The EGCC Organized 1st Engineering Graduate Research (EGR) Conference to exchange academic knowledge, and provide the opportunity to graduate students and industries to interact and connect.

Schedule
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Time |
Agenda |
Venue |
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12:00 pm – 1:00 pm |
Opening session
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Room 1B71 |
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1:00 pm – 3:00 pm |
Poster session presented by graduate students |
1st Floor of Engineering Building |
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3:00 pm – 3:30 pm |
Closing session
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Room 1B71 |
List of accepted posters
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Presenter |
Department |
Title of poster |
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Patra Biswa |
Chemical and Biological Engineering |
Microwave-assisted Extraction of Sea-buckthorn Oil for Shelf life Enhancement in Edible Oils |
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Adam Leik |
Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering |
Evaluating the feasibility of using guanidinium salts as a means of in-situ soil strengthening |
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Aghababaei Aylin |
Chemical and Biological Engineering |
Site energy distribution and kinetic studies of carbamazepine adsorption on heterogeneous adsorbents |
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Alivia Mukherjee |
Chemical and Biological Engineering |
Valorization of exhausted coffee grounds to trap recalcitrant CO2 from flue gas |
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Porras Mendoza Luisa |
Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering |
Data Mining and Statistical Analysis of Hydraulic Fracture Performance in the Viking Formation |
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Azar Khorsandi |
Chemical and Biological Engineering |
Non-destructive methods to quantify drought stress in wheat varieties |
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Jose Alvim Berkenbrock |
Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Numerical analysis of the impact of fabrication artifacts on the electric current in a resistive pulse nanodetector |
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Botana Anakaren |
Chemical and Biological Engineering |
Synthesis, characterization and adsorption application of alumina-based adsorbent for the selective removal of sulfur and nitrogen compounds from model feed |
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Bryce Marcotte |
Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering |
Cost effective automated solutions for specialized geotechnical testing |
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Chichilo,Farley |
Biomedical Engineering |
X-ray Induced Sm-Valence Conversion in Fluoroaluminate Glasses as a Tool for Investigating Dose Distributions and Electron Transport in Microbeam Radiation Therapy |
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Huq Shafi |
Chemical and Biological Engineering |
Catalytic ozonation of emerging pollutants in wastewater using manganese nanorods and reduced graphene oxide as catalysts |
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Dylan Scheibelhoffer |
Chemical and Biological Engineering |
Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Flaxseed Oil to Produce Omega 3 and Omega 6 Free Fatty Acids |
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Kelvin Sattler |
Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering |
Computer Microcontrollers as Low-Cost Geotechnical Dataloggers |
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Rishav Chand |
Chemical and Biological Engineering |
Evaluating the Potential for Blending and Co-processing of Hydrothermal Liquefaction Bio-oil with Hydrotreated Heavy Gas Oil |
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Shima Masoumi |
Chemical and Biological Engineering |
Production and characterization of bio-crude oil and hydro-char obtained from hydrothermal liquefaction of microalgae |
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Farzad Dehghan |
Biomedical Engineering |
PVDF Nano-fibers Based Microfluidic Fuel Cell |
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Easwaran Krishnan |
Mechanical Engineering |
Fixed bed regenerators for building energy recovery |
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Bicheng xing |
Mechanical Engineering |
Reversibility of Crystallization Fouling in Liquid-to-Air Membrane Energy Exchangers |
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Anders Hunter |
Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering |
Groundwater-Surface Water-Atmosphere Interactions of a Terminal Wetland on the Canadian Prairies |
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Hadi Ramin |
Mechanical Engineering |
Energy recovery exchanger for energy conservation in buildings |
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Jude Okolie |
Chemical and Biological Engineering |
Hydrothermal gasification of soybean straw and flax straw for hydrogen-rich syngas production |
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Mohanad Zaghloul |
Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering |
Does one distribution fit all? Proof of concept on streamflow across Canada |
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Najafi Atia |
Biomedical Engineering |
Implementation of Virtual Reality Haptic Simulator on a 5DOF Robot in Teleoperated Sonography |
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onu olughu |
Chemical and Biological Engineering |
Environmental Performance of Camelina Straw Pellets through Life Cycle Assessment |
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Peyman Ailzadeh |
Chemical and Biological Engineering |
Pretreatment of Forest Residue by Torrefaction and Steam Explosion - Techno-economic Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment |
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Pham son |
Electrical and Computer Engineering |
A fusarium spore trap and detection system |
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Reisha Peters |
Chemical and Biological Engineering |
Leaf-Light Interactions Scanning the Surface |
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Morias Fernandes Serafim, Felipe |
Mechanical Engineering |
Stress Corrosion Cracking Behavior of Selected Stainless Steels in Saturated Potash Brine Solution |
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Sandhi Ketan |
Mechanical Engineering |
Corrosion behavior of Ni coated stainless steel 316 in molten fluoride salt (NaF-LiF-KF) for generation IV nuclear reactor application |
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Shafe Soroush |
Biomedical Engineering |
Development of a Robotic System for Guiding a Surgical Needle based on Fluoroscopy Imaging |
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Sudiptoshekor mondol |
Mechanical Engineering |
Mechanical Stability Analysis of the Topology Optimized Girder Base for a Ultralow Emittance Canadian Light Source |
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Yixuan Wu Vicky |
Chemical and Biological Engineering |
Redox Potential-Controlled 1,3-Propanediol Production from Glycerol by Lactobacillus panis PM1 |
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Raheem Elemuren |
Mechanical Engineering |
Erosion-Corrosion Damage in Potash Slurry Pipelines |
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Peng Chao |
Mechanical Engineering |
Effect of boronizing on properties of steels used in potash processing facilities |
Prize winners:
- Felipe Serafim – Best Poster Presentation 1st Place
Supervisors: Dr. Akindele Odeshi, Dr. Ike Oguocha and Dr. Richard Evitts
Poster Title: Stress Corrosion Cracking Behavior of Selected Stainless Steels in Saturated Potash Brine Solution
- Raheem Elemuren – Best Poster Presentation 2nd Place
Supervisor: Dr. Akindele Odeshi
Poster Title: Erosion-Corrosion Damage in Potash Slurry Pipelines
- Aylin Aghababaei– Best Poster Presentation 3rd Place
Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Niu
Poster Title: Site Energy Distribution and Kinetic studies of Carbamazepine Adsorption on Heterogeneous Adsorbents
Poster judges
1 Cao, Tate
2 Wang, Fei
3 Giahi, Mohammad
4 Hosseinzade Halqesari, Hadi
5 Huang, Sophie
6 Koughia, Kirill
7 Kurhade, Ankeeta
8 Massie, Merle
9 Papp, Zsuzsa
10 Shahbazi, Karim
11 Terry, Sandra
12 Torres Tello, Julio
13 Zoroufchi Benis, Khaled