Undergraduate Students

Engineering students challenged to think outside the box in national competition

Drawing on inspiration from a futuristic personal transit system being implemented in the United Arab Emirates, four UWindsor Industrial Engineering students came up with a solution to the transportation travails associated with urban sprawl, earning them a second place finish at the Provincial Ontario Engineering Competition and a place at the table for the national competition held recently in Vancouver.

Law library extends hours for exam study

The Paul Martin Law Library will offer extended hours beginning this weekend for exam study.

Its weekend hours of operation will be:

  • Saturday, March 31, 11 a.m. to 8:50 p.m.
  • Friday, April 6, Closed for Good Friday
  • Saturday, April 7 and 14, 11 a.m. to 10:50 p.m.
  • Sunday, April 8 and 15, 1 to 11:50 p.m.

It will reduce hours of operation beginning Friday, April 20:

Grad students enhance sober steering system with face recognition program

Motorists in the future may be able to help cut down on drunk-driving statistics thanks to a unique face-recognition program developed by a pair of University of Windsor engineering graduate students.

Although it’s still a long way from being available in vehicles, the Driver ID device would work in conjunction with technology that could be incorporated into steering wheels that would detect the level of alcohol in a driver’s blood, according to John Carroll, chief technology officer at the Waterloo-based Sober Steering Incorporated.

Student researcher finds Red Wing home streak more impressive with shoot-outs

There are those hockey fans who believe that when the Detroit Red Wings set a new record for home wins this season there should have be an asterisk beside their names because several of those 23 victories came as a result of shoot-outs.

Then again, there are some more cerebral sports analysts who believe that if an asterisk is added to the record books, it should only be to note that with the shoot-outs included, the accomplishment becomes all the more extraordinary.