Interactive exhibits and live demonstrations will showcase the potential impact of collaboration in exploration during the Engineering Research Partnership Open House on Wednesday, June 19.
Hosted by the Faculty of Engineering and the Office of Research and Innovation, the event draws a diverse crowd of industry leaders and community partners aiming to drive advancements in sustainable engineering solutions, smart technologies, and advanced manufacturing processes.
The Flatz 520 multi-family residential apartment complex in Maricopa, Arizona was constructed using Z Modular’s innovative modular building and construction processes. (Photo courtesy of Z Modular).
Z Modular, a division of Zekelman Industries, has committed more than $1 million to bolster research and development at the University of Windsor into innovative materials, designs, and support systems for modular housing construction.
Civil engineering professor Sreekanta Das, associate dean of research and graduate studies, has been appointed the Industrial Research Chair of the Zekelman Centre of Modular Innovation and Sustainable Construction. Having already made invaluable contributions to the field, Dr. Das will continue to address critical challenges in the modular housing industry.
Gian Mario Favero is the 2024 recipient of the Governor General Silver Medal for outstanding academic performance.
An academic standout through his undergraduate career, electrical engineering alumnus Gian Mario Favero will receive Governor General Silver Medal during the ninth session of Convocation, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 6.
The medal is awarded to the undergraduate student considered to have achieved the most outstanding academic record in comparison to their graduating peers. Although Favero graduated in October 2023, he was eligible for consideration since this medal is not awarded at Fall convocation.
A series of workshops will help students gain skills to transition into careers.
The University of Windsor and community partners like Windsor Hackforge and Connecting Windsor-Essex have collaborated to create and offer a series of workshops to help teach career-building skills.
The “Improving Employability Summer Series” is designed for international students in the Master of Engineering (MEng) and Master of Applied Computing (MAC) programs as they look to gain additional skills that will be useful as they transition into their careers in Canada.
“The events have been curated with the goal of helping students improve their chances of employment in Canada,” says Victoria Abboud, series creator, organizer, and UWindsor professor.
New students in the Master of Engineering program tour campus as part of orientation activities May 3.
Peter Frise, associate dean of engineering for professional programs, welcomed Master of Engineering students at an orientation session on Friday, May 3.
The day included presentations on academic policies, course requirements, faculty advising, students’ rights, peer support, and mentorship, followed by a campus tour provided by the representatives of the Engineering Society and lunch at the campus Whamburg location.
Engineering students Shasank Natakam, Katie Sinn, and Valdemar Kochanowski pose with their entry in the 2024 concrete canoe competition.
The UWindsor team in the Canadian National Concrete Canoe Competition has high hopes for its entry, in Quebec this week to be evaluated on academic, technical, and sports aspects.
“This year, we changed the design to a more traditional canoe shape and added some colour, and it looks a lot smoother,” says captain Katie Sinn, a third-year student of civil engineering. “It is lighter, and we decreased the weight by over 50 per cent from last year’s design.”
The competition, sponsored by the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, challenges students from across the country to test their design prowess, shaping the dense material into a fully functional canoe ready to race in the water.
Professors Arezoo Emadi, Mike McKay, Kendall Soucie, and Kenneth Ng are pictured along the Windsor-Detroit riverfront, showcasing the interdisciplinary team leading the $15 million INSPIRE project to advance Canada’s biomanufacturing and pandemic response capabilities.
The University of Windsor is leading a $15 million research project to help Canada respond to future pandemics by strengthening our country’s biomanufacturing sector.
INSPIRE, short for the Integrated Network for the Surveillance of Pathogens: Increasing Resilience and Capacity in Canada’s Pandemic Response, brings together 43 experts from seven universities and public and private agencies in Canada and the United States. This team of microbiologists, biochemists, engineers, computer scientists, and experts in supply chains and public policy will look for ways to improve biomanufacturing and health sector supply chains, bolster cross-border trade and mobility, and explore new technologies in pathogen surveillance.
“During the COVID-19 pandemic, we had supply chain shortages, we couldn’t get enough PPE in Canada, we weren’t making our own vaccines,” said Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research director Mike McKay, who is leading INSPIRE together with a researcher from the University of Guelph.
CHARGE lab director Narayan Kar and grad student Matteo Pizzuto check the connections between a vehicle in Windsor and operators at a conference in Germany.
The University of Windsor is giving attendees at a conference in Germany a chance to try a remote-control car with a difference: it’s a full-size vehicle more than 6,500 km remote.
A team from Windsor Engineering has set up a connection between the Centre for Engineering Innovation and the Hannover Messe Expo, the world’s trade fair catering to companies from the mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and digital industries.
Civil engineering professor Tirupati Bolisetti and Kwaku Gyau Gyamfi discuss the student’s project on resilience of water supplies in Arctic communities on World Water Day.
The next time you look at the Great Lakes or wonder about Arctic communities, you will think about them a little differently because of the research of engineering students Vrashesh Vipul Karkar and Kwaku Gyau Gyamfi.
Karkar examined the water in Great Lakes Basin watersheds to assess the amount of microplastics that are present in the water. His research focuses on the quantities of microplastics humans are releasing into rivers and the Great Lakes, developing cutting edge modelling tools to quantify the microplastics being released.
Can we repurpose old tires as a buffer to protect buildings from earthquake damage? Professor Niel Van Engelen is leading a project to find out.
What if a material that could protect structures from earthquake damage was widely available all over the world? Niel Van Engelen is exploring the use of scrap tires as a type of shock absorber between buildings and their foundations.
A professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dr. Van Engelen is an expert in structural control and earthquake engineering. The project team includes doctoral student Norouz Jahan and master’s student Tanveer Shaik.
