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Bill Middleton, an environmental technologist in civil and environmental engineering, explains a biofuel cell to a group of prospective students in the Environmental Lab.

Faculty, staff members, and current engineering students greeted prospective students and their guests at Engineering’s Academic Open House on Saturday, May 14.

Students were provided a brief overview of the faculty’s academic programs, support initiatives, and awards/scholarships that are available. Afterwards, they were split into groups to collaborate in mock engineering proposals, tour various research labs, view demonstrations, and participate in self-guided tours while staff, faculty, and students answered questions.

Faculty and staff members welcomed more than 480 Master of Engineering (MEng) students at the summer orientation day on Saturday, May 7.

The day was notable in that it was the first in-person orientation event hosted in the Faculty of Engineering in over two years due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.

“We are excited that our delivery of our MEng program has returned to face-to-face,” says Majid Ahmadi, associate dean of research and graduate studies. “Students are very much in favour of this type of teaching and in our orientation day, they have demonstrated this enthusiasm with their strong presence.”

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More than 140 Windsor Essex Catholic District School Board high school students converged at the Faculty of Engineering to experience and learn about aerospace, industrial, and mechatronics engineering on Thursday, May 5.

The day was particularly momentous in that it was the first field trip the Faculty of Engineering outreach program has hosted in over two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. In-person visits to high school classrooms resumed about three weeks ago.

“As a nation that aspires to be a leader in high-value advanced technology manufacturing, Canada needs to find opportunities to add value to our natural resources and build the highest-value parts of the future car,” which is exactly what the recent decision by Stellantis and LG Energy to build a large-scale electric vehicle battery plant in Windsor does, says Peter Frise.

An engineering professor and director of the Centre for Automotive Research and Education, he argues for a complete auto ecosystem that brings together research and development, materials, parts and assembly in an article published Monday in The Globe and Mail.