0 N C 0 R D I A·s SDAY ~PORT VOL. 23 JANUARY I4, I999 N°s New programs for health care, entertainment and community workers Undenflortue: 1998, an installation by Fine Arts Professor Irene F. Graduate certificates are Whittome, now on view at the Canadian Centre for Architecture as part of an exhibition called attractive to professionals Departure for Katsura. Whittome, together with art historian Laurier BY EUGENIA XENOS professional programs," said James Management. Many universities are Lacroix, was moved to Jans, an Associate Dean in the developing others. Jans said that create the exhibition by orking professionals in the School of Graduate Studies. judging from a joint meeting of the images of a 17th-century W fields of health care, enter­ "They are ideal for working pro­ Canadian Association of Graduate imperial villa near Kyoto, tainment and community work now fessionals who have at least one Studies and the American Council Japan. The show have the option of studying manage­ degree and maybe more, but beca~se of Graduate Studies he recently includes items from the ment and administration without of rapid changes in their field of attended in Vancouver, there is an CCA's permanent having to take too much time away study, they are looking for a quick incredible demand for a variety of collection, plus three large installations, of from their work. way to upgrade. These are people graduate certificates. which this is one, As of this semester, three new who have the basic expertise in their "Where there is a concern for their strikingly set off by the graduate certificate programs are field, but need the newest informa­ proliferation is when certificates are ornately carved tearoom available from the Faculty of Com­ tion." simply cobbled together - i.e., take of the original merce and Administration, in In this way, they differ from any five graduate courses and you Shaughnessy House, Cultural Affairs and Event Manage­ undergraduate and continuing edu­ can have a graduate certificate. Too now part of the CCA. ment, Management of Health Care cation certificates. much of this and graduate certifi­ The turtle bearing a tree Organizations, and Community Last semester, Engineering and cates in general will start to lose their trunk is an image from a Organizational Development. Computer Science introduced five value," he said. Hindu myth; Whittome "Graduate certificate programs new graduate certificates (see CTR, Jans said that professionals could is drawn to the turtle, and often uses turtle have become popular right across October 8, 1998), and Senate recently simply register for a few graduate imagery in her work. North America, especially among passed another in Industrial Waste See Certificates, p. 11 IN THIS ISSUE 1999 Concordia Research Fello\Ns na111ed Fresh air Professors Wagdi H abashi and Janice 1977, has been with Pratt & Whit­ EPFL in Switzerland, and is now at Fariborz Haghighat tests our Helland have been named Concordia ney Canada, with whom he has won Real Numerix, a spin-off company indoor air, and develops an Un iversity Research Fellowsfar 1999. the Cray Gigaflop Award (or the set up by Concordia to commercial­ electronic nose. The awards were instituted in 1998 fastest computer code in the world. ize the CFD Lab's software and Page3 to acknowledge outstanding recent In fact, his talent for university­ carry out engineering applications of research activity and highlight the industry synergy has made him a role high scientific content past the importance of research at Concordia. model in his Faculty. He was the first research phase. Serenity They are chosen by a committee chaired mechanical engineer to be awarded "Now that the research part of Art photographer Clara Gutsche by D ean of Graduate Studies and NSERC's Steacie Fellowship. work on Merlin CDS has been com­ explored the vanishing world of Research Claude Bedard. Habashi's high energy and enthu­ pleted, CAE has signed a second the cloistered nun. As well as holding the titlefar a year, siasm never flag. Only weeks ago, he contract with Real Numerix," Page 7 the recipients will be given $5,000 in took part in a "flight" at CAE's facil­ Habashi said. "Other contracts may grants and a congratulatory reception ities in the Merlin Cockpit Dynamic be in the offing, and two joint scien­ early in the new year. They will also Simulator with former research asso­ tific papers are being published." Next issue: each give an open lecture sometime ciates Mark Bogstad and Djaffar January 28 in 1999. Ait-Ali-Yahia, CAE project manag­ er Nick Giannis and a British Navy agdi (Fred) Habashi, named Habashi's particular expertise is in pilot. (The British Navy will be users WUniversity Research Fellow fluid dynamics. He uses supercom­ of the simulator for seven ships of in the Senior Researcher category, is puters to analyze the flow of fluids its fleet.) one of Concordia's undisputed stars, over airplane jet engines or navy 'We were complimented on the an applied scientist who has made an ships. H is work in this field has been realism of the CFD-based simulatot international mark in the highly sustained by grants and contracts of the effect of airwakes around the competitive field of computational totalling more than several million superstructure of these ships in the simulation, particularly in the testing dollars over his career, and led in North Sea, and it was mentioned and perfecting of aerodynamic 1992 to the establishment of that the technology was the most designs. Concordia's Computational Fluid advanced the British Navy had seen," Holder of a PhD from Cornell Dynamics Laboratory, one of the he reported afterwards. go University, N.Y., he began teaching most active and best-equipped cen­ The project work was started at :i: Q. in Concordia's D epartment of tres in Canada. Concordia's CFD Lab by Dr. Ait- ~ ~=:a::= Mechanical E ngineering in 1975, He has worked closely with many Ali-Yahia, who won Concordia's and is a Fellow of the American leading aerospace and manufacturing Gold Medal for outstanding gradu­ rt H istory Professor Janice Send your ideas for Society of Mechanical Engineers companies, including Boeing, ate student in 1997 and now works A Helland has been named Concordia's 25th anniversary and an Associate Fellow of the Aerospatiale, BF Goodrich, Bom­ in Pratt & Whitney's CFD group. Research Fellow in the Emerging to 25ann@alcor American Institute of Aeronautics bardier-Aerospace and CAE, but It was continued by Mark Researcher category. She came to Let's celebrate! and Astronautics. perhaps his longest association, since Bogstad, who came to us from See Fellows,p. 11 MBA Case Competition Ground-control to James Kass BY TIM HORNYAK nauts themselves." In 1994, Ka ss and his sister, any kids dream about being Concordia Applied Human Sciences Mastronauts, but James Kass Professor Raye Kass, designed CAP­ always wanted to be one of the S ULS, a psychological isolation ground-control team members who experiment that examined how four hears messages like "Houston, we Canadian Space Agency astronauts have a problem." got along in a 64-foot long hyper­ In 1962, a Sir George Williams baric chamber on Earth. University career advisor asked a "A lot changes after six months in teenage Kass what he wanted to do space," said James Kass. "Somebody with his life. "Space flight," was the whom you think you get along with, answer, and Kass then described a you don't get along with later on. typical day in his dream job: direct­ The Russians have tried to do a little ing orbiting astronauts through more work in the area of putting a scientific experiments from mission team together that they believe will control back on Earth. The advisor get along. But more than 50 per cent told him to study physics. of them are incompatible with each Twenty-one years later, in 1983, other." Kass found himself in Houston's Team problems in space flight can Johnson Space Center talking to be both physical and cultural. One day, BY D EREK CASSOFF ple, and make things happen on In addition to arranging team par­ astronauts on NASA's Spacelab 1 a Russian cosmonaut offered a taste of three or four fronts at the same time." ticipation and researching business mission aboard the shuttle Colum­ his grandmother's prized borscht to an t's been a difficult week so far for "Nothing came easy," added Tis­ cases, the three organizers were also bia, helping them make minute American colleague aboard the Mir Ithe 200 students taking part in chuk. "Everything involves a lot of charged with securing the SlS0,000 adjustments to their cameras and space station, Kass said. Concordia's 18th annual MBA groundwork and a lot of phone calls. in corporate support needed to stage electrodes 290 km above sea level. When the American wrinkled his International Case Competition. And then, when you think you're the event. "If you believe in a dream, it can nose at the soup, the Russian became The participants have spent the past finally getting somewhere, two ''It's always a challenge to get peo­ come true and it will. The right deeply offended - hardly conducive few days cooped up in rooms at the weeks later you still don't have an ple to buy into the fact that an MBA doors open," Kass said in a recent to the camaraderie needed to deal Qµeen Elizabeth Hotel, solving answer." program would need money," lecture on space-flight teamwork. with serious incidents, like the fire complex business problems under Gluttons for punishment, you say? Henson said, "but if you can sell The talk, which also focused on the that broke out on the beleaguered tight deadlines.