Past award recipients

Master’s Outstanding Thesis Award recipients

2023
Cassandre Dion Lariviere
Thesis title: The Effects of Rapport Building on Information Disclosure in Virtual Interviews
Master of Science in Forensic Psychology
2022
Jennifer Robb
Thesis title: ChangeMakers: Exploring Social Consciousness through Making and the Internet of Things
Master of Arts in Education
2021
Maciej Lacki
Thesis title: Analysis, Development, and Control of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Passive Haptic Devices
Master of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering
2020
Samantha Stahlke
Thesis title: Synthesizing Play: Exploring the Use of Artificial Intelligence to Evaluate Game User Experience
Master of Science in Computer Science
2019
Leanne Elliott
Thesis title: Parents’ Perspectives of the Secondary Effects of an Early Motor Skill Intervention for Their Four-Year-Old Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Master of Health Sciences in Kinesiology
2018
Mohammed Alziadeh
Thesis Title: Flow-sound Interaction Mechanism of a Single Spirally Finned Cylind in Cross-Flow
Master of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering
2017
Jessie Michael Gillis
Thesis Title: Time-Frequency Analysis Techniques for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring
Master of Applied Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering

2023
Martin Magill
Thesis title: Opportunities for the Deep Neural Network Method of Solving Partial Differential Equations in the Computational Study of Biomolecules Driven Through Periodic Geometries
Doctor of Philosophy in Modelling and Computational Science (FSc)
2022
Holly Fruehwald
Thesis title: Functionalized Carbon Surfaces for Clean Electrochemical Energy Systems
PhD in Materials Science
2021
Haris Ishaq
Thesis title: Investigation of Integrated Systems for Clean Ammonia Synthesis
PhD in Mechanical Engineering
2020
Deepak Ronanki
Thesis title: High Performance Modulation and Computationally Efficient Control of Modular Multilevel Converters for High Power Traction Motor Drives
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering
2019
Shady El-Batawy
Thesis title: Intelligent Integration of Prosumers with Battery Energy Storage in Smart Distribution Systems Using Optimal Design and a Transactive Energy Framework
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering
2018
Amjad Farah
Thesis Title: CFD Determination of Fluid and Geometry Related Localized Heat Transfer Phenomena for Supercritical Water Flow
PhD in Nuclear Engineering
2017
Canan Acar
Thesis Title: Experimental Investigation and Analyses of Continuous Type Hybrid Photoeletrochemical Hydrogen Production Systems
Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering