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2003 - 2009 News Archive
BCEE website gets noticed
The second anniversary of the new BCEE-website occurs on May 24, 2008. According to the statistics by Alexa.com, the BCEE-website, since November 2007, has been in the top 10 most popular sites of Concordia, and #1 of all departmental websites. The total number of page-views for the past 2 years is 1,090,870. This amounts to an average of 1494 page views per day.
2008-2009
- Lesley Fascia, a Civil Engineering student, won the CEMF Undergraduate Engineering Scholarship]
- Petrica Sandel Baciu, a PhD student in Civil Engineering, won Google's 3D modelling contest.
- Dr. A. Athienitis: Conservation de l'énergie - Vers une maison solaire intelligente
- Dr. P. Fazio: Building Engineering is one-third of the solution to global warming
- Dr. Dominique Derome chairs the Scientific Committee of the 12th Canadian Conference on Building Science and Technology
- Concordia GNCTR-team for the Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race--Sherbrooke 2008
- Promotion to Concordia Research Chair (Tier I): Dr. F. Haghighat (Energy and Environment) & Dr. C. Mulligan (Environmental Engineering)
- Promotion to Fellow of ASHRAE: Dr. F. Haghighat
- B.Eng (Civil) Great Grad: Andrea Spector won Lieutenant-Governor’s Award
- Congratulations to Mashuda Mulk for having won the "Prix Excelle Science" of the Québec Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
2007-2008
- Engineering the future
- Dr. S. Alkass won the CSCE's 2007 Walter Shanly Award.
- Dr. Khaled Galal received the ENCS Teaching Excellence Award.
- Hydro-Québec donates $8 million to ENCS for creating two new multi-disciplinary research chairs in Electrical Energy Conservation and Distribution Automation and Integrated Building Design and Operation
- Dr. P. Fazio appointed to the Order of Canada
- Dr. R. Zmeureanu: The quantity of energy is quite strained and together with Guylaine Desmarais and Laleh Yerushalmi on Engineering the use of natural resources
- Lin Zhao: Environmental impacts of offshore oil and gas production process
- Drs. Nokken and Zsaki: Work and life built to last
- Panagiota Karava: Wind tunnel offers answers
- BCEE-website: The most popular departmental website of Concordia.
2006-2007
- Dr. Michelle Nokken won the 06-07 Petro-Canada Young Innovator-Award
- Dr. Khaled Galal joins forces with colleagues in École Polytechnique and Sherbrooke University in two successful NATEQ team grants
- Drs. Khaled Galal, A. Bagchi and A. Hammad received $625,000 grant for research in Infrastructure Renewal
- BCEE sponsors ENERGO Annex 46 workshop
- BCEE co-hosts with McGill University the Distinguished-Lecturer Seminar on Advancing the Art of Microbial Risk Assessment
- Dr. A. Athienitis & SBRN-team conducted heat transfer measurements at Hydro-Quebec lab in Shawinigan
- BCEE hosts the 22nd Eastern Canadian Symposium on Water Quality Research, November 3, 2006.
- BCEE hosts the 31st Solar Energy Conference. Montréal, August 20–24, 2006
- Concordia University Entrance Bursary Program Fall 2006
- Concordia Solar Decathlon Team
- Dr. Maria Elektorowicz received the Award Aquarina for outstanding achievements in Environmental Engineering.
- BCEE hosts the Third International Building Physics Conference. Montréal, August 27-31, 2006.
- BCEE-team to head research into cold-climate solar power technologies.
- Dr. Andreas Athienitis heads the Solar Buildings Research Network headquartered at BCEE.
2005-2006
- Over $5 million for alternative energy
- Dr. Zhi Chen won the 2005-06 Petro-Canada Young Innovator award
- Concordia University Hosts 3rd Annual Annex 41 Meeting
- Solar house goes to Washington
2004-2005
- Collaborative Effort to Reduce Environmental Impact of Building Materials
- Building envelope research puts us on the map
- $2.2 million granted towards the study of building envelopes
- BCEE faculty lend their expertise to the EV-building design
- Large Scale Location-Based Facilities Management Systems
- Solar Decathalon: Ready to Go
- Solar Decathlon team are ready to build their house
- Montreal Students Construct the Ultimate Solar-Energy Powered Dream Home
2003-2004
- Fostering Research and Industry Collaborations
- The Tradition Continues: Bridge Building Competition Turns Twenty
- The Sun is Shining on Solar Energy Researcher
- Student team in Solar Decathalon