Jalal Abedi

2017

Kirsten Exall
Arin Sen
Tushar Sharma

2018

Chris Simon

Awarded to recipients who have provided distinguished service and leadership in building excellence at Schulich.

2009

Raj Bishnoi
Michael Sargious

2010

Len Brunton
Robert Loov
Peter Glockner

2014

Ghazi Karim
Robert Day (Posthumous)
Tom Brown

2016

Jim Haslett

2017

Gérard Lachapelle

2020

Dr. Lynne Cowe Falls

2023

S.C. (Chan) Wirasinghe (March)

Nigel Shrive (December)

Schulich School of Engineering presents this award to recipients who have made sustained, significant and distinguished contributions over a period of several years.

2001

J. Dessautels

2005

L.J. Hahn

2006

L.J. Hahn

2008

Lorraine Whale

2010

Brent Kin
Vic Perry

2011

Wolfe Keller

2012

Naweed Syed
Dave Smith

2013

Norman Webster

2014

David A. Hart
Yanguang Yuan

2015

Brent Nielsen

2016 

Richard Baker
Brian Keay

2017

Dave Eaton

2018

David Layzell
Mark Hagel 

2019

Nigel Waters

2020

Dr. Mario Forcinito,
Mr. Bert Van Duin

2023

John Lacroix (March)
Randy Moore (March)

Nannette Ho-Covernton (December)
Chris Jordan (December)
Michael Parkins (December)

Awarded to recipients who have demonstrated outstanding research contributions in their fields of specialization over the previous two years.

2000

Apostolos Kantzas
Ron Wong
Henry Leung
Elizabeth Cannon
Ghazi Karim

2001

Gordon Moore
Neil Duncan
Raj Rangayyan
K.P. Schwarz
Marcelo Epstein

2002

Abu Sesay
Yang Gao
Abdulmajeed Mohamad

2003

Elizabeth Cannon
Janet Ronsky

2006

Harvey Yarranton
Nigel Shrive
Jim Haslett
Ayman Habib
Daniel Kwok

2007

Raj Mehta
Richard Tay
Fadhel Ghannouchi
Gerard Lachapelle
Paul Tu

2009

John Chen
Patrick Hettiaratchi
Elise Fear
Susan Skone
Frank Cheng

2011

Brij Maini
Gopal Achari
Behrouz Far
Kyle O’Keefe         
Steven Boyd

2013

Jalal Abedi
Neil Duncan
Henry Leung
Steve Liang
Simon Park

2015

Josephine Hill
Andrew Tay
Leonid Belostotski
Naser El-Sheimy     
Robert Martinuzzi

2017

Harvey Yarranton
Nigel Shrive
Hamidreza Zareipour
Ruisheng Wang
Simon Park

2019

Nader Mahinpey
Richard Wan
Henry Leung
Yang Gao
Artem Korobenko

2022

Elena Di Martino
Milana Trifkovic
Lina Kattan
Svetlana Yanushkevich
Derek Lichti
Chris Morton

2023 (March)

Uttandaraman Sundararaj
Jennifer He
Leonid Belostotski
Yang Gao, Quazi Hassan
Ke Du, Seonghwan Kim

2023 (December)

Sayeh Bayat
Hossein Hejazi
Hadis Karimipour
Keekyoung Kim 
Benjamin Tan
Milana Trifkovic

Hatem Abou-Zeid (Department Excellence Award)
Joule Bergerson (Department Excellence Award)
Amin Komeili (Department Excellence Award)
Derek Lichti (Department Excellence Award)
Alex Ramirez-Serrano (Department Excellence Award)
Qi Zhou (Department Excellence Award)

2023

Marcelo Epstein
Lina Kattan & Poornima Jayasinghe
Estacio Pereira

John Bertram (Department Excellence Award)
Salvatore Federico (Department Excellence Award)
Sathish Ponnurangam (Department Excellence Award)

2023

Maryam Badv
Yang Gao
Nader Mahinpey
Aggrey Mwesigye 
U.T. Sundararaj

Behrouz Far (Department Excellence Award)
Rahil Khoshnazar (Department Excellence Award)
Kyle O'Keefe (Department Excellence Award)

2023

Laleh Behjat
Tiffany Dang
Marjan Eggermont
Ahmad Ghasemloonia
Diwakar Krishnamurthy
Emily Marasco
Ghada Nafie
Richa Pandey
Meera Singh 

2023

Bob Brennan
Ron Hugo
Anil Mehrotra

Anne Benneker (Department Excellence Award)
Ignacio Galliano (Department Excellence Award)
Jennifer He (Department Excellence Award)
Robert Martinuzzi (Department Excellence Award)
Kartik Murari (Department Excellence Award)
Hongzhou Yang (Department Excellence Award)

Awarded to recipients in each department who have demonstrated excellence in the teaching of undergraduate engineering students during the previous academic year.

2000

Harvey Yarranton
Neil Duncan
Norm Bartley
Naser El-Sheimy
Janet Ronsky

2001

Ron Wong
Jim Haslett
Haser El-Sheimy

2002

Mahmood Moussavi
Ron Hugo

2005

Arin Sen
Lynne Cowe Falls
Michel Fattouche
Kyle O’Keefe
Steven Boyd

2006

Arin Sen
Lynne Cowe Falls
Geoffrey Messier
Naser El-Sheimy
Qiao Sun

2007

Ayo Jeje
Gopal Achari
Ed Nowicki
Kyle O’Keefe
Steven Boyd

2008

Matthew Clarke
Caterina Valeo    
Sebastian Magierowski
Steve Liang
Simon Park
Arin Sen

2009

Arin Sen
Jocelyn Hayley    
Hamid Zareipour
Kyle O’Keefe
Chao Tan
Ian Gates

2010

Ian Gates
Lynne Cowe Falls
Mike Potter
Mark Petovello
Robert Martinuzzi
Mike Kallos

2011

Jalal Azaiez
Neil Duncan        
Anders Nygren
Mark Petovello
Qiao Sun
Yani Jazayeri

2012

Hassan Hassanzadeh
Tom Brown                     
Norm Bartley
Andrew Hunter
Les Sudak
Marjan Eggermont

2013

Anil Mehrotra
JD Hung  
Geoffrey Messier
Michael Collins
Daniel Kwok, Anders Nygren, Anis Haque, Norm Bartley
Michel Fattouche

2014

Alex De Visscher
Lynne Cowe Falls             
Ed Nowicki
Yang Gao
Qiao Sun
Joule Bergerson

2015

Milana Trifkovic
Markus Dann                   
Steve Norman
Michael Sideris
Meera Singh
Jocelyn Hayley

2016

Michael Foley
Jeffrey Priest
Seyed Pouyan (Yani) Jazayeri
Christopher Morton
Markus Dann

2017

Hector Siegler
George Jergeas
Kartikeya Murari
Elena Rangelova
Craig Johansen
Ahmad Ghasemloonia 

2018

Shengnan (Nancy) Chen
Nigel Shrive
Mohammad Moshirpour
Alexander Bruton
Paul Ziadé
Edward Roberts

2019

Giovanni Natale
Qi Zhou
Geoff Messier
Ivan Detchev
Robert Martinuzzi
Kazi Sumon

2020

Roman Shor
Markus Dann
Steve Norman
Michael Collins
Simon Li
Mohammad Moshirpour

2021

Kazi Sumon
Kerry Black
Mahmood Moussavi
Yang Gao
Marcelo Epstein
Roman Shor

2023 (March)

Amin Komeili
Hossein Hejazi
Caroline O'Driscoll, Saeid Saidi
Roberto Souza
Robert Radovanovic
Marjan Eggermont, Ahmad Ghasemloonia

2023 (December)

Maryam Badv
Jacob Lamb
U.T. Sundararaj

Ann Barcomb (Department Excellence Award)
Sean McCoy (Department Excellence Award)
Miriam Nightingale (Department Excellence Award)
Estacio Pereira (Department Excellence Award)
Elena Rangelova (Department Excellence Award)
Ahmed Tiamiyu (Department Excellence Award)

2023

Anne Benneker
Colin Dalton
Leanne Dawson
Schuyler Hinman 
Sumaya Nsair
Benjamin Tan

Awarded to recipients who have guided, supported and promoted the career development of colleagues in a meaningful way.

2011

S. Chan Wirasinghe
Gerard Lachapelle

2012

Anil Mehrotra
David Wood

2013

Nigel Shrive

2014

Brij Maini
Les Sudak
Ian Gates

2015

U.T. Sundararaj

2016

Gordon Moore

2018

Apostolos Kantzas
Ayodeji Jeje

2019

Ron Wong

2020

Dr. Markus Dann

2021

Phil Egberts
Colin Dalton

2023

Hadis Karimipour
Janet Ronsky
Qiao Sun

Schulich School of Engineering presents this award annually to recipients who have shown outstanding commitment to promoting wellness and positive mental health. This award recognizes excellence and/or innovation in mental-health promotion activities, programs or initiatives that contribute to increased awareness, reduced stigma and enhanced wellbeing related to mental health, wellness and resiliency.

2019

Kim Johnston

2021

Chris Morton

2023

Marjan Eggermont

Awarded to recipients who have made contributions of excellence in safety and sustainability.

2000

Raj Mehta

2002

Anil Mehrotra

2005

Mike Kallos
Shelley Lissel
Susan Skone

2006

Janaka Ruwanpura

2007

Mike Potter
Lynne Cowe Falls

2009

Jalal Azaiez
Bill Rosehart
Bill Shaw

2011

Ayodeji Jeje
Raafat El-Hacha
Robert Brennan

2013

Chemical and Petroleum: Michael Kallos
Civil: Lynne Cowe Falls
Electrical and Computer: Mike Potter
Geomatics: Kyle O’Keefe
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Alex Ramirez Serrano

2015

Chemical and Petroleum: Michael Foley
Civil: Jocelyn Hayley    
Electrical and Computer: Abu Sesay
Geomatics: Michael Sideris
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Theo Freiheit

2017

Chemical: Josephine Hill
Civil: Lynne Cowe Falls
Electrical: Svetlana Yanushkevich
Geomatics: Michael Barry
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Simon Li

2019

Chemical and Petroleum: Hector De la Hoz Siegler
Civil: Jeffrey Priest
Electrical and Computer: Diwakar Krishnamurthy
Geomatics: Michael Sideris
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Jeffrey Pieper

2021

Chemical and Petroleum: Matthew Clarke
Civil: Kerry Black
Electrical and Computer: Mike Potter
Geomatics: Elena Rangelova
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Janet Ronsky

2023

Chemical and Petroleum: Roman Shor
Electrical and Software: Abraham Fapojuwo
Geomatics: Ivan Detchev
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Peter Goldsmith, Simon Li

Formerly the Graduate Educator Award, this recognition is awarded to recipients from each department who have demonstrated excellence in teaching graduate-level courses and supervision of of master's and doctoral students' thesis research in the previous two years.

2005

Angus Chu
Abu Sesay
Gerard Lachapelle

2006

George Jergeas
Yang Gao

2007

Chemical and Petroleum: Janaka Ruwanpura
Civil: Abdulmajeed Mohamad
Electrical and Computer: Jim Haslett    
Geomatics: Ayman Habib
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Apostolos Kantzas

2009

Chemical and Petroleum: Brij Maini
Civil: Gopal Achari       
Electrical and Computer: Geoff Messier
Geomatics: Gerard Lachapelle
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Marcelo Epstein

2011

Chemical and Petroleum: John Chen
Civil: Tom Brown
Electrical and Computer: Abraham Fapojuwo
Geomatics: Naser El-Sheimy
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Steven Boyd

2013

Chemical and Petroleum: Harvey Yarranton
Civil: Bruce Jamieson
Electrical and Computer: Hamid Zareipour
Geomatics: Danielle Marceau
Mechanical and Manufacturing: David Wood

2015

Chemical and Petroleum: Joule Bergerson
Civil: Lina Kattan
Electrical and Computer: Laleh Behjat
Geomatics: Naser El-Sheimy
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Craig Johansen

2017

Chemical and Petroleum: Ian Gates
Civil: Andrew Tay
Electrical and Computer: Fadhel Ghannouchi
Geomatics: Xin Wang
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Robert Martinuzzi

2019

Chemical and Petroleum: Hassan Hassanzadeh
Civil: Nigel Shrive
Electrical and Computer: Mohammad Moshirpour
Geomatics: Naser El-Sheimy
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Chris Morton

2021

Chemical and Petroleum: Nashaat Nassar
Electrical and Computer: Hamid Zareipour
Geomatics: Derek Lichti
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Majeed Mohamad

2023

Chemical and Petroleum: Giovanniantonio Natale
Civil: Neil Duncan
Electrical and Computer: Elise Fear, Svetlana Yanushkevich
Mechanical and Manufacturing: David Wood

Awarded from among the recipients of the Research Excellence Award to individuals who have shown outstanding excellence in research contributions in their fields of specialization over the previous two years.

2000

Elizabeth Cannon

2003

Elizabeth Cannon

2006

Nigel Shrive

2007

Fadhel Ghannouchi

2009

John Chen

2011

Brij Maini

2013

Jalal Abedi

2015

Andrew Tay

2017

Simon Park 

2019

Nader Mahinpey

Awarded from among the recipients of the department Teaching Excellence Awards to individuals who have shown outstanding excellence in teaching.

2000

J. Ronsky

2003

Ron Hugo

2004

Norm Bartley

2005

Steven Boyd

2006

Lynne Cowe Falls

2007

Ed Nowicki

2008

Arin Sen

2009

Ian Gates

2010

Mark Petovello

2011

Yani Jazayeri

2012

Norm Bartley

2013

Anil Mehrotra

2014

Ed Nowicki

2015

Marcus Dann

2016

Christopher Morton

2017

Elena Rangelova

2018

Paul Ziadé

2019

Giovanni Natale

2020

Roman Shor

2021

Marcelo Epstein

Awarded to recipients who have shown leadership excellence in teaching activities.

2018

Uttandaraman (U.T.) Sundararaj

2019

Kyle O'Keefe

2020

Kim Johnston

2021

Emily Marasco 
Marjan Eggermont 

2023

Elena Di Martino
Mike Potter

Formerly the Teaching Innovation Award, this recognition is awarded to recipients who have shown teaching excellence and innovation in diverse learning contexts, including experiential and active learning initiatives.

2018

Kimberly Johnston

2019

Laleh Behjat
Seyed Pouyan (Yani) Jazayeri
Geoff Messier
Kartik Murari
Mike Potter

2020

Mohammad Moshirpour, Rushi Vyas

2021

Ahmad Ghasemloonia

2023

The team of:
Aggrey Mwesigye, Schuyler Hinman, Roes Budiman, Ahmed Tiamiyu and Keekyoung Kim
Kartikeya Murari
Ghada Nafie

Awarded biennially, in the years between the Research Excellence Awards, to non-tenured recipients who have made substantial research contributions over the previous two years.

2008

Chemical and Petroleum: Ian Gates
Civil: Raafat El-Hacha
Electrical and Computer: Geoffrey Messier
Geomatics: Alexander Braun
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Chao Tan

2010

Chemical and Petroleum: Alex De Visscher
Civil: Lina Kattan
Electrical and Computer: Hamid Zareipour
Geomatics: Mark Petovello
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Salvatore Federico

2012

Chemical and Petroleum: Nader Mahinpey
Civil: Carolyn Anglin
Electrical and Computer: Mohamed Halaoui
Geomatics: Steve Liang
Mechanical and Manufacturing: David Rival

2014

Chemical and Petroleum: Hassan Hassanzadeh 
Electrical and Computer: Kartikeya Murari
Geomatics: Ruisheng Wang

2016

Chemical and Petroleum: Nashaat Nassar
Civil: Jianxun (Jennifer) He
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Seonghwan (Sam) Kim

2018

Chemical and Petroleum: Sathish Ponnurangam
Civil:  Markus Dann
Electrical and Computer: Majid Pahlevani
Geomatics: Mozhdeh Shahbazi
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Amir Sanati Nezhad

2020

Chemical and Petroleum: Qingye Lu
Civil:  Qi Zhou
Electrical and Computer: Colin Dalton
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Joanna Wong

2022

Biomedical: Laura Curiel
Chemical and Petroleum: Md Kibria
Civil:  Rahil Khoshnazar
Electrical and Software: Roberto Souza
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Jihyun Lee

2023

Biomedical: Richa Pandey
Chemical and Petroleum: Jinguang Hu
Civil:  Saeid Saidi
Electrical and Software: Zahra Abbasi, Hatem Abou-Zeid, Yani Ioannou, Gias Uddin
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Ahmed Alade Tiamiyu

Formerly the Remote Teaching Awards, this recognition was developed to acknowledge teaching excellence, innovation, and the facilitation of exemplary experiential learning in remote learning contexts. 

2020

Chemical and Petroleum: Mike Kallos, Kunal Karan, Kazi Sumon
Civil: Kerry Black, Nouran Habib, Iyad Sahnoon, Qi Zhou
Electrical and Computer: Iman Askarian, Yani Jazayeri,  Rushi Vyas
Geomatics: Alex Bruton,  Ivan Detchev, Kyle O'Keefe
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Jihyun Lee, Saeedeh Saghlatoun

2021

Chemical and Petroleum: Nasser Sabet, Zhangxing (John) Chen, Hossein Hejazi & Parisa Bazazi (Team)
Civil: Saeid Saidi 
Electrical and Computer: Rachel L'Orsa, Ann Barcomb & Emily Marasco (Team)
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Ron Hugo

2023

Team of Schuyler Hinman and Aggrey Mwesigye
Mahmood Moussavi
Kazi Sumon

Demonstrated record of leadership of high impact transdisciplinary research collaborations, research initiatives, projects, or programs, or sustained internationally leading research outputs.

2022

Chemical and Petroleum: Ted Roberts
Civil: Nigel Shrive
Electrical & Software: Orly Yadid-Pecht

2023

Biomedical: Amir Sanati Nezhad
Chemical and Petroleum: Nader Mahinpey
Civil: Alain Pietroniro
Mechanical & Manufacturing: Frank Cheng

Demonstrated excellence in achieving research impact in industry practice or society, through patents, licensing, start-up companies, open-source software, or other evidence of research impact.

2022

Chemical and Petroleum: Nader Mahinpey, Ian Gates
Civil: Alain Pietroniro
Geomatics: Naser El-Sheimy

2023

Biomedical: Amir Sanati Nezhad, Kristina Rinker
Chemical and Petroleum: Nashaat Nassar
Electrical & Software: Colin Dalton
Geomatics: Xin Wang
Mechanical & Manufacturing: Simon Park

The Award for Fostering Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility in Engineering recognizes those who promote and commit to EDIA in teaching and learning, research and scholarship, and/or service work.

2023

Zahra Abbasi

Awarded to recipients who have made outstanding contributions through excellence in leadership.

2013

Courtenay Canivet

2014

Maureen Brost

2015

Karen Undseth

2016

Carla Grundison

2017

Sarah McGinnis

2019

Ganna Melekh

2020

Lorraine Ewert
Jodie Clark
Maureen Brost
Julie Nagy Kovacs

2021

Jodie Clark
Special Mention: Bethe Andreasen

2023

Emily Wyatt (March)
Fatima Abdul-Halim (March)

Alison Barrett-Ede (December)
Heather Hanley (December)
Kevin Le (December)
Jennifer van Zelm (December)

Awarded to recipients who have made outstanding contributions in excellence in support of teaching and research.

2013

Lorne Abbey

2014

Terry Quinn

2016

Brandon Ferguson
Phuong (Paige) Deitsch

2017

Robyn Paul

2018

Angela Morton

2019

Angyue Liu

2020

Matthew Bardsley

2021

Catherine Cervantes
Carmen Rieder
Tanya Brucker

2023

Nicholas Mathias (March)

Mateo Alzate (December)
Rebecca Cowan (December)
Ella Lok (December)
Mason Plested (December)

2023 (December)

Jennifer Kilback 
Cathy McLaughlin
Elias Spencer
Sharon Yu

Awarded to recipients who have provided outstanding support to a department or centre, a research group, program, project or committee, over a period of several years.

2005

Heather Herring
Ella Gee

2006

S. Thompson Donna
A. Rundle

2007

Julia Lai
Pauline Cummings
Nick Vogt

2008

Jake Neudorf
Garwin Hancock

2009

Marcia Inch
Paul Lavoie

2010

Karen Undseth
Garth Wanamaker

2011

Mark Hancock

2012

Monica Barbaro

2013

Nareeza Khan

2014

Chrissy Thatcher
Daniel Forre

2015

Matthew Ursenback
Dolly Parmar

2016

Julie Nagy Kovacs
Jennifer Lawtey

2017

June Au Yeung
Tammy Wong

2018

Arthur de Vera
Rebecca Cowan
Robert Scorey

2019

Ivana D'Adamo
Suha Abusalim

2020

Heather Hanley

2021

Pilar Beltran
Jinny Kim

2023

Jane Gao
Tyler Hamilton

Schulich School of Engineering presents this award annually to recipients who have shown outstanding commitment to promoting wellness and positive mental health. This award recognizes excellence and/or innovation in mental-health promotion activities, programs or initiatives that contribute to increased awareness, reduced stigma and enhanced wellbeing related to mental health, wellness and resiliency.

2019

Tanya Brucker
Destiny Dedemus

2020

Hannah Brunsdon
Janelle Ward

2021

Cindy Lee

2023

Destiny Dedemus

The Schulich School of Engineering presents this award annually to recipients who have made outstanding contributions to excellence in safety and sustainability. The award is to acknowledge staff for contributions to safety and sustainability in the faculty/department such as:

• Demonstrating initiatives to create a better work environment, focused on eliminating or reducing injuries in the workplace
• Understanding the shared responsibility of safety between faculty and staff, and working to influence safe work practices
• Focusing on creating sustainable work solutions that are participatory in nature and have a lasting and continuous effect
• Demonstrating leadership skills, integrating sustainable practices throughout the faculty including identifying drivers for organizational and behavioral change
• Demonstrating implementation of sustainable new initiatives with a positive impact on the faculty/department

2013

Paige Deitsch

2014

James McNeely
Robert Scorey
Brian Moerke
Rob Thomson

2015

Daniel Larson

2016

Daniel Forre

2017

Matt Robertson

2018

Maureen Brost

2020

SSE Technical Services Team:
Diego Ospina
Samin Sabokrohiyeh
Paige Deitsch
Angela Morton
Daniel Larson
Noha Mohammad
Tibor Bata
Nicholas Mathias
Mateo Alzate
Kevin Le
Prapti Sarker
Tanish Gupta
Mark Stevens

The Award for Fostering Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility in Engineering recognizes those who promote and commit to EDIA in teaching and learning, research and scholarship, and/or service work.

2023

Phuong (PAIGE) M Deitsch
Lorelei Lachambre
Cathy McLaughlin

The Award for Advancing SSE Contributions to ii' taa'poh'to'p recognizes individuals or groups at the Schulich School of Engineering who have shown outstanding commitment to advancing the process of truth and reconciliation by incorporating Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Doing, Connecting and Being in their teaching and research practices.

2023

Jennifer Farrand

Formerly the Teaching Assistant Excellence Award, this recognition is awarded to recipients who have demonstrated excellence in the teaching assistance of undergraduate engineering students during the previous academic year.

2000

R. Mehta

2002

Anil Mehrotra

2014

Chemical and Petroleum: Aqsha Aqsha, Samira Shafiei
Civil: Donna Chen, Gong Xu
Electrical and Computer: Makeknaz Nayebi, Mila Gorbets
Geomatics: Mostafa Arastounia, Babak Amjadiparvar
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Nathan Neeteson, Qiang Li
Common Core: William Smith, Saghar Nasr

2015

Chemical and Petroleum: Kimberley Johnston, Sagar Purkayastha
Civil: Hothifa Rojob, Mohammad Hossein Morawej Hamedani
Electrical and Computer: Muhammad Omer, Yasaman Amannejad
Geomatics: Mostafa Arastounia, Ivan Detchev
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Omid Zandieh, Allen Sandwell
Common Core: Vahid Asili, Marcela Rodriguez, Morgeza Dejam, An Le

2016

Chemical and Petroleum: Amjad El-Qanni, Yoshinori Casas
Civil: Willem Klumpenhouwer, Scott Harold McKean
Electrical and Computer: Jonathan Kwan. Mohamed Abdelra Mohamed
Geomatics: Erin Jennifer Kahr, Mostafa Arastounia
Mechanical and Manufacturing: William Schuyler Hinman, Amirhossein Hamedzadeh
Common Core: Sepideh Afkhami Goli, Fernando Javier Trejo Torres

2017

Chemical and Petroleum: Aleksandra Govedarica, Parisa Bazazi
Civil: Jordan Hollman, Hiva Jalilzadeh
Electrical and Computer: Leanne Dawson, Khodadad Pakdaman
Geomatics: Hani Mohammed, Kaleel Al-Durgham
Mechanical: Eric Limacher, Alex Meikleham
Common Core: Ghada Nafie, Soheila Karimi, Ali Shayestey, Anis Ben Arfi

2018

Chemical and Petroleum: Kourosh Khaje, Nasser Sabet
Civil: Dinu Attalage, Mihai Robu
Electrical and Computer: Iman Askarianabyaneh, Pouyan Keshavarzian
Geomatics: Ahmed Youssef, Kaleel Mansour Al-Durgham
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Matthew Robert Singbeil, Iman Bonakdar
Common Core: Afif Hethnawi, Ghada Nafie, John Martínez, Soheila Karimi

2019

Chemical and Petroleum: Nicson Do, Nasser Sabet
Civil: Tian Jin, Vaidehi Pitre
Electrical and Computer: Dylan Peterson, Kenneth Kam Fai Lai
Geomatics: Hani Mahmoud Mohammed Mohammed, Rodrigo Augusto de Oliveira E Silva
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Robyn Paul, Milad Azarmanesh
Common Core: Robyn Paul; Leidy Tatiana Montoya

2020

Chemical and Petroleum:  Cigdem Demirkaya,  Samaneh Ashoori
Civil:  Ben Forrest, Iyad Sahnoon
Electrical and Computer:  Christine Cao, Masoud Karimi Fatemi
Geomatics:  Lingyi Cui, Rodrigo Augusto de Oliveira e Silva
Mechanical and Manufacturing:  Hamid Mostaghimi, Tannis Kemp
Common Core:  Iman Erfan, Shaun Gair, Ali Mohammadi, Fatemeh Sharifi

2023

Abdoljalil Addeh
Akram Al-Absi
Tamer Al-Shboul
Mike Blois
Nicholas Elderfield
Mario Gonzalez Cordova
Mitra Mirshafiee Khoozani
Kelly Long
Julia Malinovska
Madison Marriott
Andre Oliveira
Graham Stevens
Minaoar Tanzil
Ajesh Trivedi
Amir Varamesh
Fernando Vega

Demonstrated research excellence such as high impact publication(s), an outstanding thesis, patent application(s), or a student led start-up.

2022

Biomedical: Danielle Whittier, Katrin Smith
Chemical and Petroleum: Markus Ingelsson, Mohammadali Ahmadi
Civil: Cuauhtémoc Tonatiuh Vidrio Sahagún, Fatemeh Hosseinzadeh
Electrical and Software: Ball Mohammed, Kat Dornian
Geomatics: Katherine Pexman
Mechanical and Manufacturing: Hamid Mostaghimi, Yinghao Sun

2023

Biomedical: Thomas Lijnse, Scott Sibole
Chemical and Petroleum: Maedeh Pahlevaninezhad, Jolene Phelps
Civil: Oumaima Awassa
Electrical & Software: Amir Namavar Jahromi, Sarah Shah
Geomatics: Zhitao Lyu

• USRI Scores > 6.3 in any three measures in at least one course
• Not < 5.0 in two or more categories in any course

2016-2017 recipients

Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
Christopher Clarkson
Hector De la Hoz Siegler 
Alex Andre Hugo De Visscher
Morteza Dejam
Mingzhe Dong
Ian Gates
Poornima Jayasinghe
Kimberly Johnston
Brij Maini
Sudarshan Mehta
Sathish Ponnurangam
Arindom Sen
Gouthami Senthamaraikkannan
Uttandaraman (U.T.) Sundararaj
Matthew Szostakiwskyj
Matthew Tait
Thomas Van Hardeveld
James Wilson

Civil Engineering
Markus Dann
Jocelyn Hayley
Jianxun (Jennifer) He
Andrea Isfeld
George Jergeas
Nigel Shrive
Joo-Hwa (Andrew) Tay
Ronald Thiessen
S. Chan Wirasinghe

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Norman Robertson Bartley
Behrouz Far
Elise Fear
Seyed Jazayeri
Geoffrey Messier
Mohammad Moshirpour
Mahmood Moussavi
Kartikeya Murari
Stephen Alexander Norman
Ed Nowicki
Christopher Wood
Eric Wu
Svetlana Yanushkevich

Geomatics Engineering
Michael John Collins
Yang Gao
Quazi Hassan
Derek Lichti
Kyle O'Keefe

Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Robert Brennan
Yufeng (Frank) Cheng
Ke (Duke) Du
Seyyed Alireza Fazlirad
Ahmad Ghasemloonia
Ronald Hugo
Craig Johansen
Robert Martinuzzi
Christopher Morton
Tannin Schmidt
Les Sudak
Yiliu (Paul) Tu
Paul Ziade

2017-2018 recipients

Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
Arindom Sen
Brij Maini
Edward Roberts
Farzam Javadpour
Hassan Hassanzadeh
Hemanta Sarma
Jalal Azaiez
Kimberly Johnston
Michael Foley
Michael Kallos
Nashaat Nassar
Robert Lloyd
Roman Shor
Sameh Nassar
Shengnan (Nancy) Chen
Uttandaraman (U.T.) Sundararaj
Zhangxing (John) Chen

Civil Engineering
Alexandre De Barros
George Farage Jergeas
Jianxun (Jennifer) He
Jordan Hollman
Markus Dann
Nigel Graham Shrive
Poornima Jayasinghe
Raafat El-Hacha
Ronald Thiessen

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Abraham Fapojuwo
Anis Syed Haque
Dean Richert
Elise Carolyn Fear
Milana Trifkovic
Laleh Behjat
Emily Marasco
Eric Wu
Geoffrey Messier
Hamidreza Zareipour
Henry Leung
Jorgen Nielsen
Kartikeya Murari
Mahmood Moussavi
Majid Pahlevani
Michael Edward Potter
Norman Robertson Bartley
Seyed Jazayeri
Stephen Alexander Norman

Geomatics Engineering
Alexander Bruton
Ehsan Mohammadi
Elena Rangelova
Jacky Chow
Mozhdeh Shahbazi
Naser El-Sheimy
Quazi Khalid Hassan

Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Ahmad Ghasemloonia
Artem Korobenko
Christopher Morton
Craig Johansen
David Wood
Ke (Duke) Du
Leszek Sudak
Paul Ziade
Ron Hugo
Salvatore Federico
Seyyed Alireza Fazlirad
Simon Li
Thomas Van Hardeveld
Yufeng (Frank) Cheng

2018-2019 recipients

Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
Roberto Aguilera
Jalel Azaiez
Zhangxing (John) Chen
Matthew Clarke
Ayodeji Jeje
Kimberly Johnston
Robert Lloyd
Nader Mahinpey
Giovanniantonio Natale
Hemanta Sarma
Roman Shor
Uttandaraman (U.T.) Sundararaj

Civil Engineering
Markus Dann
Neil Duncan
Jianxun (Jennifer) He
Jordan Hollman
Mina Iskander
George Jergeas
Nigel Shrive
Ronald Thiessen
S. Chan Wirasinghe
Chee Wong
Qi Zhou

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thomas Apperley
Iman Askarianabyaneh
Norman Bartley
Laura Curiel
Colin Dalton
Vassil Dimitrov
Abraham Fapojuwo
Anis Haque
Seyed Jazayeri
Henry Leung
Titus Mathews
Geoffrey Messier
Mohammad Moshirpour
Mahmood Moussavi
Steve Norman
Ed Nowicki
Majid Pahlevani
Abu Sesay
Christopher Wood
Eric Wu

Geomatics Engineering
Alexander Bruton
Michael Collins
Ivan Detchev
Naser El-Sheimy
Yang Gao
Quazi Hassan
Hani Mohammed
Sameh Nassar
Kyle O'Keefe
Elena Rangelova
Michael Sideris
Mozhdeh Shahbazi
Emmanuel Stefanakis

Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Nasser Daiyan
Marjan Eggermont
Silvanus Enns
Seyyed Alireza Fazlirad
Salvatore Federico
Ahmad Ghasemloonia
Ron Hugo
Thomas Jack
Craig Johansen
Robert Martinuzzi
Chris Morton
Nancy Nelson
Deyi Xue
Paul Ziade

2019-2020 recipients

Biomedical Engineering
Laura Curiel
Salvatore Federico
Derrick Rancourt

CEERE
Roya Pishgar
Linlong Yu

Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
Joule Bergerson
Matthew Clarke
Mingzhe Dong
Mike Foley
Samira Haj-Shafiei
Hassan Hassanzadeh
Mike Kallos
Kunal Karan
Stephanie Kedzior 
Raj Mehta
Nashaat Nassar
Giovanni Natale
Ted Roberts
Mujtaba Shareef
Roman Shor
Kazi Sumon
Jingyi Wang

Civil Engineering
Mohamed Abdelsamie
Markus Dann
Alexandre De Barros
Mamdouh El-Badry
Oliver Iorhemen
Mina Iskander
Mohammad Moazzami
Caroline O’Driskoll
Nigel Shrive
Ron Wong
Qi Zhou

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Norm Bartley
Leonid Belostotski
Abraham Fapojuwo
Behrouz Far
Anis Haque
Mohamed Helaoui
Henry Leung
Titus Mathews
Mohammad Moshirpour
Steve Norman
Denis Onen
Mike Potter
Rushi Vyas
Eric Wu
Hamid Zereipour

Geomatics Engineering
Alexander Bruton
Ivan Detchev
Yang Gao
Quazi Hassan
Ghada Nafie
Elena Rangelova 
Xin Wang

Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Arief Budiman
Graham Doerksen
Van Enns
Ahmad Ghasemloonia
Simon Li
Chris Morton
Jeff Pieper
Monique Sullivan
Paul Tu

Discovery Accelerator Award or an NSERC Discovery Grant
(at or above national average in their evaluation group and classification)

• Classified as either an "Established Researcher" or "Early Career Researcher"

New Frontiers in Research Fund – Explorations Program

• Awarded an NFRF in excess of $75,000/year

2015 recipient

Nader Mahinpey, NSERC IRC in Novel C02 Capture Technologies for Oil Sands Operations, Partners: CNRL, Devon, Canmet Energy

2016 recipients

Naser El-Sheimy, Tier I Canada Research Chair in Geomatics Multi-sensor Systems

Seonghwan (Sam) Kim, Tier II Canada Research Chair in Nano Sensing Systems

2017 recipients

Brij Maini, Industrial Research Chair in Advanced In-Situ Recovery Processes for Oil Sands, Partners: Nexen and CNOOC

Joule Bergerson, Tier II Canada Research Chair in Energy Technology Assessment

Robert Brennan and Simon Li, NSERC Chairs in Design Engineering, Partners: Spartan Controls and Suncore Energy Foundation

2018 recipient

Amir Sanati Nezhad, Canada Research Chair in Bio-Electromechanical Systems (BioMEMS)

Discovery Accelerator Award or an NSERC Discovery Grant
(at or above national average in their evaluation group and classification)

• Classified as either an "Established Researcher" or "Early Career Researcher"

New Frontiers in Research Fund – Explorations Program

• Awarded an NFRF in excess of $75,000/year

2015 recipients

Markus Dann
Amir Sanati Nezhad
Ian Gates
U.T. Sundararaj
Joo Hwa (Andrew) Tay
S. Chan Wirasinghe
Fadhel Ghannouchi
Henry Leung
Kyle O’Keefe
Yufeng (Frank) Cheng
Josephine Hill
Anil Mehrotra

2016 recipients

Jocelyn Hayley
Richard Wan
Laleh Behjat
Geoffrey Messier
William Rosehart
Sathish Ponnurangam
Christopher Morton

2017 recipients

Kunal Karan
Janaka Ruwanpura
Simon Park
Les Sudak
Qiao Sun
Quazi Hassan
Artem Korobenko

2018 recipients

Leo Belostotski
Zhangxing (John) Chen
Michael Collins
Naser El-Sheimy
Elise Fear
Yang Gao
Craig Johansen
Rahil Khoshnazar
Hung-Ling (Steve) Liang
Derek Lichti
Nader Mahinpey
Edward Roberts
Nigel Shrive
Xin Wang
Harvey Yarranton

2019 recipients

Andrew Knight 
Robert Martinuzzi
Jeffrey Priest
Arin Sen
Emmanuel Stefanakis

2020 recipients

NSERC Discovery Grants:
Shengnan Chen (CPE)
Frank Cheng (MME)
Fadhel Ghannouchi (ECE)
Josephine Hill (CPE)
Lina Kattan (Civil)
Henry Leung (ECE)
Milana Trifkovic (CPE)
UT Sundararaj (CPE)
Orly Yadid-Pecht (ECE)
Hamid Zareipour (ECE)

Discovery Accelerator Award:
Lina Kattan (Civil)
Milana Trifkovic (CPE)

Awarded an NSERC CRD in excess of $100,000/year for a minimum of two years

Awarded a Strategic Project Grant

Awarded NSERC Alliance in excess of $100k/year

New: Tri-Council COVID research funding in excess of $150k/year

New: Tri-Council funding (non-NSERC) in excess of $150k/year

Non Tri-Council funding of large value

2015 recipients

Yaoping Hu (PI) and Robert Martinuzzi, Partner: NOVA Chemicals Corporation

Arindon Sen (PI) Ian Gates, Lisa Gieg and U.T. Sundararaj, Partner: Trican Well Service Ltd.

2016 recipients

Yang Gao (PI) and Naser El-Sheimy, Partners: Orthoshop Geomatics, Cansel

Mohamed Helaoui (PI), Fadhel Ghannouchi and Ammar Kouki, Partners: Nanowave Technologies, Ericsson Canada, National Research Council of Canada

Patrick Hettiaratchi (PI), Angus Chu and Peter Dunfield, Partner: Tetra Tech EBA

George Jergeas (PI) and Farnaz Sadeghpour, Partner: Construction Owners Association of Alberta

2017 recipients

CREATE Team 1: Naser El-Sheimy (PI), Yaoping Hi, Lina Kattan, Steve Liang, Aboelmagd Noureldin, Mark Petovello, Alejandro Ramirez-Serrano, Richard Klukas, John Nielsen, Kyle O’Keefek, Mario Costa Sousa

CREATE Team 2: Edward Roberts (PI), Joule Bergerson, Viola Birss, Jeffrey Gostick, Kunal Karan, Sathish Ponnurangam, Marc Secanell Gallart, Venkataraman Thangadurai, Milan Trifcovic, Alexander Whalley

Joule Bergerson (PI), David Layzell, Darko Matovic, and Andrew Pollard, Partner: Lafarge Canada

Andy Knight (PI), David Wood and Petr Musilek, Partners: AESO, Altalink, ATCO Electric

U.T. Sundararaj (PI), Partner: Hutchinson Aerospace and Industry

Henry Leung (PI), Partners: ID Technologies, AUG Signals, Defence Research and Development Canada

Pedro Pereira Almao (PI), Partner: Total E&P Recherche Developpement

2018 recipients

CREATE Team: Lina Kattan, Patrick Hettiaratchi, Laleh Behjat, Henry Leung, Chan Wirasinghe, Getachew Assefa (EVDS), Joshua Taron (EVDS), David Layzell (Science), Kasun Hewage (UBC), Zhongchao Tan (Waterloo), Caterina Valeo (Victoria)

Henry Leung and Fakhri Karray (Waterloo)

Ted Roberts, Milana Trifkovic and Anh Pham (Carleton)

Leping Li, Simon Park, Ron Hugo and Frank Cheng

Kyle O’Keefe and Derek Lichti

Majid Pahlevani

Ted Roberts, Milana Trifkovic and Bernhard Mayer (Science)

2019 recipients

Svetlana Yanushkevich

Craig Johansen (PI), Artem Korobenko, Chris Morton, Alex Ramirez Serrano, Robert Martinuzzi, Partner: Atlantis Research Labs Inc.

Mamdouh El-Badry (PI), Frank Cheng, Ron Wong, Partners: Enbridge Pipelines Inc., Alberta Masonry Council

Ron Wong (PI), Partner: Nexen Energy

Roman Shor, Partner: Precision Drilling

2020 recipients

Hassan Hassanzadeh (PI),Partners: Canadian Natural Resources Limited; CNOOC International; Husky Energy; Imperial Oil; Osum; Pengrowth Energy Corporation; Suncor

Mike Kallos (PI), Agency: CIHR – Project Grant

Steve Liang (PI), Partner: CAE Inc.

Nader Mahinpey (PI), Partner: Canadian Natural Resources Limited

Amir Sanati-Nezhad (PI), Agency: CIHR Operating Grant: COVID-19 - Diagnostics

Nigel Shrive (PI), Partners: Concrete Masonry Producers Association and Canada Masonry Design Centre

Svetlana Yanushkevich (PI), Agency: Government of Canada, Department of National Defence

Harvey Yarranton (PI), Partners: Virtual Materials Group – Schlumberger; Suncor Energy Ltd; Canadian Natural Resources Limited

Discovery Accelerator Award or an NSERC Discovery Grant
(at or above national average in their evaluation group and classification)

• Classified as either an "Established Researcher" or "Early Career Researcher"

New Frontiers in Research Fund – Explorations Program

• Awarded an NFRF in excess of $75,000/year

2019 recipients

Mozhdeh Shahbazi and Victoria Fast

Up to 10 awards are available annually to support staff and managers in the Schulich School of Engineering who have, in an exemplary fashion, championed inclusivity and diversity in the Schulich School of Engineering.

• Recognizes and embraces diversity within SSE
• Demonstrates sensitivity to the specific needs and challenges of under-represented groups within SSE
• Communicates, volunteers and champions SSE’s commitment to inclusivity within the SSE community and the community at large
• Contributes to making SSE a welcoming environment in which to work and study

2017

Fatima Abdul-Halim
Alison Barrett
June Au Yeung
Emily Wyatt

2018

Tanya Brucker
Jennifer Whitnall
Courtney Canivet
Alison Barrett
Patti Evans

2019

Alison Barrett
Dana Miller

2022

Pilar Beltran
Simi Paul

Up to 10 awards are available annually to support staff and managers in the Schulich School of Engineering who have, in an exemplary fashion, supported the goal of enhancing research impact in the Schulich School of Engineering.

• Demonstrates enthusiastic and knowledgeable support of SSE research activities
• Takes exceptional care in welcoming new academic researchers to SSE and aiding them in establishing their research programs
• Communicates and champions SSE research to the broader community
• Stays well informed of current technical practice, health and safety and administrative and procedures

2017

Daniel Larson
Chrissy Thatcher
Kirsten Exall
Sharon Yu
Darlene Hiles

2018

Rachel Wensley
Kirsten Exall
Nicole Dunsdon
Jeremy Haasdyk
Jane Gao
Sarah Lee
Jamie Solheim Barnes
Sharon Yu
Darlene Hiles

2019

Kakali Majumdar
Lauren Ellis

2022

Sana Tariq
Sharon Yu
Heather Hanley
Jamie Solheim-Barnes
Nicole Genereux

Up to 10 awards are available annually to support staff and managers in the Schulich School of Engineering who have, in an exemplary fashion, been Schulich community ambassadors and champions.

• Demonstrates commitment to the people of SSE by volunteering, encouraging and showing creativity
• Shows SSE pride in everything they do
• Represents SSE well in cross-campus interactions
• Demonstrates value for fellow employees and makes SSE a welcoming place in which to work

2017

Jodie Clark
MME Admin/Tech Team
Courtenay Canivet
Andrew Sutton
Mike Grigg
Courtney Tait
Communication and Marketing Team
Rob Scorey and the Shop and Stores Team
Lisa Jeannet
Stella George

2018

Michael Platt
Heather Hanley
Fatima Abdul-Halim
Zena Blais
Ivana D’Adamo
Engineering Career Centre Team
Angyue Liu
Monica Freeman
Jennifer Kilback
Hailee Turpin
Dan Forre
Karen Undseth
Sarah McGinnis

2019

Jodie Clark
Heather Hanley
Michael Platt
Nicole Laursen
Sarah McGinnis
Nicole Dunsdon

2022

Joe McFarland
Stephanie Colucci
Simi Paul
Catherine Cervantes

Up to 10 awards are available annually to support staff and managers in the Schulich School of Engineering who have, in an exemplary fashion, supported student experience and success in the Schulich School of Engineering.

• Demonstrates respect, concern and compassion for students
• Finds innovative solutions to individual student problems
• Supports extra-curricular student activities
• Demonstrates insight and concern when students are struggling

2017

Electrical and Computer Engineering Tech Team
Pilar Beltran
Melissa Peters
Monica Freeman
Engineering Student Centre Team
Suha Abusalim
Marcy Crandle
Marion Iwanyk
Maureen Brost
Adrianne Hrynyszyn
Catherine Barrett

2018

Tibor Bata
Brandon Ferguson
Dan Forre
Owen Thomas
Terry Quinn
Angela Morton
Jennifer Lawtey
Jenny Cruickshank
Don Anson
Catherine Barrett
Suha Abusalim
Arthur De Vera
Dana Miller
Emily Wyatt
Owen Thomas
Adrianne Hrynyszyn
June Au Yeung
Ganna Melekh
Ann Tikk
Cameron Vanderwey

2019

Catherine Cervantes
Chris Simon
Jamie Olmstead
Engineering Student Centre Team
Emily Wyatt

2022

Rebecca Cowan
Jennifer Farrand
Lorraine Ewert
Tina Johnson-Adams
Pilar Beltran
Anna Bogatyrev
Shannon Giroux-Wong
Sreekanth Nair
The MEng Graduate Team
Andrea Cortes
Suha Abusalim
Arthur de Vera
Jennifer Whitnall 
Cecilia Herbas Andre
Dexter Martin
Ella Lok
Tomi Owoyemi
Jennifer Kilback
Jinny Kim
Adrianne Hrynyszyn
Tom (Jingchang) Liu
Fatima Abdul-Halim

2003

Gerald (Gerry) Maier

2004

Arthur (Art) Dumont

2005

Kathleen (Kathy) Sendall

2006

Charles (Charlie) Fischer

2007

William (Barry) Lester

2008

Gwyn Morgan

2009

Don Taylor

2010

Frank King

2011

Frank Meyer

2012

Patrick Daniel

2013

Patrick Carlson

2014

Dan Motyka

2015

Sue Riddell Rose

2016

Vince Davoli

2017

Ian MacGregor

2018

Steve Laut

2001

Husky Energy Inc.

2002

Cohos Evamy

2003

Burlington Resources Canada Ltd. + VECO Engineering

2004

Stantec Consulting Ltd.

2005

Imperial Oil Limited + Devon Canada Corporation

2006

Nova Chemicals Corporation

2007

EnCana Corporation

2008

TransCanada Corporation

2009

Talisman Energy Inc.

2010

Lafarge Canada Inc.

2011

Suncor Energy Inc.

2012

Bantrel Co.

2013

Trican Well Service Ltd.

2014

Nexen Energy ULC

2015

Fluor Canada

2016

Boardwalk Equities

2017

Spartan Controls

2018

Plains Midstream Canada

Recognizing our valued alumni who demonstrate:

• Sustained leadership resulting in significant change or advancement through activities in engineering-related business, industry and/or the education sectors

• Recognition at the local, national and/or international levels for engineering leadership accomplishments

• Contributions to public education and understanding of the role played by professional engineers in society

• Service to community as evidenced by participation in commissions, community initiatives, volunteer organizations or other unpaid work

• Accomplishments serve as an example to the engineering community

• Qualities that serve as an inspiration to engineering and the Schulich School of Engineering community

2017

Ian Herring

2018 

Cheryl Sandercock, BSc (Eng)’90

2019

Pat Carlson, BSc (Eng)'75
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2020

Terri Steeves, BSc (Eng)'90
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2021

Judy Fairburn, BSc (Eng)'85, MSc (Eng)'88
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Recognizing our valued alumni who demonstrate:

• Exceptional contributions to promoting and advancing diversity and equity in the engineering profession and the community
• Contributions related to diversity and equity advancement in the Schulich School of Engineering
• Accomplishments that serve as an example to the engineering community
• Qualities that serve as an inspiration to engineering and the Schulich School of Engineering community

2018

Natalie Panek, BSc (Eng)'07

2019

Nannette Ho-Covernton, BSc (Eng) ’87
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2020

Jennifer van Zelm, BSc (Eng)’04, MSc (Eng)’06
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2021

Monika Tamber, BSc (Eng)'04
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Recognizing our valued alumni who demonstrate:

• A graduation from their last awarded degree at the Schulich School of Engineering within the last 10 years
• Exceptional professional development and accomplishment during their career
• Accomplishments that serve as an example to the engineering community
• Qualities that serve as an inspiration to engineering and the Schulich School of Engineering community

2018

Rachael L'Orsa, MSc (Eng)'16

2019

Tushar Sharma, PhD (Eng) ’18
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2020

Ishan Kochhar, BSc (Eng)’13, MEng’18
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Spencer Kerber, BSc (Eng)'16
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2021

Megan Leslie, BSc (Eng)'15, BComm'19
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Julian Mulia, BSc (Eng)'15, MEng'19
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Recognizing our valued alumni who demonstrate:

• Exceptional entrepreneurial contributions to a business, public or non-profit organization
• Accomplishments that serve as an example to the engineering community
• Qualities that serve as an inspiration to engineering and the Schulich School of Engineering community

2018

Doug MacKenzie, BSc (Eng)'74

2019

Olivia Norton, BSc (Eng)'11
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2020

Robert Radovanovic, BSc (Eng)’98, PhD (Eng)’02
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Chris Tucker, BSc (Eng)'96
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Robert Beekhuizen, MEng'97
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2021

Ravinder Minhas, BSc (Eng)'05
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Recognizing our valued alumni who demonstrate:

• Exceptional contributions that promote and enhance sustainability and environmentally friendly practices in the engineering profession
• Accomplishments that serve as an example to the engineering community
• Qualities that are an inspiration to engineering and the Schulich School of Engineering community

2018

Jackie Forest, BSc (Eng)'96

2019

Audrey Mascarenhas, MEng '88
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2020

Ken Anderson, MSc (Eng)'13
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2021

Bita Malekian, BSc (Eng)'18, MEng'21
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Recognizing our valued alumni who demonstrate:

• Technical excellence in the engineering area leading to significant and innovative advancement
• Accomplishments that serve as an example to the engineering community
• Qualities that serve as an inspiration to engineering and the Schulich School of Engineering community

2018

Pat Fenton, BSc (Eng)'81

2019

Alex Filstein, BSc (Eng) ’11
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2020

Dr. Gregory Patience, PhD, BSc (Eng)’83, MSc (Eng)’87
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2021

Natalie Findlay, BSc (Eng)'04
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