Congratulations to Graeme Sabiston!

Graeme recently graduated with his MASc and has been hired as a flight test engineer at a Silicon Valley aerospace startup.

Congratulations on your wonderful achievement, we wish you the best of luck in California; you will be very missed in the lab!

Multiple SMSD Scholarship Recipients

Congratulations to many of our students on earning various scholarships. We are all proud to see your hard work pay off—keep up the excellent work!

Benjamin Blackford: NSERC Scholarship
Kevin Fritz: R.S. McLaughlin Award
Stephen Roper: OGS (Ontario Graduate Scholarship)
Luke Crispo: OGS
Emily Dowdell: OGS
Kevin Conklin: QEII Graduate Scholarship
Evan Munroe: Zurbrigg Memorial Scholarship

Successful Masters Thesis Defense

Congratulations to Jaryd Traer who has successfully defended his Master's thesis on “High Fidelity Additive Manufacturing Process Modelling for Residual Stress and Deformation.”

Jaryd has contributed heavily to the SMSD group and will be missed. We wish you success in your future endeavours!

Welcome New SMSD Members!

Congratulations to Rubens Bohrer, Kevin Conklin, Luke Crispo, and Evan Munroe on joining the SMSD lab!

Rubens is pursuing his PhD in SMSD. He received his MASc at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica and spent five years as a development engineer at Embraer S.A.

Kevin, Luke, and Evan all earned their BASc in mechanical engineering at Queen's Applied Science and have decided to continue their studies as MASc students in SMSD.

Stephen Roper Brass Wrench Award!

Congratulations Stephen on receiving the Brass Wrench Award for the second year in a row!

The “Brass Wrench” Teaching Assistant Award is selected by fourth year mechanical engineering students in recognition of outstanding contributions to MECH 465.

Successful Masters Thesis Defenses

Congratulations to Luke Ryan and Christopher Woischwill who have both successfully defended their Master's theses on “Finite Element Analysis of Nanometal-Polymer Hybrids with Experimental Validation” and “Large Scale Topology Optimization.”

Luke and Chris have both made great contributions to the lab during their time in the SMSD group. We wish you all the best with your future endeavours!