Student Support

Made possible by the generous donation from varies benefactors as well as the Trottier Family Foundation and with support from the Faculty of Engineering, TISED provides student funding opportunities in the form of Faculty Scholar Awards, Graduate Fellowships (MEDA), Undergraduate Research Internships (SURE) and other education enhancement initiatives.

Faculty Scholar Awards

The Faculty Scholar Awards support research in sustainability in part by funding the Scholar’s doctoral students.

Panda Faculty Scholar Award in Sustainability in Engineering and Design

On January 1, 2021, Prof. Jefferey Bergthorson was reappointed for a three-year term as the Panda Faculty Scholar, and TISED Associate Director. Prof. Bergthorson’s research focuses on improving our fundamental understanding of the combustion and emissions properties of a variety of alternative zerocarbon and low-carbon fuels, including hydrogen, ammonia, and using metals as carbon-free recyclable fuels.

Faculty Scholar: Prof. Jefferey Bergthorson, Mechanical Engineering

Graduate Student: Kartik Mangelvedhe, PhD Candidate

Research Area: fundamentals of nitrogen oxide pollutant formation in metal flames; a key question on the emissions that might arise from metal power systems

Publications supported by Award:

1. J Palecka, JS Park, S Goroshin, and JM Bergthorson. Aluminum-propane-air hybrid flames in a Hele-Shaw cell. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute (available online). url: https://doi. org/10.1016/j.proci.2020.09.01

2. J Palecka, S Goroshin, AJ Higgins, Y Shoshin, P de Goey, JR Angilella, H Oltmann, A Stein, B

Schmitz, A Verga, S Vincent-Bonnieu, W Sillekens, and JM Bergthorson. Percolating Reaction-

Diffusion Waves (PERWAVES) | Sounding rocket combustion experiments. Acta Astronautica 177 (2020), 639-651.

3. F Blais, P Julien, S Goroshin, and JM Bergthorson. Effects of initial reactant temperature on flame speeds in aluminum dust suspensions. Combustion Science & Technology (available online). url: https://doi.org/10.1080/00102202.2020.1820496

4. KA Trowell, S Goroshin, DL Frost, and JM Bergthorson. Aluminum and its role as a recyclable, sustainable carrier of renewable energy. Applied Energy 275 (2020), 115112:1-8.

5. KA Trowell, S Goroshin, DL Frost, and JM Bergthorson. The use of supercritical water for the catalyst-free oxidation of coarse aluminum for hydrogen production. Sustainable Energy &

Fuels 4 (2020), 5628-5635.

John M. Bishop & Family Faculty Scholar Award in Sustainable Engineering & Design Faculty Scholar: Prof. Francois Buffard, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Graduate Student: Imen Jendoubi, PhD Candidate

Research Area: The research explores various methodological approaches to perform the control of local renewable energy generation in conjunction with local flexible electricity demand and energy storage. The inherent challenge with such problems is how the energy storage and flexible demand can be used dynamically to maximize the low-carbon component of the energy consumed. The research succeeded in designing several such approaches, which all have several benefits. First, they can operate autonomously, and second, they can adapt readily to changes in system configurations (e.g., the addition of new solar panels), as they do not rely on an explicit model of the energy system.

Publications supported by Award: none to date; The results of the initial work will be submitted for publication in the latter half of 2021.

Carol McLeod Faculty Award in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency In February, Mr. David P.J. McLeod, BEng 1955 made a generous donation in memory of his wife, Carol McLeod, to establish the Carol McLeod Faculty Award in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency to reward outstanding Faculty members in the Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design.

The award will be given annually to support the outstanding teaching and or research innovation efforts of dedicated Faculty members who are affiliated with TISED and who contribute to the areas of renewable energy and energy efficiency. It is expected that the first recipient of the award will be selected in the 2021- 2022 academic year. A call for applications is expected in Fall 2021.

TISED Doctoral Recruitment Awards (DAR)

The ongoing pandemic has led to a temporary suspension of some TISED research initiatives, specifically the Scholar-in-Residence (SiR) Program and the Research Workshop Program (RWP), due to travel and in-person gathering restrictions imposed by public health officials. In turn, this suspension has resulted in unspent funds from Fiscal Year 2021. In Winter 2021 TISED decided to direct these funds towards supporting prospective doctoral candidates and introduce the one-time only Doctoral Recruitment Awards (DRA) for prospective PhD students of TISED members to help attract top-caliber doctoral candidates into the Faculty of Engineering for the Fall 2021 semester, looking to work on sustainability related research projects.

Remy Fortin, Architecture, Research area: Materials and design used in buildings for reduction of greenhouse gases

Sicong Jinang, Civil Engineering, Research area: Development of new control algorithms to improve the efficiency and reliability of urban bus systems

Aosong Li, Materials Engineering, Research area: Metallic coatings to increase corrosion protection of components in the aerospace in-dustry

Tongyue Liang, Materials Engineering, Research area: Enhancing the lifetime and durability of surfaces undergoing regolith wear in planetary exploration environments

Bobby Miglani, Materials Engineering, Research area: design of sustainable electrochemical technologies

Siyuan Mu, Civil Engineering, Research area: Unraveling nanomaterial-bacteria interactions towards development of efficient strate-gies for degradation of toxic halogenated organic contaminants in natural and engi-neered systems

Zahra Rahamani, Civil Engineering, Research area: Technologies for treatment of contaminated water

Pouria Rahmati, Civil Engineering, Research area: Predictions of oxygen exchange downstream of turbines, and the development of a robust retrofit technology

Racchana Ramamurthy, Civil Engineering, Research area: Biodegradable plastics in urban air and