Departmental Research Highlights

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

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Departmental Success Stories

CIVIL ENGINEERING

Ashutosh Dhar, with partners SaskEnergy, FortisBC Inc., WSP Canada Inc. NSERC Alliance: Investigation of Gas Distribution Pipes Subjected to Ground Movements Joe Daraio Natural Resources Canada— Building Regional Adaptation Capacity and Expertise Program: Climate Change Adaptation Decision Support Tools for Planning and Design of Infrastructure in Communities with Limited Resources Noori Saady, with Lester's Farm Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture— Canadian Agriculture Partnership: Development of Anaerobic Digestion Technology for Processing Livestock Manure

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Xili Duan NSERC Discovery Grant: Multiphase Flow and Phase Change Heat Transfer with Innovative Functional Surfaces Mohammad Al-Janaideh, Lihong Zhang NSERC Research Tools and Instruments Grant: Multi-Axis Laser Interferometer for Position Measurements and Motion Feedback Control Oscar De Silva, George Mann, Thumeera Wanasinghe National Research Council of Canada—Collaborative Research and Development: Artificial Intelligence Enabled Navigation of Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) Drones Beyond Visual Line of Sight

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Jonathan Anderson Mitacs: Application of a Novel Cryptographic File System to High-security Domains Lihong Zhang NSERC Idea to Innovation Grant: Piezoelectric MEMS Vibration Energy Harvesters: Renewable Energy Source in the Portable Era Sarah Power Medical Research Fund: Classification of Dual Tasks for Multi-class EEG-based Brain-computer Interface

PROCESS ENGINEERING

Sohrab Zendehboudi Mitacs: Kinetic and Thermodynamic Analysis of Post‐Combustion CO2 Capture Process: Parametric Modelling, Optimization and Solvents Screening Stephen Butt Novamera Inc. Research Contract: Sustainable Mining by Drilling – Phase 2 Syed Imtiaz National Research Council of Canada–Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program: Model Predictive Controller and Monitoring Systems for Marine Autonomous Surface Ships

OCEAN AND NAVAL ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING

Neil Bose Fisheries and Oceans Canada—Multi-Partner Research Initiative: Inshore Trials of Robotic Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Technology for Oil Spill Reconnaissance and Delineation Using an Environmentally Friendly Proxy Heather Peng Transport Canada’s Clean Transportation System— Research and Development Program: Improving Efficiency of Newfoundland Fishing Vessels to Reduce the Greenhouse Gas Emission and Propeller Induced Noise Wei Qiu Transport Canada Quiet Vessel Initiative: CISMaRT Training Courses for Marine Industry on Quiet Vessel Initiative

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