Morrison Hershfield’s Ottawa Environmental Department recently sponsored an Award of Distinction for the top student as well as awards for the top two term projects for ENVE 4101 Waste Management course at Carleton University.   The course provides students with a comprehensive background in waste management and includes topics such as the logistics of waste, landfill operations, hazardous waste management, and design of composting facilities, waste to energy and mine waste.

The awards were handed out at a recent presentation ceremony hosted by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

The “Morrison Hershfield Limited Award of Distinction for Top Student” was presented to Bryan Koehler.  Additional awards were presented to students who had the best term projects in “Best Management Practices for Mitigation of Landfill Gas Emissions”.  The project groups presented best management practices in Canada, USA, Sweden, The Netherlands, England and Japan.  The Term Project Awards were presented to: Harpreet Sran, Nasrin Alizadeh Kajouri, Phuong Nguyen, Farzaneh Ghelichkhani, Adel Chowdhury, Alyssa Gladish, Amanda Pappin, Hai Bin Dong, Tahmineh Tehrani and Amanda Lynch.

The jury was composed of Dr. Paul Van Geel, professor and chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dr. Mustafa Ahmed, the course instructor and environmental engineer at Morrison Hershfield and Jamie Bonany, the teaching assistant of the course. Dr. Paul Van Geel said “it is great to have Morrison Hershfield sponsor this award. The students did a great job and appreciate having a local consulting firm participate in and support their efforts.”

The award certificates and cash prizes were presented by Andrew Harkness, Manager of the Ottawa Environmental Department at Morrison Hershfield.  Mr. Harkness comments “Morrison Hershfield was very pleased to return again this year, as a representative of the consulting engineering industry, to partner with Carleton University in sponsoring these awards.  Once again, the students’ work was extremely impressive and they are all to be congratulated.”  

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