Thursday, February 20, 2020
An engineering master’s candidate has been awarded one of two scholarships awarded to civil engineering students in Ontario. Michelle Liu was honoured with a $2,500 Manuel Fine scholarship from the Deep Foundations Institute’s (DFI’s) educational trust. While working on her undergraduate degree in civil engineering at the University of Waterloo, Liu became interested in the environmental challenges faced in northern communities. As a graduate student, she is now focusing her research on the impact of surface material type on the rate of downward heat transfer in permafrost soil. Please click here to continue reading this story.