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Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Schulich Leader Award winners named

A group of high school students headed to the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ this September have been named 2020 Schulich Leaders. 

The prestigious award comes with an $80,000 or $100,000 scholarship made possible by businessman and philanthropist Seymour Schulich.  

This year, the Schulich Leader Scholarship program supports 100 young Canadians pursing a STEM degree. 

Mark Crowley, electrical and computer engineering professorA À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ electrical and computer engineering professor provides feedback on the federal government’s COVID-19 app in a question-and-answer article released today.

Four local companies with roots at À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Engineering will receive a total of more than $10 million in federal funding to help grow and expand around the world.

Intellijoint Surgical, SSIMWAVE, KA Imaging and TeTechS are among eight À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Region companies in all named for backing in an announcement by Mélanie Joly, the minister of economic development.

The money comes as no-interest, repayable loans from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario, or FedDev Ontario.

A nanotechnology engineering doctoral student is a recipient of this year’s prestigious

Asif Abdullah Khan was awarded the scholarship for his research that focuses on developing next-generation sustainable power sources for designing self-powered micro/nanosystems for aerospace applications.

First-year engineering students collaborate remotely on an IDEAs Clinic spaceship challenge

Md. Abdul Chowdhury and his teammates never did get their virtual spaceship safely to Kepler-438b, an exoplanet situated hundreds of light years from Earth.

But all the hours they spent trying certainly weren’t wasted.

A graduate student at À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Engineering has won the campus-wide Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ for the third straight year.

Jasdeep Multani of the School of Architecture was joined on the podium by third-place finisher Robert Bennett, a master’s student in electrical and computer engineering, to give the Faculty two of the top three spots.

Ladan TahvildariLadan Tahvildari, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, here at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ, was elected to lead the for a two-year term.  The IEEE Computer Society is the world’s largest professional organizatio