Besides supplying clean, renewable energy, Canada’s rapidly growing wind generation sector can provide plenty of economic benefits for depressed areas, according to a national wind energy research leader who will speak here Wednesday.
 Wind Energy Institute of Canada CEO Scott Harper. |
Technical communications means more than just writing reports, says engineering professor Jill Urbanic. When she took over teaching a first-year course in the subject, she determined to give her students some interesting content to communicate.
In the not-so-distant future anyone on campus may be able to stroll over to the university’s new engineering building and have a bobble-head made of themselves in less than two hours.
The concept was floated Friday by a group of fourth-year students in Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems engineering who were presenting their capstone projects in the lecture hall of the Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation.
Entire communities will be able to generate their own energy and will do so in the not-so-distant future with a much greater reliance on such renewable sources as wind, solar and biomass, according to Rupp Carriveau.
Environmental engineering Master’s student Taylor Purdy was honoured Friday at Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital for her efforts to help the hospital significantly reduce its environmental footprint and save thousands of dollars in annual operating costs.
The Faculty of Engineering and the Odette School of Business invite applications for a joint two-year limited-term ancillary academic staff – learning specialist position in the area of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Management of Technology commencing as early as May 1.
This position is subject to final budgetary approval. To ensure full consideration, applications should be submitted by April 15.
Angelo Fallone figures he could have spent about 10 times as much on new machinery to help lower costs at his local produce packaging plant, but working with a team of UWindsor engineering researchers provided a far superior solution.
The economic vitality of many communities in the United States and Canada is heavily dependent upon the ability to move goods freely and efficiently across the Canadian-US border—none more so than Windsor-Essex.
In recent years, delays in crossing the border have become a critical problem with tremendous economic and social costs, says Adel Sadek.
What began as a redesign of a particular fixture at a local cutting tools manufacturing shop quickly evolved into a complete overhaul of the plant’s layout in order to improve its efficiency. And it all happened thanks to a federal government program aimed at helping small businesses, and the know-how of a group of UWindsor engineering researchers.
The University’s first Three Minute Thesis Competition will wrap up today with presentations by eight finalists who advanced from the preliminary heats.
