Applause & Accolades 2016
The 2016 Applause and Accolades Gala, held at Hamilton's Liuna Station, recognized community leaders, influential alumni and the successes of our faculty members, staff, and students.
McMaster University Faculty of Engineering Leadership Award
Dr. Gilles Patry, President & CEO, Canada Foundation for Innovation (LL.D. ’09)
L.W. Shemilt Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award
Howard Shearer, Chief Executive, Hitachi Canada (B.Eng. ’77, Electrical Engineering)
Faculty of Engineering Research Achievement Award
Dr. David S. Wilkinson, Provost and Vice-President Academic, McMaster University
Faculty of Engineering Special Achievement Award for Teaching Excellence
Dr. Philip Wood, Director, Engineering I, McMaster University
Gianluigi Botton, Canada Research Chair in Electron Microscopy of Nanoscale Materials, renewed
Saeid Habibi, NSERC/Ford Canada Industrial Research Chair in Hybrid/Electric Vehicle (HEV) Powertrain Diagnostics, renewed
Todd Hoare, Canada Research Chair in Engineered Smart Materials
John Luxat, NSERC/UNENE Industrial Research Chair in Nuclear Safety Analysis, renewed
Leyla Soleymani, Canada Research Chair in Miniaturized Biomedical Devices
Faiez Alani, Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Engineering Education Member
Tracey Becker, $139,399 NSERC Grant
Gianluigi Botton, $4,000,000 NSERC Discovery Frontiers Grant; $536,000 NSERC Strategic
Grant; $1,473,000 Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Major Science Initiative
Jim Cotton, $1,900,000 Canadian Foundation for Innovation Grant
Emily Cranston, Early Researcher Award from Ontario MRI
Wael El-Dakhakhni, $120,000 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement
Wael El-Dakhakhni, John Luxat, Shinya Nagasaki, Pei Jun Guo, Dimitrios Konstantinidis,
Michael Tait, Tracey Becker, Lydell Weibe and Sarah Dickson, $1,650,000 NSERC
CREATE Grant
Ali Emadi and McMaster’s Institute for Automotive Research and Technology, $4,400,000 Ontario Research Fund
Qiyin Fang, $149,036 Canadian Foundation for Innovation Grant
Raja Ghosh and David Latulippe, $3,500,000 Ontario Research Fund Research Excellence Grant
Kathryn Grandfield, $61,889 Canadian Foundation for Innovation Grant
Peijun Guo, $120,000 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement
Peijun Guo and Michael Tait, $140,000 NSERC Research Tools and Instruments Grant
Saeid Habibi, Mo Elbestawi, Jim Cotton, Fengjun Yan, Samir Ziada, Ali Emadi, Nigel Schofield, and Gillian Goward, $1,650,000 NSERC CREATE Grant
Todd Hoare, Early Investigator Award, Canadian Biomaterials Society
Todd Hoare and David Latulippe, $370,000 NSERC Strategic Partnership Grant
Steve Hranilovic, University Scholar
Dimitrios Konstantinidis, $150,000 NSERC Research Tools and Instruments Grant
Ray LaPierre, $420,000 NSERC Strategic Partnership Grant; $476,000 NSERC Strategic Partnership Grant
Allan MacKenzie and Theomary Karamanis, Gold MarCom Award, Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals
Nicola Nicolici, $120,000 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement
Marek Niewczas, Canadian Metal Physics Award
Natalia Nikolova, $766,300 North Atlantic Treaty Organization Grant
Ghani Razaqpur, Horst Leipholz Medal, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering
Stephen Veldhuis, $398,380 Canadian Foundation for Innovation Grant
Lydell Wiebe, Canadian Institute of Steel Construction Award
Shiping Zhu, R.S. Jane Award, Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering
Saeid Habibi, Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Natalia Nikolova, Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering
Gu Xu, Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering
Tom Adams, President’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision
Tom Doyle, Impact Fellow, McMaster Institute for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Fei Geng, McMaster Student Union Merit Award; McMaster Student Union Faculty Award
Simon Haykin, IEEE James H. Mulligan Jr. Education Medal
Eu-gene Ng, McMaster Student Union Excellence in Teaching Award
Allan MacKenzie, John Dobson Enactus Fellow of the Year Award
Allan MacKenzie, Aadil Merali, Mike Justason, Jacqueline Crossley and Theomary Karamanis, M-Factor Competition, Silver Leaf Award of Merit, International Association of Business Communicators.
Jonathan Bradley, Barber Gennum Chair in Information Technology
Ken Coley, ArcelorMittal Dofasco Chair in Ferrous Metallurgy
Sarah Dickson, Director, McMaster Water Network
Wael El-Dakhakhni, Director, McMaster Institute for Multi-Hazard Systemic Risk Studies
Stephen Elop, Distinguished Executive in Residence
Ridha Khedri, Chair, Department of Computer and Software Engineering
Greig Mordue, ArcelorMittal Dofasco Chair in Manufacturing Policy
Michael Tait, Chair, Department of Civil Engineering
Distinguished Engineering Fellows
Tom Adams, Joseph Ip Distinguished Engineering Fellow
Jun Chen, Joseph Ip Distinguished Engineering Fellow
Emily Cranston, Joseph Ip Distinguished Engineering Fellow
Rong Zheng, Joseph Ip Distinguished Engineering Fellow
Peter Jonasson, Veronika Czerneda Staff Award
Ron Lodewyks, President’s Award for Outstanding Service
McMaster Eco Car Team, Year One Competition, Sixth Place
Carmen Bracho, Alan Mulally Scholarship, Ford Motor Company
Helen Brown and Natalie Perna, IBM and TD Bank Programming Challenge, First Place
Ahmed Elmeligi and Jacob Jackson, Spectrum STAND UP Pitch Competition, First Place
Darren Feenstra & Shooka Mahboubi, second place, Mars Fontana, National Association of Corrosion Engineers
Trung Ho, Yousif Lawand, Hiren Mistry and Badri Srinivasan, tied for first place, GLO-BUS Business Strategy Simulation
Spencer Imbrogno, Robert A. Auld Student Paper Competition, First Place
Alyssia Jovellanos, Student of Vision ABIE Award, Anita Borg Institute
Melissa Larocque, Water Environment Association of Ontario Scholarship
Ryan LaRue, B.K. Afghan Memorial Award, Hamilton Section, Chemical Institute of Canada
Cindy Nelles, Americas Rugby Breakthrough Player of the Year
Hoda Rezaee Kaviani, Three Minute Thesis Competition, Second Place
Philip Wood, Honourary membership to the McMaster Alumni Association