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Majid Bahrami
PhD, P.Eng., FASME, FCAE

Professor
Canada Research Chair in Alternative Energy Conversion Systems, Tier 1
Fellow of ASME, Fellow of CAE
Member of AIAA, SAE, ASHRAE

School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering
Faculty of Applied Science
Simon Fraser University
250-13450 102 Avenue
Surrey, BC, V3T 0A3, Canada

Office: Galleria 4, Room 4164
Laboratory: 190A SFU Surrey
Tel.: +1 (778) 782-8538
Fax: +1 (778) 782-7514
e-mail: mbahrami [at] sfu [dot] ca

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Video Tours:
- Lab. for Alternative Energy Conversion
- Faculty of Applied Science (SFU)

  • The Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada and SFU President Andrew Petter visiting our atmospheric water harvesting technology.
  • Innovate BC Award, October 2018.
  • 8th Heat Powered Cycles Conference, September 2018 (Bayreuth, Germany).
  • "Graphite Heat Sink" designed at LAEC.
  • "Graphite Heat Exchanger" designed at LAEC.
  • Dr. Bahrami wins the MBR Global Water Award for Innovative Research and Development.
  • The Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada and SFU President Andrew Petter trying water from the HAWGen.
  • Prime Minister Trudeau and Premier Clark trying water from the Watergenics HAWGen. pic.twitter.com/PKn2VH11ul
  • Prime Minister Trudeau and former LAEC PhD candidate Khorshid Fayazmanesh.
  • Integrated Thermal Management Systems for Hybrid Electric Vehicles.
  • Dr. Bahrami is named one of Canada's "Clean50 for 2016".
  • Future Vehicle Technologies (FVT) and Laboratory for Alternative Energy Conversion (LAEC) at SFU teamed up to increse the driving range of eVaro, one of the Canada's first hybrid prototype cars.
  • Adsorption cooling systems generate cooling power from waste heat.
  • Development and validation of a new convective heat transfer model for interrupted rectangular fins. This project is supported by Analytic Systems.
  • Green Sustainable Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Systems for Service Vehicles. This project approved by Automotive Partnership Canada involves the development of the next-generation ... [Read more]
  • Laboratory for Alternative Energy Conversion ... [ Read more ]
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  • News
June 2021 New program to address critical skills need for sustainable energy future. NSERC CREATE Hybrid Thermal Electric Microgrid (HyTEM) program offers courses, seminars, workshops, and tours
June 2021 Congratulations to Maha Shehadeh for completing her Master's
June 2021 PICS Snapshot: Innovations in Mobile Thermal Energy Storage - Using Waste Heat to Power Communities
June 2021 Congratulations to Mohammad-javad (MJ) Rajabtabar for completing his Master's
September 2020 Congratulations to Hesam Bahrehmand for completing his doctorate
June 2020 Congratulations to Martin Cermak for completing his doctorate
September 2019 Congratulations to Negar Mohammadaliha for completing her Master's
September 2019 Congratulations to Zhongchen Zhang for completing his Master's
July 2019 Congratulations to Mina Rouhani for completing her doctorate
June 2019 Congratulations to Sara (Ecem) Cerrah for completing her Master's
June 2019 Professor Bahrami was inducted to The Canadian Academy of Engineering
April 2019 Congratulations to Ali Malekian for completing his doctorate
December 2018 Congratulations to Mohammad Ahadi for completing his doctorate
December 2018 Congratulations to Sina Salari for completing his doctorate
November 2018 Congratulations to Mikel Garcia-Poulin for completing his Master's
September 2018 Congratulations to Poovanna Cheppudira for completing his doctorate
October 2018 BCIC ignite: Next Generation Cooling Solutions for High-Capacity Battery Chargers of Electric Vehicles
May 2018 Waste Heat: Innovators Turn to an Overlooked Renewable Resource
May 2017 LAEC and KPU are awarded a NSERC "College University Idea to Innovation" grant for their project From Waste to Clean Food
March 2017 LAEC is featured in the new SFU Innovates video
November 2016 LAEC is in the Globe and Mail
November 2016 Prime Minister Trudeau and Premier Clark visited SFU and tried water from our HAWGen machine
October 2016 Dr. Bahrami gave a President's Faculty Lecture on October 12, 2016
September 2016 Congratulations to Dr. Bahrami on being named one of Canada's Clean50 for 2017
July 2016 Engineering Net-Zero Impact
June 2016 Congratulations to Mahdi Nemati for completing his MASc
May 2016 Dr. Bahrami's interview with Julie Rose on byuradio
May 2016 HAWGen in Business in Vancouver
May 2016 Dr. Bahrami's with Kirk LaPointe on Roundhouse Radio
April 2016 CBC Vancouver's coverage of the HAWGen (starting at 4:54)
April 2016 BCTIA announces that Watergenics is a finalist for the Most Promising Pre-Commercial Technology Award
March 2016 Congratulations to Masoud Labbani for completing his MASc
March 2016 Congratulations to Farshid Bagheri for completing his PhD
March 2016 Congratulations to Ali Soleymani for completing his MASc and on being hired as a Stack Powertrain Interface Engineer at AFCC
March 2016 Watergenics if one of Ready to Rocket's 2016 Cleantech Emerging Rockets
March 2016 SFU invention stepping out of the lab
March 2016 Congratulations to Maryam Yazdan Pour for her new position as a Test and Verification Engineer at Corvus Energy Limited
November 2015 Congratulations to Mohammad Ali Fayazbakhsh for completing his PhD
November 2015 Congratulations to Mehdi Andisheh for completing his PhD
October 2015 Congratulations to Amir Sharafian for his new position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Clean Enery Research Centre - Transportation Futures Division at the University of British Columbia
October 2015 Congratulations to Amir Sharafian for completing his PhD
September 2015 SFU congratulates Dr. Majid Bahrami on being awarded "Canada's Clean50 for 2016"
September 2015 Congratulations to Mohsen Akbari for his new position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria
September 2015 Congratulations to Hamidreza Sadeghifar for his new position as a Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow in Prof. Bi's laboratory in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at UBC
July 2015 Congratulations to Mohammad Fakoor Pakdaman for his new position as an Assistant Instructor at BCIT
July 2015 Congratulations to Mohammad Fakoor Pakdaman for completing his PhD
July 2015 LAEC welcomes Dr. Ali Dabiri as a new Postdoc and Pouya Jamzad as a new M.Sc student
July 2015 Congratulations to Maryam Yazdanpoor for finishing her PhD
May 2015 Congratulations to Mehdi Andisheh for joining Ballard Power Systems as an Applied Scientist
May 2015 Congratulations to Golnoush Mostafavi, a former LAEC MASc student, for joining CopperTree Analytics as an Application Engineer
June 2015 Congratulations to Dr. Mohsen Akbari, a former PhD student and Post-doc fellow at LAEC who landed a faculty position at the Mechanical Engeineering Department of UVic as an Assistant Professor
June 2015 Congratulations to Dr. Hamidreza Sadeghifar for finishing his PhD
June 2015 Congratulations to Dr. Mehran Ahmadi for finishing his PhD
June 2015 Dr. Bahrami awarded a $750K 3-year NSERC CU-I2I grant entitled " Graphite Thermal Management Products Improved"
January 2015 LAEC welcomes Jaber Eslami as a visiting PhD student as well as Martin Cermak and Ali Malakian as new PhD students
December 2014 Congratulations to Mehran Ahmadi for completing his PhD
December 2014 Congratulations to Mehran Ahmadi for completing his PhD
November 2014 Congratulations to Ningbai Ningbai for completing her MASc
August 2014 Congratulations to Mayank Kalra on completing his MASc
August 2014 Congratulations to Ali Gholami on completing his MASc
May 2014 Dr. Bahrami is awarded a four-year NSEARC collaborative research grant with the Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation (AFCC) to study the bulk and interfacial transport properties of porous fuel cell materials
March 2014 LAEC welcomes Behzad Baghaour, as a new Postdoc
January 2014 LAEC welcomes Mohammad Ahadi, as a new PhD student and Ali Soleymani, as a new MASc student
November 2013 Dr. Bahrami is awarded an equipment grant in Alternative Energy Conversion Systems by CFI
October 2013 Dr. Bahrami is awarded a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Alternative Energy Conversion Systems
September 2013 LAEC welcomes Sina Salari, Mina Rouhani and Atiyeh Hoseini as new PhD student, and Mahdi Nemati and Brandon Ingraham as new MASc students
May 2013 LAEC welcomes Poovanna Thimmaiah and Khorshid Fayazmanesh, as new PhD students
April 2013 LAEC welcomes Dr. Wendell Huttema, our new lab engineer
April 2013 Welcome Dr. Claire McCague to LAEC
March 2013 Welcome Dr. Protiva Roy to LAEC
September 2012 Dr. Bahrami is awarded a four-year NSERC collaborative research grant with Alpha Technologies for design and development a new hybrid cooling technology for telecommunication industry
September 2012 Welcome Ali Gholami who joined LAEC as a M.Sc. student
September 2012 Welcome Dr. Brian Fraser to LAEC
September 2012 Congratulations to Setareh Shahsavari, former LAEC M.Sc. student, for starting her PhD program in MIT
July 2012 Dr. Bahrami receives a major research funding from Automotive Partnership Canada (APC) to develop the next generation of green sustainable air conditioning and refrigeration systems for service vehicles
July 2011 LAEC welcomes Mr. Marius Haiducu, our new lab engineer
March 2011 Future Vehicle Technologies and Dr. Bahrami started one of the pioneering R&D projects on thermal management of hybrid electric vehicles, funded by Automotive Partnership Canada (APC)
January 2011 Congratulations to Dr. Ali Tamayol, a former LAEC PhD student, for receiving the prestigeous NSERC post-doctoral scholarship
September 2011 Congratulations to Dr. Mohsen Akbari, a former LAEC PhD student, for receiving the prestigeous NSERC post-doctoral scholarship
September 2011 Congratulations to Dr. Ehsan Sadeghi, a former LAEC PhD student, for joining Dr. Eikerling group and Automotive Fuel Cell Corporation (AFCC) as a post-doctoral fellow
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