Canada’s research community must join in the response to competition from abroad for the country’s auto industry, UWindsor engineering researchers Peter Frise and Bill Van Heyst argue in an opinion piece published Monday in the Hill Times.
Based in Ottawa, the news outlet covers the federal government and national political issues.
The University’s new research program in Automobility-CASE centres on Connected, Autonomous, Secure, and Electric vehicle development.
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.”
Majid Ahmadi welcomes new students to the Master of Engineering during an orientation session May 7.
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.”
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.
Mentors from the Master of Engineering (MEng) program celebrated an outstanding Winter 2022 term by participating in a friendly “Tallest Marshmallow Tower” contest on May 3 in the Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation.
The event recognized the time, effort, and dedication by all MEng’s current mentors.
“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.
Being taken out of their engineering comfort zone and into the unchartered waters of marketing challenged the winners of the Proteus Innovation Competition to employ a whole new mindset.
The contest requires teams to create a viable commercialization strategy for a promising technology, in hopes of winning a cash prize of up to $5,000. Contestants hone their business skills, work with a variety of experienced advisors, and accelerate the commercialization process of discoveries coming out of Ontario universities.
A Windsor team led by postdoctoral fellow John Magliaro and including grad students Anthony Gudisey and Aryen Shakib took top honours with their business plan to commercialize professor Bill Altenhof’s “Kinetic Energy Dissipation System.”
Apoorva Srivastava, India’s consul general in Toronto, toured the Faculty of Engineering’s research lab facilities and connected with officials of the Master of Engineering (MEng) Graduate Student Society on Tuesday, April 12.
Your hands tightly clench the wheel; your ears flood with engines roaring. You’re seconds away from thrusting your foot on the pedal, but your mind? For Roman De Angelis, it’s completely still.
“It's almost blank,” says De Angelis, a 21-year-old professional driver who’s spent more than half of his life on the raceway.
“The second you begin rolling to the start line, everything clears and it’s really quiet and calm. Then, when the race starts, that's kind of when all the chaos breaks loose.”
De Angelis is a third-year mechanical engineering student who’s managed to find time to clinch first place finishes in the Detroit Grand Prix, Northeast Grand Prix and in both the U.S. and Canadian Porsche GT3 Cup Challenges, all while studying full time at the University of Windsor.
His team, The Heart of Racing, competes internationally with an Aston Martin Vantage GT3 and uses its platform to raise funds for children’s hospitals. They’ve raised more than $8 million to date.
