2018 Outstanding Thesis Award winners and nominees
The Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies chairs the Selection Committee that determines winners of the university’s Outstanding Thesis Awards; committee members include graduate faculty members representing diverse research disciplines.
To be considered, students must meet the following criteria:
- Cumulative GPA of 3.7 or higher.
- Received an outcome of Acceptable without Required Revisions or Acceptable with Minor Revisions at their thesis defence.
- No academic offenses on their record.
2018 Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award
This award recognizes a graduating master’s student who has written an outstanding thesis that has made or is expected to make a significant contribution to his or her field of study.
Winner:
- Mohammed Alziadeh, Master of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering
- Thesis title: Flow-sound Interaction Mechanism of a Single Spirally Finned Cylinder in Cross-Flow
Nominees:
- Nurul Cader, Master of Health Sciences
- Exploring Experiences of Mental Health in Second-Generation South Asian Canadians
- Brandon Drenikow, Master of Science in Computer Science
- Thesis title: Vixen: A Games User Research Tool for Collection and Interactive Visualization of User Testing Data
- Dallas Hill, Master of Arts in Criminology
- Thesis title: Climbing the Corporate Ladder: Desired Skills and Successful Psychopaths
- Ulana Pidzamecky, Master of Arts in Education
- Thesis title: Investigating the Role of Informal Online Communities of Practice in Professional Learning: The Experience of Second/Foreign Language Teachers
2018 Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award
This award recognizes a graduating PhD student who has written an outstanding doctoral thesis that represents a remarkably impactful contribution to his or her field of research.
Winner:
- Amjad Farah, PhD in Nuclear Engineering
- Thesis title: CFD Determination of Fluid and Geometry Related Localized Heat Transfer Phenomena for Supercritical Water Flow
Nominee:
- Abdullah Al-Zahrani, PhD in Mechanical Engineering
- Thesis title: Investigation of a Novel Temperature Solid Oxide Electrolyzer for Solar Hydrogen Production
