Electric and computer engineering professor Bala Balasingham has been awarded a $230,000 Discovery Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada to expand his research into the safety, efficiency, and reliability of electric vehicle batteries.
Echolocation in bats, smart pavement, aircraft propulsion, drug discovery, and clean combustion — these are a just a handful of the new University of Windsor research projects the federal government will fund for the next five years.
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has announced it will fund 22 UWindsor researchers with grants totalling more than $3.8 million. Most of the funding comes from the Discovery Grants program, NSERC’s largest and longest-standing grant program.
“Canada’s science and research sector is solving some of the world’s greatest challenges, all while driving innovation, growth, and productivity,” said François-Philippe Champagne, federal Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry, in announcing the funding recently. “Research programs like Discovery give researchers the flexibility to explore the most promising avenues of research as they emerge to ensure Canada remains a world leader in science and new technologies.”