Vol 6 Number 2
Monday April 7, 2014.
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
350 Victoria Street
Toronto, ON, M5B 2K3
Tel: 416-979-5303 Fax: 416-979-5265
CHAIR’S OFFICE
Sincere Congratulations to:
 Dr. Seth Dworkin, for his appearance on CTV Toronto News for the "Lights
out for Earth Hour" segment which was broadcast on March 29, 2014.
 Dr. Habiba Bougherara for her Ryerson University Collaborative Research
Award.
 Dr. Mark Towler for the launching of a product through his company
Crescent Diagnostics (www.crescentdx.com).
RESEARCH IN THE DEPARTMENT
Announcements
 RU Interprofessional? IE is on its way!: On March 3rd, 2014, industrial
engineering students in IND300 (Intro to Management) engaged with
nursing students in NSE21 (Nursing Theory Concepts, Individual and
Family) on an interprofessional case for design in healthcare, inspired by
collaborators at the Centre for Innovation in Complex Care (thecicc.com).
IE students also got a chance to tour CICC facilities based in the Toronto
General Hospital and attend CICC operational rounds on March 25th to
learn about current projects, the hospital work environment and important
skills needed to succeed in improving healthcare through innovation. This
initiative is co-led by Michele Bristow, Instructor (MIE), and Charlotte Lee,
Professor (Nursing), in collaboration with Megan Omstead, Practicum
Coordinator (Nutrition), Dr. Howard Abrams, CICC Director, and Shoshana
Hahn-Goldberg, CICC Post-Doctoral Fellow. Research assistance is
provided by Aaron Bechtold, undergraduate (Nursing), who is generously
supported by the MIE Department. This experience will be used to
stimulate dialogue at a roundtable session called "Developing
Interprofessional Learning Activities and Assessments" at the University of
Waterloo Teaching and Learning Conference, Opportunities and New
Directions on May 1st, 2014. If you are interested in learning more, contact
Michele Bristow, michele.bristow@ryerson.ca.
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Faculty Grants
 Congratulations to Dr. Bougherara, Dr. Fung, Dr. Papini, Dr. Ravindran,
Dr. Saghir, Dr. Searcy, and Dr. Towler for their NSERC Discovery Grants,
and to Dr. Ravindran for his NSERC RTI Grant.
 Congratulations to Dr. Towler and his team for their successful
NSERC/CIHR Collaborative Health Research Project entitled
“Transformative bioglass coatings for surgical applications” worth close to
$800,000. The team includes Dr. Towler as Science Principle
Investigator, Dr. Schemitsch from St. Michael’s Hospital as Health
Principle Investigator, Dr. Papini from Ryerson MIE and Dr. Standish from
Ryerson ECE as collaborators, Induce Biologics as commercial end user,
and Dr. Paul Zalzal (McMaster University) as clinical end user.
 Congratulations to Dr. Naylor who received a combined OCE/NSERC
Engage/Connect Canada Grant ($55,000) entitled, "Computational Fluid
Dynamics (CFD) Analysis of Building Integrated Photovoltaic/Thermal
Systems". This is a collaborative project with Dr. Fung. The industrial
partner is s2e Technologies Inc., an Ontario-based company that focuses
on the development of large-scale solar photovoltaic projects.
 Congratulations to Dr. Tsai, who received a Dean's Research Fund - Tools
Competition grant of $15,000 for Experimental tools for microfluidic
particle synthesis and characterization.
 Congratulations to Dr. Bener, on her Engage grant with Blackberry starting
on March 1st.
 Congratulations to Dr. Neumann and Dr. Salustri, who received a Dean’s
Teach Fund Grant of $25,000 for their projct “Developing a Model for
Innovation in Undergraduate Engineering Education - The Systematic
Integration of Human Centred Design”.
Student Research Awards
 Congratulations to PhD student Francesco D’Elia who won an Alexander
von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow Award, tenable in Germany. This is the
first such award ever for a Ryerson doctoral student. He will be availing an
opportunity to carry out light metals research at the Centre for Materials
and Coastal Research (Max Planck Institute), Geesthacht, Germany.
 Congratulations to PhD student Alpeshkumar Macwan, for being awarded
an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (PGS-D category).
 Congratulations to MASc student Hamideh Zakeri Hosseinabadi, winner of
the Non-Ferrous Foundry Society-Ray Butler Memorial Merit Scholarship
Award and the American Foundry Society Ontario Chapter – Merit
Scholarship Award.
 Congratulations to PhD student Navid Ekrami, who has received an
IBPSA-Canada eSim 2014 Student Travel Award to attend the eSim 2014
Conference in Ottawa and present his paper entitled “Effectiveness of a
Ventilated Concrete Slab on an Air Source Heat Pump Performance in
Cold.”
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Congratulations to undergraduate students Jarrod Schwartz, winner of the
American Foundry Society Ontario Chapter – Merit Scholarship Award,
and Eli Vandersluis, Canadian Foundry Society- Past President
Scholarship Award, and Canadian Foundry Education Foundation Modern Technology Solutions Inc. (MTSI) Scholarship Award.
Refereed Journal Publications:
 N Hakimi, SH Tsai, C Cheng, DK Hwang. One‐Step Two‐Dimensional
Microfluidics‐Based Synthesis of Three‐Dimensional Particles, Advanced
Materials 26 (9), (2014), 1393–1398.
 A Ahadi, C Giraudet, H Jawada, F Croccolo, H Bataller, MZ Saghir,
Experimental, theoretical and numerical interpretation of thermodiffusion
separation for a non-associating binary mixture in liquid/porous layers,
International Journal of Thermal Sciences 80 (2014), 108-117.
 M Eslamian, MZ Saghir, On thermophoresis modeling in inert nanofluids,
International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 80 (2014), 58-64.
 AW Wren, BM Adams, D Pradhan, MR Towler, NP Mellott, Titaniumvanadium oxide nanocomposite thin films: Synthesis, characterization and
antibacterial activity, Materials Chemistry and Physics 144 (2014) 538546.
 L Shen, A Coughlan, M Towler, M Hal, Degradable borate glass
polyalkenoate cements, J Mater Sci: Mater Med (2014) 25:965–973.
 İ Erol, S Sencer, A Özmen, C Searcy, Fuzzy MCDM framework for
locating a nuclear power plant in Turkey, Energy Policy 67 (2014) 186–
197.
 V Chernov, MJ Thomson, SB Dworkin, NA Slavinskaya, U Riedel, Soot
Formation with C1 and C2 Fuels using an Improved Chemical Mechanism
for PAH Growth, Combust. Flame, 161 (2014) 592-601.
 D Parkes, D Westerbaan, SS Nayak, Y Zhou, F Goodwin, S Bhole, DL
Chen, Tensile properties of fiber laser welded joints of high strength low
alloy and dual-phase steels at warm and low temperatures, Materials and
Design, 2014, 56, 193-199.
 VK Patel, SD Bhole, DL Chen, Ultrasonic spot welding of aluminum to high
strength low alloy steel: Microstructure, tensile and fatigue properties,
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 2014, 45A, 2055-2066.
 VK Patel, SD Bhole, DL Chen, Characterization of ultrasonic spot welded
joints of Mg-to-galvanized and ungalvanized steel with a tin interlayer,
Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 2014, 214(4), 811-817.
 D Sarker, J Friedman, DL Chen, Influence of pre-strain on de-twinning
activity in an extruded AM30 magnesium alloy, Materials Science and
Engineering A, 2014, 605, 73-79.
 DR Ni, DL Chen, J Yang, ZY Ma, Low cycle fatigue properties of friction
stir welded joints of a semi-solid processed AZ91D magnesium alloy,
Materials and Design, 2014, 56, 1-8.
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SQ Wang, JH Liu, DL Chen, Effect of strain rate and temperature on strain
hardening behavior of a dissimilar joint between Ti-6Al-4V and Ti17 alloys,
Materials and Design, 2014, 56, 174-184.
N Tahreen, DL Chen, M Nouri, DY Li, Effects of aluminum content and
strain rate on strain hardening behavior of cast magnesium alloys during
compression, Materials Science and Engineering A, 2014, 594, 235-245.
D Sarker, DL Chen, Dependence of compressive deformation on prestrain and loading direction in an extruded magnesium alloy: texture,
twinning and de-twinning, Materials Science and Engineering A, 2014,
596, 134-144.
D Westerbaan, D Parkes, SS Nayak, DL Chen, E Biro, F Goodwin, Y
Zhou, Effects of concavity on tensile and fatigue properties in fiber laser
welding of automotive steels, Science and Technology of Welding and
Joining, 2014, 19(1), 60-68.
FA Mirza, DL Chen, DJ Li, XQ Zeng, Cyclic deformation of rare-earth
containing magnesium alloys, Advanced Materials Research, 2014, 891892, 391-396.
SQ Wang, JH Liu, DL Chen, Influence of heat treatment on fatigue
resistance of electron beam welded dissimilar titanium alloy joints,
Advanced Materials Research, 2014, 891-892, 1539-1544.
GD Wen, TJ Ma, WY Li, JL Li, HZ Guo, DL Chen, Cyclic deformation
behavior of linear friction welded Ti6Al4V joints, Materials Science and
Engineering A, 2014, 597, 408-414.
SQ Wang, JH Liu, ZX Lu, DL Chen, Cyclic deformation of dissimilar
welded joints between Ti-6Al-4V and Ti17 alloys: Effect of strain ratio,
Materials Science and Engineering A, 2014, 598, 122-134.
Q Chang, CP Zhang, HQ Ru, JL Yang, DL Chen, Hydroxyapatite
reinforced with Ti-Fe particle: correlation between composition,
microstructure and mechanical properties, Advances in Applied Ceramics,
2014, 113(2), 108-113.
SK Shaha, F Czerwinski, W Kasprzak, DL Chen, Work hardening and
texture during compression deformation of the Al-Si-Cu-Mg alloy modified
with V, Zr and Ti, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2014, 593, 290-299.
CY Zhang, DL Chen, AA Luo, Joining 5754 automotive aluminum alloy 2mm-thick sheets using ultrasonic spot welding, Welding Journal, 2014, 93,
131s-138s.
Graduate Studies
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Congratulations to Amirhossein Ahadi and Alireza Seifzadeh, who have
passed their preliminary PhD Dissertation exams successfully.
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Email your submissions in the last week of each month to
Dr. Marcello Papini, mpapini@ryerson.ca
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