Putting together business plans gives his students an appreciation of “the big picture,” says industrial and manufacturing systems engineering professor Zbigniew Pasek.
“Hopefully, it helps them to understand their profession requires communication and collaboration skills,” he said.
Students in his second-year course, Engineering Management and Globalization, presented their projects in a business plan competition Thursday, judged by students from the Centre for Enterprise and Law.
Certain people may be genetically predisposed to suffering negative side effects of living near wind turbines, according to an engineering professor studying the problem.
Students in history professor Leslie Howsam’s graduate course “Studies in the History of the Book” will present their research in a series of free public lectures on Tuesday, November 29, with the support of the Humanities Research Group.
The mini-conference begins at 10 a.m. in Alumni Hall’s McPherson Lounge with Dr. Howsam’s introductory remarks on Mediation and Materiality: Aspects of the History of the Book.”
When Aaron Blata graduates from engineering school he says he’d like to make a career of retrofitting old buildings.
“Either that or demolishing them,” said the Civil and Environmental engineering student.
His destructive streak might easily be explained by the fact that he spent about 100 hours this semester building a model of an ancient device used by medieval warriors to smash the walls of fortified cities during long sieges.
Looking out over the rows and rows of solar panels that line the roof of the Tecumseh Arena, Frank Iakovidis sees a lot of untapped potential.
While it’s true the more than 2,000 panels there provide almost 600 megawatt hours of electricity to the generating grid, the master’s student of engineering thinks there’s a whole lot more energy to be had, if he could only find a way to cool them down in the summer and prevent snow from building up on them during the winter.
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada is featuring UWindsor professor Ahmet Alpas in a showcase of researchers it funds.
The council has produced a video entitled 2 Minutes with Ahmet T. Alpas and is promoting it on the NSERC Web site.
