Posts Tagged: mechanical engineering
Aircraft wing designers have drawn their inspiration from birds since the dawn of aviation. But engineers are still finding ways of improving design based on examples found in the ornithological world. In the world of unmanned air vehicles, one team…
Flight-testing is scheduled to begin in 2011 on a morphed wing prototype for unmanned air vehicles using in-built shape memory alloy actuators that deform the shape of the wing when heated. The prototype is being developed by MIE on behalf…
Professor Axel Guenther (MIE, IBBME) and colleagues have developed a microfluidic platform on which fragile blood vessels can be fixed, allowing the factors that promote and sustain cardiovascular diseases to be studied. Microvascular structure and function are currently studied using either an…
Congratulations to Professors Sanjeev Chandra (MIE), Tom Coyle (MSE), and Javad Mostaghimi (MIE) and Dr. Valerian (Larry) Pershin (MIE), of the Centre for Advanced Coating Technologies, who have been awarded the 2010 NSERC Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in…
By Carolyn Farrell Professors Frank Kschischang (ECE) and Andreas Mandelis (MIE) are among only eight recipients nationwide of Killam Research Fellowships, one of Canada’s most prestigious research awards. Administered by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Fellowships provide support to scholars of exceptional…
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