TISED Graduate Fellowships (MEDA

The McGill Engineering Doctoral Awards (MEDA) program aims to recruit the best and brightest new doctoral students from around the world. Selection for this award is based on the excellence of a student’s academic and research record, including publications, presentations and his or her potential to make a major impact on the quality of research in the Faculty of Engineering at McGill University and in the field of engineering. MEDA are offered by the Faculty of Engineering and are cost shared with the student’s Department/School or supervisor.

Ciro Robert Martoni Fellowship in Sustainable Engineering Anthony Ubah, Electrical and Computer Engineering. Research area: Nanoelectronic Devices and Materials.

Philip Cimento, Chemical Engineering. Research area: Plasma Reactors.

Khalil Hashem, Civil Engineering. Research area: Environmental.

Andrea Gabor/Urban Strategies TISED Fellowship in Sustainable Urban Planning & Design Samuel Kohn, School of Urban Planning. Research topic: Deconstructing Business Sentiment Towards Pedestrianisation.

Connor Cordingley, School of Urban Planning.

Hanna Demyk, School of Urban Planning. Research topic: Case study research on the implementation of nature based solutions for flood risk reduction in Asia.

Trent Bonsall, School of Urban Planning. Research topic Use of simple technologies in monitoring and evaluation of food security programs in rapidly urbanizing Global South cities.

Andrew Faber, School of Urban Planning. Research topic To what extent will Montreal’s new inclusionary zoning bylaw create greater housing accessibility?

Assim Sayed Mohammed, School of Urban Planning.

Mike Zahn Fellowship Kavya Rajendran, Bioengineering. Khashayar Feizbakhshian Kohan, Civil Engineering. Research area: Hydraulics. Khalil Hashem, Civil Engineering. Research area: Environmental.

Redwood Graduate TISED Fellowship Mengying Lei, Civil Engineering. Research area: Transportation. Yu Wang, Civil Engineering. Research area: Environmental.

Uma and Mahesh Sharma Graduate TISED Fellowship Kartik Mangalvedhe, Mechanical Engineering. Research area: Combustion and Energy Systems. Pavan Velivela, Mechanical Engineering. Research area: Design and Manufacturing.

John M. Bishop & Family Fellowship for Sustainability in Engineering & Design (TISED) Kang Hoon Choi, Chemical Engineering. Research area: Corrosion Yu Wang, Civil Engineering. Research area: Environmental.

Kauser Family Graduate TISED Fellowship Andrew Carkner, Chemical Engineering. Research area: CO Methanation Reactor. Khalil Hashem, 2Civil Engineering. Research area: Environmental.

ACDEG Fellowship in Sustainable Engineering Khashayar Feizbakhshian, Civil Engineering. Research area: Hydraulics. Anirban Kundu, Civil Engineering. Research area Environmental Sofi Buzukashvili, Mining & Materials Engineering. Shahab Mahmoudi Sadaghiani, Electrical and Computer Engineering. Research area: Integrated Circuits and Systems.

TISED Awards for Summer Undergraduate Research (TASUR)

Suspension of TISED’s SiR and RWP initiatives in the fiscal year 2021, made funding available to TISED members in the form of undergraduate research traineeship awards. The TASUR awards were made available to TISED members whose prospective trainees had applied for a SURE award, but were unsucessful in securing the funding from the Faculty due to high demand. The award criteria stipulated that the students’ proposed summer research project be related to sustainability in engineering, and design and be consistent with TISED’s missions and goals.

TASUR Recipients Hermine, Demael, Architecture, Construction Métis: Development of a collective eco-construction cluster including a prefabrication and eco-construction facility in the Gaspé.

Frederic Verrier-Paquette, Architecture, ReCONstruct: Deep Energy Retrofit Program Development and Pilot Project

Aki Fujinawa, Mechanical Engineering, Computational modeling of flame propagation in a suspension of polydispersed iron particles.

Laurence Peinturier, Mechanical Engineering, Design of a lab-scaled concrete-based high temperature molten salt solar thermal receiver and storage system.

Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering (SURE) Awards

The SURE awards provide an opportunity for undergraduate students to get exposure to research in their discipline through paid summer research traineeships. Typically, students work closely with a graduate student.

Summer 2020 TISED SURE Award Recipients Chantel Yung, Civil Engineering. “Methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas wells”. Harry Marksfield SURE Award.

Coralie Jabra Khabbaz 2, Chemical Engineering, “Catalyst development for CO and CH activation to value added chemicals.”. 4 William Harker SURE Award in Sustainability in Engineering & Design. Allan & Linda Stephens SURE Award in Sustainability Engineering.

David Lutes, Civil Engineering, “Investigating prevention strategies to protect our water resources and public health”. John M. Bishop & Family SURE Awards for Sustainability in Engineering and Design. William Harker SURE Award in Sustainability in Engineering & Design. Harry Marksfield SURE Award.

Ethan Everly, Mechanical Engineering. “Feasibility study of Canadian solar energy resources”, Jerry and Norma Farnell SURE Award

Hanyu Zhang, Civil Engineering. “Bioremediation strategies for degradation of petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated soils in cold regions”, Jerry and Norma Farnell SURE Award Kalyssa Volk, Chemical Engineering, “Investigating prevention strategies to protect our water resources and public health“, Brian Hirst SURE Award in Sustainable Engineering.

Kerui Lai, Material Engineering, “Lab scale resin transfer moulding system development.” Jerry and Norma Farnell SURE Award. Furino-Remillard SURE Award in Sustainable Engineering. Allan & Linda Stephens SURE Award in Sustainability Engineering.

Nicholas Pinkerton, Mechanical Engineering, “Feasibility study of hydrogen fuel for energy production” , Mr. & Mrs. Lee Hee Chong and Mr. & Mrs. David Su Toye SURE Award (Sustainability).

Noah LeFrancois, (BSc) Major Physics, Minor Mathematics, “Heat transfer in molten salts for solar thermal energy technologies“, John M. Bishop & Family SURE Awards for Sustainability in Engineering and Design.

Richie Fong, Materials Engineering, “Discovery of sustainable and high-energy battery materials”, Claudia Macedo Memorial SURE Award in Sustainable Engineering.

Sneha Singh, Civil Engineering, “Importance of wastewater composition on the dynamics of immigration in activated sludge wastewater treatment systems.”, Furino-Remillard SURE Award in Sustainable Engineering.

Titiuan Delorme, Electrical Engineering, “Modelling energy storage assets in long-term capacity planning in deeply decarbonized electricity systems”, Jerry and Norma Farnell SURE Award.

Veronika Mamaievska, Chemical Engineering,“Investigating prevention strategies to protect our water resources and public health”, Harry Marksfield SURE Award. Weijia Huang, Computer Engineering, “Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Broadband Wireless Access Communications”, Allan & Linda Stephens SURE Award in Sustainability Engineering.

Zheyu Liu, Software Engineering, “Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Broadband Wireless Access Communications”, Prof. David Selby SURE Awd Sustainable Engineering. Mr. & Mrs. Lee Hee Chong and Mr. & Mrs. David Su Toye SURE Award (Sustainability).

In addition to direct student financial support, TISED provides education enhancement activities made possible in part by generous donors through Student Education Enhancement Endowment Funds.

Other Activities

“Plant your SEAD – TISED’s SEAD Courses Information Session”, hosted in partnership with SEAM, September 2020.

“Summer Sustainability Research: Information Session”, hosted in partnership with SEAM, January 2021.