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STUDENT SUPPORT
Made possible by the generous donation from various 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
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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
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
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.
During the past year, the Panda Faculty Scholarship directly supported the PhD research of Kartik Mangelvedhe, whose work tackles a key question on the emissions that might arise from metal power systems.
To date, the research group has filed six invention disclosures on metal fuels, with two of the technologies currently filed as international PCT applications. These patents are related to the concept of using metals as recyclable fuels, one which relates to the concept of the direct combustion of metal fuels for heat and power and the second related to the reaction of metals with water to produce hydrogen on demand as a fuel for fuel cells or engines. Strong industrial collaborations will facilitate the commercialization of these radical concepts for clean and lowcarbon, and even zero-carbon, power.
The support of the Panda Faculty Scholar Award has helped to launched new initiatives; over the past year, Prof. Bergthorson helped to create the new Centre for Innovation in the Storage & Conversion of Energy which has received a grant of $2M from TD Bank. This Centre will focus on advanced batteries and technologies for the production and consumption of sustainable circular fuels, including hydrogen, ammonia, and metal fuels.
Publications supported by Award (directly and indirectly):
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.2020.09.017.
2. S Goroshin, J Palecka, and JM Bergthorson. Some fundamental aspects of laminar flames in nonvolatile solid fuel suspensions. Progress in Energy & Combustion Science (available online).
3. X Mi, A Fujinawa\, and JM Bergthorson. A quantitative analysis of the ignition characteristics of fine iron particles. Combustion & Flame (available online). url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15461.
4. 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.
5. 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 ReactionDiffusion Waves (PERWAVES) | Sounding rocket combustion experiments. Acta Astronautica 177 (2020), 639-651.
Invited presentations related to research supported by the Panda Scholarship
JM Bergthorson. Metal fuels for zero-carbon heat & power. Max-Planck-Institut fur Eisenforschung seminar (online). Dusseldorf, Germany, 2021.
JM Bergthorson. Physics of iron combustion. 1st Clean Circles Mini-Symposium, TU Darmstadt(online). Darmstadt, Germany, 2021.
JM Bergthorson. Metal fuels and metal ames in the discrete combustion regime. Hiroshima University Seminar (online). Hiroshima, Japan, 2021.
JM Bergthorson. Metal-water reactors for on-demand green hydrogen. Clean hydrogen: virtual matchmaking between Canada, Switzerland and Wallonia (online). Montreal, Canada, 2021.
JM Bergthorson. Sustainable Fuels for Aviation. CRIAQ Masterclass, CRIAQ RDV Forum. Montreal, Canada (Virtual), 2021.
Media coverage of research supported by the Panda Scholarship
J Durrani. Burning metal to make clean energy. Chemistry World article (Royal Society of Chemistry). 2021. url: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/burning-metal-to-makecleanenergy/4014723.article
European Space Agency. Metal Fuels. We research. You benefit. Documentary. 2021. url: https:// www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2021/01/Metal_Fuels._We_research._You_benefit.
John M. Bishop & Family Faculty Scholar Award in Sustainable Engineering & Design
Faculty Scholar: Prof. Francois Bouffard, Electrical Engineering
Graduate Student: Imen Jendoubi, PhD Candidate
Research Area: autonomous management of uncertainties stemming from renewable generation and electricity demand with energy storage systems
On May 1, 2021 Prof. Francois Buffard was reappointed for a three-year term as the John M. Bishop & Family Faculty Scholar. Prof. Bouffard’s research program aims to develop practical operation and planning methods for power and energy systems with increasingly small carbon footprints.
During the past year, the M. Bishop & Family Faculty Scholarship directly supported the PhD research of Imen Jendoubi, whose work tackles various methodological approaches to perform the control of local renewable energy generation in conjunction with local flexible electricity demand and energy storage.
Publications supported by Award:
1. Jendoubi, I. & Bouffard, F. (2021). Multi-agent hierarchical reinforcement learning for energy management. IEEE Trans. Smart Grid. Submitted Aug. 2021.
2. Jendoubi, I. & Bouffard, F. (2021). A data-driven power dispatch control strategy based on multi-agent deep reinforcement learning. IEEE Trans. Smart Grid. To be submitted Sept. 2021.
Carol McLeod Faculty Award in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
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. A call for applications is expected in summer 2022 with the first recipient of the award selected in the 2022- 2023 academic year.
TISED Doctoral Recruitment Awards (DAR)
The 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). 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 onetime only Doctoral Recruitment Awards (DRA). These awards were available for prospective PhD students of TISED members who hope to attract top-caliber doctoral candidates into the Faculty of Engineering for the Fall 2021 and Winter 2022 semesters; the prospective candidates’ research must be related to sustainability issues in engineering and/or design.
Fall 2021 DAR Recipients
Remy Fortin, Architecture, Research area: Materials and design used in buildings for reduction of greenhouse gases
Aosong Li, Materials Engineering, Research area: Metallic coatings to increase corrosion protection of components in the aerospace industry
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 strategies for degradation of toxic halogenated organic contaminants in natural and engineered systems
Zahra Rahamani, Civil Engineering, Research area: Technologies for treatment of contaminated water
Racchana Ramamurthy, Civil Engineering, Research area: Biodegradable plastics in urban air and aquatic systems
Waqas Raza, Urban Planning, Research area: Disaster risk reduction
Daniel Ricardo Rondinel, Architecture, Research area: Sustainable Infrastructure & Urban Development
Breno Sequeira, Chemical Engineering, Research area: Fabrication of non-stick plastic containers: A key to creating longer lasting and easily recyclable containers
Steven Walker, Chemical Engineering, Research area: Sustainable industrial process with nanomaterials and non-thermal plasma catalyst.
Zhengshu Yan, Mechanical Engineering, Research area: Air turbine blades as a waste, material recycling
Winter 2022 DAR Recipients
Pouria Rahmati, Civil Engineering, Research area: Predictions of oxygen exchange downstream of turbines, and the development of a robust retrofit technology
Sicong Jinang, Civil Engineering, Research area: Development of new control algorithms to improve the efficiency and reliability of urban bus systems
Farzaneh Abedini, Civil Engineering, Research area: Regional seismic risk assessment of underground tunnel infrastructure
Saadia Wasim, Civil Engineering, Research area: R Engineering Light for the Control of Viral Pathogens in the Natural and Built Environment aquatic systems
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
Zhenning Wang, Civil Engineering. Research area: Transportation
Andrea Gabor/Urban Strategies TISED Fellowship in Sustainable Urban Planning & Design
Sophie Coutu De Goede, School of Urban Planning.
Mael Aimeric Bureau-Blouin, School of Urban Planning.
Cole Gleason, School of Urban Planning.
Causta Habedus-Sorensen, School of Urban Planning.
Fiona Sterritt, School of Urban Planning.
Carolyn Birkenfeld, School of Urban Planning.
Arzen Chan, School of Urban Planning.
Mike Zahn Fellowship
Waqas Ahmed Raza, School of Urban Planning. Research area: Disaster resilience.
Redwood Graduate TISED Fellowship
Siyuan Mu, Civil Engineering. Research area: Environmental engineering
Yiding Wang, Civil Engineering. Research area: Environmental engineering
Uma and Mahesh Sharma Graduate TISED Fellowship
Zhengshu Yan, Mechanical Engineering. Research area: Materials and Structures
John M. Bishop & Family Fellowship for Sustainability in Engineering & Design (TISED)
Kang Hoon Jeffrey Choi, Mechanical Engineering. Reseach area: Corrosion.
Kauser Family Graduate TISED Fellowship
Kameswara Aditya Bharadwaj Nemana, Mechanical Engineering. Research area: Combustion and Energy Systems/Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics
ACDEG Fellowship in Sustainable Engineering
Daniel Rondinel, School of Architecture. Research area: Urban metabolism from a thermodynamic perspective
Siyuan Mu, Civil Engineering. Research area: Environmental.
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.
