Faculty Awards

 

 

Dr. Heather Sheardown is the recipient of this year's Engineer of The Year Award. The award is from the Hamilton Engineering Institute together with the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers and the Professional Engineers of Ontario local chapter.
Heather becomes the first woman engineer to win this prestigious award. She is a most deserving candidate for this recognition as a role model for engineering practice and service and as a superb researcher. Congratulations to Heather

 

 

 

 

 

Shiping Zhu is the recipient of the 2011 Chemical Institute of Canada Macromolecular Science and Engineering Award. The award is presented to an individual who, while residing in Canada, has made a distinguished contribution to macromolecular science or engineering. He delivered an award lecture "Reaction Engineering of Controlled Radical Polymerization - What Can Chemical Engineers Contribute to Polymer Science?" in the 61st CSChE Conference London.

 

 

 

 

 

Prashant Mhaskar, CRC Chair Award

Dr. Prashant Mhaskar, has been awarded a Canada Research Chair in Nonlinear and Fault Tolerant Control. This award was officially announced yesterday in a National Announcement of the CRC Program. It is a great recognition of Dr. Mhaskar's excellent research performance. Congratulations to Prashant.

 

 

 

 

Chris Swartz receives research money from
the Province (ORF-RE)  
It was announced on July 26 that three major projects at McMaster will receive more than $5.6 million from the Province.
McMaster Advanced Control Consortium (MACC) Director, Chris Swartz, will lead an initiative to provide new mathematical models and technology to Canadian companies, focusing on sustainable process operations which are efficient, reliable, safe, use low amounts of raw materials and energy, and produce benign waste. Congratulations to Chris and the research group.

Chris Swartz, Tom Adams, Sophia Aggelonitis,
Mo Ellbestawi (photo credit: Ron Scheffler)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carlos was presented with the award at the Faculty’s
Spring Convocation ceremony on Friday, June 17, 2011.

Click here for more information

 

 

 

 

Shiping Zhu was named Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada at an awards
gala in Ottawa on March 5 2011.  

Shiping was nominationed by his professional societies to recognize his contributions to the engineering profession.

 

 

 

 

Todd Hoare received the 2010 Polanyi Prize, in recognition of his outstanding research contributions. He will be honoured at a ceremony on November 30th in Toronto.

The Polanyi Prizes were established in 1987 by the Ontario government to honour the achievements of John Charles Polanyi, recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Five prizes are awarded annually to outstanding young researchers in the early stages of their careers at Ontario universities. See stories:

Faculty of Engineering News:
McMaster Daily News:
The Hamilton Spectator

 

 

 

Shiping Zhu, has been elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE).He was inducted into the Canadian Academy of Engineering on June 3 2010 at a ceremony held in Toronto

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John MacGregor, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
of Chemical Engineering, was presented with the McMaster Lifetime
Innovator Award at the third annual McMaster Innovation
Showcase on June 17. For full story click here

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heather Sheardown and Don Woods received the William H. Corcoran Award for the best paper in the previous calendar year in Chemical Engineering Education. Presented at the ASEE Annual Conf. Louisville KY June 2010. The title of their paper is "Ideas for Creating and Overcoming Student Silences"

 

 

 

 

Robert Pelton

Dr. Robert H. Pelton is the recipient of the Faculty of Engineering Research
Achievement Award. The award will be presented at the McMaster University,
Faculty of Engineering Applause and Accolades event on May 13 2010, to be held
at LIUNA Station.

 

 

 

Christopher Swartz

Chris Swartz and the MACC group won this year's prestigious NSERC Synergy Award.
Dr. Swartz is the recipient of the Leo Derikx Award. The award was presented at
a ceremony at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa on Monday Oct 19/09

For more information Click http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Media-Media/NewsRelease-CommuniqueDePresse_eng.asp?ID=162

 

 

John MacGregor

John MacGregor receives the Nordic Process Control Award, this Award is awarded for
lasting and significant contributions to the field of process control.
John F. MacGregor is tenth recipient of this award, for his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and use of statistical methods for process monitoring and optimization.
The award was presented to Professor MacGregor on January 29, 2009 during the 15th Nordic Process Control Workshop held in Porsgrunn, Norway.
The title of his inspiring award lecture was "Latent Variable Methods in Process Systems Engineering".

For more information, including previous recipients, see: http://www.nt.ntnu.no/users/skoge/npc/

John Brash

Professor John Brash is the winner of  the prestigious Founder's Award from the Society of Biomaterials.  The Founders Award is based on long-term, landmark contributions to the discipline of biomaterials.   The award will be presented at the Society for Biomaterials 2009 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX, April 22–25, 2009.  Dr. Brash was also the recipient of the Clemson Award for Basic Research from the Society of Biomaterials in 1994.

 

 

 

Bob Pelton

Dr. Robert H. Pelton will receive the 2009 Chemical Institute of Canada Macromolecular Science and Engineering Award. Awarded for distinguished contribution to macromolecular science or engineering. Sponsored by NOVA Chemicals Ltd. The award will be presented at the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition.  The recipient will be required to present an award lecture, at the conference or at a symposium of the Macromolecular Science and Engineering Division.

 

 

 

Tom Marlin

Tom Marlin will be awarded the D. G. Fisher Award for 2008 from the Systems and Control Division of the CSChE at the annual meeting held October 19-22 2008 in Ottawa. This is a well deserved recognition of Tom's important contributions to process control education and research, as well as academic-industrial research collaborations through MACC.

 

 

 

John MacGregor

John F. MacGregor has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His contributions span the areas of data analytic methods, advanced process control and polymer reaction engineering. Pioneering research on latent variable modeling approaches to interrogate large industrial databases led to an explosion in the use of these methods for the analysis, monitoring and control of industrial processes. Research on batch processes has been particularly influential. Recent research on digital imaging for process control and on the rapid development of new products is also noteworthy. His earlier research on polymer reaction engineering, involving fundamental modeling and advanced polymer property control, was instrumental in helping to define that field.

 

John Vlachopoulos

John Vlachopoulos is the winner of the Stanley G. Mason award for 2007. The award is presented to a Canadian rheologist, or a rheologist who has worked
in Canada, for exceptional contributions to the science of rheology. The award will be presented to John in the fall in an event to be organized in the Hamilton area.
John has presented his international intensive short course on polymer rheology and processing 60 times in 16 countries. He is a frequent lecturer in five languages (English, German, French, Spanish and Greek) in conferences and computer simulation.

 

 

Donald Woods

Don Woods, professor emeritus of chemical engineering, was presented with an honorary Doctor of Science degree at the convocation ceremony held at Hamilton Place on June 7/07 in recognition of his many contributions and achievements.

Don's reputation is that of an innovator in both chemical engineering and learning. He is perhaps most widely known as a pioneer of McMaster's distinctive learning strategies: inquiry and problem-based learning.

 

 

John Brash

John Brash, Director of the newly established McMaster School of Biomedical Engineering, was presented with the R.S. Jane Memorial Award at the 2006 annual meeting of the CSChE held in Sherbrooke Quebec on October 16, 2006 This award is presented to an individual who has made new significant contributions to chemical engineering or industrial chemistry in Canada. It is the premier award of The Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering. Dr. Brash has worked in biomaterials and biocompatibility research for some 35 years, with emphasis on materials for use in blood contact, which are required for devices such as vascular grafts, coronary stents and heart valves. He has been a faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering at McMaster since 1972.

 

 

John MacGregor

John MacGregor received the Award in Industrial Practice at the 2006 annual meeting of the CSChE held in Sherbrooke Quebec on October 16, 2006. This award recognizes a distinguished contribution in the application of chemical engineering or industrial chemistry to the industrial sphere. MacGregor joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at McMaster University in 1972, after working in industry for several years as a process specialist with Monsanto Company in Texas. He is a Distinguished University Professor and Dofasco Chair in Process Automation and Information Technology. He is also cofounder of the McMaster Advanced Control Consortium that is sponsored by many international companies.

 

 

Don Woods

Donald R. Woods (Emeritus Professor) was honored at the 2006 Faculty of Engineering Convocation with the President's Award for Instruction. This Award recognizes the contribution of an individual to education through innovation, achievement or continuing excellence in classroom or personal instruction. Don is the first winner of all three President's teaching awards, an unprecedent achievement, having previously won the President's Award for Course or Resource Design (1999, shared with Dr. Cam Crowe) and the inaugural President's Award for Educational Leadership (1993). Among the many awards and recognitions for his work in education, Don has been awarded honorary doctoral degrees from Queen's University and the University of Guelph, a 3M Teaching Fellowship and the OCUFA teaching award.

 

Kim Jones

Kim Jones receives CFI Leaders Opportunity Fund Award
Kim Jones received an award of $99,331 for new equipment
that will allow her to evaluate biomaterials at the cellular and
molecular level. She will be able to screen the biomaterials more
efficiently and inexpensively, allowing her to move to the next phase
of her research: the design of the next generation of biomaterials that
are themselves biologically active.

 

 

Shiping Zhu

Shiping Zhu, professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded a renewal of his Canada Research Chair in Polymer Science and Engineering. For the next five years as Canada Research Chair, Dr. Zhu plans to develop novel polymerization technologies for surface modification of various materials. These materials include metals, ceramics and other polymers whose modification can be for protective or catalytic purposes. For more information from the McMaster Daily News click here

 

 

Andy Hrymak

Andrew Hrymak (Chair and Professor, Chemical Engineering) was awarded the 2005 Excellence in Process Development Research Award by the Process Development Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers . The presentation was made on November 2, 2005 at the AIChE Annual Meeting held in Cincinnati. The award recognizes individuals who have made significant technical contributions to the advances in industrial process development, disseminated by means of well-documented materials

 

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