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Sahil Dhawan wins 2nd place in 3MT competition

Sahil Dhawan won 2nd place in the 3 Minute Thesis Competition held on March 3, 2015 for his talk entitled “Biofiltration – A Sustainable Water Treatment Technology”.  Dhawan is a M.A.Sc. student under...

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Mario Santana gives lecture in Myanmar

Mario Santana and Davide Mezzino (PhD student) are working on behalf of Carleton University with UNESCO for capacity building of Myanmar experts in the documentation of Temples in Bagan, under the...

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Erochko wins New Faculty Award

Professor Jeff Erochko is among the seven outstanding educators who have been named 2015 Carleton University Teaching Award winners. Erochko was awarded one of three New Faculty Excellence in Teaching...

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Sarhat Wins Award at Masonry Conference

Salah Sarhat, doctoral candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, received an Outstanding Paper Award (Honorable Mention) at the 12th North American Masonry Conference (NAMC)...

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Lau receives grant of 2.9 million from CFI

Carleton University’s leading research on infrastructure protection has received a $2.9 million boost from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) as part of its Innovation Fund. David Lau, Faculty...

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Basu and Berquist talk access to water in Tanzania on CBC Radio

Professor Onita Basu and recent engineering graduate Courtney Berquist, discuss the dilemma facing villagers in rural Tanzania with host Robyn Bresnahan on CBC Ottawa Morning. Carleton engineers are...

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Ormeci co-chaired WEF/IWA Residuals and Biosolids conference in Washington, DC

Prof. Banu Ormeci was one of the conference chairs for the WEF/IWA Residuals and Biosolids Conference that was held in Washington, DC on June 7-10, 2015.  This was the first time IWA (International...

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Game Changers – Prof. Ormeci’s research on polymers is covered by Research...

Research Matters blogs about the research and implications of the work of Dr. Banu Örmeci on wastewater treatment. The technology that she has developed enables a reduction of polymers being used in...

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Dr. Humar receives A.D. Dunton Alumni Award of Distinction

Dr. Jagmohan Humar has been named the winner of this year’s A.D. Dunton Alumni Award of Distinction – Carleton’s highest alumni honour. The award is presented annually by the Carleton University Alumni...

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Carleton Researchers Establish New NSERC CREATE Heritage Engineering Program

Carleton University researchers Mario Santana (Dept. of Civil Engineering) and Stephen Fai (Azrieli School of Architecture) have been awarded a $1.65M, five-year, NSERC CREATE grant to establish a new...

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Malunga awarded Schlumberger Fellowship

Roza Malunga has been awarded the prestigious Faculty for the Future Fellowship from the Schlumberger Foundation. The fellowships are awarded to talented women from developing and emerging countries...

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Carleton graduate Dale Craig awarded 2015 Beaubien Award

The Association of Consulting Engineering Companies-Canada (ACEC/AFIC) presented its 2015 Beaubien Award to Dale Craig, P. Eng. at their annual gala in Ottawa on October 23, 2015. The Beaubien Award is...

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Murray and Linklater receive Philip H. Jones Awards

Environmental Engineering PhD students Audrey Murray and Natalie Linklater received the top student awards at the National Water and Wastewater Conference that was held in Whistler, BC on October...

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Santana presents at workshop in Algeria

Professor Mario Santana presents and facilitates at the Workshop No2 in November for the development of Heritage Inventories in Algeria in the framework of an European Commission co-financed project...

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Liza Rozina places second in nationwide student competition

Liza Rozina wins 2nd prize in a nationwide graduate student  presentation competition. Liza was recently honoured at the awards ceremony for the Canadian Geotechnical Society. She presented on her...

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Paving the Way to Better Roads

As a graduate student at Carleton University, Moustafa Awadalla, worked with Prof. Abd El Halim and Prof. Yasser Hassan, to investigate how to improve the long-term performance of newly paved roads by...

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Best paper awarded at IBPSA

Burak Gunay, Liam O’Brien, Ian Beausoleil-Morrison, and some Italian collaborators were awarded best paper award at the 14th International Conference of the International Building Performance...

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Jordan Smyth awarded WEAO scholarship

Jordan Smyth has been awarded the WEAO (Water Environment Association of Ontario) scholarship. WEAO is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of Ontario’s water...

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Berquist receives Halliday Scholarship

Courtney Berquist received the Halliday scholarship, awarded by the Ontario Chapter of the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) to students studying and undertaking research in disciplines...

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McDonald receives SWANA Ontario Chapter Scholarship

Rob McDonald received the SWANA Ontario Chapter Scholarship awarded by the Ontario Chapter of the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) to students focused on improving and understanding...

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