Fathi Mohamed awarded Graduate Student Award by the Canadian Geotechnical Society

November 14, 2011

The civil engineering PhD candidate Fathi Mohamed was awarded the 2011-CGS Graduate Student Award by the Canadian Geotechnical Society at the 14th Pan-Am and 64th CGS Conference held in Totornto from Oct., 2nd to 6th, 2011. The Society has established the Graduate Student Paper Award with the purpose of encouraging, recognizing, and rewarding excellence in the presentations of papers. The award is managed through the Society’s Education Committee and funded through the generous support of the Canadian Foundation for Geotechnique. Fathi attended 14th Pan-Am and 64th CGS Conference and presented his paper entitled “Bearing Capacity and Settlement Behaviour of Shallow Footings in Unsaturated Sands” on the third morning of the conference, Oct. 5th, in the same session as the Canadian Geotechnical Colloquium.

Fathi was also the recipient of the 1st prize of the 2009-Faculty of Engineering graduate student poster competition held by the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Ottawa. 

Since 2008, Fathi has been working on his PhD research carrying out an extensive experimental program on “the Bearing Capacity and Settlement Behaviour of Unsaturated Soils under Static and Dynamic Loading Conditions”. The research is jointly supervised by Professor Sai Vanapalli and Professor Murat Saatcioglu. To date,  Fathi has authored 6 papers of which he has presented 5 in national and international conferences. Two journal papers written with his supervisors are presently under review for publication.

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