Dr. Isabelle Catelas receives an Early Researcher Award from the Government of Ontario (MRI)
29 Apr 2011
Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering in Orthopedics, Dr. Isabelle Catelas will receive $100,000 from MRI towards her research on new ways of increasing the lifespan of joint replacements. Dr. Catelas established a new orthopaedic bioengineering laboratory on the Health Sciences campus of the University of Ottawa and is now leading a team of researchers investigating new therapeutic engineering approaches to prolong implant longevity.
Behnoosh Hariri receives a MITACS Postdoctoral Fellowship
29 Apr 2011
Dr. Hariri has won a $55,000 MITACS’s Elevate Strategic Fellowship for her postdoctoral research in Video-Based Driver Drowsiness Monitoring. Driver drowsiness is the cause of 22 to 24 percent of car crashes, and results in a four- to six-times higher crash risk compared to driving while alert. The aim of Dr. Hariri’s research is to reduce the number of accidents due to driver fatigue and increase transportation safety by using video-based body and face gesture monitoring as signs of driver fatigue, including yawning, eye tiredness and eye movement, which indicate that the driver is no longer in a proper driving condition.
PhD student, Wangzhe Li is selected to receive an MTT-S Graduate fellowship
28 Apr 2011
The IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) will present a 2011 Graduate fellowship to Wangzhe Li who is a PhD student in the Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory, School of Information Technology and Engineering, under the supervision of Prof. Jianping Yao. The fellowship consists of a check of a $6000, a travel grant to attend the MTT-S 2011 Annual Meeting, and a complimentary registration to the Annual Meeting.
Charles Paul Lascelles is Faculty Winner of the CO-OP Student of the Year Award
21 Apr 2011
To win this award a student must demonstrate excellence in workplace, academic and extra-curricular activities. This year’s Faculty winner is studying Computer Engineering and he did his placement with Protus. Protus provides Software-as-a-Service communication services and solutions to the business market.
