Engineers lead in national research grants

Six professors from Concordia University’s Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science have been awarded Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) grants from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

This marks not only the highest number of DAS awards that Concordia has ever received, but also the most engineering grants awarded in this competition to a single institution in Canada in 2010.

"With six Discovery Accelerator Supplements, our Faculty beat out such notables as McGill, who received only two, Polytechnique with four and Waterloo with just two," says Robin Drew, Dean of Concordia's Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science.

"Even when it comes to our competitors at other comprehensive universities, we were ahead of the pack: Simon Fraser only received one award, the University of Victoria had two, and York didn't receive any. I'm very proud of our winning faculty members and hope this is a sign of things to come."

Each award represents $120,000 over three years, and is intended to increase the productivity of the recipient's research activities.

These awards provide substantial and timely additional resources that will maximize the impact of outstanding research programs of the Concordia awardees, who are:  

•    Ali Dolatabadi, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
•    Ibrahim Hassan, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
•    Osama Moselhi, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
•    Catherine Mulligan, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
•    Sofiene Tahar, Electrical and Computer Engineering
•    Amr Youssef, Concordia Institute for Information System Engineering

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