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A À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Engineering Team  won the 2015 Electric Mobility Canada Student Competition, an event co-sponsored by AddÉnergie and Electric Mobility Canada. The award came with a $4,500 charging station for À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ.

At the competition held in Halifax teams were presented with an electric vehicle (EV) power train configuration and battery charging issue to resolve. Each team prepared a presentation of its issue, a solution and a plan for adoption. The À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ team proposed a Metal/Air – LiIon Hybrid vehicle as the technical solution: 

David Brush, a civil and environmental engineering lecturer, is the first recipient of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Engineering Society's Engineering Society David BrushTeaching Excellence Award introduced to promote and reward faculty or staff's outstanding contributions toward undergraduate learning.
Honourable mentions were received by Mark Smucker, a management sciences pr
Susan Tighe, a civil and environmental engineering professor, and Chris Eliasmith, a systems design engineering and philosophy professor, are among the inaugural 91 members of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. 
Together, the members of the College will address issues of particular concern to new scholars, artists and scientists, for the advancement of understanding and the benefit of society, taking advantage of the interdisciplinary approaches fostered by the establishment of the College.

A group of students and grads is tapping into À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµâ€™s entrepreneurial spirit to bridge their passion for business with the desire to help others. The result is Empower Health, an organization committed to providing diagnostic and wellness programs to the world’s slum dwellers. 

The Empower Health team