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September Accolades

September 23, 2013
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Source: Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science

Andreas Athienitis from the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been named the inaugural chairholder of the Senior NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Optimized Operation and Energy Efficiency: toward High Performance Buildings at Concordia. The new chair was made possible thanks to more than $2 million in funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Hydro-Québec, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and Régulvar. The goal of Athienitis' research is to make buildings cleaner, greener and smarter. Find out more.

 

 

Concordia graduate Madiha El Mehelmy Kotb, MEng 81, BEng 76, has been named president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). An 18-year member of the New York City-based professional body, Kotb is only the fourth woman to lead the 133-year-old society. "It feels great," says Kotb, who was nominated for the ASME presidency one year ago. "It's a long process and it's sinking in now." Read more.

 

Students Claude Fachkha and Elias Bou-Harb from the Concordia Institute of Information Systems Engineering, as well as their supervisor, Mourad Debbabi, have won the best paper award at the 12th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, held August 22-24, 2013, in Cambridge, Massachussetts.  A separate paper co-authored by Bou-Harb and Debbabi and Chadi Assi won the best paper award at the 8th International Conference on Availability, Security and Reliability held September 2-6, 2013, at the University of Regensburg in Germany.

Jarvad Dargahi, a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, has published his third book with Wiley. Entitled Tactile Sensing and Displays and co-authored with Saeed Sokhanvar, Siamak Najarian and Siamak Arbatani, the new book adds to Dargahi's extensive body of work in the area of haptic feedback, a field that explores way to provide sensory information through mechanical/electronic devices.

 

 

From the book: "Minimally invasive robotic surgery (MIRS) was initially introduced in 1987 with the first laparoscopic surgery, a cholecystecotimy. Before introduction of surgical robots, numerous laparoscopic procedures had been performed with the development of newer technology in conjunction with increased skills acquired by surgeons... One of the present limitations to MIRS, however, is that the equipment requires a surgeon to move the instruments while, at the same time, viewing a video monitor... The objective of this book it to provide readers with a comprehensive review of the latest advancements in the area of tactile sensing and displays applicable to minimally invasive technology and surgical robots, into which the latest and most innovative haptic feedback features will eventually be incorporated. Readers will not only learn about the latest developments in the area of tactile sensors and displays, but also be presented with some tangible examples of step-by-step development of several difference types."

And congratulations to the four new faculty hires, starting this semester. Christian Moreau joins the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. He studies advanced thermal spray materials and processes using on-line diagnostics and modeling Jeremy Clark is a new Assistant Professor in the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering. His reaches interests include Certificate Trust Model, Cryptographic Voting Systems, Applied Cryptography, Usable Security, Internet currency - Bitcoin. Tiberiu Popa is a new Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Software Engineering. His research areas include geometric modeling, animation, 2D to 3D reconstruction Ayda Basyouni joins us a limited-term appointment in the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering. Her research interests include resource management techniques for wireless networks.


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