Large amounts of electrical energy are currently required to push Ontario’s water through treatment plants and a complex system of aging, corroded and leaky transmission and distribution pipes. In the next 10 years alone, updating Ontario’s water infrastructure will cost $30-40 billion.
Civil and environmental engineering professor Rupp Carriveau is working with local greenhouse operators to better align water supply and demand.
Civil and environmental engineering professor Rupp Carriveau is working with local greenhouse operators to better align water supply and demand.
With the assistance of the lab’s supervisor, Bill Middleton, research intern Subhashini Kishnan mastered using her favourite instrument: the anaerobic chamber, also known as the glove box.
A biotechnology student from India has recently completed a UWindsor research internship exploring the field of alternative energy sources.
The recently graduated team of (from left to right) Rama Nabhan; Mohnad Nabhan; Firas Abdelkhaleq; and Jihad Zaher, project achieved 15th place internationally, and third place locally, in the American Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute annual international competition.
A team of civil engineering students’ graduation project on beam design ranked them among the top entrants at an international design competition
Civil and environmental engineering professor Rupp Carriveau's security study will review worst case scenarios that could possibly lead to Essex County temporarily losing access to safe drinking water.
UWindsor researchers are reviewing worst case scenarios that could possibly lead to Essex County temporarily losing access to safe drinking water.
During the fourth annual popsicle stick bridge building contest, third year Civil engineering student Laura Daniel made sure her team’s structure is placed correctly in a specially-built machine that measures the force applied as the structures are crushed.
Third-year civil engineering students built bridges out of popsicle sticks and glue that were strong enough to stand up to extreme load testing at the fourth annual popsicle stick bridge building contest on Tuesday
Green scene: The solar bench—which uses the sun’s rays to charge electronics—frames a recycling station, a bicycle rack and the Stewart Moore Carolinian Garden to point up the University of Windsor’s commitment to environmental responsibility.
UWindsor was among five Canadian universities ranked among the greenest in North america.
UWindsor team walked away with top honours at the Water Environment Association of Ontario (WEAO) Student Design Competition.
The Transportation Seminar Series presents “Modelling Changing Global Trade Patterns and Their Local Transportation Impacts” Tuesday, April 14.
A UWindsor post-doctoral fellow will share his research Tuesday, March 17, in the free public lecture “Cumulative Environmental Exposures and their Challenges for Health Impact Assessment in Transportation Infrastructure Planning.”
Guest speaker Tor H. Oiamo is a research associate with the Cross-Border Institute and is serving a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) post-doctoral fellowship. Dr. Oiamo’s current research aims to integrate methods and theories in urban environmental health with transportation and land use modeling systems.
