Professional Engineers Ontario honoured professor emeritus Phil Alexander as its Windsor Essex Engineer of the Year at a luncheon Friday.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Xiaomin Lu works on one of her experiments on her recent trip to India.
Jan 24th, 2014
Coming to Windsor might have been the best move ever for a young Chinese engineering graduate student who’s trying to improve the performance of hybrid electric vehicles.
“It’s been really good for me,” said Xiaomin Lu, a PhD student who will soon return to Windsor after a productive six-week trip to India to conduct more research. “If I had stayed in China, I never would have had the opportunity to experience so much.”
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.
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.
Hybrid-electric vehicle researcher Narayan Kar makes a point during his lecture Friday at a workshop on electric vehicle technology.
Jun 24th, 2013
A tremendous amount of research is still required to make electric vehicles an economically viable option for most consumers, but that presents a rare opportunity for investors looking to establish themselves in the sector, according to an engineer who specializes in hybrid-electric powertrains.
Electrical engineering professor Narayan Kar poses with the Toyota Prius hybrid electric vehicle he will display during a public event June 8.
Jun 6th, 2013
Electrical engineering professor Narayan Kar will be showing off the latest acquisition from his research lab at an event this Saturday.
The University’s first Three Minute Thesis Competition will wrap up today with presentations by eight finalists who advanced from the preliminary heats.
PhD student Anas Labak worked through an entire night assembling a new portable solar-powered digital LED lighting system for his industrial partners at a local manufacturing firm. The fact that he was able to see what he was doing for all that time – unlike the potential customers the system is aimed at – wasn’t lost on him, or his partner.
“There are two billion people in the world who don’t have any energy at all,” said Steve Pokrajac, president of Tesla Digital Lighting Systems.
The promise of the Centre for Engineering Innovation definitely helped to convince Sarah Kwiatkowski to study at the University of Windsor. Now the promise is being fulfilled for the second-year electrical engineering major.
“I am so excited about having everything in one place—classes, labs, professors’ offices,” she says. “This building played a huge role in my decision to come here.”