Graduate Funding
1. Funding Components
Each student at Mechanical Engineering Department will normally receive funding for Teaching Assistantship and Research Assistantship as well as a standard scholarship from Lassonde School of Engineering.
Teaching Assistantship:The graduate students at the department play a key role in undergraduate education by assisting course directors in many aspects of teaching from lefcturing to delivering labs and tutorials, to grading assiggnments and exams to ensuring that the course is following the accreditaition guidelines of the Accreditation Board.
Research Assistantship: Research is a fundamental component of students’ life at our department and students receive a portion of their salary because of being engaged in research activities.
Lassonde School of Engineering Scholarship: The faculty provides a standard scholarship to each student who gets admitted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering. No separate application is required and all applying students are automatically considered for this scholarship.
2. Scholarships and Awards Requiring Application
The Government of Canada’s research agencies and funded partners—the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and Mitacs—promote innovation in research and reward academic excellence by offering a number of valuable and prestigious scholarships and awards. National foundations, created to honour the legacy of great Canadians, also offer major scholarship and fellowship programs which aim to support and enhance the research, innovation, and leadership of top emerging scholars from around the world who have chosen to pursue their graduate studies in Canada.
Recent Award Recipients
Name | Award/Scholarship | Supervisor |
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Diego De Moraes | Lassonde Graduate Entrance Scholarship | A. Czekanski |
Seyed Sina Dibaji | Lassonde Graduate Entrance Scholarship | P. Rezai |
Pardis Ghahramani | Lassonde Graduate Entrance Scholarship | S. Leung |
Salman Buksh Sookran | Lassonde Graduate Entrance Scholarship | A. Amirfazli |
Xue-Ling Luo | Lassonde Graduate Entrance Scholarship | D. Zhang |
Kahled Youssef | Lassonde Graduate Entrance Scholarship | P. Rezai |
Khaled Youssef | Ontario Trillium Scholarship | P. Rezai |
Elnaz Baradaran Shokouhi | Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) | N. Tabatabaei |
Mohammadmehdi Aghelinejad | Ontario Trillium Scholarship | S. Leung |
Nima Talebzadeh Gargari | Lassonde Graduate Entrance Scholarship | P. O’Brien |
Mohamed Abdelhamid | Mechanical Engineering Award in Research Excellence (Master’s) | A. Czekanski |
Pouriya Bayat | Mechanical Engineering Award in Research Excellence (Master’s) | P. Rezai |
Maryam Fashandi | Mechanical Engineering Award in Research Excellence (Master’s) | S. Leung |
Hossein Banitabaei | Mechanical Engineering Award in Research Excellence (PhD) | A. Amirfazli |
Mohammadmehdi Aghelinejad | Best Seminar Presentation 2017 – PhD | S. Leung |
Khaled Youssef | Best Seminar Presentation 2017 – PhD | P. Rezai |
Amin Shams Khorrami | Best Seminar Presentation 2017 – Master’s | P. Rezai |
Elnaz Baradaran Shokouhi | Best Seminar Presentation 2017 – Master’s | N. Tabatabaei |
Jamie (Ji Eun) Lee | Best Seminar Presentation 2017 – Master’s | S. Leung |
Pouriya Bayat | Best Seminar Presentation 2017 – Master’s | P. Rezai |
Elnaz Baradaran Shokouhi | Seminar Presentation 2017 – People’s Choice Award | N. Tabatabaei |
3. Funding FAQ
If you still have questions more information is available here.