Staff
The department is supported by a dedicated team of academic personnel, administrative, professional and technical staff.
Room: EV004.161
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 4190
Email: chair-MIE.encs@concordia.ca
Room: EV004.153
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 5061
Email: masoumeh.kazemizanjani@concordia.ca
1Room: EV004.217
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 4210
Email: mojtaba.kheiri@concordia.ca
Room: EV004.229
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 7947
Email: carole.elayoubi@concordia.ca
Room: EV004.251
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 2967
Email: hossein.hashemi@concordia.ca
Room: EV003.282
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 3128
Email: sorin.voiculescu@concordia.ca
Room: EV004.1149
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 7973
Email: m.packirisamy@concordia.ca
Room: EV004.189
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 7923
Email: siva.narayanswamy@concordia.ca
Room: EV004.233
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 4648
Email: kiyanda@encs.concordia.ca
Room: EV004.209
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 7984
Email: ashok.kaushal@concordia.ca
Room: EV004.171
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 4791
Email: gerard.gouw@concordia.ca
Room: EV004.163
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 3126
Email: assistant-to-chair@mie.concordia.ca
Duties:
- Provide administrative support to the department Chair
- Coordinate academic workload with the unit
- Ensure critical CUPFA and CUFA deadlines are met
- Order textbooks for faculty members
- Process contracts for students, research assistants/associates, visiting professors, teaching assistants and part-time faculty members, etc.
Room: EV004.143
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 7975
Email: maureen.thuringer@concordia.ca
Duties
- Manage the department’s day-to-day operations and budgets
- Implement policies and procedures
- Manage department events
- Supervise administrative staff
- Card access
Room: EV004.152
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 8750
Email: leslie.hosein@concordia.ca
Duties
- Advise prospective and current students in the Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. program on their course requirements, deadline dates and academic progress
- Coordinate the Master of Engineering in Aerospace program
- Manage all graduate awards and scholarships
Room: EV004.150
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 3131
Email: charlene.wald@concordia.ca
Duties
- Advise prospective and current Master of Applied Science, Master of Engineering and Graduate Certificate students on their course requirements, deadline dates and academic progress
- Prepare and submit documentation for the Curriculum Tracking System (Graduate)
Room: EV004.144
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 3133
Email: sabrina.poirier@concordia.ca
Duties
- Guide prospective and current students regarding programs, courses, registration and polices
- Work with the Institute for Co-operative Education to help Co-op students maintain acceptable standing and follow the determined course sequence
- Process ENGR 411 Technical Reports, ENGR 412 Honors Research Projects and Mechanical option selections
- Provide information to all faculty members regarding student-related regulations and issues
- Provide assistance to the Undergraduate Program Directors as required
- Prepare and submit documentation for the Curriculum Tracking System
- Liaise with the examinations office for final exams, deferrals, supplementals, and any other special circumstances
- Maintain and update the department website to ensure all items are current
Room: EV004.111
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 5708
Email: aero-pa@concordia.ca
Duties
- Guide prospective and current students regarding programs, courses, registration and polices
- Work with the Institute for Co-operative Education to help Co-op students maintain acceptable standing and follow the determined course sequence
- Provide information to all faculty members regarding student-related regulations and issues
- Provide assistance to the Undergraduate Program Directors as required
- Prepare and submit documentation for the Curriculum Tracking System
- Liaise with the examinations office for final exams, deferrals, supplementals, and any other special circumstances
Room: EV004.139
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 3125
Email: natalie.charles@concordia.ca
Duties
- Receive and direct visitors and students in person and on the phone
- Provide general office assistance
- Order office supplies
Room: EV003.249
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 3746
Email: michael.rembacz@concordia.ca
Duties
- Provide guidance and support for Capstone projects as well as other mechanical engineering projects in the department
- Manage the development and operation of the design and manufacturing laboratories
- Manage staff in the design and manufacturing laboratories
Room: EV3.253
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext 7033
Email: amir.jalini@concordia.ca
Room: H 1062
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 8797
Email: robert.oliver@concordia.ca
Duties
- Managing the departmental technical resources, equipment, laboratories, and infrastructure
- General safety supervision and management of the MIE laboratories
- Supervising the technical support staff
Room: H 0024
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 8671
Email: michael.rembacz@concordia.ca
Duties
- Instruct students in machining and manufacturing (MECH 311)
- Guide, advise and supervise students’ manufacturing projects
- Develop curriculum for EDML and ECT (extra-curricular training)
- Provide support to Capstone projects
Room: H 1047-00
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 3153
Email: peter.sakaris@concordia.ca
Duties
- Develop and design undergraduate laboratory experiments in the field of thermo-fluid and materials
- Update and/or create laboratory manuals for the undergraduate students
- Train and supervise lab instructors to perform their required tasks
- Provide on-site support to the lab demonstrators
- Recommend process improvements of the thermo-fluid and material laboratories
- Perform research for new equipment and recommend future purchases
Room: EV004.183
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 8670
Email: petre.tzenov@concordia.ca
Duties
- Ensure day-to-day operation of the teaching labs
- Manage the undergraduate lab schedule
- Organize the development of up-to-date lab manuals
- Plan and develop new experiments with faculty and staff members
- Recommend and participate in the purchase of new equipment
- Prepare workload assignments for teaching assistants
- Organize the training of lab demonstrators and supervision of teaching assistants
Room: H 1060
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 3127
Email: tianhe.wen@concordia.ca
Duties
- Assure laboratory quality is maintained through the training and supervision of laboratory demonstrators and students in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering undergraduate laboratories. Wen is responsible for the following areas:
- control
- electronics
- instrumentation
- system modeling
- microprocessors and micro-controllers
- mechatronics
- flight control systems
- automation
- theory of machines
- vibration
- Assist and guide the demonstrators in the laboratory instructional environment
- Develop and design laboratory experiments
- Write and update laboratory manuals
Room: H 0076-3
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 3070
Email: juan.alfara@concordia.ca
Duties
- Instruct students in machining and manufacturing on conventional and NC machines (MECH 311 and MECH 6611)
- Guide, advise and supervise students, manufacture projects (undergraduate and graduate)
- Provide support and machining for Capstone projects (MECH 490)
- Provide support to SAE (Society of Automotive Engineering)
Room: H 1062-00
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 3199
Email: dave.chu@concordia.ca
Duties
- Operating and assisting in undergraduate labs
- Providing guidance and support for Capstone projects
Room: H 1059-00
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 4013
Email: michael.lockhart@concordia.ca
Duties
Room: H 1045-02
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 3149
Email: bradford.luckhart@concordia.ca
Duties
- Operate and assist in the following undergraduate labs: MECH 343, MECH 361, MECH 443, MECH 447, MECH 461
- Specialist in apparatus for vibration, heat, fluids and gases, as well as industrial automation
Room: H 1029-01
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 7020
Email: rafael.juarezrodriguez@concordia.ca
Room: H 0024-03
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 7906
Email: andy.shin-pong@concordia.ca
Duties
Room: EV013.401
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 2984
Email: henrys@encs.concordia.ca
Duties
- Operate and assist in the following undergraduate labs: MECH 352, MECH 452, and Composite laboratories
- Provide support for electron microscopes, vacuum systems, clean rooms, electro-mechanics/mechatronics, controls, instrumentation, and fabrication and fixturing of experiment setups
Room: H 1055-00
Phone: 514-848-2424 ext: 5344
Email: j.yeargans@concordia.ca
Duties