It’s time to start planning your involvement in another fun-filled year of Faculty of Engineering alumni events. First up is the annual alumni ski day being held Friday, January 20 at Osler Bluff Ski Club in Collingwood, Ontario. For those of you in the Washington D.C. area on Tuesday, January 24, plan to attend the Alumni and Friends Reception at the 2012 TRB Annual Meeting.
Grad student wins best paper award
Apurva Narayan, a systems design engineering doctoral candidate, received the best paper award at the recent 35th Annual National Systems Conference organized by the Systems Society of India, and jointly by Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and Indian Institue of Technology, Bhubaneshwar, Orissa, India. His paper entitled “Neuro-Fuzzy (m-ANFIS) based Technique for Short-Term Load Forecasting in Large Geographical Area: Ontario, Canada” was co-authored by systems design engineering professors Fakhri Karray and K. Ponnambalam, who is also Narayan’s graduate studies supervisor.