Departmental News:

• Two ME students, Kyle Graves and Justin Mousek, working on their senior design project - asphalt repaving, won the $5000 CIBC award - 1st place in Atlantic Canada. [Posted: December 8, 2009]
  
  
• A team of four Mechanical Engineering students (Jeremy Dupere (ME4), Nick Stillwell (ME3), Josh Windle (ME5) and Brad Weatherbee (ME2)) were the winners of the Best Design at the Robotics Competition 2009. They placed 3rd overall. [Posted: February 19, 2009]
  
  
• Two Mechanical Engineering students receive the Governor General's Gold Medal Award. The students being recognized are Jordan Maxwell and Jian Tao Zhang. [Posted: November 25, 2008]
  

• Jordan Maxwell was the recipient of the 2008 Mechanical Engineering Faculty/Staff Graduate Prize. This is an annual prize of $1,000, established by the faculty members and staff of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, awarded to the student who has attained the highest standing (GPA) in the final year of Mechanical Engineering and joined graduate studies in Mechanical Engineering in the following academic year. [Posted: November 25, 2008]
  
  
• Congratulations to the participants of the 4th Annual MEGSS which was held on Nov 13th and 14th. 1st place winner for best overall presentation was Mohammad Babaei; 2nd place was Evan Charles, and 3rd place went to Jian Tao Zhang.[Posted: November 25, 2008]
  

• The 34th Annual Coaster Derby was held on Saturday, September 27, 2008. The traditional event, organised by the SSME, was held on McKay drive. This year's winners were:
  1st place: General Lee - Driver: Nick Stillwell, 2nd place: BioMed car - Drivers: Adam Clawson and Jody Boone, 3rd place: Avro Arrow - Drivers: Jason Lambert and Josh Windle. [Posted: October 14, 2008]

• Dr. Rickey Dubay receives $116,750 NSERC Idea to Innovation Grant to study Multi-Dimensional Nonlinear Control.[Posted: July 25, 2008]
  

• Rachel Savidge has been selected as this year's recipient of the $5000 Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation's Atlantic Region Undergraduate Scholarship in Engineering. Rachel is a 5th year ME student. This is the second year in a row that one of our ME students have won this award.

This scholarship recognizes students who combine solid academic achievement with community service. The Foundation offers only five of these $5,000 annual scholarships to Canadian women in engineering in an accredited Canadian university engineering. Rachel will be invited to receive her award at the upcoming Annual General Meeting of Engineers Canada in Quebec City this coming May. [Posted: March 19, 2008]

• UNB Engineering students made a great overall showing at the Canadian Engineering Competition last week in Waterloo, Ontario. In the "Team Design" category, a UNB team was awarded first place overall. The team consisted of Jason Elliott (ME), Josh Senechal (ME), Asif Syed (ME), and Jacob Myler (CE). In the "Consulting Team" category, a UNB team finished in second place. This team consisted of Johnathan Gravel (ME), Jamie Miles (ChE), Mark Randall (GE), and Arlo Sutherland (ChE). In the "Debate Team" category, UNB was awarded a 4th place. The team cosisted of Melanie Lambert (ME) and Rachel Savidge (ME).
  [Posted: March 1, 2008]
  
  
• Sean Dowling (B Mech Eng, UNB 2002; M Aerospace U of T 2004) has been selected as one of 6 Canadian Space Station Program recipients to receive its prestigious SFA Honouree Award in March at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The SFA Honoree Award is one of the highest and most prestigious NASA awards which recognizes the outstanding performance and contributions of individuals responsible for flight safety and mission success. Sean Dowling is employed with MacDonald, Dettweiler and Associates (MDA).
  [Posted: Feb 15, 2008]
  
  
• Dr. Juan Carretero secures AIF funding for the ATCON project to adapt novel robotic technology to create moe efficient and competitive manufacturing processes for plywood. This project, with total estimated costs of approximately $3.9 million, will receive up to $2.7 million from the Atlantic Innovation Fund over a three-year period. More information can be found at the ACOA's website.
  [Posted: Jan 22, 2008]
  
  
• Congratulations go out to Anthony Llukwe, a 2nd-year software engineering student, and to John Lord, a 5th-year mechanical engineering student, for being members of a team that won the Platinum Prize at the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation’s (NBIF) BREAKTHRU business plan competition held late last month. More details can be found in http://www.unb.ca/news/view.cgi?id=1454
  [Posted: Dec 5, 2007]
  
  
• The Department of Mechanical Engineering received a 2007 Research Ranking of 1. In 2005, our ranking was 1 also.
  [Posted: Nov 28, 2007]
  
  
• Congratulations to Adam Jay. He was the 5th winner of the "Mechanical Engineering Facult/Staff Graduate Prize".
  [Posted: Nov 16, 2007]
  
  
• Congratulations to the participants of the 3rd Annual MEGSS which was held on Nov 12. 1st place winner for best overall presentation was Aydin Nabavoti; 2nd place was Iman Ebrahimi, and 3rd place went to Kevin Wilcox.
  [Posted: Nov 16, 2007]
  
  
• Congratulations to Dr. Hussein on the release of his latest book. “Radiation Mechanics: Principles & Practice”. Pre-order is available on www.amazon.ca.
  [Posted: Sept 28, 2007]
  
  
• Profs Holloway and Gerber awarded $400,000 and 4 year NSERC Collaborative Research Grant to study Aerial Sprays for Forest Protection with Industrial Partner Forest Protection Limited.
  [Posted: Sept 19, 2007]
  
  
• The Light Metals Section of the Metallurgical Society of CIM awards the Light Metals Best Paper Award (2007) to M. Worswick, O. Orlov, S. Winkler (University of Waterloo) and Zengtao Chen (University of New Brunswick) for their paper entitled “Simulation and Formability of Automotive Aluminum Sheet Alloy”.
  [Posted: July 18, 2007]
  
  
• Dr. Joseph Hall has been appointed Assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering.
  Dr. Hall comes from the McMaster University (BScE, MScE, PhD).
  [Posted: June 1, 2007]
  
  
• Congratulations to Travis Skinner, Adam Person (CE), Josh Landry,
  Simon Kilfoil who received 3rd place in the Senior Team Design Category at the Canadian Engineering Competition in Saskatoon over March break.
  [Posted: March 20, 2007]
  
  
• Dr. Zengtao Chen has received the Harrison McCain Foundation for Young
  Scholars Award for his project title "Dynamic Fracture Analysis of
  Piezoelectric Ceramics". The award is valued at $17,000 and is to be used
  towards research support.
  [Posted: March 9, 2007]
  
  
• Thank you to everyone who was involved with the Atlantic Engineering Competition on Feb. 2-4, 2007 at UNB. The winners of the Competition will be going to Saskatoon on March 8 for the National Competition. The ME students who win are:
  Katelynn Craig (Innovative Design, 1st Place)
  Travis Skinner, Adam Person, Josh Landry & Simon Kilfoil (Senior Design, 2nd Place)
  Sebastian Goodfellow (Engineering Communications, 2nd Place)
  Nick Coleman & Robert Leblanc (Innovative Design, 2nd Place)
  Arlo Sutherland & Mamie Miles (Debate, 2nd Place)
  [Posted: February 26, 2007]
  
  
• Three ME students, Jonathan Millar, Joseph Kinley, and Devin Gillis, have won the UNB wooden bridge building competition.
  "The bridge failed due to deflection but was holding in of excess of 140
  kg when testing was stopped. With some small modifications to the design,
  our team is confident we can reach 1000 kg at Concordia."
  The team is now preparing and fund raising for the national competition at Concordia University on March 2. For details and photos see: their web site: www.unbbridgebuilding.com and the national competiton web site: http://csce.eca.concordia.ca/bridgebuilding.htm.
  [Posted: February 26, 2007]
  
  
• Atlantic Engineering Competition (AEC) 2007 is coming on Feb 2-4. Further information can be found in www.unbf.ca/aec2007.
  [Posted: January 24, 2007]
  
  
• Craig Wood, ME graduate (2001), is featured in the summer issue of the APEGNB Newsletter/Magazine Engenuity, talking about his career with high-performance vehicles at Roush Industries just outside Detroit, Michigan.
  APEGNB stands for Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of New Brunswick. Roush Industries is a well-known engineering company that designs and manufactures performance vehicles, race cars and prototype vehicles.
  [Posted: November 1, 2006]
  
  
• Mr. Mark Bettle was the recipient of the 2006 Mechanical Engineering Faculty/Staff Graduate Prize.
  This is an annual prize of $1,000, established by the faculty members and staff of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, awarded to the student who has attained the highest standing (GPA) in the final year of Mechanical Engineering and joined graduate studies in Mechanical Engineering in the following academic year.
  This prize was established in 2002 from donations by the staff and faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering in recognition of the role graduate studies play in enriching our academic programs and equipping our graduates with advanced skills.
  [Posted: October 20, 2006]
  
  
• Thanks to the tremendous effort of the MEGSS, the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Society's Second Annual Conference (MEGSC-II) was held on October 17. A total of 18 presentations were delivered.
  Congratulations to all of the participants, the Conference was extremely successful.
  The top 5 presenters were:
  5th  Iman Ebrahimi
  4th Aydin Nabovati
  3rd Jose Mauricio Hernandez
  2nd Tiger Jeans
  1st Colleen Dewis
  The MEGSC2 proceedings are available here.
  [Posted: October 17, 2006]
  
  
• Once more, Mechanical Engineering did well in the NBIF RA competition in January 2006. The departrment got a total of $70,000 to support four graduate and six undergraduate students.
  The awards for the Dept are as follows:
  

  	Dr. Biden		$10,000 graduate
  	Dr. Carretero		$5,000 undergraduate
  	Dr. Chen		$5,000 undergraduate
  	Dr. Dubay		$20,000 2 undergraduate + grad
  	Dr. Gerber		$10,000 graduate
  	Dr. Hassan		$5,000 undergraduate
  	Dr. Kishway		$10,000 grad
  	Dr. Reddy		5,000 undergraduate
  	TOTAL:		$70,000

  NBIF awarded to UNB 31 graduate student assistantships and 22 undergraduate assistantships, representing $420,000 in total funding and a success rate of 67%.
  [Posted: October 4, 2006]
  
  
• Dr. Juan Carretero presented the 1^st Creagan Research Lecture on September 27. The series is named in honour of McMahon Creagan, who gave the first engineering lecture at UNB on Feb. 15, 1854. Dr. Carretero's lecture was entitled: Robot Simulations: from Inner Space to Outer Space and Back.
  [Posted: September 29, 2006]
  
  
• The 32nd Annual Coaster Derby was held on Saturday, September 23, 2006. The traditional event, organised by the SSME, was held on McKay drive. This year's winners were:
  1st place: 1 min & 6 seconds - F’ton Motor Sport - Driver: Chris Wilcox
  2nd place: 1 min & 9 seconds - Avro Arrow – Driver: Josh Landry
  [Posted: Septembet 29, 2006]
  
  
• Dr. A. Sousa has been appointed a Member of the Advisory Panel at the PhD School in "High Mechanics and Automotive Design and Technology", Universitá Degli Studi Di Modena E Reggio Emilia in Modena, Italy. This will include quality assessment of the School and act as co-reviewers of PhD Theses.
  [Posted: September 25, 2006]
  
  
• Melanie Lambert, President of the Student Society of Mechanical Engineering (SSME), will receive the M. Patrick Gillin Award in Engineering at a reception in October.
  [Posted: September 25, 2006]
  
  
• Dr. Ed Biden has been appointed as a member of the NSERC Strategic Projects Selection Panel - Biomedical Technologies, for a three-year term ending March 31, 2009.
  [Posted: June 15, 2006]
  
  
• Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students receive Encaenia prizes. The students being recognized are:
  • Cynthia Samaan: Governor General's Gold Medal and Lt. Governor's Silver Medal.
  • Mark Bettle: Eric E. Wheatley Memorial Medal.
  • Samual Arsenault: L John Stephens Memorial Prize.
  
  [Posted: May 18, 2006]
  
  
• Drs. Andrew Gerber and Esam Hussein receive five-year grants from NSERC. Dr. Gerber's funds are to support studies on the "Phase transition, droplet dynamics and efficiency predictions in high-speed vapor flows" whereas Dr. Hussein's if to do work on "Optimization of region-of-interest imaging with penetrating radiation".
  [Posted: March 31, 2006]
  
  
• Dr. Juan A. Carretero receives a Young Delegate award from the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM).
  [Posted: March 31, 2006]
  
  
• On Wednesday, April 6, 2006, the department of mechanical engineering at UNBF host its innovative and thought provoking Design of Machine Elements display, capping three months of behind the scenes projects. Full story available here.
  [Posted: March 30, 2006]
  
  
• Dr. Zengtao Chen secures CFI funding for Materials Characterization Infrastructure. This is part of the CFI newly created Leaders Opportunity Fund. the infrastructure includes a new Instron Test Machine and a microstructural characterization system. Full story available here.
  Total project: $155,771, CFI award: $62,308 (40%).
  [Posted: March 10, 2006]
  
  
• Mechanical Engineering Students: Tyler Smith, Joris Mecking, Mark Kirton, and Sebastian Goodfellow, placed third (out of 12 teams) in the Atlantic Engineering Competition, Halifax, NS, February 3-5, 2006.
  [Posted: February 10, 2006]
  
  
• Dr. Zengtao Chen was one of the faculty members, interviewed across the province, who were featured in an NBIF  video interview: see http://www.nbif.ca/randd_investments_video2high.html under Research Success Stories (video).
  [Posted: November 21, 2005]
  
  
• Dr. Simon Li has been appointed Assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering effective November 1st, 2005.
  Dr. Li comes from the University of Toronto (BScE, MScE, PhD) with considerable credentials and an impressive research record.
  [Posted: November 16, 2005]
  
  
• Dr. Hossam Kishawy has been elected as a Corresponding Member of the College International pour la Recherche en Productique, CIRP. This is a very prestigious society, the joining of which requires nomination by at least one member, support of other two members, and a subsequent review by an international committee.
[Posted: October 7, 2005]


• Thanks to the tremendous effort of the MEGSS, in particular the President, Mr. John Bowles, the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student First Annual Conference (MEGSC) was a great success. On September 22, a total of 21 presentations were delivered where the diversity and great quality of the research performed in the department was showcased.
  The MEGSC1 proceedings are available here.
[Posted: September 29, 2005]


• Mr. Geoff Pond has been awarded the 2005 APEGNB Advanced Studies Scholarship. Mr. Pond, a PhD candidate under the supervision of Dr. Juan Carretero, is working on issues related to parallel manipulator kinematics.
[Posted: September 14, 2005]


• The results of the 2005 NSERC Discovery Grant applications were announced in April.  Mechanical Engineering Department's successful applications were:
• Dr. Ed Biden 'Analysis of gross motor activities as a means of assessing upper limb prosthesis', ($15,000/year)
• Dr. Zengtao Chen, 'Void nucleation in automotive aluminum alloys' ($22,200/year)
• Dr. Rickey Dubay, 'Development of advanced controllers in plastic injection molding and flexible structures' ($21,500/year)
• Dr. Hossam Kishawy, 'Mechanics of metal removal and attainable surface quality during hard turning with self propelled tools' ($23,000/year).
[Posted: August 11, 2005]


• Six ME professors were successfull in the Spring 2005 NBIF competition.  NBIF results were announced in June 2005.  Mechanical Engineering again was very successful.  The details of the six successful applications are as follows:
  • Dr. Marwan Hassan 'Enhancing the availability & reliability of operating steam generator', ($5,000)
  • Dr. Rickey Dubay, 'New methodologies and process optimization in plastics injection molding' ($10,000)
  • Dr. Hossam Kishawy, 'A novel cutting tool design for machining hard-to-cut material' ($10,000)
  • Dr. B. V. Reddy, 'Comparison of gas turbine and steam turbine based cogeneration systems with gas turbine and steam turbine based power plants in terms of performance and greenhouse gas emissions reduction' ($5,000)
  • Dr. Juan Carretero, 'Simulation of tethered remotely operative vehicles for ROV pilot training:  Stage one' ($10,000)
  • Dr. Zengtao Chen, ' Damage-based finite element modelling of advanced sheet and tube forming operations of automotive aluminium alloys' ($10,000)
  The total amount granted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering amounts to $50,000.
  [Posted: August 11, 2005, Revised: August 30, 2005]
  
  
• Seven ME professors were successful in the Winter 2005 round of NBIF-RAI grants. The details of the seven successful applications are as follows:
  • Dr. Ed Biden, 'Improving Artificial Arms for Children' ($15,000)
  • Dr. Juan Carretero, 'Innovative Machine Tool Design based on Parallel Manipulators' ($15,000)
  • Dr. Zengtao Chen, ' Void nucleation in aluminum alloys and damage-based finite element modeling of hydroforming' ($15,000)
  • Dr. Marwan Hassan and Dr. Bob Rogers, 'A computer-based probabilistic technique for assessing industerial/Energy plants component inspection' ($10,000)
  • Dr. Hossam Kishawy, 'Advanced High Speed Machining Technology for Metal Matrix Composites' ($10,000)
  • Dr. B. V. Reddy, 'Advanced cogeneration systems to meet electrical power and process heat demands with reduced pollutants and CO₂ emissions' ($10,000)
  • Dr. B. V. Reddy, 'Natural gas and coal gasification based combined cycle energy systems' ($10,000)
  The total amount granted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering amounts to $80,000 which is slightly over 50% of the total granted to the entire Faculty of Engineering.
  [Posted: June 23, 2005]
  
  
• Dr. Hassan and Dr. Kishawy were nominated this year for the Allan P. Stuart Award for Excellence in Teaching (35 nominations were received). This is a primarily student-driven award, and such nominations show that our students appreciate and value excellence in teaching.
  [Posted: June 20, 2005]
  
  
• Mr. Sivakumar Thangavelu has won the "Best Paper and Presentation Award" in the Masters level category at the 29th Annual Conference from the Canadian Nuclear Association/Society, Toronto, Ontario, June 2005.
  Mr. Thangavelu, a graduate student working with Dr. Hussein, presented a paper entitled "Flaw Detection by Spatially Coded Backscatter Radiography".
  [Posted: June 17, 2005]
  
  
• Drs. Holloway, Rogers, Gerber and Hassan had a Collaborative Research and Development project with Nova Research & Technology Corporation, approved by NSERC.
  The total value of the grant is $160,000, plus $100,000 industrial cash and $60,000 in-kind contribution.
  The title of the project is: Rotor Dynamics of Industrial Polymer Mixers. Dr. Holloway is the Principal Investigator.
  [Posted: June 10, 2005]
  
  
• Ms. Shi Yan, MScE student in Mechanical Engineering, has been awarded the CTAS student award for best paper/presentation at the 15th Canadian Thermal Analysis Society Workshop and Exhibition she attended on May 17-18, 2005 at the NRC Industrial Materials Institute in Boucherville, Québec.
  Shi Yan presented her paper "Radiation effects in the transient hot-wire technique: Measurement of the thermal properties of Pentane and Propane" which she co-authored with Drs. Liqun Sun, J. E. S. Venart and Ramesh C. Prasad.
  [Posted: June 6, 2005]
  
  
• Mr. Faisal Mahmood, a PhD student working under the supervision of Dr. Hassan, has been awarded the Magee Third Century Postgraduate Merit Award ($3500.00).
  [Posted: May 6, 2005]
  
  
• Mr. Arthur Zinck, one of our graduate students, has been awarded one of the 2005 Merrithew-de-Grandpre Prize in Entrepreneurship.
  This Prize is awarded upon recommendation of the UNB's Faculty of Administration "to the student (or team of students) who prepare an outstanding plan in the course MBA6313: New Venture Creation & Entrepreneurship".
  [Posted: May 6, 2005]
  
  
• Drs. Biden, Chen, Dubay and Kishawy were all successful in renewing their NSERC Discovery Grants.
  [Posted: April 5, 2005]
  
  
• Mr. Dan Hill, one ME graduating students, past president of SSME, and a TME Diploma student has won the first place in the 2005 NBIF Student Entrepreneurship Competition . The $20,000 prize will help Mr. Hill establish the first step towards the commercialization of the "snow cycle" concept he proposed.
  More details can be found in UNB Perspectives.
  [Posted: March 28, 2005]
  
  
• Dr. Bonham voted by Mechanical Engineering students as the Mechanical Engineering Professor of the year for the 7^th. The announcement was made during the 2005 Mechanical Engineering Graduation Banquet held at the Capital Winter Club on Friday, March 18.
  During the same event, Mr. Alexander Wood received the Excellent Teaching Assistant Award.
  [Posted: March 23, 2005]
  
  
• Four second year Engineering students, David Dudley (ME), Edward Henderson (ME), Ian Soutar (ME), and Shane Hartlen (CE), who placed 1st in the Atlantic Engineering Competition, Junior Design, Moncton, Feb. 5 - 6 2005, have also placed 1^st in the National Engineering Competition March 4 - 6 2005, Calgary .
  
  The problem presented to them was a hypothetical situation that involved an emergency evacuation of an underwater laboratory.
  They had to construct an offshore free floating structure that could lift a load out of water. The required machine had to lift personnel from ocean level up to the ship. They were to design and construct a scale model. The personnel were replicated by a water bottle, to be lifted to a height of 75 cm above water level. The structure had to be free floating and taller than 75 cm to account for the height of the bottle as well as the floatation of the structure.
   
  This competition is similar to practical engineering practices, in terms of time and financial management. They  were able to complete the project in the time allotted, and present their design to judges, students and other observers.The team's presentation included discussing such topics as structural and mechanical design, as well as repeatability and economical feasibility.
  
  More details can be read in UNB Perspectives.
  [Posted: March 16, 2005]
  
  
• Four Mechanical Engineering students receive an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA). The recipients and their proposed supervisors are:
  • Ms. Cindy Samaan (Dr. Dubay)
  • Mr. Mark Bettle (Dr. Reddy)
  • Mr. Samuel Arsenault (Dr. Holloway)
  • Mr. Steven O'Brien (Dr. Carretero)
  The awards are to support the students to perform research work over the summer.
  [Posted: March 4, 2005]
  
  
• Dr. Arsenault's work is featured in Progress Research & Discovery Magazine. Dr. Arsenault finished his PhD under the supervision of Dr. Hussein, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow. Click here to go directly to the article.
  [Posted: February 21, 2005]
  
  
• Dr. Rodriguez, a recent ME graduate, has obtained record breaking results in the area of dynamic plant layout.
  In collaboration with the ACRL, Dr. Rodriguez obtained the best-known solutions for over 80 per cent of a set of benchmark problems and became world champion in 15 per cent of them.
  The results were obtained as part of his PhD research under the supervision of Dr. Bonham. Dr. Rodriguez's thesis is is entitled GATS - An Algorithm for the Solution of the Dynamic Plant Layout Problem.
  More detailed information can be found in an article from UNB Perspectives.
  [Posted: February 14, 2005]
  
  
• Four second year Engineering students, David Dudley (ME), Edward Henderson (ME), Ian Soutar (ME), and Shane Hartlen (CE), placed 1st in the Atlantic Engineering Competition, Junior Design, held this past weekend (Feb. 5 - 6) in Moncton. There were 15 teams in the Junior Design category; from UPEI, UdeM, Dalhousie, UCCB and Acadia. This wining team will be going to the National Competition in Calgary on March 3-6th. A picture of the team is available here.
  In this competition, the objective and material were not given until the day of the event. Each team was given four hours to design and construct a working model. The objective of the the project was to move a pile of sand into the back of a tonka truck, located 15" from the pile. Teams were not only judged on the final application of the constructed machine, but also on team work, communication, and economic feasibility. Each team gave a ten minute presentation explaining how they came up with the design, any difficulties encountered, and the cost of construction.
  David, Ed, Ian, and Shane did an excellent job of representing UNB. The Department of Mechanical Engineering it very proud of their achievement and I wish them the best in the National Competition.
  [Posted: February 14, 2005]
  
  
• Dr. Sousa has been appointed as Associate Editor for the Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion. Dr. Sousa is also a member of the editorial team of the International Journal of Fluids Dynamics (IJFD). This is more work for Dr. Sousa, but is a recognition of his leadership in his areas of research.
  [Posted: January 14, 2005]
  
  
• Dr. Venart is to receive the 2004 Hutchison Medal of the British Institution of Chemical Engineers for his paper "Flixborough: the explosion and its aftermath", published in Process Safety & Environmental Protection, March 2004. The Medal will be presented at the 7th Congress of Chemical Engineering in July 2005 in Glasgow.
  Dr. Venart is an Honorary Research Professor and a Professor  Emeritus in Mechanical Engineering, and has served this Department with distinction for many years; not only as a prominent researcher and teacher, but also as a Department Chair.
  [Posted: January 13, 2005]
  
  
• Dr. Sousa han been appointed to the NSERC Mechanical Engineering Grant Selection Committee (GCS#13 ) for a three-year period. This is not only an acknowledgement of Dr. Sousa's impressive research credentials, but is also a recognition of our Dept and UNB's national standing.
  [Posted: January 10, 2005]
  
  
• Senior project presentations will be held in the ADI Studio (room C-25) on November 29 and November 30. This fall, a total of 16 presentations will be held. Click here for more information.
  [Posted: November 29, 2004]
  
  
• Drs. Dubay, Hassan and Reddy were successful in Fall 2004 round of NBIF-RAI grants. The details of their applications are as follows:
  - Dr. Reddy: Development of Advanced Energy Technologies and Cogeneration Systems to generate Electrical Power and Process Heat granted to a total of $20,000 for one year.
  - Drs. Dubay and Hassan (co-applicants): Intelligent Distributed Control of Advanced Manufacturing System Intelligent Distributed Control of Advanced Manufacturing System granted to a total of $10,000 for one year.
  - Drs. Hassan and Hildebrand [Civil engineering] (co-applicants): Design of Aquaculture cages in Typical Offshore structures granted to a total of $10,000 for one year.
  [Posted: November 2, 2004]
  
  
• Mr. Iman Ebrahimi, who joined the department as a PhD student this fall, was the recipient of a Graduate Tuition Award from the School of Graduate Studies. This award covers the equivalent to the tuition for a domestic graduate student for up to two years.
  Mr. Ebrahimi will work under the supervision of Dr. Carretero and Dr. Boudreau in the general area of parallel manipulators kinematics.
  [Posted: September 2, 2004]
  
  
• Dr. Zengtao Chen has been appointed Assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering effective August  1st, 2004.
  Dr. Chen has a PhD from the University of Waterloo, a DEng from and MEng from Harbin Institute of Technology and a BEng from Nanjing University of Science and Technology . He has taught at both Waterloo and Harbin. Dr. Chen has an impressive research record, which includes 34 papers in international journals, and many other publications and research reports.
  [Posted: September 2, 2004]
  
  
• One of our graduate student, Mr. Chris Baker, has been selected for a Board of Governors Merit Award for Graduate Studies as a supplement to his NSE-M Scholarship. Mr. Baker works with Drs. Gerber and Holloway. We are proud to have people of Chris' calibre in our graduate program.
  [Posted: July 7, 2004]
  
  
• Dr. Rickey Dubay has been awarded a total of $116,000 by NSERC and Ropak Canada Inc. This funding is to support a postdoctoral fellow and a MScE student, who will conduct research on "Advanced Controls in Plastic Injection Molding".
  [Posted: June 24, 2004]
  
  
• Dr. Reddy's application to the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) for a new fluidized bed facility was successful. Details to come.
  [Posted: April 26, 2004]
  
  
• Mr. Paul J. Arsenault, a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering, won a NBIF Student Entrepreneurship Prize. Premier Lord announced the awards on April 7, 2004. The award prize will enable Mr. Arsenault to implement the first stage of his business plan to develop an x-ray one-side imaging system for dense objects (his PhD topic). During his presentation, Mr. Arsenault showcased his superb ability to demonstrate both the technical and business merits of his concept.
  [Posted: April 8, 2004]
  
  
• Ms. Kirsty Williamson, Mechanical Engineering students, was awarded the first prize in the 2004 APEGNB student paper competition on April 6/2004. Her presentation was excellent, and the competition was tough.
  [Posted: April 7, 2004]
  
  
• Dr. Carretero was recently awarded a portion of an NSERC Collaborative grant between MD Robotics (Brampton, Ontario), the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and (Dr. Meyer Nahon, Department of Mechanical Engineering). The work to be performed is in the area of pruning algorithms for improving the performance of distance determination algorithms used in space robotics simulations.
  Dr. Carretero's portion of the grant is the order of $46,000 spreadMcGill University over two years plus approximately $13,000 in-kind contributions consisting of MD Robotics' engineers' time (e.g., technical support, software evaluation, etc.).
  [Posted: April 6, 2004]
  
  
• Michael Mitchell, is recognized for his excellence as a Teaching Assistant by being selected as the Teaching Assistant of the Year, 2003/2004. Additionally, his peers have also recognized his efforts in enriching student life by awarding Mike the Mike Mitchell Outstanding Student Award. Mr. Mike Mitchell is a highly valued student and he certainly exemplify his commitment and devotion.
  [Posted: April 5, 2004]
  
  
• Dr. Reddy voted by Mechanical Engineering students as the Mechanical Engineering Professor of the year. The announcement was made during the 2004 Mechanical Engineering Graduation Banquet held at the Capital Winter Club on Friday, March 27.
  [Posted: March 29, 2004]
  
  
• Drs. Hassan, Holloway and Venart were successful in renovating their NSERC Discovery Grant. Their grants were renovated for another 5 years.
  [Posted: March 26, 2004]
  
  
• The Department of Mechanical Engineering received a UNB Research Ranking of 1, the highest possible, for the period covering the academic years of 2001-02 and 2002-03.
  A research ranking of 1 is indicative of "a major commitment to research and scholarship" shown by excellent record of publications, financial support, international recognition and a graduate research program that "is considered to be a high quality, productive, and attractive to students".
  For more information please refer to the Department's research activity report for the covered period.
  [Posted: March 10, 2004]
  
  
• UNB celebrated the 150^th anniversary of Engineering Education at UNB. One of the many events included an Open House where a few Mechanical Engineering Labs were demonstrated. Amongst them was the Robotics Lab as described in http://www.unb.ca/bruns/0304/21/news/robots.html. [Posted: February 26, 2004]
  
  
• Dr. Dave Bonham received the 2003 UNB Service Award.
  Another honor to Mechanical Engineering, our own David Bonham is a recipient of the 2003 UNB Service Award.
  
  Dr. Bonham joined UNB in September 1, 1974. Over 30 years, Dr. Bonham has shaped the Mechanical Engineering Department in a variety of ways: including enhancement of student life, enrichment of teaching and research and raising the Department's national profile.
  
  Dr. Bonham started the Student Society of Mechanical Engineering, initiated the Coaster Derby, introduced the Mechanical Engineering Night, and organized the first Department's retreat. He chaired the Department from January 1981 to June 1989, and was responsible for the implementation, development and supervision of the Manufacturing Technology Centre. Dr. Bonham initiated and maintained UNB's leading role in CAD/CAM education. More recently, Dr. Bonham was instrumental in the initiative to get an NSERC Design Chair at UNB.
  
  Dr. Bonham won the first Engineering award of merit by the Association of Professional Engineers of New Brunswick, and served in a number of national professional and research boards and committees.
  
  Our students have recognized Dr. Bonham's contributions by selecting him Professor of the Year (Excellence in Teaching Award), year after year: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003.
  
  In short, Dave made Mech. Eng. a better place for all of us.
  
  Esam Hussein Chair, Mech. Eng.
  [Posted: February 19, 2004]
  
  
• Micro Computed Tomography facility available for use. As part of the UNB project on Visualization of Materials: Structure and Function from Manometres to Centimetres, a Micro Computed Tomography (Micro-CT) scanner is now available for use by university researchers. For more information, please see http://www.unb.ca/ME/research/micro-ct/mirco-ct.html. [Posted: February 18, 2004]
  
  
• The Department welcomes Mr. Robert MacAllister who joined Mechanical Engineering on February 16. Bob replaces another Bob (Mr. London), as our new Chief Technician. Mr. MacAllister has wide experience in plastics, precision machining, design and drafting, among others. Some of us may know Bob from his days with the NB Research and Productivity Council. [Posted: February 17, 2004]
  
  
• Mr. Colin Murray receives third place in the 2003 APEGNB Student Paper Competition. The presented work was performed for his Senior Year Project directed by Drs. Dubay and Sullivan and bears the title "The Effects of Cooling Rate on the Warpage of an Injection Molded Polypropylene Disk". [Posted: December 3, 2003]
  
  
• The ADS-Expo 2003, New Opportunities for Aerospace, Defence & Security in Atlantic Canada, Fredericton, October 26-28, 2003, hosted by Enterprise Fredericton, featured three speakers from Mechanical Engineering:
  Dr. Kishawy made a presentation on New Manufacturing Horizons, high Speed Machining and Process Modelling.
  Dr. Sullivan spoke on Advanced Materials in the Second Century of Flight -- Higher Performance, Lower Costs.
  Dr. Hussein participated in a panel discussion on Local Research Global Reach -- The Role of R&D in Aerospace and Defence. A good number of Mech. Eng. graduate and undergraduate students also attended the meeting. [Posted: October 29, 2003]
  
  
• Dr. B. V. Reddy and Mr. Ryan Munroe (a 4th year Mech. Eng. student) spoke at the ASHRAE (NB PEI Chapter)/ APEGNB Meeting on Oct. 14, 2003. The title of their presentation was "ASHRAE Research Project": A small Vapor Compression HVAC Demonstration Unit".
  This meeting is one of a number of special ASHARE events to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Willis H. Carrier's invention of mechanical refrigeration in 1902. [Posted: October 29, 2003]
  
  
• Mr. Khaled Mohamed is the first recipient of the Mechanical Engineering Faculty/Staff Graduate Prize.
  This is an annual prize of $1,000, established by the faculty members and staff of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, awarded to the student who has attained the highest standing (GPA) in the final year of Mechanical Engineering and joined graduate studies in Mechanical Engineering in the following academic year.
  This prize was established in 2002 from donations by the staff and faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering in recognition of the role graduate studies play in enriching our academic programs and equipping our graduates with advanced skills. [Posted: October 6, 2003]
  
  
• Through the collaboration of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the UNB Electronics Text Centre, The Advanced Computational Research Laboratory (ACRL) at UNB is pleased to announce the arrival of a high performance supercomputer-class computer. Installation of this ~$1.3 million dollar (list price) high performance computer has already begun and it is expected to be ready for production use by mid-November. The cluster consists of 160 Intel 2.8 GHz Xeon processors with hyperthreading thus emulating a 320 processor cluster. [Posted: October 3, 2003]
  
  
• Dr. Abdel Elsawy receives $10,000 from the NBIF through the Research Assistantship Initiative to partially support a graduate student. [Posted: October 3, 2003]
  
  
• Drs. Gerber and Holloway receive $108,000 over three years from Defence Research and Development Canada -Atlantic to use CFD to analyze three-dimensional hydrodynamic flows. [Posted: September 1, 2003]
  
  
• Dr. Duaby's paper "Self-optimizing MPC of melt temperature in injection moulding" (ISA Transactions, vol 41, no. 1) was selected to receive the first-ever ISA Transactions Best Paper Award. The award will be given to Dr. Dubay at the ISA 2003 show and conference in Houston in October. [Posted: August 26, 2003]
  
  
• New look for the entire ME web site with new user-friendly design. Some content has been updated and much more is on the way. [Posted: August 13, 2003]
  
  
• Dr. Hossam Kishawy was promoted to Associate Professor. [Posted: July 1st, 2003]
  
  
• The new Treasurer of the Canadian Committee for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms (CCToMM) is Dr. Juan Carretero.  CCToMM is the Canadian branch for the IFToMM (International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science).  IFToMM is in charge of the journal  "Mechanism and Machine Theory", published by Elsevier Science. [Posted: May 30, 2003]
  
  
• The Department received a total of $100,000 from the Research Assistantship Initiative, a joint initiative between the NB Innovation Foundation and the NB Department of Training and Employment. This money will support four graduate students (over two years) and four undergraduates (over a year). [Posted: May , 2003]
  
  
• Dr. Hussein's Handbook on Radiation Probing, Gauging Imaging and Analysis,  Volume I Basics and Techniques,  Volume I I Applications and Design, has been released by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, see http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-1294-2. [Posted: May , 2003]
  
  
• Mechanical Engineering was awarded by UNB $22,000 to support the first phase of the Mechatronics Option. [Posted: May , 2003]
  
  
• Dr. Kishawy and Dr. Sulllivan received the UNB Merit Awards for the Academic Year 2002-2003.
  
  
• Dr. Hussein received  an Innovative Achievement Award by the Canadian Nuclear Society. [Posted: June 8, 2003] 
  
  
• For the second consecutive year Anna Healy was select by Mechanical Engineering students as the Teaching Assistant of the Year. 
  
  
• Mechanical Engineering students voted once more Dr. David Bonham as Professor of the Year.
  
  
• The Department  was granted $245,000 by the Province's  Infrastructure Trust Fund to upgrade our labs in the  H- Block of Head Hall.
  
  
• The Department  had a 100% success rate in this years' NSERC competition. Applications by Drs. Carretero, Reddy and Sullivan were all successful. 
  
  
• Dr. Dubay has  an AIF grant of $ 104K from MicroOptics Corp., aimed at providing research support for 1 PhD and 1 MScE. Projects are focused on design, development and implementation of advanced controllers for machining plastic lens.
  
  
• Dr. Reddy  secured  funding from ASHRAE 's (American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers, Inc.)  Senior Project Grant Program. The project titled "To build a small vapor compression air-conditioning demonstration unit".
  
  
• Undergraduate students Stephen Norman, Gillian Mandville, Bridget McCarthy, Martha Ross and Kirsty Williamson were successful in the 2003 Atlantic Engineering Competition.
  
  
• Dr. Pearl Sullivan was cited in the CFI 2001/2002 Annual Report, see page 23 of  http://www.innovation.ca/evaluation/annual/annual_2002en.pdf.
  
  
• The AECL Discovery Award for 2001 was given to the team that implemented the Neutron Scatterometer device designed to measure channel voiding. The concept of this device was developed under the supervision of Dr. Hussein. AECL funded this work through a series of research contracts that involved former Mechanical Engineering graduate students: Pinlian Han, Grant Gallant and Marc Desrosiers. The Committee for the AECL President's Awards of Excellence stated that the "technical innovations incorporated in the device have resulted in a state-of-the-art instrument", and acknowledged the significant role UNB played in this development. 
  
  
• 2- A longtime mechanical engineering professor at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton will receive an honorary designation at Convocation on Oct. 24. Huw Davies of Keswick Ridge, N.B., will join the ranks of UNB professors emeriti at the 7 p.m. fall graduation ceremony in the Aitken University Centre. All are welcome to attend. 
  
  
• The professor emeritus distinction is awarded only to retired faculty members. Criteria for the honorary rank include teaching performance of exceptional merit, extensive research and publication of unusually high quality, creative contributions to the administration and development of the university, and a record of professional conduct that indicates fair and ethical treatment of students and other members of the academic community. In addition, candidates must be approved by UNB's Board of Governors. During his career at UNB in Fredericton, Dr. Davies distinguished himself as a scholar, teacher and administrator. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1975, following eight years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a researcher and faculty member. At UNBF, Dr. Davies continued his active research program in vibration and acoustics, and in 1975 received the first of an unbroken series of grants from NSERC - the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Over the next 26 years, Dr. Davies supervised more than two dozen graduate students, published 45 papers in refereed journals, and presented 80 conference papers. He earned a reputation among students as an outstanding teacher and served as chairperson of his department for 10 years.  Outside of the university, Dr. Davies is widely recognized for his expertise. He has been invited to chair NSERC's Mechanical Engineering Grant election Committee and, on three occasions, its Doctoral Prize Committee. Since 1994 he has been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Vibration and Control. While he officially retired in August 2001, Dr. Davies continues his work as an honorary research professor in the department of mechanical engineering. 
  
  
• Dr. Esam Hussein is the new Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering effective July 1, 2002.  We would like to thank Dr. Gordon Holloway for his devotion to our department as Acting Chair for the last year. 
  
  
• Dr. David Bonham received The Excellence in Teaching Award.  This award is voted on by the students to a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering through the S.S.M.E. 
  
  
• Dr. Bale V. Reddy joined the Department as an Associate Professor on April 1, 2002. He received his BTech (1989) in Mechanical Engineering from Nagarjuna University, AP, MTech (1991) and PhD (1995) from IIT, Kharagpur, India. Dr. Reddy has 5 years of teaching and research experience from Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India. He has also 3 years of Post-Doctoral research experience from Dalhousie University, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and Carleton University. Dr. Reddy has an excellent record of scholarly publications in the areas of Advanced energy systems, Heat transfer and Thermodynamics. Dr. Reddy's major research interests are in the areas of Advanced energy systems, Heat transfer and Thermodynamics.
  
  
• Dr. Juan A. Carretero, joined the department as an Assistant Professor on July 1, 2002.  He received his B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico City in 1996, his M. Applied Science (1998) and D.Phil (2002) at the University of Victoria, BC. Dr. Carretero has taught courses of computer aided design at the community college level and robotics at the University of Victoria. He has also provided professional services to MacDonald Dettwiler Space and Advanced Robotics in Brampton, Ontario on work which was closely aligned with his  PhD topic.  He also worked for the Hertzberg Institute of Astrophysics for a short time to help develop scientific instrumentation. Dr. Carretero's research interests are in the area of robot kinematics and design optimization.