2017 Applause & Accolades
The annual Applause and Accolades Awards Gala recognizes engineering excellence among our distinguished alumni, faculty, staff and students, as well as influential community and corporate leaders.

L.W. Shemilt Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award

McMaster University Faculty of Engineering Leadership Award

Faculty of Engineering Research Achievement Award

Faculty of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award

Faculty of Engineering Exceptional Service Award
Arthur Heidebrecht, Professor Emeritus, Civil Engineering, McMaster University

Faculty of Engineering Entrepreneurship Award
Prashant Mhaskar, Canada Research Chair in Nonlinear and Fault-Tolerant Control, Tier 2 Renewal
Robert Pelton, Canada Research Chair in Interfacial Technologies, Tier 1 Renewal
Ravi Selvaganapathy, Canada Research Chair in Biomicrofluidics, Tier 2 Renewal
Christopher Anand, $120,000 NSERC Collaborative Research and Development Grant
Gianluigi Botton, $3,750,000 Canadian Foundation for Innovation Grant, Major Science Initiative
Jonathan David Barnes Bradley, $155,000 Canadian Foundation for Innovation Grant, John Evans Leader Fund
Ken Coley & Neslihan Dogan, $357,000 NSERC Collaborative Research and Development Grant
Paulin Coulibaly, $150,000 NSERC Strategic Network Enhancement Initiative
Emily Cranston, $130,000 NSERC Collaborative Research and Development Grant
Charles de Lannoy, $250,000 Canadian Foundation for Innovation Grant, John Evans Leader Fund
Neslihan Dogan, $169,000 NSERC Collaborative Research and Development Grant
Carlos Filipe, $125,000 NSERC Idea to Innovation Grant
Raja Ghosh, $125,000 NSERC Idea to Innovation Grant
Mukesh Jain, $492,000 NSERC Collaborative Research and Development Grant
Younggy Kim, $227,000 Southern ON Water Consortium, $140,000 ON Ministry of Research Early Researcher Award
Thia Kirubarajan, $786,000 NSERC Collaborative Research and Development Grant, $150,000 ON Centres of Excellence VIP II
Andrew Knights, $525,000 NSERC Strategic Partnership Grant
David Latulippe, Carlos Filipe, Younggy Kim & Prashant Mhaskar, $305,000 NSERC Collaborative Research and Development Grant
David Latulippe, $149,000 ON Centres of Excellence VIP II
Robert Pelton, $417,000 NSERC Collaborative Research and Development Grant
Andre Phillion, $114,000 NSERC Collaborative Research and Development Grant
Oleg Rubel, $200,000 Canadian Foundation for Innovation Grant, John Evans Leader Fund
Ravi Selvaganapathy, $240,000 NSERC Collaborative Health Research Projects Grant
Heather Sheardown, $4,000,000 ON Ministry of Research, Research Excellence Fund
Chang Qing Xu, $144,000 Southern ON Water Consortium
Rong Zheng, $935,000 NSERC Collaborative Research and Development Grant, $482,000 NSERC Strategic Partnership Grant
John Bandler, Officer of the Order of Canada (for microwave engineering)
Emily Cranston, American Chemical Society’s KINGFA Young Investigators Award
Wael El-Dakhakhni, New member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, John B. Scalzi Research Award from The Masonry Society
Ali Emadi, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
Ahmed Ghobarah, Listed among Civil Engineering’s Most Cited Researchers, a list developed for Shanghai Ranking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects
Jennifer Long, Appointed Educational Chair for the Canadian Institute of Management Hamilton Chapter Executive Board
Allan MacKenzie, Awarded the Chartered Manager Professional Designation from the Canadian Institute of Management
Peter Mascher, Fellow of the Electrochemical Society, Appointed to the Board of Directors of the Canadian Academy of Engineering
Aadil Merali Juma, Fellow of John Dobson Enactus
Shinya Nagasaki, Fellow, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo
David Wilkinson, Silver Medal from the Metallurgical and Materials Society of CIM
Igor Zhitomirsky, Recipient of the CMSC Canadian Metal Chemistry Award
Dan Centea, President’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching and Learning
Greg Wohl, President’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching and Learning
Samir Ziada, President’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision
Lydell Wiebe, McMaster Students Union Award for Excellence in Teaching, Faculty of Engineering
Philip Wood, McMaster Students Union Lifetime Achievement Award
Suvojit Ghosh, President’s Award for Outstanding Service
Diana Maltese, Veronika Czerneda Staff Award
Kristina Trollip, President’s Award for Outstanding Service
Terry Wagg, President’s Award for Outstanding Service
Kimia Aghasadeghi, Philip H Jones Award from the Canadian Association on Water Quality
Alison Bayzat, Ontario’s Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation Undergraduate Women in Engineering Scholarship
Monika Bialy, Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarships, Doctoral Program, NSERC
Chem-E Car Team (Daniel D’Souza, Reda Elsawi, Kelly Huyen, Marwan Murad & Kyle Pearce), 1st place at North Central Regional Competition at Illinois Institute of Technology
Byungjun (Kenny) Choi, B.K. Afghan Memorial Award, Hamilton Section, Chemical Institute of Canada
HINT (Ahmed Elmeligi, Jacob Jackson & Nawal Behih), prizes from The Forge, W Booth Merit Fund, OCE TalentEdge, Women’s Enterpreneurship Competition, Python’s Pit, Lion’s Lair and OBI Entrepreneur Competition
Ryan LaRue, Chancellor’s Gold Medal, Steve Bonk Scholarship from the Canadian Water & Wastewater Association
Kern Lee, Sanjit Mann & Carol Perrotta, 1st place for Design of Experiments Project by the American Society for Quality
Lumago (Melissa Houghton), Prizes from Spectrum Pitch competition, W Booth Merit Fund, OCE TalentEdge and OCE SmartStart Seed Fund
Jake Nease, Governor General Academic Medal
Cindy Nelles, CIS Top 8 Academic All-Canadians
Eric Nogard, Carley German, Jessica Middleton, Bret Pajor, Cody Van Der Kooi, Matthew Winters, Overall Winners of the Troitsky Bridge Building Competition
Taylor Steele, PhD Candidate, MSU Teaching Assistant Award
Tool-Linked (Christabel Aryeetey, Ana Laura Naranjo & Bob Yang), Prize from W Booth Merit Fund
Kurt Westhaver, Water Environment Association of Ontario Scholarship
Ian Prins, Jacoby Joukema, Mikhail Andrenkov, Or Almog, 1st place in Ontario Engineering Competition