I am proud to have worked with team alumni Bronwyn Chorlton on our book, Advancing Women in Engineering: Deciphering Key Factors in Training, Retention and Support. The book has been published by Springer and is now available. This work is a compilation of various studies our team has undertaken in the past six years. From High…
We had a very successful attendance at the Structures in Fire conference in Coimbra, Portugal. Mark Green and John Gales successfully bid for the next SIF conference to be held in Canada. The conference will be held at Dr. Gales' alma mater Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) with some events also planned in Toronto. We will…
Dr. Gales presented last week in Kingston, Ontario on the topic of "Stadium Pedestrian Movement in Emergencies such as Fire" at the Queen's University's Robert and Joyce Jones Civil Engineering Forum. The presentation was largely an adaptation of what was presented at the SFS seminar series earlier in the year for Engineers Australia (see https://portal.engineersaustralia.org.au/event/2022/06/stadium-design-and-pedestrian-movement-43521)…
Our YorkUfire team (Katie, Tim and Ethan) visited London UK to meet with our collaborators and friends last October. The research visit was formerly an annual event for our graduate and undergraduate team members before Covid since 2015 where they were given a chance to share their research with collaborators, and we are quite happy…
In collaboration with Canadian Wood Council and WoodSmart, our research team developed an off-the shelf undergraduate course for timber engineering for use by any academic, and especially those teaching in Canada. The course encompasses module based learning, featuring: Physical and Mechanical properties, Structural Wood Products, Strength and Modification Factors, Design processes, Tension and Compression members, Bending, Connections,…
Really great to see all the really interesting CSA student scholarship projects across the country! Team member and scholarship recipient Chloe Jeanneret presents in this video of her research thesis work on steel connections in fire and our goals to develop Canadian steel standards for fire design. We will be announcing a large grant next…
We are using Narrow Spectrum Illumination to study deformations in fire conditions of various materials. We are very pleased to announce our fire research team's results for the NSERC (federal) and OGS (provincial) student scholarships for 2021-22. This year alone team members have been awarded over $250k in research scholarships. Nine of our team members…
Its been awhile since we have updated the community on our progress at York University. You can follow our research activities. So this post serves as this update following a seperate posting in the IAFSS newsletter Recent Research Projects When lab restrictions came into place back in March 2020, a number of data collection initiatives…
Yesterday team members (Bronwyn Chorlton and Neir Mazur) and collaborators (Jennifer Ellingham) presented their research with their second organized workshop. This one was on “Gender Differences in Graduate Engineering Student Experiences”. Team members have been investigating the leaky pipeline and following their study of industry, and undergraduate experiences last year, now they considered those experiences…
The YorkU fire team has a number of currently advertised graduate positions where we are looking for strong graduate students with creativity and interest in fire related themes. We are currently recruiting 3 masters students and 2 doctoral students. Both Domestic and International students are being considered and the positions are fully funded and connected…
YorkU Fire Research Team 