Safety and Sustainability

Melanie Kowalski-FlemingMelanie Kowalski-Fleming will share her experience of the workplace injury of her husband in a presentation Monday hosted by the Faculty of Engineering.

Presentation to promote culture of workplace safety

Melanie Kowalski-Fleming will share her experience of the workplace injury of her husband in a presentation Monday hosted by the Faculty of Engineering.

MSc candidate Dennis Otieno contributes to water quality monitoring in the Detroit RiverMSc candidate Dennis Otieno contributes to water quality monitoring in the Detroit River.

MSc candidate helps monitor water quality in connecting channels of the Great Lakes Basin

Dennis Otieno, an MSc candidate from the Lake Victoria basin in Kenya, is gaining hands-on experience with the Laurentian Great Lakes by contributing to water quality monitoring in the Detroit River, a connecting channel of the Great Lakes.

The project is part of the Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) connecting channels monitoring program. Sampling sites along the connecting channels of the Great Lakes have been established and are continually monitored to evaluate the year-round distribution of nutrients and suspended sediments transported between lakes.

Interaction between steel and concrete subject of study

“Faster and more efficient construction,” says professor Niel Van Engelen, “and developing new methods for faster production of commercial and residential spaces is a need.”

In collaboration with civil engineering professor, Dr. Somma, at the University of Udine, Dr. Van Engelen, a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Master’s students Tommaso Dorbolo and Endin Dafota and research associate Hamed Amini Tehrani are testing a new method, which involves concrete-filled steel tubes.