Troy Stevenson (BASc ’15, Chemical) has become the eighth full-time head coach of the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ’s men’s basketball program.
He was the interim head coach last season after spending the previous four seasons as an assistant coach.
An incoming student at À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering will start his studies this fall with $70,000 in backing from a national, four-year scholarship.
Chinemerem Chigbo of Winnipeg is one of 20 cross-country recipients of 2020 in recognition of outstanding contributions to change in their communities.
A professor at À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering has been named the executive director of a campus-wide centre dedicated to advancing bioengineering and biotechnology research and innovation through industry collaborations and partnerships.
Karim S. Karim, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, was appointed to head the Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology (CBB) for a five-year term.
A robotics company founded by four À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering graduates announced this week that it has secured US $29 million in funding to accelerate its worldwide growth.
, the industrial division of Clearpath Robotics, has now raised US $83 million in backing since its launch in 2015.
A professor at À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering has released a book to help international students improve their formal academic writing in English.
Zhongchao Tan, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, took advantage of time at home during the coronavirus pandemic and drew on his personal experiences as a Chinese-Canadian to write the guide for international engineering students, as well as university faculty members who supervise them.
As economies begin to reopen, À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering researchers are developing technology that will notify users and public health when individuals come in close contact with someone confirmed or suspected to have COVID-19.
Patricia Nieva and William Melek, both À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ mechanical and mechatronics engineering professors, and their students are developing contact tracing software for an app called TraceSCAN.
A group of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering students have contributed to the COVID-19 cause by helping to develop an online dashboard to track and synthesize the results of antibody studies from around the world.
The five students - Nathan Duarte, Jordan Van Wyk, Austin Atmaja, Simona Rocco and Abel Joseph - teamed up with Canadians at universities in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, plus a federal task force of experts, to pull off the ambitious project.
À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering lecturer Nadine Ibrahim posed a compelling question in a recent opinion piece: can we use lessons learned during the COVID-19 crisis to also set our resolve to tackle climate change?
Ibrahim, who holds the Turkstra Chair in Urban Engineering, argues that the structural and behavioural changes forced by the global pandemic could pave the way towards a truly sustainable - and still prosperous - way of life.
A glowing editorial published today in The À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Region Record highlights the far-reaching mark made by Douglas Wright, the founding dean of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering.
Wright, who died last week at the age of 92, went on to serve as the third president and vice-chancellor of the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ as it grew into a world-class institution of higher learning and research.
The editorial argues À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Region would be a far different, far poorer place, had it not been for Wright's vision and determination to help bring academia and industry together.
Tarek Hegazi, a civil and environmental engineering professor, has won an award from the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) for a paper published in the CSCE journal.
Hegazi is receiving this year's CSCE Stephen G. Revay Award for his work entitled Multi-dimensional optimization model for schedule fast-tracking without over-stressing construction workers.