2016 Research Report | Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

2016 ANNUAL RESEARCH REPORT

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Major research highlights NSERC/HUSKY INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH CHAIR Dr. Brian Veitch, Department of Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering, has been appointed as the NSERC/Husky Energy Industrial Research Chair in Safety at Sea. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and Husky Energy will each contribute $550,000, Research & Development Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador will contribute $500,000 and Memorial will provide $1 million, while St. John’s-based Virtual Marine Technology will provide in-kind support.

Photo: From left are Human Performance and Simulation Lab Graduate student Sinh Duc Bui and PhD Student Mashrura Musharraf.

GENOME CANADA Drs. Faisal Khan and Kelly Hawboldt, Department of Process Engineering, and Dr. Christina Bottaro, Department of Chemistry (Faculty of Science), have received funding as part of a $7.8 million Genome Canada collaborative project titled “Managing Microbial Corrosion in Canadian Offshore and Onshore Oil Production.”

Photo: From left are Drs. Christina Bottaro, Faisal Khan and Kelly Hawboldt.

UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME Drs. Bing Chen and Helen Zhang, Department of Civil Engineering, secured $600,000 US in total funding from the United Nations Development Programme and Research & Development Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador for an international project titled “UNDP-Sino-Canada Research Initiative on Marine Resources Sustainable Development and Environmental Management.”

Photo: From left are M.Eng. student Jiabin Liu, Dr. Bing Chen, PhD student Bo Liu and M.Eng. student Grace Zhang.

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About the cover: Autonomous Surface Vehicle SeaDragon circumnavigates an iceberg off the coast of Twillingate, Newfoundland.

Message from the Dean

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elcome to our 2016/17 issue of the Annual Research Report of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Memorial University! The report provides highlights of our many research accomplishments over the past year. The Faculty’s research profile and diversity of research funding sources have grown significantly.

New research chairs were appointed in subsea communications (Dr. Octavia Dobre) and seafloor mechanics (Dr. Bipul Hawlader). Dr. Brian Veitch was awarded the NSERC/Husky Energy Industrial Research Chair in Safety at Sea. I reflect on a quote from Maclean’s magazine (2013). “To compete globally, you need to stay ahead. The secret to building an innovative economy – in a word: engineers.” Our research programs are finding innovative solutions to global problems, educating future leaders, and turning discoveries into new technologies and products. They’re enabling new initiatives and building capacity in fields that support the province’s economic growth strategies.

Recent examples include our new Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship (MCE) in partnership with the Faculty of Business Administration; and leadership of a new Canadian Network for Innovative Shipbuilding, Marine Research and Training (CISMaRT).

The Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science continues to experience significant growth.

A massive new infrastructure project on campus – the Core Science Facility (CSF) (425,000 sq ft) – will enable a significant portion of this expansion with modern, world-class engineering facilities. CSF will dramatically improve the functionality of Memorial's campus for decades to come and foster interdisciplinary research collaboration between science and engineering.

Our evolving technical world is changing rapidly. Innovative new R&D solutions are needed to meet challenges such as climate change, clean water supply and working safely in harsh ocean environments. Our faculty members are internationally renowned and award-winning professors in their respective fields of research. Their research programs are important enablers of economic growth in the province, such as development of the offshore Flemish Pass which involves significant technical and logistics challenges of harsh ocean environments, ice management, offshore structures and remote distances.

The Faculty offers accredited undergraduate, master’s and doctoral programs in civil, computer, electrical, mechanical, ocean and naval architectural engineering (unique in Canada) and process engineering. The Faculty’s undergraduate co-operative programs were among the first in Canada. Further course-based graduate programs are offered in oil and gas, computer engineering and environmental systems and a diploma program in safety and risk engineering. In total, these programs are offered to nearly 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students.

It’s a great time of opportunity for graduate students, faculty and partners to pursue engineering research at Memorial University. Many of the research projects are multidisciplinary collaborations with industry partners, providing students with valuable teamwork experience. I welcome you to visit us and our website, mun.ca/engineering, for further information.

Greg F. Naterer, PhD, P.Eng. Dean and Professor Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

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Message from the Associate Dean of Research

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he Engineering Research Office (ERO) provides support to more than 80 faculty members in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science (FEAS). In 2016, we expanded our unit to include both pre- and post-award administration, to provide faculty members with support both in writing/reviewing grant proposals and administering the terms and conditions of the agreements with industry partners. We coordinate all aspects of research administration within FEAS. This included working jointly with the staff of our Finance Office and Office of Graduate Studies to increase the efficiency of proposal submissions and grant/research account administration. This past year, our office processed over 140 research applications and we currently oversee approximately 250 active research projects in the Faculty.

The year 2016 brought an increase in new industrial collaborations between our faculty members and industrial partners, such as through the NSERC Engage and Collaborative Research and Development programs. Several of these projects continued into longer-term partnerships, through programs such as the NSERC Engage Plus and the NSERC/RDC Collaborative Research and Development, as well as the MITACS Accelerate program. Our research has become more diversified as researchers have initiated several new collaborative projects with other researchers both within Memorial and with other academic institutions, nationally and internationally. A joint training program was developed between researchers in the Department of Process Engineering and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Through the Genome Canada microbial corrosion project, our researchers collaborate with both academic and industry partners. This multi-institute collaboration, led by the University of Calgary, also includes the University of Alberta, Dalhousie University, Innotech Alberta Inc., VIA University College, Natural Resources Canada, Newcastle University and the University of Oklahoma, with industrial partners OSPMicrocheck, Enbridge Inc., Suncor Energy, Dow Chemical Company, DNV-GL, LuminUltra Technologies Ltd., PeroxyChem and Shell.

We strengthened our co-operation with the Faculty’s Office of Graduate Studies and successfully hosted two major events to showcase the excellent research by graduate students in FEAS: the first Annual Research Day (posters) and the second Annual Research Video Competition (30-second videos). We also produced the first professional FEAS Research Video, showcasing the research excellence across all departments within the Faculty.

Please visit our website at mun.ca/engineering/research for the most recent news, research activities, and the FEAS Research Video with our professors, researchers and students. I welcome you to visit our campus to see our laboratories and capabilities.

Tahir Husain, PhD, P. Eng. Associate Dean of Research and Professor

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Sample departmental success stories CIVIL ENGINEERING • Dr. Tahir Husain, RDC Collaborative R&D, "Safe drinking water for

small communities in Newfoundland and Labrador" • Dr. Bipul Hawlader, Mitacs Accelerate, "Numerical modelling of interaction between soil and seabed infrastructure during submarine landslides" • Dr. Hodjat Shiri, RDC Ignite, "Influence of seabed interaction on fatigue performance of subsea risers"

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING • Dr. Xiaodong Liang, NSERC Discovery, "Advanced dynamic load

modelling for modern smart grids" • Drs. Eric Gill and Weimin Huang, BTCRD, "Enhanced radar ocean surface applications (E-ROSA2)" • Dr. Stephen Czarnuch, NSERC Discovery, "Human motion trackingby-detection using point cloud data from multiple depth sensors"

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING • Dr. Geoff Rideout, NSERC CRD, "Modal impact testing for non-

destructive evaluation of wood pole transmission lines" • Dr. Yuri Muzychka, NSERC Discovery, "Heat transfer and fluid flow in micro and mini scale devices" • Dr. George Mann, NSERC Engage, "Development of an image mosaic system for AUV operations"

OCEAN AND NAVAL ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING • Dr. Lorenzo Moro, NSERC Discovery, "Development of a design

procedure for the prediction of structure-borne noise generated by the reciprocating machines on board ships" • Dr. Bruce Quinton, NSERC Discovery, "Effects of moving ice loads on damage to hull structures" • Dr. Brian Veitch, "NSERC/Husky Energy Industrial Research Chair in Safety at Sea"

PROCESS ENGINEERING • Dr. Stephen Butt, Mitacs Cluster, "Investigation of rock penetration

and fragmentation problems" • Drs. Yan Zhang and Kelly Hawboldt, CFSI, "Organosolv pretreatment of woody biomass using unrefined glycerol" • Drs. Lesley James and Faisal Khan, INPART, "Field development in remote and harsh environments – innovative student-based research"

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Faculty and staff Administration Dean Naterer, G. F. B.Math., M.A.Sc., PhD Waterloo, FCSME, FASME, FEIC, FCAE, P.Eng.; Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Department of Civil Engineering Department Head Hussein, A. B.Sc.(Eng.) Ain Shams University, M.Eng., PhD Memorial, FCSCE, P.Eng.; Associate Professor

Associate Dean (Undergraduate Studies) Fisher, A.D. B.Sc. Queen’s, M.Eng. McMaster, FEC, P.Eng.; Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Specialization: Advanced composite materials as reinforcement for concrete structures; testing of concrete under generalized stress conditions; constitutive modelling of concrete structures

Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) Lye, L.M. B.Sc.(Hons.) Bolton Institute, PhD Manitoba, FCSCE, FEC, FCAE, FEIC, P.Eng.; Professor, Civil Engineering

Professors Chen, B. B.Eng. Jilin University, M.Sc. Peking University, PhD Regina, P.Eng., Member of RSC College

Associate Dean (Research) Husain, T. B.Sc.(Eng.)(Hons.) Aligarh Muslim University, M.Eng. Asian Institute of Technology, PhD British Columbia, P.Eng.; Professor, Civil Engineering

Specialization: Environmental modelling; pollution control; watershed management; petroleum waste management

Director, Ocean Engineering Research Centre Molyneux, D. B.Sc. Newcastle University, M.Sc. British Columbia, PhD Memorial, P.Eng.; Associate Professor, Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering Director, Office of Industrial Outreach Bruneau, S.E. B.Eng., M.E.Sc. Western, PhD Memorial, P.Eng.; Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Director, First Year Engineering Rideout, D.G. B.Eng. Memorial, M.Sc.(Eng.) Queen’s, PhD University of Michigan, P.Eng.; Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Senior Administration Officer Elliott, B. B.Comm. Memorial Annual Research Report | page 6

Hawlader, B.P. B.Sc.(Eng.) Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, M.Eng. Asian Institute of Technology, PhD Yokohama National University, P.Eng., Research Chair in Seafloor Mechanics Specialization: Geotechnical engineering Husain, T. B.Sc.(Eng.)(Hons.) Aligarh Muslim University, M.Eng. Asian Institute of Technology, PhD British Columbia, P.Eng.

Associate Professors Adluri, S.M.R. B.Tech. Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, M.Tech. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, M.A.Sc., PhD Windsor Specialization: Structural engineering; steel design; finite element analysis; dynamics and vibrations Bruneau, S.E. B.Eng., M.E.Sc. Western, PhD Memorial, P.Eng. Specialization: Arctic ships and structures; energy; marine structural design and analysis Coles, C.A. B.Eng., M.Eng., PhD McGill, P.Eng. Specialization: Metal contamination of soils and groundwater; adsorption isotherms; arsenic removal from groundwater Hassan, A.A.A. B.Sc., M.Sc. Ain Shams University, M.A.Sc., PhD Ryerson, P.Eng. Specialization: Development, durability, corrosion and service life prediction of concrete structures Snelgrove, K.R. B.Eng. Memorial, M.A.Sc., PhD Waterloo, P.Eng.

Specialization: Environmental engineering; water resources

Specialization: Physical hydrology; remote sensing and GIS; climate change and extremes of floods and drought

Lye, L.M. B.Sc.(Hons.) Bolton Institute, PhD Manitoba, FCSCE, FEC, FCAE, FEIC, P.Eng.

Zhang, B. B.Sc.(Hons.), M.Sc. Jilin University, PhD Regina

Specialization: Environmental statistics; statistical and stochastic hydrology; design of experiments; water resources; engineering education; product design

Specialization: Soil and groundwater remediation; offshore oil spill response; marine oily wastewater treatment; offshore reservoir souring analysis and control; biological interactions affecting pollutant transport; solid waste composting; northern environmental studies

Assistant Professors Bazan, C. B.Sc.(Eng.), MBA Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic University M.Sc. Polytechnic University Catalonia M.Sc., PhD San Diego State University, Engineering Chair in Entrepreneurship Specialization: Entrepreneurship; technology innovation and commercialization; translational research; numerical simulation; image processing and analysis Daraio, J. B.Sc. SUNY – College of Environmental Science and Forestry, M.Sc. New Mexico State University, M.Sc. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, M.Sc. University of Connecticut, PhD University of Iowa Specialization: Water resources; environmental engineering; green engineering Dhar, A.S. B.Sc.(Eng.)(Hons.), M.Sc.(Eng.) Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, PhD Western, P.Eng. Specialization: Numerical modelling and full-scale testing for soil-structure interactions Shiri, H. B.Sc. Urmia University, M.Sc. Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, PhD University of Western Australia, P.Eng., Wood Group Chair in Arctic and Harsh Environment Engineering Specialization: Offshore foundations and geotechnique; subsea pipelines and risers; offshore and subsea installation; arctic subsea hazards; offshore fatigue and fracture; reliability assessment Visiting Assistant Professors Hurley, S. B.Eng. Concordia, MES, PhD York, P.Eng.

Saady, N. B.Sc., M.Sc. University of Technology, Iraq, PhD Windsor, P.Eng. Adjunct Professors Kenny, S. P. B.Eng., M.Eng. Memorial, PhD Dalhousie, P.Eng.; (Carleton) Khan, A. B.Sc. Aligarh Muslim University, M.Sc. King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, PhD Memorial, P.Eng.; (Dept.

Environment and Conservation)

Specialization: Software design; high performance computing; marine simulation Professors Ahmed, M.H. B.Sc., M.Sc., Ain Shams University, PhD Carleton, P.Eng. Specialization: Wireless and mobile communications Gill, E.W. B.Sc., B.Ed., M.Eng., PhD Memorial, P.Eng. Specialization: Remote sensing

Lee, K. B.Sc., Dalhousie, M.Sc., PhD Toronto; (DFO) Marzouk, H. B.Sc. Cairo University, M.Sc., PhD Saskatchewan, FCSCE, P.Eng.; (Ryerson) Paulin, M. B.Eng., M.Eng., PhD Memorial; (INTECSEA) Cross Appointments Phillips, R. B.Sc.(Hons.) University of Bristol, M.Phil., PhD Cambridge, P.Eng.; Cross appointment (C-CORE) Professors Emeriti Jordaan, I.J. B.Sc.(Eng.), M.Sc.(Eng.) University of the Witwatersrand, PhD University of London, FRSC, FCAE, P.Eng. Sharp, J.J. B.Sc., A.R.C.S.T., M.Sc. University of Glasgow, PhD University of Strathclyde, FICE, FCSCE, FEIC, P.Eng., C.Eng.

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Head Peters, D.K. B.Eng. Memorial, M.Eng., PhD McMaster, FEC, P.Eng.; Associate Professor

Gosine, R.G. B.Eng. Memorial, PhD Cambridge, FEC, P.Eng., J.I. Clark Chair, Vice-President (Research) Pro Tempore Specialization: Telerobotics; machine vision; pattern recognition Heys, H.M. B.E.Sc. Western, PhD Queen’s, P.Eng. Specialization: Cryptography; digital hardware Iqbal, M.T. B.Sc. University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, M.Sc. Qayid-i-Azam University, PhD Imperial College, London, P.Eng Specialization: Computer vision; instrumentation; controls and automation; power and energy Jeyasurya, B. B.Tech. Indian Institute of Technology Madras, M.Tech. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, PhD New Brunswick, P.Eng. Specialization: Power system stability; synchrophasor applications Li, C. B.Eng.(Hons.), M.Eng. Harbin Institute of Technology, PhD Memorial, P.Eng. Annual Research Report | page 7

Faculty and staff Specialization: Digital design; underwater communications; wireless communications Moloney, C.R. B.Sc.(Hons.) Memorial, M.A.Sc., PhD Waterloo Specialization: Nonlinear signal and image processing methods; signal representations; human visual perception; radar signal processing; transformative pedagogy for science and engineering; gender and science studies O’Young, S.D. B.Eng. Saskatchewan, M.A.Sc., PhD Waterloo, P.Eng. Specialization: Unmanned aircraft; instrumentation; controls and automation; robotics Quaicoe, J.E. B.Sc.(Eng.) University of Science and Technology, Ghana, M.A.Sc., PhD Toronto, FEC, P.Eng. Specialization: Power and energy; power electronics Rahman, M.A. B.Sc.(Eng.) Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, M.A.Sc. Toronto, PhD Carleton, LFIEEE, FIET, LFIE, FEIC, FCAE, C.Eng., P.Eng. Specialization: Electric machines; power systems; power electronics Venkatesan, R. BE(Hons.) Madurai Kamaraj University, MScE, PhD New Brunswick, P.Eng. Specialization: Parallel processing architectures and applications; underwater communications; error control codes; digital design; sensor networks Dobre, O.A. D.Eng., PhD Politechnica University of Bucharest, P.Eng., Research Chair in Subsea Communications Annual Research Report | page 8

Specialization: Digital communications; signal processing Associate Professors George, G.H. B.Sc. University of Southampton, PhD University of Wales (University College, Cardiff), Cert.Ed. Garnett College (CNAA), FRAS, FIMA Specialization: Engineering education; probability and statistics Huang, W. B.Sc., M.Sc., PhD Wuhan University, M.Eng. Memorial Specialization: Remote sensing Masek, V. Dipl.Ing. University of West Bohemia, M.Sc., PhD University of ElectroCommunications, Tokyo

Anderson, J. B.Eng., M.Eng. Memorial, PhD University of Cambridge Specialization: Computer security; operating systems; privacy Czarnuch, S.M. B.Eng.&Mgt., M.A.Sc. McMaster, PhD Toronto, P.Eng., Joint appointment (Faculty of Medicine) Specialization: Human motion tracking; automated planning Liang, X. B.Eng., M.Eng. Shenyang Polytechnic University, M.Sc. Saskatchewan, PhD Alberta, P.Eng. Specialization: Power and energy

Specialization: Instrumentation and control; smart sensors and robotics

Power, S. B. Eng. Memorial, M.A.Sc., PhD Toronto, P.Eng., Joint appointment (Faculty of Medicine)

Norvell, T.S. B.Sc.(Hons.) Dalhousie, M.Sc., PhD Toronto, P.Eng.

Specialization: Biomedical engineering; physiological signal processing; brain/ neural-computer interfacing

Specialization: Digital hardware; software, robotics and vision

Shehata, M.S. B.Sc., M.Sc. Zagazig University, PhD Calgary, P.Eng.

Vardy, A. B.Eng. Memorial, M.Sc. University of Sussex, PhD Carleton, P.Eng., Joint appointment (Computer Science)

Specialization: Software, robotics and vision

Specialization: Bio-inspired robotics

Visiting Assistant Professor House, A.W.H. B.Eng., M.Eng. Memorial, P.Eng.

Zhang, L. BE, M.Sc.(Eng.) Huazhong University of Science and Technology, PhD Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg

Cross Appointments Alawneh, S. B.Eng. University of Jordan, M.Eng., PhD Memorial, EIT, Cross appointment (C-CORE)

Specialization: Circuits and systems; digital design; instrumentation, controls and automation; VLSI and electronic design automation

Chen, Q. B.Sc. Shanghai Jiao Tong University China, M.Sc., PhD Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Cross appointment (Physics and Physical Oceanography)

Assistant Professors

McGuire, P. B.Sc., PhD Toronto, P.Eng., Cross appointment (C-CORE)

Naterer, G. F. B.Math., M.A.Sc., PhD Waterloo, FCSME, FASME, FEIC, FCAE, P.Eng.

Specialization: Instrumentation, controls and automation; mechatronics and intelligent systems; robotics

Ngatched, T. B.Sc., M.Sc. University of Yaounde, M.S.Eng. University of Natal, PhD University of KwaZulu-Natal, P.Eng., Cross appointment (Grenfell Campus)

Specialization: Energy systems; heat transfer; multiphase flows; entropy and the second law

Duan, X. B.Eng., M.Sc. China University of Petroleum, PhD Manitoba, P.Eng.

Associate Professors Fisher, A.D. B.Sc. Queen’s, M.Eng. McMaster, FEC, P.Eng.

Specialization: Energy; environmental engineering; power and energy; process system; thermo-fluids

Salehi, B. B.Sc. University of Tehran, M.Sc. Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology, PhD New Brunswick, Cross appointment (C-CORE)

Specialization: Manufacturing; product development

Smith, A. B.Eng., M.Eng., MD Memorial, Cross appointment (Faculty of Medicine)

Hookey, N.A. B.Eng. Memorial, M.Eng., PhD McGill, P.Eng.

Professor Emeritus Peters, G.R. B.Sc. Memorial, B.A.Sc. Toronto, PhD, University of Aberdeen, FEC, FCAE, P.Eng.

Specialization: Computational fluid dynamics

Honorary Research Professor Bruce-Lockhart M.P. SB, SM, MIT, P.Eng.

Department of Mechanical Engineering Department Head Muzychka, Y.S. B.Eng. Memorial, M.A.Sc., PhD Waterloo, P.Eng.; Professor Specialization: Thermo-fluids; heat transfer; fluid dynamics; multiphase flow; thermal systems; thermal management in micro-electronic packaging Professors Mann, G.K.I. B.Sc. University of Moratuwa, M.Sc. Loughborough University of Technology, PhD Memorial, P.Eng. Specialization: Intelligent control; robotics; machine vision

Rideout, D.G. B.Eng. Memorial, M.Sc.(Eng.) Queen’s, PhD University of Michigan, P.Eng. Specialization: Modeling and simulation; engineering mechanics; vibrations; oilwell drilling dynamics; vehicle dynamics; machine dynamics; design Sharan, A. B.Eng., M.Eng., PhD Concordia Specialization: Robotics; rotor dynamics Yang, J. B.Sc. Tangshan Institute of Science and Technology, M.Sc. Southern Institute of Metallurgy, PhD Tianjin University, P.Eng. Specialization: Energy; materials and mechanics; random vibration/dynamics of mechanical systems; fatigue prediction under random loading Assistant Professors De Silva, B.M.O. B.Sc. University of Moratuwa, PhD Memorial

Nakhla, S. B.Sc., Cairo University, MS, PhD Georgia Institute of Technology Specialization: Computer aided design; finite element modelling; structural health monitoring (metal corrosion and composites), modeling and simulation of medical equipment Nasiri, A. B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc. Sharif University of Technology, PhD Waterloo Specialization: Infrastructure; materials and mechanics; simulation; structures and materials Pope, K. B.Eng., M.A.Sc., PhD UOIT, P.Eng. Specialization: Chemically reactive multiphase flows; energy systems; energy storage; second law applications to thermal/fluids; energy efficiency; process integration Taylor, R.S. B.Eng., M. Eng., PhD Memorial, Centre for Arctic Resource Development Chair in Ice Mechanics Specialization: Ice-load estimation for the design of offshore structures; mechanics of compressive ice failure Visiting Assistant Professor Rosales, J. BA, MA Memorial, PhD Toronto, Chair for Teaching and Learning

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Faculty and staff Cross Appointments Kocabiyik, S. B.Sc., M.Sc. Middle East Technical University, PhD Western, Cross appointment (Mathematics and Statistics) Shirokoff, J. B.Sc.(Eng.), PhD Queen's, P.Eng., Cross appointment (Process Engineering) Talimi, V. B.Eng. Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology, M.Sc. University of Mazandraran, PhD Memorial, Cross appointment (C-CORE) Yethiraj, A. B.Sc. St. Xavier's College, M.Sc. University of Houston, PhD Simon Fraser, Cross appointment (Physics and Physical Oceanography) Honorary Research Professor Molgaard, J. B.Sc. Queen’s University Belfast, PhD University of Leeds, P.Eng.

Department of Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering Department Head Qiu, W. B.Eng., M.A.Sc. Dalian University of Technology, PhD Dalhousie, P.Eng., FSNAME, FRINA; Professor Specialization: Ship and offshore hydrodynamics; wave and body interaction; seakeeping; marine propulsion; CFD for marine applications Professors Colbourne, B. B.Eng. Memorial, SM MIT, PhD Memorial, P.Eng. Specialization: Ship design; ice and wave loads on ships and offshore structures

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Daley, C.G. B.E.Sc. Western, MSE Princeton, Dr.Tech.

Aalto University, FEC, FSNAME, P.Eng.

Assistant Professors Quinton, B. B.Eng., M.Eng., PhD Memorial

Specialization: Arctic ships and structures; marine structural design and analysis; materials and mechanics; offshore and marine safety; safety and risk; simulation; structures and materials

Specialization: Arctic ships and structures; extreme and accidental loads; marine structures and materials; Arctic offshore and marine safety; HPC and parallel processing architecture and applications

Veitch, B.J. B.Eng., M.Eng. Memorial, Lic.Tech., Dr. Tech. Aalto University, P.Eng., Husky Energy Chair in Oil and Gas Research

Moro, L. B.Eng., M.Eng., PhD University of Trieste

Specialization: Offshore and marine safety; marine propellers and propulsion

Specialization: Marine structural design and analysis; materials and mechanics; simulation

Associate Professors Bachmayer, R. Dipl.-Ing. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, M.Sc., PhD Johns Hopkins University

Adjunct Professor Wang, J. M.Sc. Pusan National University, PhD Memorial; (NRC-OCRE)

Specialization: Instrumentation, controls and automation; marine hydrodynamics; mechatronics and intelligent systems; robotics; submersible design and operation

Professor Emeritus Haddara, M.R. B.Sc. Ain Shams University, MS, PhD Berkeley, C.Eng., P.Eng.

Molyneux, D. B.Sc. Newcastle University, M.Sc. British Columbia, PhD Memorial, P.Eng.

Department of Process Engineering

Specialization: Arctic ships and structures; marine hydrodynamics; offshore and marine safety; safety and risk Peng, H. B.Eng., M.A.Sc. Dalian University of Technology, PhD Dalhousie, P.Eng. Specialization: Marine and ship hydrodynamics; development and application of marine hydrodynamics to ship and offshore structure design Walker, D. B.Eng., PhD Memorial, P.Eng. Specialization: Ship performance; underwater vehicles; small craft performance; offshore engineering

Department Head Khan, F.I. B.Sc.(Eng.) Aligarh Muslim University, ME Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, PhD Pondicherry University, P.Eng.; Professor Specialization: Green engineering; mineral processing; offshore and marine safety; safety and risk engineering Professors Butt, S.D. B.Eng., M.Sc. Memorial, PhD Queens, P.Eng. Specialization: Petroleum engineering; mining engineering; drilling and geomechanics engineering

Hawboldt, K.A. B.Sc. Saskatchewan, M.Sc., PhD Calgary, P.Eng. Specialization: Energy; green engineering; petroleum engineering; green processing of natural resources; biofuels; natural gas processing Associate Professors Hossain, E. B.Sc., M.Sc. Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, MBA, PhD Dalhousie, Statoil Chair in Reservoir Engineering Specialization: Reservoir engineering; reservoir simulation; enhanced oil recovery; reservoir characterization; sustainable drilling engineering; drilling fluid Imtiaz, S. B.Sc., M.Sc. Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, M.Sc. Calgary, PhD Alberta, P.Eng. Specialization: Process systems; safety and risk simulation James, L.A. B.A.Sc.(Eng.) New Brunswick, M.A.Sc., PhD Waterloo, P.Eng.

Specialization: Enhanced and improved oil recovery; phase behaviour; offshore oil & gas; integrated operations/digital oilfield; petroleum engineering Shirokoff, J.W. B.Sc.(Eng.), PhD Queen’s, P.Eng. Specialization: Materials science; corrosion; asphaltene characterization Zhang, Y. B.Eng., M.Eng. Tianjin University, PhD National University of Singapore, P.Eng. Specialization: Energy; green engineering; mineral processing; process systems Assistant Professors Ahmed, S. B.Sc., M.Sc. Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, PhD Alberta Specialization: Energy; process systems; safety and risk simulation Zendehboudi, S. B.Sc., M.Sc. Shiraz University, PhD Waterloo, P.Eng., Statoil Chair in Reservoir Analysis

Specialization: Reservoir analysis; petroleum production methods; energy and environment; transport phenomena; carbon capture and sequestration; process system engineering Zhang, Y. B. Eng., M. Eng., Wuhan University of Technology; PhD Central South University; PhD Alberta Specialization: Mineral processing; hydrometallurgy; chemistry of materials Visiting Associate Professor Aborig, A. B.S.(Pet.Eng.) University of Tripoli, M.Sc., PhD Waterloo Visiting Assistant Professor Fan, L. PhD Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.Eng. Adjunct Professors Abdi, M. B.Sc., M.Sc. Amirkabir University of Technology, PhD British Columbia; (Husky) Rahman, M. B.Sc.(Eng.)(Hons.) Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, M.Sc. Dalhousie, PhD Alberta, P.Eng.; (Texas A&M University at Qatar)

Process engineering PhD students David Onalo and Jalal Ahammad in the Drilling Technology Lab.

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Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science awards FACULTY RESEARCH AWARDS

STUDENT RESEARCH COMMUNICATION AWARDS

DR. LIHONG ZHANG

1ST PLACE

Dean’s Award for Research Excellence

DR. BRIAN VEITCH

Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision

DR. BING CHEN

Inducted to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

DR. LESLEY JAMES

Society of Petroleum Engineers Regional Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty

Al Amin Munzarin Morshed "Modelling and development of a managed pressure drilling (MPD) setup with controller implementation" Supervisors: Drs. Syed Imtiaz and Aziz Rahman

2ND PLACE Trung Nguyen "Advanced control system of quadrotor aerial vehicle"

DR. STEPHEN BUTT

Supervisors: Drs. George Mann, Andrew Vardy and Ray Gosine

DR. FAISAL KHAN

3RD PLACE

Society of Petroleum Engineers Regional Drilling Engineering Award

Society of Petroleum Engineers Regional Health, Safety, Security, Environment, and Social Responsibility Award

DR. KEVIN POPE

CSME I.W. Smith Award for his outstanding achievement in creative mechanical engineering

DR. GREG NATERER

Zohaib Farooqi Thumeera Wanasinghe Trung Nguyen "Multi-robot research at Intelligent System Lab (IS Lab)" Supervisors: Drs. George Mann, Ray Gosine and Oscar De Silva

Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering

DR. ALI NASIRI

American Welding Society's Robert L. Peaslee Brazing Award for his original contribution for the technology of brazing

4TH PLACE Jingjing Ling "Fly ash: a novel oil spill cleanup material" Supervisor: Dr. Tahir Husain

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Faculty research news to incorporate potential changes in flood frequency that are likely to occur with a changing climate.

Enter Dr. Daraio who is creating a “virtual watershed” to see how to best handle potential changes in stream flow.

Although rising sea levels can increase the potential for flooding upstream due to increased storm surges; the threat of flooding due to extreme rainfall is even more detrimental.

PhD student Abena Amponsah (left) and MASc. student Hasab Chowdhury (centre) discuss preliminary results from the hydrologic model of the Humber basin with Dr. Joseph Daraio.

Civil professor’s research helps Corner Brook prepare for rising water levels in the Humber River Basin

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hroughout history people have chosen to live on floodplains where soil is fertile and land is flat. Or in the case of Newfoundland, people may have chosen to settle on a floodplain because it offers access to the ocean which provided a livelihood. No matter the reason, problems occur when water levels rise, flooding habitable lands and threatening human lives, property and infrastructure. Floods also cost millions of dollars in emergency assistance, clean-up response and remediation of sites.

“It has already been observed that the magnitude of extreme rainfall events has increased over the last 30 years over much of Newfoundland, and it is likely this trend will continue,” said Dr. Daraio. “For example, events like the recent rain in October 2016 in central Newfoundland, with as much as 149 mm falling in Burgeo in 24 hours, could become worse in the future with climate change.”

With an increase in frequency and magnitude of large rainfall events across the island, it is unknown how existing storm water infrastructure will handle the extra water, explained Dr. Daraio, whose research will provide a measure of how much rainfall might change, how this might impact stream flow, and if current infrastructure is sufficient to handle these changes.

“Since infrastructure is designed based on a climate that no longer exists, the question is: will existing infrastructure be able to handle even larger events?”

Indeed, rainfall events used in the design of storm water infrastructure are based on frequencies extrapolated from

Flooding has always been difficult to control, but in this era of intense climate change, extreme weather can result in flash floods taking residents and governments off guard. Thus, anyone who lives on a flood plain knows to take climate change seriously.

Dr. Joseph Daraio, a civil engineering professor at Memorial, certainly does. His research involves potential impacts of climate change on stream flows and storm water infrastructure.

His current research area is the Humber River basin on the west coast of Newfoundland.

The Humber River basin encompasses a huge area stretching from the west coast of Corner Brook to the east side of Grand Lake, NL’s largest body of freshwater with an area of 534 km².

Although floodplains analyses have recently been updated for the Corner Brook area, these analyses are limited in their ability

Dr. Joseph Daraio’s research involves how hydrologic changes associated with climate change such as increased and more frequent precipitation will influence infrastructure.

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Faculty research news historical trends. Due to climate change, observed data is no longer representative of modern day worst-case events.

Engineers like Dr. Daraio can, instead, develop design storms based on future projections rather than historical records.

“Much of the infrastructure, such as bridges and culverts, did not handle the October storm very well,” said Dr. Daraio, explaining this includes storm sewers, culverts, bridges and overpasses, and drainage basins and channels.

With a virtual watershed model, Dr. Daraio and his team can identify changes to vulnerable infrastructure to see what solutions work best and what the costs of these solutions may be. The information gleaned through identifying and mapping flood risk areas will then help municipalities adapt by implementing policies to minimize flood damage. This is of particular importance not only to municipalities planning new communities, but for long-existing municipalities, like those in coastal Newfoundland, to prioritize which sections of old infrastructure should be upgraded.

“The overall idea is to reduce vulnerability, increase resiliency, and adapt to changing climate conditions,” he said, explaining that his research results can assist provincial and municipal decision makers in regional planning and future development in flood risk zones.

Dr. Daraio’s study is entitled: Assessing Hydrologic Vulnerability to Climate Change in the Humber River Basin.

Dr. Joseph A. Daraio, a graduate of the University of Iowa in 2009 with a doctorate in civil and environmental engineering-hydraulics, is no stranger to flood plain management. With master's degrees in environmental engineering, philosophy, and biology, he has worked in New Jersey studying potential climate change impacts on stream flow and groundwater recharge in two watersheds. Dr. Daraio joined Memorial as an assistant professor of civil engineering in 2015. Dr. Daraio’s research interests include water resources sustainability, modeling climate change impacts on hydrology and storm water infrastructure and eco-hydraulics. He also studies stream temperature and flow hydraulics relationship with ecology of freshwater organisms; as well as how changes in stream temperature and stream flow due to land use and climate change might impact freshwater ecosystems and environmental sustainability.

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Intelligent underwater sensor nodes help underwater acoustic communication

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he offshore oil and gas industry in Newfoundland and Labrador has experienced tremendous growth since the discovery of Hibernia in 1979. This growth has enabled numerous opportunities in the province for research and development in information and communication technology and ocean engineering technology.

Dr. Cheng Li is an electrical and computer engineering professor at Memorial whose research concentrates on wireless communication and networking. One of the most important research thrusts is using underwater sensor networking technology to monitor the environment, seismic activity and subsea assets like oil and gas infrastructure.

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) allow real-time and long-term monitoring in harsh environments. When WSN began to be used underwater, a new paradigm emerged known as the Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network or UWSN. On land, sensor networks follow dense deployment and receive sufficient bandwidth that allows long reach and continuous networking and data access.

Underwater, it’s a different story; sensor networks like UWSN are far less dense and are characterized by low communication bandwidth, large propagation delay and delay variation, frequency dependent attenuation, strong multi-path and Doppler effects and long reach of acoustic signals.

These effects are further complicated by the fact that autonomous unmanned vehicles (AUVs) have become more and more common in underwater dynamic networking and data accessing. These AUVs or swarms of AUVs are, of course, mobile, creating the need for UWSN to incorporate mobility properties into their engineering. This, in turn, raises new challenges for localization and synchronization, route planning, medium access control, co-ordinated estimation and network connectivity.

The joint effects of network sparsity, long propagation delay, strong dynamic multi-path and Doppler effects, and node mobility in AUVs indicate that continuous end-to-end connectivity may not be possible. This, in turn, justifies the need for new delay/disruption-tolerant and energy-efficient network protocols using a store-carry-forward mechanism for the sparse and often disconnected networking regime.

From left are Xiang Lin, PhD candidate; Fan Jiang, PhD candidate; Zijun Gong, PhD candidate; Dr. Li; Dr. Chen; Chen Zhang, PhD candidate; Yi Zhang, PhD candidate; Xiaolin Pang, PhD candidate; and Harsimrat Kaur Deol, M.Eng. candidate.

To mitigate losses caused by long distance communications, such as multipath reflection, temperature variation and surface scattering, there have been recent efforts to use short-range, acoustic communication for high data rate in addition to the long-range communication so that the significant losses can be limited to spreading and absorption.

The integration of long- and short-range communication generates stronger needs for the co-operation among nodes.

This allows better relay scheme and distributed processing, measurements and monitoring for better accuracy and energy efficiency, with a reduced complexity. Acoustic communication will be the key enabling technology.

The objective of Dr. Li's research is to instill in underwater sensor nodes the intelligence to conduct sensing, communications and processing so that sophisticated practical underwater applications can be achieved through co-operative work from the smart sensors. In other words, the AUVs will have better reach and better communication with each other, surface buoys and on-shore data processing centres.

The major research activities of the project include: (1) investigation of delay- and disruption-tolerant network architecture, and low power co-ordination and wakeup schemes;

(4) design and evaluation of delay- and disruption-tolerant link layer and network layer protocols, and co-operative networking to enhance network functionalities.

Dr. Li's research is made possible by the following: $245,000 Research & Development Corporation (RDC) Grant SensorTECH Project; $125,000 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant Project; and $15,000 NSERC Engage Grant Project.

Dr. Li has a doctorate in engineering (electrical and computer) from Memorial University. His research interests include mobile ad hoc and wireless sensor networks, wireless communications and mobile computing, switching and routing and broadband communication networks.

Dr. Li is currently the vice chair of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Technical Committee (AHSN TC). He also served as general co-chair of the 2017 International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications and Technical Program Committee (TPC) co-chair for the WiCon’17.

(2) research on joint data detection, channel estimation and equalization in underwater acoustic channels; (3) study of effective object tracking, localization, and time synchronization in an underwater environment; and

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Faculty research news

Dr. Xili Duan explains the contact angle instrument to graduate students in the Fluids Engineering Lab. From left are PhD student Mohammad Parsazadeh, Dr. Xili Duan, M.Eng. student Cong Cui and PhD student Wesam Aldrugi.

Wettability, icephobicity and metal corrosion

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onsider an oil platform operating in more than 80 metres of water in the frigid North Atlantic. Constant exposure to waves and seasonal pack ice threatens the integrity of the entire infrastructure – above surface and below. When sea water comes in persistent contact with unprotected metal surfaces, corrosion sets in. In fact, intruding water is one of the main problems causing corrosion under insulation (CUI) and persistent corrosion damages pipelines and other infrastructure.

Freezing weather causes another series of problems. When temperatures dip below zero degrees Celsius, sea water, rain or snow turn to ice which adversely affects surfaces of platforms, on-deck equipment, power transmission lines and conductors. Severe icing may cause uneven structural loads on a platform, threatening rig stability and potentially resulting in loss of power. Icing on offshore platforms can cause slipping hazards and can disable deck handling and communication equipment. Safety and rescue equipment including cranes, antennas, firefighting tools, fire sensors and life rafts can also become disabled. Icing is therefore one of the major safety threats during winter operations offshore.

Researchers at Memorial are working to improve the problems caused by corrosion of subsea and floating equipment and icing of offshore platforms and transportation vessels. Dr. Xili Duan in the Department of Mechanical Engineering is collaborating with Dr. Kris Poduska in the Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, Faculty of Science, to provide opportunities to improve asset integrity and safety in harsh marine environments.

Dr. Xili Duan’s wettability and surface energy instrument in the Fluids Engineering Lab.

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Armed with a research fund of $240,000 from Petroleum Research Newfoundland & Labrador (PRNL) and $75,000 from Research & Development Corporation (RDC), the research team is developing advanced hydrophobic and icephobic (ability to repel water and ice, respectively) surface

technologies for corrosion mitigation and icing protection in harsh marine environments.

Knowing that corrosion usually occurs at the interface between a solid surface and the liquids that flow or spray on that surface, Dr. Duan’s objective is to develop engineering surfaces that repel water, prevent icing or reduce ice adhesion, so as to mitigate or avoid corrosion and icing problems.

“Super-hydrophobic surfaces can be made by incorporating micro/nano scale roughness, applying low energy coatings or a combination of these two methods,” said Dr. Duan. “Slippery surfaces, with smooth liquid interface, showed promising passive anti-icing features, sometimes better than roughed surfaces under harsh environments.”

Most existing technologies for liquid repellent surfaces involve physical/mechanical methods, chemical methods or a combination of the two, and are limited to laboratory scales that are not practical for mass production needed to fulfill real engineering applications. Dr. Duan’s research aims to change that by researching and developing liquid repellent surface technology suitable for large-scale industrially-relevant metals subject to low temperatures, corrosive/salty water, large shear stress, persistent liquid impact and cyclic freezing/melting.

Wettability refers to the ability of a solid surface to allow a liquid to come in contact with and spread over it. If a liquid wets a surface, then wettability indicates the degree of wetting. To characterize the wettability of surfaces, the team measures the static and dynamic contact angles, adhesion force and surface energy. Wetting of real metal surfaces is more complicated with effects of disjoining pressure, liquid-thin film and defects that are not captured by classic models. New models or correlations need to be developed with wettability and surface energy data obtained from realistic harsh environment conditions, such as low temperature and high humidity.

The relationship between hydrophobicity and icephobicity is complex, and Dr. Duan’s team is working on solutions that combat ice and water adhesion and the interaction of the two.

The research team recently developed an experimental apparatus to investigate saline water droplet impact and icing on these engineered surfaces. High speed imaging investigations are conducted on droplet dynamics and icing phenomena. The surface temperatures are monitored with thermocouples and a high-speed infrared camera. The apparatus is put in Memorial’s cold room for experiments at temperatures down to -25 degrees Celsius, with controlled wind speed and humidity.

The development of a robust, cost-effective surface treatment that can be used on a commercially practical scale would be of significant benefit to the offshore energy industries. Mitigation of corrosion, including CUI, would lead to extended service life of pipelines and offshore structures with reduced downtime and maintenance costs, as well as more efficient operation and prevention of product loss. Surfaces that can resist icing or reduce ice adhesion will not only increase structural stability of platforms, but also improve personnel safety by preventing potential slip hazards and communication failures. They will also help to ensure the functionality of safety and rescue equipment in icing conditions.

Research on liquid repellent surface technology is beneficial to all industries that operate in harsh marine environments.

Icephobic surfaces may also find applications in icing protection of power transmission systems, communication systems in Arctic regions, anti-icing of aircraft in the aerospace industry, corrosion prevention in marine vessels and district heating and cooling.

In 2009 Dr. Xili Duan received his PhD in mechanical engineering at the University of Manitoba working on ground heat transfer and thermal protection of power transmission foundations against problems caused by seasonal freezing and thawing. At the same time, Dr. Duan received the NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship and went to work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he conducted extensive research on boiling heat transfer and multiphase flow in power generation systems. He joined Memorial in 2014 after working as a resident engineer with Siemens Energy (2012-14) conducting combustion testing and thermal design of combustor components in gas turbines. Dr. Duan has published over 50 research papers in the thermal fluid and energy areas. His research interests include heat transfer, phase change, energy storage, fluid mechanics, multiphase flow and thermal management.

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Faculty research news Safety at sea

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ccident investigations conclude, more often than not, that human error was a root cause. Are engineers paying attention?

Dr. Brian Veitch is a professor in the Department of Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering who thinks engineers should design built environments in ways that recognize and adapt to the people who use them so that the systems are more robust and less prone to accidents. He’s particularly interested in the safety of people who work in maritime environments – like the offshore petroleum industry and the shipping industry.

“The simulators have dual purpose and reinforce each other,” said Dr. Veitch. “They have been developed by the research team as a research setting to enable studies of human factors in offshore emergencies and other safety critical operations; and as training tools to enable the transfer and mobilization of knowledge to the offshore workforce where it can have immediate impact.”

An example of the work that Dr. Veitch’s group is doing is to analyze human reliability in emergencies by training people in basic emergency duties. The training is done in a virtual environment (VE) of an offshore platform. Before the training is complete, the trainee, or participant, has to demonstrate competence through a sequence of test scenarios. The same participants are then exposed to a series of realistic emergency scenarios in the VE and their performance is measured. Their bio-responses – such as heart and respiratory rates, and even brain signals – are also monitored during the scenarios.

The research group has different types of VEs and how people interact with them is a little different depending on the type.

One of the simulators is a first-person perspective type, which is like a typical video game where the participant controls an avatar using a standard gaming console. The VE is on the computer screen in front of them and the participant is wired with sensors that measure their bio-signals while they perform certain tasks. The simulator software also collects data on how they perform their tasks in the VE.

Safety at Sea graduate students Allison Moyle, Kyle Doody and Mashrura Musharraf use a desktop simulator to perform a simulated ice management operation offshore. Ms. Moyle drives a ship in pack ice performing safety critical operations in a virtual environment.

While considerable progress has been made on improving the safety of engineered systems and their operations, a group of researchers, consisting of faculty, full-time research associates and graduate students in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, is working to improve safety at sea by focusing attention on the human element of the safety equation.

The research program envisions ways to improve the safety of human performance by investigating individuals' workplace performance, focusing on offshore emergencies and similar safety critical operations. The approach has a strong empirical dimension, based on the use of simulators as virtual laboratory environments in which the research team investigates human performance in naturalistic settings.

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At the end, the participants have executed a task, and the researchers have evaluated (automatically) how they did it, as well as measured their physiological responses. For example, one VE is a petroleum installation and the participant must respond to a series of emergency events, like a fire in the gallery or engine room. Their main task is to find their way to the muster station and/or lifeboat station while avoiding hazards and following all the required safety protocols, such as closing fire doors.

In another simulator, participants drive a virtual ship and execute ice management operations. The experience is very realistic. The ship’s bridge is mounted on a motion bed surrounded by 360-degree projection screens that measure eight metres in diameter. Eleven cameras project moving images on the 3.5-metre-high screens. The motion combined with the moving images makes participants feel as if they are actually onboard a moving vessel.

“As the researchers use virtual environments, they can control

the experimental conditions in each scenario,” said Dr. Veitch.

“This allows them to systematically change the important factors that influence participants’ performance.”

Dr. Veitch further explains that by doing this experiment with many volunteer participants, researchers can identify the individual strengths and weaknesses of each participant. This enables the simulators to adapt subsequent training to focus on improving performance where the individual can draw the most benefit. It also helps identify individuals who may be particularly well-suited to certain safety-critical duties, and, equally important, those who are not. Furthermore, it can help reveal opportunities for improving operating procedures, or arranging the physical environment.

Dr. Veitch’s work is an example of how little nudges in the right directions can yield big improvements in safety at sea.

Dr. Brian Veitch obtained a PhD in engineering at the Helsinki University of Technology in 1995 and began teaching at Memorial in 1998. He is currently a Husky Energy Research Chair. His work is conducted under a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Industrial Research Chair (IRC) program with support from both Husky Energy and RDC, which began in April 2016 and runs for five years. Local technology company, Virtual Marine Technology, also provides in-kind contributions to the research by providing advice and by sharing code and simulator technology.

Be safe, drill safe

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ressure management is key to maintaining stability in any oil and gas drilling operation. Managed pressure drilling (MPD) provides precise control over downhole pressure.

It was a pressure imbalance that led to the 2010 wellhead blowout on the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico resulting in the loss of 11 lives and a discharge of 4.9 million barrels of oil.

Memorial’s Dr. Syed Imtiaz wants to prevent such an accident from ever happening again. Knowing that conventional drilling relies on human skill and expertise to handle pressure imbalances, Dr. Imtiaz hopes to automate MPD so as to reduce dependency on human skill and dexterity.

To achieve this, Dr. Imtiaz has developed a lab-scale experimental setup to replicate flow conditions during an MPD operation. Dr. Imtiaz’s team, consisting of principal investigator, Dr. Faisal Khan, Dr. Salim Ahmed, Dr. Aziz Rahman and graduate

From left are Al Amin, Anirudh Nandan, Dan Chen and Dinesh Hearth in the Managed Pressure Drilling Lab in the Bruneau Centre for Research and Innovation at Memorial.

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Faculty research news student, Al Amin, measure and collect real-time data in a control station. Using monitoring and control tools, the team applies advanced control theories to automate MPD systems, thus mitigating abnormal situations such as gas kick and pump failure.

With the support of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the team has integrated a predesigned advanced control algorithm into the control station.

This allows them to manipulate the actuators to bring desired change in the flow condition during experimentation and maintain the downhole pressure at the desired level.

This experimental setup is also used to simulate various unwanted situations that can occur while drilling in the field. Finally, different control algorithms are tested allowing the team to detect these abnormal situations early and formulate solutions to overcome them.

As offshore drilling moves into more challenging environments, Dr. Imtiaz’s advanced technology will assist in safeguarding both industry personnel and the environment. Not only will this research assist in ensuring sustainable environmentally friendly and safe exploration, it will also alleviate significant financial losses associated with pressure imbalances in the field.

The managed pressure drilling facility for reservoir kick mitigation experiments.

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Dr. Syed Imtiaz comes from a chemical engineering background with a master’s degree in environmental engineering and a PhD in process control. He joined Memorial in March 2010 and is an assistant professor in the Department of Process Engineering. His research interests include process monitoring, process control, modelling and simulation. His research goal is to maximize yield while maintaining safe operation in processing industries.

His research is motivated by practical problems and finds its application to two key areas relevant to this province: offshore oil and gas and mineral processing. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings.

Participants in the first CISMaRT workshop at UBC in Vancouver in July 2016. Dr. Wei Qiu (founder of CISMaRT) is 8th from the left in the front row, Dr. Claude Daley is 2nd from the right in the back row and Lynnette Snelgrove is 1st on the left in the back row.

CISMaRT: Canadian Network for Innovative Shipbuilding, Marine Research and Training

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he Canadian Network for Innovative Shipbuilding, Marine Research and Training (CISMaRT) was formed on September 26, 2016 to unite Canadian universities, industry partners and government stakeholders in addressing new challenges in the Canadian marine industry.

With the planned renewal of the Canadian Navy and Coast Guard fleets, expansion of Arctic water routes and emphasis on green ship technology, the Canadian marine industry is facing an ever-expanding number of technological and training challenges. Canadian industry, universities and research facilities

have vast expertise to address these technological and training challenges; however for the most part, each institution works independently of the others. What CISMaRT aims to do is bring all the independent research and expertise together so that the Canadian marine industry will be competitive on the global stage in innovation, research and training.

Led by Dr. Wei Qiu, head of the Department of Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering, and supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), University of British Columbia (UBC) and Memorial, two workshops were held in 2016 to gauge technological and training needs of the marine industry and interest in a national alliance and to form the CISMaRT network.

The UBC workshop in July identified the technological and training needs and priorities of the industry, catalogued the current expertise and research capacity (intellectual and physical

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Faculty research news research resources) and identified the gaps in knowledge, expertise and infrastructure to address technological and training needs.

The technological themes identified through the workshop include green ship technologies, marine safety, cyber security, advanced shipbuilding technologies, Arctic technologies, marine simulation, ship systems design and automation and control.

The MUN workshop in September established the mandate to move forward with a formal network and formulated an action plan to accomplish the network goals.

Dr. Wei Qiu is a professor and head of the Department of Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering at Memorial.

After obtaining both a B.A.Sc. in naval architecture and a M.A.Sc. in ship structural mechanics from Dalian University of Technology, China, Dr. Qiu received his PhD in marine hydrodynamics from the Mechanical Engineering Department of Dalhousie University in 2001.

Before joining Memorial, Dr. Qiu worked at Martec Ltd. as a senior hydrodynamicist and at the Centre for Marine Vessel Development and Research at Dalhousie University.

The mandates of CISMaRT are to: a. Encourage collaborative and innovative marine research among Canadian universities/colleges, research institutions, government agencies and the private sector that reflects the needs of the Canadian marine community and supports Canadian competitiveness on the global stage. b. Undertake relevant applied research and contribute to the development of innovative technologies. c. Improve marine-related educational and training programs to yield a highly-qualified workforce for employment in Canadian industry and government. d. Provide contractors with potential areas for investment that could generate long-term economic benefits for the broader marine sector in Canada while helping the contractors meet their obligations under the Industrial and Technological Benefits (ITB) Policy.

With 34 members, CISMaRT is gaining momentum with steady growth in participation and exposure. Over the next two years, the primary goal is to implement the strategic plan including a funding model, research and training plans and achieve a fully functional, operational and sustainable CISMaRT network.

The Canadian naval architecture, shipbuilding and marine industry will advance more quickly thanks to this collaboration initiated by Dr. Qiu and Memorial’s Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.

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Dr. Qiu joined the faculty in 2004 with a research focus on marine hydrodynamics and its applications to ships and offshore structures. He specializes in solving fluid-structure interaction problems using experimental and numerical methods including CFD and potential-flow-based methods. He has been involved in numerous projects with the marine and offshore industry, government agencies and private sectors, including wave/body interaction, mooring line dynamics, slamming, propeller vortex flow, vortex-induced vibration of marine risers, renewable energy devices and ship hull-form optimization. Dr. Qiu serves as chair of the ITTC Ocean Engineering Committee; he is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects and the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers.

Graduate student research news

Qingyun Yan explains his poster to Dr. Leonard Lye and Dr. Adedoyin Odukoya.

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science Annual Research Day The Engineering Research Office (ERO) and Office of Graduate Studies (OGS) jointly organized the 2016 Annual Research Day to showcase ongoing research activities by students and faculty of Memorial’s Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.

Graduate students were invited to present their research in poster form to the general public. Thirty-six groups availed of the funding provided by the ERO and OGS to produce posters which were displayed in the second floor lobby of the S.J. Carew building on March 18, 2016. Students presented research posters that aligned with the faculty’s strategic areas of ocean technology, energy, information and communication technology and environment and sustainable infrastructure.

Hossein Khorshidian explains his poster on Visualization of Multi-phase Flow Processes in Porous Media.

The event was well-attended by those within the faculty and the university community at large. Participating graduate students were available to answer questions and elaborate on the activity taking place in their research groups. New relationships were created through this event, as the interactions between students and researchers demonstrated the potential for an expansion of multidisciplinary research within the faculty.

Vahit Saydam explains his poster on Thermal Energy Storage with Nanoenhanced Phase Change Materials.

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Graduate student research news 2nd Annual Research Video Competition In November, engineering graduate students were invited to produce 30-second videos for the 2nd Annual Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science (FEAS) Research Video Competition, sponsored by the Engineering Research Office and the Office of Graduate Studies in FEAS. Al Amin and Munzarin Morshed, mechanical engineering graduate students, took home the first place prize of $500 for their video, "Modelling and development of a managed pressure drilling (MPD) setup with controller implementation." Under the supervision of Drs. Syed Imtiaz and Aziz Rahman, Mr. Amin and Mr. Morshed developed a lab-scale managed pressure drilling setup capable of managing bottom hole pressure in a drilling operation with the aim of avoiding well head blowouts in drilling operations.

Second place went to mechanical engineering's Trung Nguyen ($300) for his video entitled, "Advanced control system of quadrotor aerial vehicle." Mr. Nguyen’s video introduces the quadrotor, a micro-aerial vehicle which can carry a specific camera and its applications in the oil and gas industry. Mr. Nguyen’s goal is to develop an advanced control system for quadrotor autonomous operations on offshore drilling platforms. Nguyen’s supervisors are Drs. George Mann, Andrew Vardy and Raymond Gosine.

Dr. Greg Naterer, dean, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, presents Jingjing Ling with his video award certificate.

Trung Nguyen was also part of the team that won the third place prize of $200 for their video, "Multi-robot research at Intelligent System Lab (IS Lab)." The team, which also included electrical engineering students Zohaib Farooqi and Thumeera Wanasinghe, highlighted ongoing research activities in the IS Lab. Working under the supervision of Drs. George Mann, Raymond Gosine and Oscar De Silva, the research group is developing perception sensors, collaborative localization algorithms and control strategies for heterogeneous multi-robot systems. The algorithms being developed consider indoor and outdoor autonomous navigation of a group of both ground and aerial robots.

Jingjing Ling placed fourth in the competition with his video, "Fly ash: a novel oil spill cleanup material." Mr. Ling works under the supervision of Dr. Tahir Husain in the Department of Civil Engineering. His video introduces the application of a novel material made from fly ash, which is light weight with a capacity for high oil adsorption capacity. Mr. Ling’s research will assist emergency response to oil spills and by better containing any oil spilled off-shore.

From left are FEAS Second Annual Video Competition winners: Munzarin Morshed and Al Amin with Dr. Greg Naterer, dean, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.

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The Engineering Research Office and Office of Graduate Studies congratulate all the graduate students who participated in the 2nd annual research video contest to promote and celebrate the innovative research activities in the faculty.

Research outside the box?

The Lunch & Learn Lecture Series began in 2012 to allow students, faculty and staff to learn about ongoing research projects in each of the five departments of Memorial University’s Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.

In 2016 five professors shared their expertise on topics from electrical pumps to biofuels. The 2016 Lunch & Learn Series opened on January 28 with a presentation on Teaching Tips for Professors by Dr. Leonard Lye.

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TEACHING TIPS FOR PROFESSORS Dr. Leonard Lye

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MOVING LOADS ON HULL STRUCTURES Dr. Bruce Quinton

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BIOFUELS AND BIOPRODUCTS FROM WASTE Dr. Kelly Hawboldt

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THE ULTIMATE IN DOWNHOLE ARTIFICIAL LIFT TECHNOLOGY Dr. Xiaodong Liang

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A NEW DESIGN METHOD FOR THE PREDICTION OF STRUCTUREBORNE NOISE GENERATED BY MARINE MACHINERY Dr. Lorenzo Moro

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GOOD TEACHERS ARE MADE, NOT BORN TEACHING TIPS FOR PROFESSORS

In case you missed the talk, the following are Dr. Lye’s 12 Tips for Effective Teaching

Dr. Leonard Lye is no stranger to teaching. In fact, he has been sharing his expertise with students at Memorial since 1988. With a PhD in civil engineering, Dr. Lye is currently the associate dean of graduate studies in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, where he has won Professional Engineers and Geoscientists Newfoundland and Labrador (PEGNL) and President awards for distinguished teaching and community service, respectively.

1. Be well prepared, be organized, be confident, be flexible, be yourself and relax.

2. Don’t teach too much.

3. Put things in context.

4. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.

5. Have a good sense of humour.

6. Use active learning techniques.

7. Teach students how to study.

8. Provide lots of practice.

9. Project your voice.

10. Be open to suggestions.

11. Take responsibility.

12. Be a student of teaching.

In 2015, Dr. Lye contributed to the Lunch & Learn Series by presenting useful tips on making study plans and effective study techniques to both students and professors. On January 28, 2016, he expanded on these tips by presenting his companion talk “Teaching tips for professors” setting faculty on the right track for the term.

Dr. Lye’s tips are based not only on his almost 30 years of teaching numerous undergraduate and graduate courses, but also on teaching professional development courses, Taoist Tai Chi and squash.

Dr. Lye believes that to be an effective teacher, you must learn and study how to teach. To be a great teacher, you must observe and study how great teachers teach and study literature on effective teaching. He also believes you must have a desire to be a great teacher and be willing to consistently and deliberately work to improve your teaching.

Here are examples of some of Dr. Lye’s tips. The most successful instructors are often those who teach less material, but do it profoundly. Dr. Lye puts it this way: Aim not to cover the subject but to uncover part of it.

In Dr. Lye’s classes, he likes to lighten up to show that he is human and approachable. He finds that relaxed students are more attentive. Besides speaking loudly and clearly, Dr. Lye recommends walking around the class and making eye contact.

He learns his students’ names as soon as possible and treats them with respect. He tries to put himself in their shoes and is receptive to suggestions from the students knowing full well that a professor can be at fault if students do poorly. At the end of each lesson he reflects on his own teaching – what went well? what did not go well? how to improve?

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Besides teaching engineering undergraduate and graduate students, Dr. Lye is also interested in research in statistical hydrology, environmental statistics and design of experiments, and has great interests in engineering education, particularly in pedagogy. He is a Fellow of Engineers Canada, a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He was also recently elected as Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada.

Dr. Lye is program director for the Memorial campus of SHAD, a program that enables exceptional high school students to recognize their own capabilities and envision their extraordinary potential as tomorrow’s leaders and change makers. Each year, SHAD provides the opportunity for over 700 students from across Canada and internationally to attend a month-long summer program focused on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math).

Dr. Lye is also founder and co-ordinator of the Tetra Society of North America (St. John's Chapter) which designs and fabricates assistive devices for people with disabilities to gain greater independence and integration within their communities. The St. John’s Chapter of Tetra has developed numerous devices including a ball thrower for a boy with cerebral palsy and a modified guitar with pedal-controlled strumming for a man paralysed on the right side following a stroke.

MOVING LOADS ON HULL STRUCTURES Dr. Bruce Quinton is an assistant professor in the Department of Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering at Memorial and one of a handful of researchers world-wide investigating the effects of load movement on damage to structures (without actually tearing the structure).

His expertise includes ship hull structural response to extreme/accidental loads (including sliding loads), advanced material characterization and behaviour of Arctic shipbuilding steels and numerical simulation/application of ice loads.

Prior to commencing his PhD studies and subsequent faculty appointment, Dr. Quinton was an employee of BMT Fleet Technology Ltd., where he worked on Arctic-related projects including ice-strengthened vessel design; design of a novel 185-tonne davit-hung icebreaker; and Arctic issues related to structural safety, Arctic escape, evacuation and rescue (EER) performance criteria.

On June 24, 2016, Dr. Quinton shared some of his expertise on accidental moving loads on ship and offshore structures with a group of students and faculty, some of whom were familiar with his work and others with no in-depth knowledge of moving load research.

Here is what they learned in Dr. Quinton’s own words: “When a ship hits something large, but soft (like a sandy bottom), or when an ice-classed ship hits ice, a dent may form in the hull. Traditionally, designers/analysts/researchers ignore any sliding motion between the struck object and the ship. In other words, they pretend that the impact is perpendicular to the hull and that it does not move (slide) along the hull. This assumption is incorporated in all international design standards for open-water and ice-classed structures.

This sliding movement is a valid thing to ignore when the hull is not damaged by the load (e.g. most impacts with ice for ice-strengthened structures); however, when the impact does result in hull damage (i.e. causes a dent in the hull, but not a hole in the hull), and the dent becomes elongated due to any sliding motion between the hull and the struck object, then the strength of the hull to resist further damage can be diminished by up to one half its original (or stationary load) capacity; depending on the severity of the dent. This is quite a considerable drop from what is normally considered to be the

strength of the ship’s hull (i.e. when the sliding motion was ignored).”

Dr. Quinton is also a member of the V.6 – Arctic Technology Committee of the 20th International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress 2018. His novel experimental and numerical work related to moving loads on hull structures was awarded the 2013 Vice Admiral E. L. Cochrane Award from the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME).

Kudos to Dr. Quinton and Memorial’s Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science for helping ensure safety is always at the forefront for offshore workers.

BIOFUELS AND BIOPRODUCTS FROM WASTE Dr. Kelly Hawboldt is a professor in the Department of Process Engineering. Her research focuses on the extraction of value from wastes which are a result of green processing of natural resources (forestry, fisheries, oil and gas, and mining). Dr. Hawboldt collaborates with industrial partners as well as colleagues in Memorial’s Department of Chemistry and the Marine Institute characterizing methods for waste streams and identifying possible by-products. She also works on the extraction and conversion of these products to fuels and alternative industrial chemicals and adsorbents.

On Tuesday, August 9, 2016, Dr. Hawboldt presented a Lunch & Learn talk on biorefineries. She covered the processing of biomass to bioproducts and the specific challenges and opportunities in modifying existing processes and developing new ones for remote rural regions.

In her presentation, Dr. Hawboldt explained that depending on fish species, product and processing methods, 40-70 per cent of the harvested weight from fish aquaculture and processing plants is residue. In Newfoundland and Labrador alone, over 250 kilotonnes of residues such as bark, sawdust and sludge are generated each year by sawmill and forestry operations.

Fishery residue is discharged in the ocean and/or sent to landfills while forestry residues are stockpiled resulting in safety hazards and loss of space. The companies involved suffer profit loss given the energy and high value chemicals in

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the residues as well as costs associated with disposal. However, the remote location of operations and limited infrastructure mean that using existing technologies to process these bioproducts is uneconomical.

Dr. Hawboldt’s research with industrial partners seeks to increase the economic viability of the fishery and forestry industries, and the communities that depend on them, through the creation of marketable products while monetizing residues that would otherwise have been diverted to landfills or oceans.

Bioenergy, in the form of pyrolysis oil, which is derived from “burning” the biomass without oxygen and is produced from local forestry and fisheries operations, would provide a sustainable energy source - heating oil. By combining residues from two resource sectors common across Atlantic Canada, Dr. Hawboldt and her team yield a reliable source of bioenergy (bio-oil) and products such as high value chemicals and biochar.

Biochar, which is produced as a by-product from pyrolysis, is of particular interest as it has excellent soil enhancement properties and can bind metals, making it ideal for enhancing the provincial soil quality and controlling metal pollution in waterways. The underlying principle in Dr. Hawboldt’s research is minimizing environmental impacts and maximizing positive societal impacts.

Working with industrial partners ABRI-Tech and BW Bioenergy in pyrolysis, Shell-ex, a fishery by-product development company, and the local aquaculture industry (Newfoundland Aquaculture Industry Association), Dr. Hawboldt’s team develops processes and products that will aid local economy and industry.

The Centre for Forestry Science and Science and Innovation (Dept. of Natural Resources – NL) has been particularly important in advancing this research and working to facilitate collaboration with pulp and paper and sawmill operators.

Products developed in this work will enhance the economics of regions where these facilities exist and provide a revenue stream for companies involved. The collaboration is ideal due to the range of partners - processors, manufacturers and end users - and will lead to processes and products with a greater chance of industrial implementation within 10 years.

Dr. Hawboldt’s work is an example of how Memorial’s Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science is helping save the world one landfill and ocean at a time.

IMPROVING DOWNHOLE TOOL PERFORMANCE THROUGH BETTER COMMUNICATION Dr. Xiaodong Liang is an assistant professor in Memorial's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. After spending more than a decade in the Canadian oil industry with Schlumberger and obtaining a PhD in electrical engineering at the University of Alberta in Edmonton in 2013, Dr. Liang began her academic career conducting research in power systems dynamics, renewable energy integration, electric machines and power system application in oil field facilities.

On September 29, 2016, Dr. Liang presented a Lunch & Learn lecture explaining her research into a new downhole monitoring tool design for electrical submersible pump (ESP) systems in oil field facilities.

ESPs, introduced in 1927, are commonly used in oil fields as the second-most common artificial lift technique. Artificial lift techniques are employed when reservoirs do not have enough energy to naturally bring oil or gas to the surface or produce at the desired economic rates. With more than 100,000 in operation around the world, ESPs are considered the best choice where high production volumes are required and are typically used in oil wells that produce 200-20,000 barrels per day.

In Newfoundland and Labrador, most producing oil fields have already reached peak production and have begun to decline.

At the tertiary stage of a well's life, it is essential to employ the most economical artificial lift techniques to assist in bringing up oil from offshore wells. Oil companies in Newfoundland and Labrador plan to use ESPs in the near future.

Dr. Liang's research involves the design of a downhole condition monitoring device, called a downhole tool, for ESP system operation. An ESP system for offshore and subsea applications costs millions of dollars. A failed ESP system is costly to replace, not to mention additional lost revenue during downtime. To avoid such cost, condition monitoring of electrical submersible motors and pumps is a critical aspect for ESP system operation. Currently, ESP systems are monitored by downhole tools in the field.

A downhole tool is installed at the bottom of an ESP string and connected to the neutral point of the motor. It collects data,

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including winding temperature and vibration of electrical submersible motors, pump intake pressure and reservoir temperature, through downhole sensors, and sends them through a communication system to the surface for processing.

The most common current downhole tool design uses a DC current communication signal transmitted over three phases of the downhole main power cable, but there is a major issue related to this design: the tool is not tolerant to a single-lineto-ground (SLG) fault and communication is interrupted during such a fault.

All existing downhole tool designs use three-phase downhole main power cables as the communication signal carrier to transmit downhole sensor data to the surface. The main reason is that the depth of the oil well can be up to 4,000 metres; thus running a dedicated communication cable is costly due to extra material costs. When a similar situation occurred in power transmission system communication, the solution was to carry communication signals over power transmission conductors in order to utilize the existing conductor infrastructures rather than the dedicated data communication lines to minimize expenditure. Because of the similarity of the two applications, a power line communication technique known as a "two-way automatic communication system” (TWACS) was adopted by Dr. Liang and her collaborators in the downhole monitoring tool design for ESP systems.

REDUCING NOISE GENERATED

BY MARINE MACHINERY Dr. Lorenzo Moro obtained a PhD in naval architecture and marine engineering from the University of Trieste in Italy. Currently an assistant professor in the Department of Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering at Memorial, Dr. Moro’s research focuses on ship structures, ship structural dynamics and ship noise and vibration.

Have you ever been below deck on a cruise ship or even a local ferry and found that the noise level rattles your brain? Imagine if you were a worker on one of these ships and were exposed to that noise level many hours each day. Without the necessary precautions, you would suffer from hearing loss pretty quickly.

Dr. Moro hopes to reduce noise pollution created by ships by developing a method to predict noise and vibration produced by the machinery on board offshore vessels. Dr. Moro’s method, if used in the early phases of new ship design, will improve comfort and safety for passengers and employees on these vessels, as well as decrease underwater noise pollution generated by ships.

How does Dr. Moro hope to achieve this?

Due to issues with existing designs of downhole tools currently employed in the field, there is an urgent need from the oil industry to develop a downhole tool that can reliably operate under various conditions to achieve continuous conditional monitoring of ESP systems. Dr. Liang's proposed design method can significantly improve downhole tool performance, and thus, improve the reliability of the ESP system operation.

Dr. Liang’s research is an example of Memorial’s Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science providing innovative solutions to solve challenges in the oil and gas industry.

On November 29, 2016 as part of the Lunch & Learn Series, Dr. Moro presented his new design method for the prediction of structure-borne noise and vibration on marine vessels generated by reciprocating machinery like marine diesel engines.

Dr. Moro explained how this new method allows designers to simulate the dynamic behavior of resilient mounting systems usually employed to decouple structure-borne noise and vibration sources by the ship structures. Designers will also be able to identify resonances in the resilient mounts and optimize the decoupling system.

The design method can be used in the early phases of new ship design, identifying effective solutions to reduce the overall on-board noise level. This will increase comfort for passengers, decrease crewmembers’ exposure to hazardous noise levels, and allow designers of navy ships to control the acoustic signature of the vessels.

All those who work and travel on ships may benefit from Dr. Moro’s work – an example of Memorial’s Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science’s dedication to improving comfort and safety for people all over the world.

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Graduate programs

PhD AND M.Eng. PROGRAMS (THESIS-BASED) • • • • • • •

Civil Engineering Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering Process Engineering Oil and Gas Engineering

MASc. PROGRAMS (COURSE-BASED) • Computer Engineering • Environmental Systems Engineering and Management • Oil and Gas Engineering

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Research funding and staff

Andrew Manuel, an ocean and naval architectural engineering student, works on an autonomous underwater vehicle.

The faculty's total research funding for the 2015/16 fiscal year exceeded $11M. The number of operating grants and contracts increased by about nine per cent, as indicated in the graph below:

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Jennifer Ryan, a process engineering co-op student, shows the height of capillary rise in different diameter and geometry capillary tubes.

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Selected publications SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

BY THEMATIC AREA OCEAN TECHNOLOGY An algorithm for wind direction retrieval from X-band marine radar images Wang, Y., Huang, W. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 13(2), 252-256. doi:10.1109/LGRS.2015.2508284. (2016).

An energy-efficient asynchronous wake-up scheme for underwater acoustic sensor networks Su, R., Venkatesan, R., Li, C. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 16(9), 1158-1172. doi:10.1002/wcm.2589. (2016).

An exploratory review of weathering and transport modeling of accidental oil releases in Arctic waters Afenyo, M., Khan, F., Veitch, B., Yang, M. Arctic Technology Conference, October 24-26, St. John's, Canada. (2016).

Development of an empirical probabilistic forecast model for sea ice convergence and pack pressure events offshore Labrador, Canada Turnbull, I., Taylor, R., Rahman, S. Proceedings of IAHR International Symposium on Ice, Ann Arbor, USA. (2016).

Droplet trajectories of wave-impact sea spray on a marine vessel Dehghani, S., Muzychka, Y. S., Naterer, G. F. Cold Regions Science and Technology, 127, 1-9. (2016).

Dynamic analysis of a deep water marine riser using bond graphs Reyes, R. A., Rideout, G., Butt, S. D. Society for Computer Simulation International 2016 Summer Simulation Multi-Conference, Montreal, Canada. Winner best paper award for ICBGM2016. (2016).

Energy optimal depth control for long range underwater vehicles with applications to a hybrid underwater glider Claus, B., Bachmayer, R. Autonomous Robots, 40(7), 1307-1320. doi:10.1007/s10514-0169555-3. (2016).

Assessing offshore emergency evacuation behavior in a virtual environment using a Bayesian network approach Musharraf, M., Smith, J., Khan, F., Veitch, B., MacKinnon, S. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 152, 28-37. doi:10.1016/j.ress.2016.02.001. (2016).

Experimental and numerical studies of the plastic behavior of large structural grillages subjected to ice loads Kim, H., Dolny, J., Daley, C. Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering OMAE2016, Busan, South Korea. doi:10.1115/OMAE2016-54151. (2016).

Beneficial effect of silica fume on chloride diffusivity in concrete marine structure Said, M. E., Hassan, A. A. A., Hussein, A. International Conference on Urban Planning, Transport and Construction Engineering (ICUPTCE 2016), Pattaya, Thailand. (2016).

Experimental investigation of oscillation of loads in ice high‐pressure zones, part 2: Double indentor system — coupling and synchronization of high‐pressure zones O'Rourke, B. J., Jordaan, I. J., Taylor, R. S., Gürtner, A. Cold Regions Science and Technology, 124, 11-24. (2016).

Bistatic high frequency radar ocean surface cross section for an FMCW source with an antenna on a floating platform Ma, Y., Huang, W., Gill, E. W. International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 2016, 9. doi:10.1155/2016/8675964. (2016).

Layout optimization of a floating liquefied natural gas facility using inherent safety principles Xin, P., Khan, F., and Ahmed, S. Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, 138(4), 041602-041602-8. doi:10.1115/1.4033076. (2016).

Design procedure for the development of new floating floors to improve comfort on ships Moro, L., Brocco, E., Badino, A., Mendoza Vassallo, P. N., Clericuzio, A., Biot, M. Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Practical Design of Ships and Other Floating Structures – PRADS 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark. (2016).

Numerical investigations of ship–ice interaction and maneuvering performance in level ice Zhou, Q., Peng, H., Qiu, W. Cold Regions Science and Technology, 122, 36-49. doi:10.1016/j.coldregions.2015.10.015. (2016).

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Numerical modeling of submarine landslides with sensitive clay layers Dey, R., Hawlader, B., Phillips, R., Soga, K. Géotechnique, doi:10.1680/jgeot.15.P.111. (2016).

Numerical prediction of forces and pressures on wedge and ship sections based on a CIP method Wen, P., Qiu, W. ISOPE2016 – 26th International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference, Rhodes, Greece. (2016).

Review of understanding of spray cloud formation by wave impact on marine objects Bodaghkhani, A., Dehghani, S., Muzychka, Y. S., Colbourne, B. Cold Regions Science and Technology, 129, 114-136. (2016).

Soft starting of electric submersible pump drives for harsh environment in oceans Rahman, M. A., Rabbi, S. F. IEEE Power & Energy General Meeting, Boston, USA. (2016).

The ice ocean sentinel system (IOSS): Working towards ice and ocean observation technologies for remote and harsh environments Bachmayer, R., De Young, B. 2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting, Oral Presentation, New Orleans, USA. (2016).

Thoughts of risk in harsh environment ocean engineering Daley, C. Cutting Edge, Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program, University of British Columbia, 2. (2016).

Baseline development of rock anisotropy investigation utilizing empirical relationships between oriented physical and mechanical measurements and drilling performance Abugharara, A. N., Alwaar, M. A., Butt, S. D., Hurich, A. C. Proceedings ASME 2016 35th Int. Conf. Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, Busan, South Korea. (2016).

Blends of pyrolysis oil, petroleum, and other bio-based fuels: A review Krutof, A., Hawboldt, K. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 59, 406-419. doi:10.1016/j.rser.2015.12.304. (2016).

Comparing bisection numerical algorithm with fractional short circuit current and open circuit voltage methods for MPPT photovoltaic systems Shebani, M. M., Iqbal, T., Quaicoe, J. E. IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference (EPEC 2016), Ottawa, Canada. (2016).

Development, optimization, validation and application of faster gas chromatography – flame ionization detector method for the analysis of total petroleum hydrocarbons in contaminated soils Zubair, A., Pappoe, M., James, L. A., Hawboldt, K. Journal of Chromatography A, 1425, 240-248. doi:10.1016/j. chroma.2015.10.003. (2015).

Equivalent circuit modeling of a hysteresis interior permanent magnet motor for electric submersible pumps Rabbi, S. F., Rahman, M. A. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 52(7), 1-4. doi:10.1109/ TMAG.2016.2525007. (2016).

ENERGY An effective approach to reducing arc flash hazards in power systems Liang, X., Bagen, B., Gao, D. W. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 52(1), 67-75. doi:10.1109/TIA.2015.2477269. (2016).

Analytical gas-oil relative permeability interpretation method for immiscible flooding experiments under constant differential pressure conditions Nekouie, H., Cao, J., James, L. A., Liu, X., Johansen, T. E. 30th Society of Core Analysts Symposium SCA 2016, Snowmass, USA, Paper SCA2016-034, (2016).

Wood Group Chair Dr. Hodjat Shiri and his research group. From left are Mohammad Javad Moharrami, Masih Allahbakhshi, Rahim Shoghi, Farhad Davaripour, Morteza Kianian, Dr. Hodjat Shiri, Seyed Hossein Hashemi, Etido Akpan, Mehdi Esmaeilzadeh, Afruz Nematzadeh and Xiaoyu Dong.

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Selected publications Experimental investigation of multiphase flow effects on the hydrate formation process in an offshore pipeline Odan, M., Ben-Rajeb, F., Aborig, A., Zhang, Y., Imtiaz, S. A., Rahman, M. A. International Conference on Petroleum Engineering 2016 (ICPE-2016), Dhaka, Bangladesh. (2016).

Hydrodynamic analysis and optimization of a hinged type wave energy converter Li, Y., Peng, H., Qiu, W., Lundrigan, B., Gardiner, T. 35th Int. Conf. Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE2016), Busan, South Korea. (2016).

MEMS piezoelectric energy harvester design and optimization based on genetic algorithm Nabavi, S., Zhang, L. 2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Tours, France.

(2016).

Mineral processing tests of a low grade kyanite ore from Gansu Province Hong, H., Lei, S., Zhang, Y., Li, X. Industrial Minerals & Processing 45(4), 10-13. (2016).

Nonlinear model predictive controller for kick attenuation in managed pressure drilling Nandan, A., Imtiaz, S. A. Ifac-Papersonline, 49(7), 248-253. doi:10.1016/ j.ifacol.2016.07.268. (2016).

Numerical analysis of large diameter monopiles in dense sand supporting offshore wind turbines Ahmed, S., Hawlader, B. ASCE International Journal of Geomechanics, doi:10.1061/ (ASCE)GM.1943-5622.0000633. (2016).

Performance modeling for wind turbines operating in harsh conditions Little, M., Pope, K. International Journal of Energy Research, doi:10.1002/er.3623.

(2016).

Phase-to-phase communication scheme for downhole monitoring tool design in electrical submersible pump systems Ghoreishi, O., Liang, X., Xu, W. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 52(3), 2077-2087. doi:10.1109/TIA.2016.2527724. (2016).

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Process simulation and life cycle analysis of biodiesel production Sajid, Z., Khan, F., Zhang, Y. Renewable Energy, 85, 945-952. doi:10.1016/ j.renene.2015.07.046. (2016).

Role of porosity on energy transport with equal rock-fluid temperatures during thermal EOR process Hossain, M. E. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 1-11. doi:10.1007/ s13369-016-2343-8. (2016).

Service life of fly ash concrete in harsh marine climates Said, M. E., Hussein, A., Hassan, A. A. A. International Conference on Green Building, Civil and Architecture Engineering (ICGBCAE 2015)-Dubai, UAE. (2015).

The SEAWEED energy converter- an introduction Peng, H., Qiu, W., Meng, W., Chen, M., Lundrigan, B., Gardiner, T., Vogler, A. CORE 2016, 2nd International Conference on Offshore Renewable Energy, Glasgow, UK. (2016).

Use of active power filters to reduce the effects of harmonics in solid oxide fuel cells Biswas, A., Quaicoe, J. E. IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference (EPEC 2016), Ottawa, Canada. 2016.

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY A load-balancing semi-matching approach for resource allocation in cognitive radio networks Tsiropoulos, G. I., Zeng, M., Dobre, O. A., Ahmed, M. H. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. doi:10.1109/ICC.2016.7511607. (2016).

An investigation of impropriety and noncircularity in high frequency radar data El-Darymli, K., Wang, W., Gill, E. W., Huang, W., Dawe, B. OCEANS 2016 - Shanghai, China. doi:10.1109/ OCEANSAP.2016.7485393 (2016).

BuPiGo: An open and extensible platform for visuallyguided swarm robots Vardy, A., Shiell, N. Proceedings of the 9th EAI International Conference on Bio-Inspired Information and Communications Technologies (Formerly BIONETICS), BICT’15, New York, USA. (2015).

Object sorting and collective aggregation in swarm robotics Vardy, A. Presentation for Takeshi Hatanaka’s Research Group, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. (2015).

Secrecy rate maximization in a cognitive radio network with artificial noise aided for MISO multi-eves Nguyen, V. D., Duong, T. Q., Dobre, O. A., Shin, O. S. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. doi:10.1109/ICC.2016.7511333. (2016).

StableFlow: A novel real-time method for digital video stabilization Ahmed, A., Shehata, M. 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2016), Cancun, Mexico. (2016).

From left are Meghan George and Evan Brockerville conducting an experiment in the Controls Lab.

Clean application compartmentalization with SOAAP Gudka, K., Watson, R. N. M., Anderson, J., Chisnall, D., Davis, B., Laurie, B., Marinos, I., Neumann, P. G., Richardson, A. CCS 2015: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Denver, USA. (2015).

Data detection algorithms for BICM alternate-relaying cooperative systems with multiple-antenna destination Marey, M., Mostafa, H., Dobre, O. A., Ahmed, M. H. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 65(5), 3802-3807. doi:10.1109/TVT.2015.2438113. (2016).

Exploiting autocorrect to attack privacy Kidney, B. J., Anderson, J. SPW2016: Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Workshop on Security Protocols, Brno, Czech Republic. (2016).

Joint optimal placement, routing, and flow assignment in wireless sensor networks for structural health monitoring Elsersy, M., Elfouly, T. M., Ahmed, M. H. IEEE Sensors Journal, 16(12), 5095-5106. doi:10.1109/ JSEN.2016.2554462 (2016).

Large scale satellite-based wireless sensor networks for arctic monitoring Zhou, Z., Zhang, L. OTC Arctic Technology Conference, St. John’s, Canada. (2016).

Towards high-quality parallel stabilization Ahmed, A., Shehata, M. 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP’16), Rome, Italy. (2016).

Wave height estimation from shipborne X-band nautical radar images Liu, X., Huang, W., Gill, E. W. Journal of Sensors, doi:10.1155/2016/1078053. (2016).

ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE A ring-based bidirectional routing protocol for wireless sensor network with mobile sinks Shang, D., Liu, X., Yan, Y., Li, C., Zhang, B. Y. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kuala Lumpur, Malasia. doi:10.1109/ICC.2016.7511023. (2016).

A risk-based shutdown inspection and maintenance interval estimation considering human error Hameed, A., Khan, F., Ahmed, S. Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 100, 9-21. doi:10.1016/j.psep.2015.11.011. (2016).

An experimental investigation toward the development of an environment-friendly drilling fluid using canola oil Hossain, M. E., Sanmi, A. A., Al-Majed, A. Journal of Nature Science and Sustainable Technology, 10(4), (2016).

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Selected publications An integrated method for human error probability assessment during the maintenance of offshore facilities Abbassi, R., Khan, F., Garaniya, V., Chai, S., Chin, C., Hossain, K. A. Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 94, 172-179. doi:10.1016/j.psep.2015.01.010. (2015).

Process design and probabilistic economic risk analysis of bio-diesel production Sajid, Z., Zhang, Y., Khan, F. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 5, 1-15. doi:10.1016/j.spc.2015.10.003. (2016).

Arctic pipeline integrity management using real-time condition monitoring Thodi, P., Khan, F., Imtiaz, S. A. Arctic Technology Conference (ATC), St. John’s, Canada. (2016).

Production of biosurfactant by rhodococcus erythropolis sp. cultivated in a novel fish waste compost extract substrate Kazemi, K., Zhang, B., Lye, L. M. Proceedings of the CSCE Annual Conference, London, Canada.

ENV-21, 1-10. (2016).

Enhanced biosurfactant production by marine originated bacteria bacillus subtilis and its application for crude oil removal Zhu, Z. W., Zhang, B. Y., Chen, B., Cai, Q. H., Lin, W. Y. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 227(10), 328-342. doi:10.1007/ s11270-016-3012-y. (2016).

Environmental issues associated with hydraulic fracturing Husain, T. Keynote Speaker, 6th World PetroCoal Congress, New Delhi, India. (2016).

Experimental design to study corrosion under insulation in harsh marine environments Caines, S., Khan, F., Shirokoff, J., Qiu, W. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 33, 39-51. doi:10.1016/j.jlp.2014.10.014. (2015).

Heavy metals in drinking water: Occurrences, implications, and future needs in developing countries Chowdhury, S., Mazumder, A. J., Al-Attas, O., Husain, T. Science of the Total Environment, 569–570, 476-488. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.06.166, (2016).

Regional flood frequency analysis for Newfoundland and Labrador using the L-moments approach Yang, L., Lye, L. M. Proceedings of the CSCE Annual Conference, London, Canada.

(2016).

Retrospective risk analysis and controls for semabla grain storage hybrid mixture explosion Abuswer, M., Amyotte, P., Khan, F., Imtiaz, S. A. Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 100, 49-64. doi:10.1016/j.psep.2015.12.007. (2016).

Use of sesquiterpanes, steranes and terpanes for forensic fingerprinting of chemically dispersed oil Song, X., Zhang, B. Y., Chen, B., Cai, Q. H. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 227, 281. doi:10.1007/s11270-0162981-1. (2016).

Natural sorbent for oil spill cleanup from water surface: Environmental implication Sayyad Amin, J., Vared Abkenar, M., Zendehboudi, S. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 54(43), 1061510621. doi:10.1021/acs.iecr.5b01715. (2015).

Pipeline maintenance prioritization considering reliability and risk: A concept methodology Phan, H. C., Dhar, A. S. Journal of Advances in Civil and Environmental Engineering, 3(1), 13-30. (2016).

Probability of detection and false detection for subsea leak detection systems: Model and analysis Aljaroudi, A., Khan, F., Akinturk, A., Haddara, M., Thodi, P. Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention, 15(6), 873-882. doi:10.1007/s11668-015-0033-6. (2015).

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PhD candidate Qinhong Cai works in the Northern Region Persistant Organic Pollution Control Lab conducting bio-dispersant purification.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

BY DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING Arctic R&D in Newfoundland Oldford, D., Paulin, M., Cocker, J., Daley, C., Bruneau, S., Quinton, B. Tijsen, J. King, T. Millan, J. Marine Technology (SNAME), (October), 56-60. (2014).

Assessing the effects of land-use, climate change, and extreme events on physical habitat of rivers Daraio, J. International Society for River Science 4th Biennial Symposium on River Connectivity, La Crosse, USA. (2015).

Burst pressure assessment for pipelines with multiple corrosion defects Mondal, B. C., Dhar, A. S. Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering (CSCE), London, Canada. (2016).

Comparison of autoregressive moving average and state space methods for monthly time series modelling of Labrador and south-east Quebec river flows Sparkes, C., Lye, L. M., Richter, S. Water Qual Res J can, doi:10.2166/wqrjc.2015.021. (2015).

Development of biosurfactant-based dispersants and associated technologies for offshore oil spill control in harsh environments Zhang, B. Y. Final Report, prepared for Petroleum Research Newfoundland and Labrador and Research & Development Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador. (2016).

Effect of expanded slate aggregate on fresh properties and shear behaviour of lightweight SCC beams Abouhussien, A. A., Hassan, A. A. A., Hussein, A. A. Magazine of Concrete Research, 67(9), 433-442. (2015).

Experimental study of dynamics during crushing of freshwater truncated conical ice specimens Habib, K. B., Taylor, R. S., Bruneau, S., Jordaan, I. J. Proceedings of the 2015 34th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, St. John’s, Canada. doi:10.1115/OMAE2015-41904. (2015).

FE evaluation of burst pressure models for corroded pipelines Mondal, B. C., Dhar, A. S. Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, doi:10.1115/1.4034408. (2016).

Flexural behaviour of reinforced SCC beams containing recycled crumb rubber Ismail, M. K., Hassan, A. A. A., AbdelAleem, B. H. 5th International Structural Specialty Conference, CSCE Conference, London, Canada. (2016).

Graduate attribute 3.1.3: Investigations – how civil engineers can possess this attribute Lye, L. M. Proceedings of the CSCE Annual Conference, London, Canada.

(2016).

Hyper-real-time ice simulation and modeling using GPGPU Alawneh, S., Dragt, R., Peters, D., Daley, C., Bruneau, S. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 64(12), 3475-3487. doi:10.1109/TC.2015.2409861. (2015).

Improved sensitivity analysis in civil engineering design using statistical design of experiment (DOE) methodologies Lye, L. M., Hussein, A. A., Dey, R. Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Annual Conference, Regina, Canada. (2015).

Laboratory examination of ice loads and effects on concrete surfaces from bi-axial collision and adhesion events Tijsen, J., Bruneau, S., Colbourne, B. Proceedings of the 23nd International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering Under Arctic Conditions, Trondheim, Norway. (2015).

Laboratory investigation of acoustic noise from leaks in ductile iron water pipe Muntakim, A. H., Dhar, A. S. Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering, London, Canada. (2016).

Modeling and optimization of Newfoundland shrimp waste hydrolysis for microbial growth using response surface methodology and artificial neural networks Zhang, K. D., Zhang, B. Y., Chen, B., Jing, L., Zhu, Z. W., Kazemi, K. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 109(1), 245-252. doi:10.1016/j. marpolbul.2016.05.075. (2016).

Modeling of large deformation behaviour of marine sensitive clays and its application to submarine slope stability analysis Dey, R., Hawlader, B., Phillips, R., Soga, K. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, doi:10.1139/cgj-2015-0176. (2016).

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Selected publications NRB-SRB interaction and system optimization: Lab-scale investigation during nitrate/nitrite injection for offshore reservoir souring control Zhang, B. Y., Morrill, P., Fan, F. Q. Report on SRB quantification methodology. Prepared for Suncor Energy Inc. (2015).

Numerical investigation of vertical penetration of steel catenary riser near the touch down zone Dutta, S., Hawlader, B., Phillips, R., Paulin, M. 11th International Pipeline Conference & Exposition, Calgary, Canada: IPC2016-6460. (2016).

Numerical modeling of combined effects of upward and downward propagation of shear bands on stability of slopes with sensitive clay Dey, R., Hawlader, B., Phillips, R., Soga, K. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, doi:10.1002/nag.2522 (2016).

Optimization of air quality monitoring network using GIS based interpolation techniques Shareef, M. M., Husain, T., Alharbi, B. Journal of Environmental Protection, 7, 895-911. (2016).

Photocatalytic degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in offshore produced water: The effects of water matrix Liu, B., Chen, B., Zhang, B. Y., Jing, L., Zhang, H., Lee, K. ASCE Journal of Environmental Engineering, 51(3), 246-255. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0001135. (2016).

Predicting bromide incorporation in a chlorinated indoor swimming pool Chowdhury, S., Mazumder, A. J., Husain, T. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 23, 1217412184. doi:10.1007/s11356-016-6339-4. (2016).

Refined statistical modeling for chloride permeability and strength of concrete containing metakaolin Al-Alaily, H. S., Hassan, A. A. A. Construction and Building Materials, 114, 564-579. (2016).

Removal of naphthalene from offshore produced water through immobilized nano-TiO2 aided photo-oxidation Liu, B., Chen, B., Lee, K., Zhang, B. Y. Water Quality Research Journal of Canada, 51(3), 246-255. doi:10.2166/wqrjc.2016.027. (2016).

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Ayub Khezrnejad, research engineer in the Hibernia Enhanced Oil Recovery Lab, works on a pressure, volume and temperature measurement system.

Safe drinking water supply for small and rural communities in Newfoundland and Labrador with a case study of Pouch Cove Ling, J., Zhang, H., Husain, T. Final Report, prepared for the Harris Centre RBC Water Research and Outreach Fund 2013/2014. (2016).

Service life prediction of offshore concrete structures: A case study on Hebron project Said, M. E., Hassan, A. A. A., Hussein, A. A. International Conference on Advances in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering ICASGE ’15, Hurghada, Egypt. (2015).

The use of acoustic emission intensity analysis for the assessment of cover crack growth in corroded concrete structures Abouhussien, A. A., Hassan, A. A. A. Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, 35(3). (2016).

Time-dependence of chloride diffusion for concrete containing metakaolin Al-Alaily, H. S., Hassan, A. A. A. Journal of Building Engineering, 7, 159-169. (2016).

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING A 3D point cloud based human skeleton identification Yang, Z., Czarnuch, S. Newfoundland Electrical and Computer Engineering Conference, IEEE, Newfoundland and Labrador Section, St. John's, Canada. (2015).

A bearing-only pattern formation algorithm for swarm robotics Shiell, N., Vardy, A. Proceedings of Swarm intelligence: 10th international conference, ANTS 2016, Brussels, Belgium (pp. 3-14). Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-444277_1. (2016).

A dual series-resonant DC–DC converter Tahavorgar, A., Quaicoe, J. E. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 32(5), 3708-3718. doi:10.1109/TPEL.2016.2593867. (2017).

A gradient-based multiple-path routing protocol for low duty-cycled wireless sensor networks Hao, J., Yao, Z., Huang, K., Zhang, B., Li, C. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 16(5), 538-549. (2016).

A methodological evaluation of an integrative pedagogy for engineering education Moloney, C., Badenhorst, C., Rosales, J. IEEE FIE 2016 (Frontiers in Education), Erie, USA. (2016).

A novel method for segmenting moving objects in aerial imagery using matrix recovery and physical spring model Eltantawy, A., Shehata, M. 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2016), Cancun, Mexico. (2016).

A second-order monostatic high frequency radar power model for mixed-path propagation Chen, S., Gill, E. W., Huang, W. IEEE 17th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics, Montreal, Canada. (2016).

A semi-automated technique for internal jugular vein segmentation in ultrasound images using active contours Karami, E., Shehata, M., McGuire, P., Smith, A. 2016 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), Las Vegas, USA, 184-187. doi:10.1109/ BHI.2016.7455865. (2016).

A spectra-analysis-based algorithm for wind speed estimation from X-band nautical radar images Huang, W., and Wang, Y. IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Lett., 13(5), 701-705. (2016).

A systematic approach to jointly optimize rate and power consumption for OFDM systems Bedeer, E., Dobre, O., Ahmed, M. H., Baddour, K. IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing, 15(6), 1305-1317. (2016).

An adaptive method of wave spectrum estimation using X-band nautical radar Al-Habashneh, A., Moloney, C., Gill, E. W., Huang, W. Remote Sensing, 7(12), 16537-16554. doi:10.3390/rs71215851.

(2015).

Analysis of batched opportunistic data forwarding in wireless mesh networks Zhang, C., Li, C., and Chen, Y. Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom’16), Washington DC, USA. (2016).

Appearance-based visual-teach-and-repeat navigation technique for micro aerial vehicle Nguyen, T., Mann, G. K. I., Gosine, R. G., Vardy, A. Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 84(1), 1-24. (2016).

Assessing peak oxygen consumption in people with multiple sclerosis using total body recumbent stepper and weight supported treadmill Ploughman, M., Rancourt, S. N., Kelly, L. P., Grover, G., Wallack, E. M., Granter-Button, S. Philpott, D.T.G.; Button, D.; Power, K.; Czarnuch, S. Rehabilitation in MS Annual Conference, Milan, Italy, (2015).

CheriBSD: A research fork of FreeBSD Davis, B., Watson, R. N. M., Woodruff, J., Neumann, P. G., Moore, S. W., Anderson, J., Chisnall, D., Dave, N.H., Gudka, K., Laurie, B., Murdoch, S.J., Norton, R.M., Roe, M., Son, S.D., Vadera, M. AsiaBSDCon 2016, Tokyo, Japan. (2016).

Comparison of wave height measurement algorithms for ship-borne X-band nautical radar Liu, X., Huang, W., Gill, E. W. Can. J. Remote Sens., 42(4), 344-353. (2016).

Determination of sea surface wind speed for a fetch-limited sea using high frequency radar Wang, W., Gill, E. W., Huang, W. IEEE 17th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics, Montreal, Canada. (2016).

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Selected publications First-order bistatic high-frequency radar ocean surface cross section for an antenna on a floating platform Ma, Y., Gill, E. W., Huang, W. IET Radar Sonar Navigation, 10(6), 1136-1144. (2016).

Fostering reflective practice for sustainable professional development: Lead by design, a pedagogical initiative Moloney, C., Rosales, J., Badenhorst, C., Roberts, J. In W. Leal Filho, E. Nesbit (Eds.), New developments in engineering education for sustainable development (pp.

199-212) Berlin: Springer Verlag (World Sustainability Series).

(2016).

Holism-based features for target classification in focused and complex-valued synthetic aperture radar imagery El-Darymli, K., McGuire, P., Gill, E. W., Power, D., Moloney, C. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 52(2), 786-808. doi:10.1109/TAES.2015.140757. (2016).

From left are electrical engineering students Iryna Borshchova (PhD) and Bruno Artacho (M.Eng.) testing a vision-based auto-landing system for a small multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle landing on a moving platform.

Development and evaluation of a hand tracker using depth images captured from an overhead perspective Czarnuch, S., Mihailidis, A. Disability & Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 11, 150-157.

(2016).

Energy efficient architecture designs of an underwater acoustic sensor network for ocean current monitoring Attarsharghi, S., Masek, V. The Journal of Ocean Technology, 11(3), 68-88. (2016).

Error burst analysis of a statistical self-synchronizing mode of block ciphers Heys, H. M. Security and Communication Networks, 9(16), 3340-3352.

(2016).

Fast protection-domain crossing in the CHERI capabilitysystem architecture Watson, R. N. M., Norton, R. M., Woodruff, J., Moore, S. W., Neumann, P. G., Anderson, J., Chisnall, D., Davis, B., Laurie, B., Roe, M., Dave, N.H., Gudka, K., Joannou, A., Markettos, A.T., Maste, E., Murdoch, S.J., Rothwell, C., Son, S.D., Vadera, M. IEEE Micro, 36(5), 38-49. doi:10.1109/MM.2016.84. (2016).

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Infrared image analysis for estimation of ice load on structures Fazelpour, A., Dehghani, S., Masek, V., Muzychka, Y. S. Offshore Technology Conference '16, Houston, USA. (2016).

Introduction to static power analysis of cryptographic devices Xu, J., Heys, H. M Newfoundland Electrical and Computer Engineering Conference (NECEC 2015), St. John’s, Canada. (2015).

Lithography-aware analog layout retargeting Dong, X., Zhang, L. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 35(2), 232-245. doi:10.1109/ TCAD.2015.2459041. (2016).

Load model for medium voltage cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter drive systems Liang, X., and He, J. IEEE Power and Energy Technology Systems Journal, 3(1), 13-23. (2016).

Modeling and analysis on M-RATs cooperation for D2D communications Liu, C., He, C., Meng, W., Li, C. Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom’16), Washington DC, USA. (2016).

Modeling and V/F control of a hysteresis interior permanent-magnet motor Rabbi, S. F., Halloran, M. P., LeDrew, T., Matchem, A., Rahman, M. A. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 52(2), 1891-1901. doi:10.1109/TIA.2015.2505666. (2016).

Monitoring of down-hole parameters for early kick detection Nayeem, A. A., Venkatesan, R., Khan, F. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 40, 43-54. doi:10.1016/j.jlp.2015.11.025. (2016).

Novel compressed sensing-based channel estimation algorithm and near-optimal pilot placement scheme Zhang, Y., Venkatesan, R., Dobre, O. A., Li, C. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 15(4), 25902603. doi:10.1109/TWC.2015.2505315. (2016).

Novel fold-based Kolmogorov-Smirnov modulation classifier Wang, F., Dobre, O. A., Chan, C., Zhang, J. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 23, 1003-1007. (2016).

Opportunistic energy-aware amplify-and-forward cooperative systems with imperfect CSI Amin, O., Bedeer, E., Ahmed, M. H., Dobre, O., Alouini, M. IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology, 65(7), 4875-4886.

(2016).

Phase-based digital protection for arc flash faults Saleh, S. A., Aljankawey, A. S., Errouissi, R., Rahman, M. A. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 52(3), 2110-2121. doi:10.1109/TIA.2016.2515991. (2016).

Portable wind energy harvesters for low-power applications: A survey Nabavi, S., Zhang, L. Sensors, 16(7), 1-31. (2016).

Predicting the role of assistive technologies in the lives of people with dementia using objective care recipient factors Czarnuch, S., Ricciardelli, R., Mihailidis, A. BMC Geriatrics, 16, 1-11. (2016).

Reliability in FPGA circuits Pal, P., House, A. W. H. Proceedings of the Newfoundland Electrical and Computer Engineering Conference (NECEC 2015), St. John’s, Canada.

(2015).

From left are M. Eng. students Rifat Biswas and Bret Kenny preparing to record neural signals via a 64-channel electroencephalography (EEG) system.

Robust faster-than-nyquist PDM-mQAM systems with Tomlinson–Harashima precoding Chang, D., Omomukuyo, O., Lin, X., Zhang, S., Dobre, O. A., Venkatesan, R. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 28(19), 2106-2109. doi:10.1109/LPT.2016.2573740. (2016).

Smartphone positioning in sparse wi-fi environments Wagar, W., Chen, Y., Vardy, A. Computer Communications, 73, 108-117. (2016).

Specific emitter identification via Hilbert-Huang transform in single-hop and relaying scenarios Zhang, J., Wang, F., Dobre, O. A., Zhong, Z. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 11, 1192-1205. (2016).

Surface current measurements using X-band marine radar with vertical polarization Huang, W., Carrasco, R., Shen, C., Gill, E. W., Horstmann, J. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 54(5), 2988-2997. (2016).

Tracking techniques for the PEMFC in portable applications Kumaraswamy, V. K., Quaicoe, J. E. 2016 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference (EPEC), Ottawa, Canada. doi:10.1109/EPEC.2016.7771720. (2016).

Trip curves and ride-through evaluation for power electronic devices in power system dynamic studies Liang, X., Hofman, J. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 52(2), 1290-1296.

(2016).

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Selected publications Wide-area fault detection method using PMU data Liang, X., Wallace, S., Zhao, X. US Patent Application (USSN 15/095,266). (2016).

Decentralized cooperative localization approach for autonomous multi-robot systems Wanasinghe, T. R., Mann, G. K. I., Gosine, R. G. Journal of Robotics, doi:10.1155/2016/2560573. (2016).

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

DEM simulation of enhancing drilling penetration using vibration and experimental validation Zhong, J., Yang, J., Butt, S. D. 2016 Summer Simulation Multi-Conference, Montreal, Canada.

(2016).

A physically intuitive yaw-plane bond graph model for vehicle active safety system design Rideout, D. G., Pooyafar, P. Proc. Int. Conf. on Bond Graph Modeling, Montreal, Canada. (2016).

A review of advances in thermal spreading resistance problems Razavi, M., Muzychka, Y. S., Kocabiyik, S. AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 30(4), 863-879 (2016).

A review of heat transfer and pressure drop in curved ducts and channels Ghobadi, M., and Muzychka, Y. S. Heat Transfer Engineering, 37(10), 815-839 (2016).

An optimization-based approach for relative localization and relative tracking control in multi-robotic systems Mehrez, M. W., Mann, G. K. I., Gosine, R. G. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 85(2), 385-408. (2016).

Analysis of advanced phase change materials for thermal engineering applications Duan, X., Parsazadeh, M., Saydam, V. (Poster), 26th Canadian Thermal Analysis Society Workshop and Exhibition, Toronto, Canada. (2016).

Analysis of stick-slip friction between tubular shaft and borehole wall in horizontal wells Sarker, M., Rideout, D. G., Butt, S. D. Proc. Int. Conf. on Bond Graph Modeling, Montreal, Canada.

(2016).

AUV-based plume tracking: A simulation study Jayasiri, A., Gosine, R. G., Mann, G. K. I., McGuire, P. Journal of Control Science and Engineering, doi:10.1155/2016/1764527. (2016).

Challenges and logistics in flipping a large classroom for junior-year mechanical vibrations Rideout, D. G. Proc. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, New Orleans, USA. (2016).

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Design and testing of a new water supply device Cui, C., Duan, X., Ren, W., Hu, Y. Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, 40(3), 1-10. (2016).

Development in hardware systems of active upper limb exoskeleton robots: A review Gopura, R. A. R. C., Bandara, D. S. V., Kiguchi, K., and Mann, G. K. I. Robotics & Autonomous Systems, 5(B), 203-220. (2016).

Experimental investigation of oscillation of loads in ice high‐pressure zones, part 1: Single indentor system O'Rourke, B. J., Jordaan, I. J., Taylor, R. S., Gürtner, A. Cold Reg. Sci. and Tech., 124, 25-39. (2016).

Ice‐related disruptions to ferry services in eastern Canada and consequence mitigation strategies Taylor, R. S. Proceedings of World Conference on Transport Research 2016, Shanghai, China. (2016).

Investigation on rattle of gears under random loading Wen, Y., Yang, J. Journal of Applied Nonlinear Dynamics, 5(2), 221-230. (2016).

Model predictive control of nonholonomic mobile robots without stabilizing constraints and costs Worthmann, K., Mehrez, M. W., Zanon, M., Mann, G. K. I., Gosine, R. G., Diehl, M. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 24(4), 1394-1406. doi:10.1109/TCST.2015.2488589. (2016).

Modeling of wind turbine performance with recursive parameter estimation Little, M., Pope, K. Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress 2016, Kelowna, Canada. (2016).

Numerical and statistical study on melting of nanoparticle enhanced phase change material in a shell-and-tube thermal energy storage system Parsazadeh, M., Duan, X. Applied Thermal Engineering, 111, 950-960. doi:10.1016/j. applthermaleng.2016.09.133. (2017).

Predicted ice accretion on horizontal surfaces of marine vessels and offshore structures in Arctic regions Dehghani-sanij, A. R., Muzychka, Y. S., Naterer, G. F. The ASME 2016 35th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE2016-54054, Busan, South Korea. (2016)

Performance predictions of an H-rotor vertical axis wind turbine Quinlan, R., Pope, K. Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress 2016, Kelowna, Canada. (2016)

Process integration of material flows of copper chlorides in the thermochemical Cu-Cl cycle Pope, K., Wang, Z. L., Naterer, G. F. Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 109, 273-281. (2016).

Phase change heat transfer and materials for thermal management in energy and power systems Duan, X. 2015 International Workshop on Heat Transfer Advances for Energy Conservation and Pollution Control, Taiwan. (2015).

Population predictions for the world’s largest cities in the 21st century Hoornweg, D., Pope, K. Environment and Urbanization, doi:10.1177/0956247816663557.

(2016).

Random fatigue analysis of drill-pipe threaded connection Zheng, J., Yang, J. International Journal of Materials and Structural Integrity, 10(1-3), 34-51. doi:10.1504/IJMSI.2016.079646. (2016).

Stick-slip analysis of a drill string subjected to deterministic excitation and stochastic excitation Qiu, H., Yang, J., Butt, S. D. Shock and Vibration, 2016 doi:10.1155/2016/9168747. (2016).

Strength tests on grounded rubble Bailey, E., Croasdale, K., Taylor, R. S. Proceedings of International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers 2016. Rhodes, Greece. (2016).

DEPARTMENT OF OCEAN AND NAVAL ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING A Parameterized Geometric Magnetic Field Calibration Method for Vehicles with Moving Masses with Applications to Underwater Gliders Claus, B., Bachmayer, R. Journal of Field Robotics, 34 (1), 209-223. (2017).

Analysis of variance to determine the effect of hull form parameters on resistance and seakeeping performance for PSV hulls Boyd, N., Molyneux, D. ASME International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Busan, South Korea. doi:10.1115/ OMAE2016-54542. (2016).

Jared Brazil, a process engineering co-op student works in the Hibernia Enhanced Oil Recovery Lab on a micromodel apparatus.

Characterization of full scale operational ice pressures and hull response on a large Arctic tanker Kim, H., Dolny, J., Quinton, B., Yu, H., Peng, H. Arctic Technology Conference, St. John's, Canada. doi:10.4043/27408-MS. (2016).

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Selected publications

Irina Borshchova, PhD candidate, during a data-gathering test for an automated landing of a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle.

Committee IV.2 – design methods Collette, M., Bronsart, R., Chen, Y., Georgiev, P., Giuglea, V., Ilnytskiy, I., Jeong, H.K., Lazakis, I., Moro, L., Ove Erikstad, S., Sekulski, Z., Sicchiero, M., Toyoda, M., Ventura, M., Zanic, V. Proceedings of the 19th International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress, Cascais, Portugal. 1 459-518. (2015).

Cone ice crushing tests and simulations according to various yield and fracture criterion Han, D., Lee, H., Choung, J., Kim, H., Daley, C. Proceedings of the International Conference on Ships and Offshore Structures, Hamburg, Germany. (2016).

Development of a probabilistic ice convergence model using data collected from satellite-tracked buoys during the 2015 and 2016 ice seasons offshore Labrador Rahman, M. S., Turnbull, I. D., Taylor, R., Veitch, B. Arctic Technology Conference, St. John's, Canada. (2016).

Effect of normal force and velocity on ice-ice friction Wu, Z., Colbourne, B. 23rd IAHR International Symposium on Ice, Ann Arbour, USA. (2016).

Encapsulated magnetically geared brushless drive Claus, B., Bachmayer, R., and MacNeil, L. Provisional Patent: 61/936,656. 2014-02-06. Applied for International protection. (2014)

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Evaluation of moving ice loads on an elastic plate Kim, H. W., Quinton, B. W. T. Marine Structures, 50, 127-142. (2016).

Failure analysis of container stacks by non-linear FE simulations under non-linear inertial loads Moro, L., Bulian, G., Brocco, E., Bresciani, F., Biot, M., Francescutto, A. In C. Guedes Soares, R. Dejhalla, D. Pavletic (Eds.), Towards green marine technology and transport (pp. 745-755) CRC Press - Taylor and Francis Group. (2015).

Guidelines for the nonlinear finite element analysis of moving loads on ships and offshore structures Quinton, B., Daley, C., Gagnon, R., Colbourne, B. Proceedings of the International Conference on Ships and Offshore Structures, Hamburg, Germany. (2016).

Hydrodynamic analysis and optimization of a hinged type wave energy converter Li, Y., Peng, H., Qiu, W., Lundrigan, B., Gardiner, T. Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, Busan, South Korea. (2016).

IRobot self-localization using EKF Zhao, S., Gu, J., Ou, Y., Zhang, W., Pu, J., Peng, H. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA), Ningbo, China 801-806. doi:10.1109/ ICInfA.2016.7831929. (2016).

MERLIN - A decade of large AUV experience at Memorial University of Newfoundland Lewis, R., Bose, N., Lewis, S., King, P., Walker, D., Devillers, R., Ridgley, N., Husain, T., Munroe, J., Vardy, A. 2016 IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV), 222-229. doi:10.1109/AUV.2016.7778675. (2016).

Modeling oil weathering and transport in sea ice Afenyo, M., Khan, F., Veitch, B., Yang, M. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 107(1), 206-215. (2016).

Moving ice loads on an elastic plate Kim, H. W., Quinton, B. W. T. 7th International Conference on Collision and Grounding of Ships and Offshore Structures (ICCGS 2016), Ulsan, Korea. (2016).

Newfoundland and Labrador, offshore, marine and ocean technology Colbourne, B. Ocean Technology in New England and Atlantic Canada: Promoting a Network of Collaboration, University of Maine, USA. (2016).

Numerical investigation of FRP laminates under ice loading Quinton, B., Taylor, R., Kennedy, A., Veitch, B., Simões Ré, A. Arctic Technology Conference, St. John's, Canada. (2016).

Performance aspects of podded propulsor in dynamic operating conditions Islam, M. F., Akinturk, A., Veitch, B. International Shipbuilding Progress, 62(3-4), 139-160. (2016).

Scheduling of offshore support vessels on the Grand Banks Molyneux, D., Boyd, N. 35th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Busan, South Korea. doi:10.1115/ OMAE2016-54544. (2016).

Solving 2-D water entry problems with a CIP method and a parallel computing algorithm Wen, P., Qiu, W. J. Marine Systems and Ocean Technology, 11(1), 1-9. (2016).

The influence of external boundary conditions on ice loads in ice-structure interactions Sopper, R., Daley, C., Colbourne, B., Bruneau, S. 35th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, Busan, South Korea. doi:10.1115/OMAE201654277. (2016).

Autonomous Surface Vessel SeaDragon is launched from the Marine Institute’s MV Inquisitor in preparation for data collection activities around a grounded iceberg.

Underwater glider terrain relative navigation for use in surface denied regions Claus, B., Bachmayer, R. 2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting – Poster Presentation, New Orleans, USA. (2016) Investigation of the overload response of flatbars to ice loads Daley, C., Daley, K., Dolny, J., Quinton, B. Proceedings of the International Conference on Ships and Offshore Structures, Hamburg, Germany. (2016).

DEPARTMENT OF PROCESS ENGINEERING A cutting edge solution to monitor formation damage due to scale deposition: Application to oil recovery Ahmadi, M. A., Mohammadzadeh, O., Zendehboudi, S. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, doi:10.1002/ cjce.22776. (2017).

A hybrid input variable selection method for building soft sensor from correlated process variables Rahman, M. M., Imtiaz, S. A., Hawboldt, K. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 157, 67-77. doi:10.1016/j.chemolab.2016.06.015. (2016).

A multi-constrained maintenance scheduling optimization model for a hydrocarbon processing facility Ahmed, Q., Moghaddam, K. S., Raza, S. A., Khan, F. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, 229(2) 151-168. (2015).

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Selected publications Advanced petroleum reservoir simulation: Towards developing reservoir emulators Islam, M. R., Hossain, M. E., Mousavizadeghan, S. H., Mustafiz, S., Abou-kassem, J. H. Hoboken, New Jersey; Salem, Massachusetts: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; Scrivener Publishing LLC, 2nd ed. (2016).

Analytical gas-oil relative permeability interpretation method for immiscible flooding experiments under constant differential pressure conditions Nekouie, H., Cao, J., James, L. A., Johansen, T. E. Symposium of the Society of Core Analysts, Snow Mass, USA. (2016).

Corrosion behavior of Cr-Mo alloy steel in direct contact with elemental sulfur Khaksar, L., Shirokoff, J. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Smart Materials Research (ICSMR), Istanbul, Turkey. (2016).

DEM simulation of enhancing drilling penetration using vibration and experimental validation Zhong, J., Yang, J., Butt, S. D. Society for Computer Simulation International, Montreal, Canada. (2016).

Dynamic quantitative operational risk assessment of chemical processes Wang, H., Khan, F., Ahmed, S., Imtiaz, S. Chemical Engineering Science, 142, 62-78. doi:10.1016/j. ces.2015.11.034. (2016).

Electrochemical and microstructural analysis of FeS films from acidic chemical bath at varying temperatures, pH, and immersion time Khaksar, L., Whelan, G., Shirokoff, J. International Journal of Corrosion, doi:10.1155/2016/1025261.

(2016).

Evolving simple-to-use method to determine water–oil relative permeability in petroleum reservoirs Ahmadi, M. A., Zendehboudi, S., Dusseault, M. B., and Chatzis, I. Petroleum, 2(1), 67-78. doi:10.1016/j.petlm.2015.07.008. (2016).

Fundamentals of drilling engineering: MCQs and workout examples for beginners and engineers Hossain, M. E. Hoboken, New Jersey; Salem, Massachusetts: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; Scrivener Publishing LLC. (2016).

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Improvement of permeability models using large mercury injection capillary pressure dataset for middle east carbonate reservoirs Nooruddin, H. A., Hossain, M. E., Al-Yousef, H., Okasa, T. Journal of Porous Media, 19(5), 1-18. (2016).

Improving gas absorption efficiency using a novel dual membrane contactor Cai, J. J., Hawboldt, K., Abdi, M. A. Journal of Membrane Science, 510, 249-258. doi:10.1016/j. memsci.2016.03.020. (2016).

Kinetic modeling and dynamic analysis of simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of cellulose to bioethanol Shadbahr, J., Khan, F., Zhang, Y. Energy Conversion and Management, doi:10.1016/j. enconman.2016.08.025. (2016).

Laboratory investigation on directional drilling performance in isotropic and anisotropic rocks Abugharara, A. N., Alwaar, M. A., Hurich, A. C., Butt, S. D. Proceedings 50th US Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium – Paper presentation, Houston, USA. (2016).

Mirror symmetry rule for the interaction between flotation reagents and mineral interfaces Zhang, Y. Nonferrous Metals (Mineral Processing Section), 4, 90-96. (2016).

Modeling X-ray line shapes from asphaltenes Alqahtani, H., Lewis, J. C., Shirokoff, J. 23th International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes, American Institute of Physics, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. Torun, Poland.

(2016).

Modelling and optimization of a catalytic dewaxing unit using single event kinetics for Pt/H-ZSM5 catalysts Turco Neto, E., Imtiaz, S. A., Ahmed, S. 66th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Quebec City, Canada. (2016).

Modelling near-well flow performance for horizontal wells in anisotropic media Cao, J., James, L. A., Johansen, T. E. 15th European Conference on the Mathematics of Oil Recovery (ECMOR XV), Amsterdam, Netherlands. (2016).

Multivariate probabilistic safety analysis of process facilities using the copula bayesian network model Hashemi, S. J., Khan, F., Ahmed, S. Computers & Chemical Engineering, 93, 128-142. doi:10.1016/j. compchemeng.2016.06.011. (2016).

Civil engineering graduate student Yudong Ye conducts a jar test in the Environmental Engineering Lab to determine the dosage of chemicals required to remove fine solids from water by settling.

Numerical investigation of memory-based diffusivity equation: The integro-differential equation Hossain, M. E. Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering, 41(7), 2715-2729.

(2016).

Real-time monitoring and management of offshore process system integrity Khan, F., Thodi, P., Imtiaz, S. A., Abbassi, R. Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, 14, 61-71. doi:10.1016/j.coche.2016.08.015. (2016).

Offshore produced water management: A review of current practice and challenges in harsh/Arctic environments Zheng, J., Chen, B., Thanyamanta, W., Hawboldt, K., Zhang, B. Y., Liu, B. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 104(1–2), 7-19. doi:10.1016/j. marpolbul.2016.01.004. (2016).

Removal of iron from synthetic copper leach solution using a hydroxy-oxime chelating resin Zhang, Y., Liu, Q., Li, L. Hydrometallurgy, 164, 154-158. doi:10.1016/j. hydromet.2016.06.004. (2016).

On the Buckley-Leverett equation with constant-pressure boundary conditions Johansen, T. E., James, L. A., Liu, X. Society of Petroleum Engineers, doi:10.2118/183639-PA. (2016).

Optimization of miscible CO2 EOR and storage using heuristic methods combined with capacitance/resistance and gentil fractional flow models Eshraghi, S. E., Rasaei, M. R., Zendehboudi, S. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 32, 304-318. doi:10.1016/j.jngse.2016.04.012. (2016).

RANS based computational fluid dynamics simulation of fully developed turbulent Newtonian flow in concentric annuli Xiong, X., Aziz Rahman, M., Zhang, Y. Journal of Fluids Engineering, 138(9), 091202-091202-9. doi:10.1115/1.4033314. (2016).

Safety and risk analysis of managed pressure drilling operation using Bayesian network Abimbola, M., Khan, F., Khakzad, N., Butt, S. D. Safety Science, 76, 133-144. (2015).

Solution of Riemann problems for hyperbolic systems of conservation laws modeling two-phase flow in general stream tube geometries Johansen, T. E., Liu, X. Journal of Engineering Mathematics. doi:10.1007/s10665-0169887-1. (2017).

The use of grass as an environment-friendly additive in water-based drilling fluids Hossain, M. E., Wajheeuddin, M. Petroleum Science, 13(2), 292-303. (2016).

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The Engineering Research Office, with Drs. Adedoyin Odukoya and Jennifer Stevens, and Vanessa Coish, is gratefully acknowledged for its development of this report.

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