Alumnus wins international award
Mr. Shahram Navaee-Ardeh, a recent master's graduate from the School of Environment, Resources and Development's Pulp and Paper Technology field of study has received word that he has won the C. Howard Smith Award from the Pulp and Paper Technical Association of Canada (PAPTAC). He will receive the award at the PAPTAC conference in February 2007.
The C. Howard Smith Award was founded in 1939 by the late Mr. Harold Crabtree, a past president of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association (CPPA). It commemorates the late C. Howard Smith, who was a past-president of CPPA. The awards is presented to a Canadian student member or member under age 33, employed in the Canadian pulp and paper industry, who submits the paper judged best in the annual competition.
Mr. Navaee-Ardah's paper was based on the work he did at AIT under Dr. Mousa M. Nazhad, an associate professor of Pulp and Paper Technology.