(1) Dr Arnold Yuan was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in May 2013.
(2) Mr. Afzal Waseem successfully defended in early May 2013 his MASc thesis titled by Methodology Development and Local Calibration of MEPDG Permanent Deformation Models for Ontario’s Flexible Pavements. Mr. Waseem was nominated by the examination Committee for departmental candidate for Governor’s Gold Medal for his high CGPA and publication records.
(3) Several new graduate students will join the RILCIE research team at Ryerson. As of the update time, one PhD student from Nigeria, one MASc student from Bangladesh, two FT MEng and one PT MEng have confirmed their acceptance of the offers. Another MASc student is waiting for his acceptance of offer. Another MEng student will transfer to MASc in Fall 2013 as well.
(4) Dr. Arnold Yuan will be traveling overseas from June 25 to August 6. During this period, he will conduct collaborative research at Hunan University in the field of structural reliability and infrastructure management. In Mid July he will attend the 8th International Conference on Road and Airfield Pavement Technology (ICPT) held in Taipei, Taiwan. Dr. Yuan will present a research paper co-authored by Afzal Waseem in MEPDG local calibration. In the end of July, Dr. Yuan will also attend the International Conference on Nuclear Engineering in Chengdu, China.