Nov 21st, 2013
Careers in the Environment, November 27, will provide information on educational and employment opportunities in environmental fields.
Engineering
From left, students Kassem Bazzi, Matthew Vong and Tyler Doyle prepare to launch their trebuchet on Friday.
Nov 18th, 2013
Engineering students were busy launching rubber balls through the industrial courtyard at the Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation on Friday.
The students were taking part in an assignment for their course in dynamics, which required them to construct a trebuchet – similar to a catapult that uses counterweights to launch its projectile – out of nothing more than wood, string and pop cans.
Nov 14th, 2013
The University of Windsor Alumni Association will honour seven graduates with its Odyssey Award on November 21.
A civil engineer will return to Windsor in mid-December with a wealth of new expertise that will ultimately help Canadian resource managers better cope with potential water shortages caused by climate change.
From left Mike Muzyka, Jim Caylor, Matthew Clairmont and Patrick Pakula stand behind the emergency vehicle detection system they designed for their fourth-year capstone project.
Aug 12th, 2013
A group of fourth-year engineering students designed a system to warn distracted drivers when an emergency vehicle is approaching.
Fourth-year electrical and computer engineering students Mohammad Rahman, Paramvir Singh Nagpal, Qing Tang and Brendan Rhyno show off the indoor positioning system they have developed to aid wayfinding in large buildings.
Aug 8th, 2013
A capstone project to develop an indoor positioning system is one of 14 that students in electrical and computer engineering will present Friday.
Kerry McPhedran stands beside a warning sign posted on a lifeguard stand at Sandpoint Beach. The post-doctoral fellow believes predictive modelling may be a better way to determine whether beaches should be closed to swimmers.
Aug 6th, 2013
Post-doctoral fellow Kerry McPhedran believes predictive modelling may be a better way to determine if beaches ought to be closed to bathers.
Students display their model bridge, winner for most creative design: Mariam Hamadani, Khaled Alhakim, Felipe Paramo and Darius Ghib.
Aug 6th, 2013
Third-year civil engineering students learned a lot in a competition to design and build a model bridge—and watch it destroyed to test its strength.
Suzan Matti, Shikhar Bhalla and Chau Yi Miao display a model of their clutch actuator design Friday in the Centre for Engineering Innovation.
Aug 6th, 2013
Graduating students of mechanical, automotive and materials engineering made the final presentations of their capstone projects Friday.
Volunteer Fedela Falker tests the RFID shopping cart while students Pat Marquez and Kyle Duff gauge her progress.
Aug 1st, 2013
A group of UWindsor students have leveraged radio-frequency identification technology to design a shopping cart that helps shoppers shop.