Laboratory of Engineering Materials
Developing and processing advanced composites
Overview
At the Laboratory of Engineering Materials, we educate scientists and engineers in the field of material design, processing, and characterization. Our research focuses on processing high performance fibre-reinforced composite materials, but we have also developed technologies for foams, colloids, gels, and coatings. We work collaboratively with industry to advance technology and transfer it to real world applications.
Our mission is to enable a better, more sustainable world through education and the development of advanced materials.
News
Jan. 29, 2026
Lab alumni, Dr. Nick Elderfield and Nico Peters, selected as finalists to compete in SAMPE Emerging Engineers Challenge to be held during JEC World in Paris on March 11, 2026. Way to go!
Jan. 2, 2026
Christian Daniel Magsombol joins the Laboratory of Engineering Materials as a MSc Student.
Jan. 2, 2026
Dr. Lukas Spirig joins the Laboratory of Engineering Materials as a postdoctoral researcher.
Dec. 19, 2025
The Laboratory of Engineering Materials celebrates the Winter Holidays with its social event: Axe-throwing and dinner!
Warm holiday wishes to all!
Dec. 9, 2025
Nico Peters successfully defends his Masters thesis "The Effect of Discrete In-Situ Consolidation on the Micro- and Macro-Structure of Additively
Manufactured Continuous Fiber-Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites".
Congratulations Nico!
Dec. 1, 2025
Vishnu Dhanda (re)joins the Laboratory of Engineering Materials as an Mitacs intern.
Oct. 1, 2025
Dr. Nicholas Elderfield awarded the 2025 CACSMA Timotei Centea Memorial Award for Best PhD Thesis for his work "Additive Manufacturing of Continuous Fiber-Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites Using Discrete In-Situ Consolidation".
Congratulations Nick!
Sept. 11, 2025
Amirhossein Darbandi joins RWTH-Aachen as visiting PhD student for a 3-month research stay.
Sept. 1, 2025
Haile Gebrehiwet Seyoum joins the Laboratory of Engineering Materials as a PhD Student.
July 11, 2025
Prof. Wong gives keynote lecture at DAAD-RISE Annual Meeting on Global Experiences in Heidelberg, Germany.
June 30, 2025
Amirhossein Darbandi and Prof. Wong present their work at the 12th International Conference of Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT 2025) in Singapore.
June 24, 2025
Dr. Nicholas Elderfield awarded CSME Gold Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement in Mechanical Engineering by PhD graduate. Congratulations Nick!
May 23, 2025
Nico Peters awarded for excellence in Teaching Assistance at the Schulich School of Engineering Graduate Student Awards.
Congratulations Nico!
May 12, 2025
Sare Moazen joins Lab as a Visiting Research Student from École de technologie supérieure.
May 8, 2025
Gabin Toutain joins the Lab as a Visiting Student Research. Bienvenue!
May 1, 2025
Dr. Wong visits RWTH-Aachen's Institut für Textiltechnik to learn about processes for manufacturing carbon fiber from polyethylene.
May 1, 2025
Daniel Choi and Paarth Vohra join the Lab as undergraduate summer research students.
April 14, 2025
Nico Peters wins best speaker in his session for "Investigating Micro-Level Morphology Changes during Additive Manufacturing of Continuous Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites with Micro-Computed Tomography and Thermomechanical Modeling" at the 2025 Mechanical Manufacturing Engineering Graduate Student Conference.
Congratulations Nico!
April 1, 2025
Capstone team - Samier Al Hattab, Juan Alvarez Ramirez, Caleb Assan, Pierre Dawe, Robert Lee, and Christian Daniel Magsombol - win Gold medals for their project "Hybrid Rocket Carbon-Carbon Fuel Mixing Plate" at the 2025 Engineering Design Fair in the category for Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering.
Congratulations Team!
Feb. 20, 2025
Dr. Wong wins SSE Excellence Award for Graduate Supervision Excellence.
Jan. 13, 2025
Prof. Martine Dubé from École de technologie supérieure Montréal visits the Lab.
Jan. 10, 2025
Nico Peters wins the Jefferson Goblet Student Paper Award for best aerospace design and structures paper for his paper "Modelling Thermomechanical Behavior of Additively Manufactured Quasi-Woven Shells" at AIAA Scitech 2025 in Orlando, FL.
Congratulations Nico!
Dec. 5, 2024
Nicholas Elderfield successfully defends his PhD thesis "Additive Manufacturing of Continuous Fiber-Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites Using Discrete In-Situ Consolidation."
Congratulations Dr. Elderfield!
Aug. 8, 2024
Nico Peters wins Hoa Award for Best Student Paper, for his presentation of "Morphological evolution of continuous fiber networks during additve manufacturing", at CANCOM 2024 in Waterloo, ON.
Congratulations Nico!
Aug. 3, 2023
Nicholas Elderfield wins Tsai Award for Best Student Paper, for his presentation of "Effects of over-extrusion on the in-situ consolidation of additively manufactured composites", at ICCM 2023 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Congratulations Nick!
July 12, 2022
Nicholas Elderfield, Hussam Tawfik, and Prof. Wong participate in CANCOM 2022 in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
May 19, 2022
Prof. Wong visit ETH Zurich.
May 16, 2022
Dr. Biporjoy Sarkar joins the Laboratory of Engineering Materials as a co-supervised Post-doctoral Researcher.
May 2, 2022
Mr. Vishnu Dhanda joins the Laboratory of Engineering Materials as a Summer Research Student through Schulich School of Engineers Undergraduate Research Program (SSE URP).
May 2, 2022
Mr. Oliver Cook joins the Laboratory of Engineering Materials as a Summer Research Student.
May 2, 2022
Mr. Robert Lee joins the Laboratory of Engineering Materials as a Summer Research Student through the Program for Undergraduate Research Experience (PURE).
May 2, 2022
Mr. Amirhossein Darbandi joins the Laboratory of Engineering Materials as a PhD Student.
April 28, 2022
Nicholas Elderfield successfully passes Candidacy exam. Congratulations!
April 6, 2022
Nicholas Elderfield successfully passes Field of Studies exam. Congratulations!
Feb. 8, 2022
Hussam Tawfik is awarded the Patrick Smyth Graduate Scholarship. Congratulations!
Jan. 5, 2022
Markham Hislop, Energi Media, interviews Dr. Wong on "bitumen into carbon fibre".
Oct. 11, 2021
Prof. Wong, as part of a team led by Prof. Ermanni, is awarded ETH Zurich Spark Award for most promising innovation which ETH Transfer filed for a patent in 2021.
Sept. 27, 2021
Mr. Balakrishnan Dharmalingam joins Laboratory of Engineering Materials as a co-supervised MSc Student.
Sept. 20, 2021
Mr. Miahn Rasheeq Aosaf joins Laboratory of Engineering Materials as Research Assistant.
Sept. 8, 2021
Congratulations to Nicholas Elderfield for being awarded a Global Open Doctoral Scholarship.
Sept. 1, 2021
Mr. Mackinley Love joins Laboratory of Engineering Materials as a co-supervised MSc Student.
Aug. 23, 2021
Mr. Julien Lagace and Mr. Aiden Schroeder present the final results of their undergraduate research internships.
July 1, 2021
Mr. Maximilian Volk successfully defends his doctoral thesis on "Pultrusion of Thermoplastic Composite Profiles for High Voltage Insulators" at ETH Zurich.
June 5, 2021
Prof. Wong visits ETH Zurich.
May 26, 2021
Congratulations to Hussam Tawfik for being awarded the Werner Graupe International Fellowship in Engineering.
May 6, 2021
Mr. Muhammad Shafi joins the Laboratory of Engineering Materials as a MSc student.
May 3, 2021
Mr. Julien Lagace and Mr. Aiden Schroeder join the Laboratory of Engineering Materials as NSERC USRA awardees,
April 16, 2021
Congratulations to Hussam Tawfik for being awarded an Eyes High International Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship.
March 30, 2021
Congratulations to Nick Elderfield for first prize in a pitch competition for "3D Printing of High Performance Carbon Fibre Structures".
March 1, 2021
Mr. Aron Saengchan presents the results of his two projects in a virtual seminar.
Feb. 14, 2021
Mr. Aron Saengchan completes project with Alberta Innovates Carbon Fibre Grand Challenge.