Posts Tagged: sustainability
The University of Toronto Centre for Applied Power Electronics (CAPE) will receive $720,000 in funding for its smart-grid community lithium-ion battery solution for utility energy storage project. Mark Warawa, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of the Environment and Member of…
Compute Canada, a national platform of advanced computing resources across the country, has announced the largest ever awards of supercomputing resources to researchers working in areas from biomedicine and brain function to aircraft and aviation fuel design. These competitively-awarded grants…
Most people have never been up close to a natural gas processing plant, an oil sands operation or a large wind turbine. Yet the energy sector fuels not only Alberta’s prosperity, but also drives the country’s economic engine. Continued innovation…
Audrey Kertesz, an ECE student in her first year of graduate studies and specializing in control theory, received the 2010 André Hamer Postgraduate Prize from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) in Ottawa on Monday, February…
Shawn Qu (MSE PhD 9T5) runs one of the ten largest solar panel makers in the world, Kitchener, Ont.-based Canadian Solar Inc., with annual revenue of about $1.2-billion (U.S.). Yet he is almost unknown in Canadian business circles, mainly because the…
CBC Radio’s “Quirks & Quarks” program celebrated its 35th anniversary with a live panel discussion in November, asking engineers and scientists to discuss the greatest achievements since the show first went on the air in October 1975. To celebrate the…
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