Technical Award presented to Dr. Clarence De Silva

Dr. Clarence De Silva from the Mechanical Engineering Department along with a list of fellow contributors recently won the Technical Award for their paper, “Distributed DSP for Fault Monitoring and Control” with the associated paper: De Silva, C.W., Tan, K.K., Huang, S., Lee, T.H., and Wu, R., Proceedings of the Digital Signal Processing Creative Design Contest, Tinan, Taiwan, pp. 59-65, November 2009.

The contest was held on November 19th in Tinan, Taiwan. This Project is carried out in collaboration with Professor K.K. Tan and his laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), National University of Singapore (NUS). Wu is an undergraduate student at NUS under joint supervision of Tan and de Silva. Tan and Lee are professors, and Huang is a post-doctoral fellow at NUS. The design contest was sponsored by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan.

Congratulations to Dr. Clarence De Silva and to all the other contributors!

Dr. Carl Ollivier-Gooch receives the Shahyer Pirzadeh Memorial Award

The Department of Mechanical Engineering is pleased to announce that Dr. Carl Ollivier-Goochs technical paper "Assessing Validity of Mesh Refinement Sequences with Application to DPW-III Meshes" which was presented at the 2009 AIAA Aerospace Sciences meeting, AIAA 2009-1174, "has been selected by the AIAA Meshing Visualization and Computational Environments (MVCE) Technical Committee to receive the Shahyer Pirzadeh Memorial Award for Outstanding Paper in Meshing Visualization and Computational Environments.

AIAA proudly presents Certificates of Merit to recognize such technical and scientific excellence.

Congratulations on this well deserved honor!

International Research Mobility Award presented to Ario Madani

The International Research Mobility Award was established to support the development of highly meritorious international research partnerships and exchanges with research-intensive institutions outside North America. Since the program began in April 2009, 26 PhD students have received the award (21 outbound UBC students, 5 incoming).

This year’s recipients include Ario Madani from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Ario Madanis host institution will be VTT Technical Research Institution of Finland.

Congratulations.