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.

- - - Canada Graduate Scholarships – Master’s (CGSM)

- - - SSHRC Fellowships and CGS Doctoral Awards (DF/CGSD)

- - - CIHR Doctoral Foreign Study Awards and CGS Doctoral Awards (DFSA/CGSD)

- - - NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships and CGS Doctoral Awards (PGSD/CGSD)

- - - Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (VCGS)

- - - SSHRC Impact Talent Award

- - - Michael Smith CGS Foreign Study Supplements (CGSFSS)

- - - Trudeau Doctoral Scholarships

- - - Governor General’s Gold Medals

- - - W.L. Mackenzie King Memorial Scholarships

- - - Mitacs Awards

Recent Award Recipients

Recent Award Recipients
Name	Award/Scholarship	Supervisor
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.