Two case studies on transportation across the Canada-U.S. border are the subject of a seminar Thursday on the UWindsor campus.
A civil engineer will return to Windsor in mid-December with a wealth of new expertise that will ultimately help Canadian resource managers better cope with potential water shortages caused by climate change.
Kerry McPhedran stands beside a warning sign posted on a lifeguard stand at Sandpoint Beach. The post-doctoral fellow believes predictive modelling may be a better way to determine whether beaches should be closed to swimmers.
Students display their model bridge, winner for most creative design: Mariam Hamadani, Khaled Alhakim, Felipe Paramo and Darius Ghib.
The winners of last year’s popsicle sticks bridge competition—Josh Mailloux, Ismaeel Babur, Eric Sylvestre and Evan Reidel—show off their arched design, which held more than 4800 newtons (almost 1,100 pounds) while weighing just over 1100 grams.
Jamie Smith, left, and Fezan Iqbal stand at the base of one of the wind turbine towers they work on.
Students Anthony Travaglini, Ryan Frouws, Jillian Hicks, David Brown and Josh Power celebrate the completion of their capstone project on solid waste management in the small Nunavut community of Arviat.
Producing fuels from under-utilized biomass instead of fossil based feedstock is an effective means of alleviating concerns about climate change and energy security, according to an engineering professor who will present his research at a conference in India this week.
“These are the major factors driving our search for cheap renewable energy sources,” said Jerald Lalman, a professor in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Wudneh Shewa measures the electrical current being produced by a microbial fuel cell in his lab in the Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation.
Manufacturers in the pulp and paper industry may one day convert a toxic by-product from their processes into electricity, thanks to the work of an engineering graduate student.
