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Berguist wins international SWANA award

Courtney Berguist has been awarded the Robert P. Stearns scholarship from the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) This scholarship is awarded to a full-time student who is entering or is...

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Engineering Student Builds Schools for a Sustainable Future in Nicaragua

Parker Armstrong in Nicaragua Parker Armstrong, an Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Engineering student, traded classes for concrete this summer as he traveled to Nicaragua to complete an...

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IMS helps conserve Kasbah Taourirt in Morocco

The oasis valleys of southern Morocco are home to thousands of earthen kasbahs and ksours, or fortified earthen settlements. Carleton’s Immersive Media Studio (IMS) partnered with the Getty...

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Basu featured on NSERC website –“Improving water quality for communities”

Innovative College-University collaboration leads to new water treatment technology. To read more click here.

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PhD student Oztaner wins Ontario Trillium Scholarship

Yasar Burak Oztaner has won the Ontario Trillium Scholarship, which is one of the prestigious scholarships for international students in Ontario, Canada.  This scholarship program serves as a...

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Gilani wins GRIT award

Sara Gilani was one of seven winners of this years Graduate Research and Innovative Thinking (GRIT) award. Sara Gilani is monitoring and modelling occupant behaviors for the prediction of building...

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Professor O’Brien guest speaker at Better Building Breakfast

Prof Liam O’Brien will be the guest speaker at December’s Better Buildings Breakfast. The topic is Energy-intensive building occupants: illogical or should it have been predicted. For more information...

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Gunay awarded Governor General’s Medal and University Medal For Outstanding...

Congratulations to PhD student Burak Gunay! Gunay will be awarded the Governor General’s Medal – Graduate level and the University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work – Doctoral Level at the upcoming...

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CIMS helps document earthquake damage in Myanmar.

Carleton’s Immersive Media Studio (CIMS) and CyArk have collaborated with UNESCO to deploy the latest technologies in documenting earthquake-damaged monuments in Bagan, Myanmar.  The team worked...

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Creating Confidence: Resilience of Supply Chains Workshop

Carleton University held a high level workshop on Creating Confidence: Resilience of Supply Chains on October 24-25, 2016.  Delegates from Canada, the USA and the World Bank made presentations on key...

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CREATE students compete in APTI bridge competition in Texas

As part of this year’s annual conference, the Association for Preservation Technology International (APTI) launched a student competition that challenged intercollegiate teams to design and erect a...

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Sherwood takes students on “hands on” trip

Professor Ted Sherwood and students of CIVE 4403/5200 spend a day at the Ontario Masonry Training Centre in Orleans, learning how to build masonry walls.

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Buckets to Rain Barrels returns to Tanzania

A group of students and professors from Carleton’s Faculty of Engineering and Design returned to Tanzania over the December break, returning early January 2017. They spent their time furthering their...

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McKay awarded 2017 Contract Instructor Teaching Award

Jamie McKay (Peng) is Principal with Morrison Hershfield Limited Consulting Engineers in the Ottawa, Ontario office and has been in the Engineering/Sustainability field for over 15 years. Since 2012,...

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World Water Day marked with seminar by Brocklehurst

Carleton University’s Global Water Institute celebrated World Water Day (March 22) with the seminar Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in the Era of the SDGs – New Directions and Emerging Trends presented...

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PhD student Sujit Das one of top 10 finalists in 3MT

PhD student Sujit Das was one of the top 10 finalist in the 3 Minute Thesis Competition held on March 15. Das is supervised by Professor Ata Khan. The 3MT is a celebration of graduate student research...

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Award winners honoured at JA Lecture

The annual John Adjeleian Lecture was held April 11, 2017 during which the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering recognizes graduate students that have excelled in their academic work. This...

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Carleton students win Sheflin student paper competition

Members of the group are Samantha Champagne, Kailey De Silva, Paige Waldock, Carter Shieck, Sandra Lunn. Their advisor was Professor Scott Bucking, on the left. A Carleton University Civil Engineering...

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Bennet places in Top Ten at 3MT

Isis Bennet, a Civil Engineering master’s student placed in the Top Ten of the 2017 Three Minute Thesis competition. Her topic was “Promoting Office Energy Conservation.” Watch Bennet’s video here.

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Bucking wins Teaching Award

The Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) and the Office of the Associate Vice-President (Teaching and Learning) announced the outstanding educators who have been named 2017 Carleton...

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