Students’ successes

  • Saif Aldabagh:  Winner, 10th Annual SEABC YMG Presentation Competition 2021, Vancouver

  • Saif Aldabagh: Graduate Dean’s Thesis Fellowship 2015, UBC Okanagan

  • Rubaiya Rumman: UBC 4-year PhD Fellowship 2020

  • Arman Chowdhury: NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships-Doctoral 2020

  • Maryam Golestani: Provost Teaching Assistant Excellence Award, UBC Okanagan, 2020

  • Ahmad Rahmzadeh: Provost Teaching Assistant Excellence Award, UBC Okanagan, 2020

  • Kishoare Tamanna: Best Presenter Award in Civil Engineering, the 4th Annual Graduate Symposium 2018, School of Engineering, UBC, Kelowna

  • Kishoare Tamanna: 3rd Best Student Paper Award, 6th International Conference on Engineering Mechanics and Materials, CSCE Vancouver 2017.

  • Qi Zhang: Canadian Precast Concrete Institute (CPCI) Graduate Scholarship 2017 – given out to only 1 in the whole of Canada every year.

  • Moniruzzaman Moni: Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral (CGS D), NSERC 2017

  • Moein Ahmadipour: 2nd Best Student Paper Award, 6th International Conference on Engineering Mechanics and Materials, CSCE Vancouver 2017.

  • Moein Ahmadipour:  NSERC Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship 2014 for PhD

  • Anas Salem Issa: UBC Travel Grant, UBC Okanagan, 2017

  • Anas Salem Issa: Desmond Shumann Memorial Award in Graduate Studies 2018, UBC

  • Anas Salem Issa: Graduate Entrance Scholarship 2016

  • AHM Muntasir Billah: Governor General’s PhD Gold Medal 2016, UBC Okanagan

  • AHM Muntasir Billah: Graduate Dean’s Thesis Fellowship 2015, UBC Okanagan

  • AHM Muntasir Billah: School of Engineering Graduate Fellowship 2014

  • AHM Muntasir Billah: NSERC Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship 2012 for PhD

  • Farshad Hedayati Dezfuli: Post-doctoral Travel Grant 2016, UBC Okanagan

  • Saber Moradi: Provost Teaching Assistant Excellence Award, UBC Okanagan, 2015

  • Anant Parghi: e-PhD prize, UBC Vancouver 2015

  • Anant Parghi: Mitacs Elevate 2014 for PhD

  • Afrin Hossain: Schlumberger Foundation’s Faculty for the Future Fellowship 2014

  • Md Shahnewaz: 4 year PhD fellowship, UBC Vancouver

  • Kader Newaj Siddiquee: Best presenter award in the School of Engineering Graduate Symposium 2014.

  • Qi Zhang: NSERC Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship 2014 for MASc

  • Mandana Ghanyei: Mitacs Accelerate Fellowship for MASc 2013 (with Dr. Sadiq)

  • Anant Parghi: 2nd place best presenter award in the PhD category in Graduate Student Poster Competition 2013, School of Engineering at UBC

  • M. Shahidul Islam: NSERC Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship 2013 for PhD

  • Emma Slater: Structural Engineers’ Association of British Columbia (SEABC)’s Young Members Presentation Award 2013 (1st place) By presenting her fourth-year capstone project on recycled green concrete

  • Richard Singer, Matt Mendes, Devin Harding and Graham Kuzek: 3rd place in the 4th year Capstone Design Competition 2012-2013

  • ABM Rafiqul Haque: Nominated by the editor and reviewer for the best paper award for the following paper in Earthquake Spectra (Earthquake Engineering Research Institute):

  • ABM Rafiqul Haque, MS Alam 2013, Direct Displacement-Based Design of Industrial Rack Clad Buildings, Earthquake Spectra 29 (4): 1311-1334.

  • GJ Jackson Fellowship 2012, highly competitive, One PhD scholarship per year awarded across Canada by steel structures education foundation (SSEF)

  • Samy M Reza: Graduate Student Travel Grant 2011

  • Samy M Reza: 2nd place best presenter award in the MASc category at the School of Engineering Research Showcase 2010

  • Emma Slater: NSERC PGS Scholarship 2010

  • Emma Slater: NSERC USRA 2010

  • Robert Machial: NSERC USRA 2010

  • Cameron Marshall: NSERC USRA 2010