Student Achievements and Awards

Recognizing Outstanding Teaching Assistants

The Faculty of Engineering recognizes the important role played by teaching assistants (TAs) in undergraduate education. As a result, the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award was created to acknowledge TAs who excel in their activities. The award is presented once a year to up to three (3) persons who are TAs or Undergraduate Student Course Assistants and who have demonstrated excellence in teaching scholarship and service. Awardees will receive a monetary award and a certificate from the Faculty of Engineering.  Nominations are now being sought for courses taught in the Winter 2013 session.

• Outstanding_Teaching_Assistant -_Guidelines_(Winter 2013)
• Outstanding Teaching Assistant - Nomination Form (Winter 2013)

Student Award of Merit from "L'ordre des ingénieurs du Quebec - OIQ

The Student Award of Merit is part of the program devoted to the next generation of engineers. It seeks to recognize the concern for excellence shown by engineering students, members of the OIQ Student Section, whose academic results and social and community commitment reflect the values of the profession. Fulltime undergraduates who are members of the OIQ in good standing may apply for this cash prize.

The second prize, (provided by TD Assurance Meloche Monnex) was awarded to Chemical Engineering student Yonathan Lipsitz. Lipsitz is the vice president of the Engineering Undergraduate Students Association as well as a coordinator of the “Library Improvement Fund”.

Pictured here are (left to right) Marie Cacchione, Director of client relations, TD Assurance Meloche Monnex, Yonathan Lipsitz, Chemical Engineering student, and Maud Cohen, president of l’Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec.

Previous Outstanding Teaching Assistants

Chemical Engineering Students Win Environmental Prize

Third-year Chemical Engineering students Omer Dor and David Morris are the 2011 recipients of the TD Friends of the Environment Foundation TD Go Green Challenge Award. Each student received a $10,000 prize and a 12-week summer internship with the FEF Foundation. The McGill duo was honoured for what was termed an innovative and highly creative carbon dioxide chemical conversion system. The team's project is described in this video: Integrated Energy & Food Greenhouse

The prestigious TD Go Green Challenge Award includes a $100,000 payment from TD to McGill to support on-campus sustainability initiatives. The McGill Engineering students competed against 132 entries from across Canada.

The TD Friends of the Environment Foundation is a national organization that was formed by TD Bank Financial Group. It has a grassroots focus that funds local projects dedicated to preserving the environment. Chemical Engineering Department Professor Alejandro Rey said that his department’s “long tradition of research-inspired teaching provides fertile ground for engineering solutions to pressing environmental, energy and sustainability challenges,” and he praised the two student winners for “their outstanding creative and academic skills.”

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Recognizing Outstanding Teaching Assistants

Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation 20 Years of Supporting Women in Engineering. Ms Webster is a post-professional M.Arch. student, enrolled in the History and Theory of Architecture option. Since 2005, she has been a positive force in campus life as a member of the first Bachelor of Arts and Science Integrative Council, serving as the VP Internal, VP Arts External and finally as President. Under her presidency, the council produced the first issue of the journal Ampersand and developed a new website. In her fourth year, Julia was elected Vice-President Internal of the Students' Society of McGill University. Julia was also involved in the creation of the 2009 SSMU Handbook, an acting editor of the Old McGill yearbook and a Photo Editor of the McGill Tribune.

Best Student Paper/Poster Award

CANEUS Fly-By-Wireless 2009 Workshop, held earlier this summer. Both National and International students ran for this competition where judging was conducted by a panel of six industry representatives.

Graduate Funding site for more information about the funding available for graduate students at the Faculty.

Lyceum Traveling Fellowship in Architecture

Lyceum Traveling Fellowship in Architecture competition. The McGill submissions were projects developed in the U3 studio sections of Profs. Tom Balaban, Howard Davies, and Robert Claiborne.

The complete story at: School of Architecture Announcements

2009 Microwave Prize

Dr Schwartz, Plant, and Azaña received their award at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium on June 10, 2009.

McGill Engineering Students Win the Hybrid Race

McGill’s triumph was due in no small part to its experience building and racing hybrid snowmobiles in other SAE-sponsored competitions, according to graduate student and team leader Simon Ouellette. “Most of the people on our team were also on our electric snowmobile team,” he says. The combined effort keeps them busy most of the year.

Although McGill’s vehicle hadn’t changed dramatically from last year’s, the students were surprised by how much better their car performed. “It was fixing all of the little things we didn’t like about last year’s car that added up,” Ouellette says.

Despite their experience, the McGill team still faced a problem that other teams did not: “We didn’t get much time to drive our car before the competition because it’s still too cold in Montreal in March and April,” Ouellette says.

Zero Emission Champions

The McGill Electric snowmobile team won the "zeroemission" category at the 2007 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge held in Houghton, Michigan. The team won 1st for Overall, Best Design, Innovation. The event is an intercollegiate engineering design competition that challenges students to re-engineer an existing snowmobile for improved emission and noise while maintaining or improving its original performance characteristics.

Winner of the Governor General's Gold Medal

Dr. Joshua Schwartz received the Governor General's Gold Medal at convocation this year for being the top graduating student receiving a Ph.D. or Masters in any discipline of the Natural Sciences and Engineering. He also received the D. W. Ambridge Prize as top PhD graduate in Electrical Engineering