Several students in Dr. Mustafa Ahmed’s Environmental Engineering Course (ENVE 4101) have been recognized for their work in developing best practices in waste management. The awards were sponsored by Morrison Hershfield Limited’s Ottawa Environmental Department and were presented at a recent ceremony hosted by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Bryan Koehler was presented with the Award of Distinction for Top Student, while the Term Project Awards were presented to students with the top term projects in “Best Management Practices for Mitigation of Landfill Gas Emissions.” The Term Project Awards were given to Harpreet Sran, Nasrin Alizadeh Kajouri, Phuong Nguyen, Farzaneh Ghelichkhani, Adel Chowdhury, Alyssa Gladish, Amanda Pappin, Hai Bin Dong, Tahmineh Tehrani and Amanda Lynch. The project groups presented best management practices in Canada, the United States, Sweden, the Netherlands, England and Japan.
Andrew Harkness presents the Morrison Hershfield Limited Award of Distinction to Bryan Koehler.
The jury was composed of Dr. Paul Van Geel, professor and chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Dr. Mustafa Ahmed, the course instructor and environmental engineer at Morrison Hershfield; and Jamie Bonany, the course’s teaching assistant.
“It is great to have Morrison Hershfield sponsor this award,” said Van Geel. “The students did a great job and appreciate having a local consulting firm participate in and support their efforts.”
The award certificates and cash prizes were presented by Andrew Harkness, manager of the Ottawa Environmental Department at Morrison Hershfield.
“Morrison Hershfield was very pleased to return as a representative of the consulting engineering industry and to partner with Carleton University in sponsoring these awards,” said Harkness. “Once again, the students’ work was extremely impressive and they are all to be congratulated.”
The ENVE 4101 course provides students with a comprehensive background in waste management and includes topics such as logistics of waste, landfill operations, hazardous waste management, design of composting facilities, waste to energy and mine waste.
About Morrison Hershfield Limited:
Morrison Hershfield (www.morrisonhershfield.com) is an employee-owned company operating in Canada and the United States, providing integrated multi-disciplinary engineering and related expertise to a broad range of public and private sector clients. The company provides services in the following sectors: Environmental, Water and Wastewater, Buildings, Transportation, Energy & Industrial, Technology and Telecommunications, and Land Development.
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Friday, June 3, 2011 in News Releases
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