Amir Khajepour - 2017/2016

Amir Khajepour - Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Dr. Amir Khajepour is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering and is the NSERC/General Motors Industrial Research Chair in Holistic Vehicle Control and the Canada Research Chair in Mechatronic Vehicle Systems. He joined the Department in 1997 as an Assistant Professor and since that time has accumulated a world class record of research, teaching, graduate supervision, and service to the profession. Amir has supervised an astounding number of undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. He currently supervises 6 MASc students, 15 PhD students, 4 visiting PhD students, and 7 postdoctoral researchers.  During his 20 years as a faculty member, he has supervised/co-supervised 63 master’s students, 37 doctoral students, and 32 postdoctoral fellows. Together with his supervisees, they have won numerous national and international awards and have carried out impactful research. 

In spite of the very large research program that he manages, he always finds time for his students. Both his students and colleagues observe that he challenges his students with meaningful research topics, provides them with state-of-the-art laboratory facilities so they have the equipment necessary to carry out the research and provides them with effective feedback. He goes to great lengths to prepare his students for subsequent careers in industry or academia.

Amir’s students describe him as a mentor who “is truly invested in his students’ lives and careers” and someone who “never failed to inspire each of us to pursue our future aspirations”.