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Polytechnique posts an enrolment increase and is on track to pass the 30% mark for female students, 10 years ahead of the Canadian target

June 23, 2020

In spite of the COVID-19 pandemic, Polytechnique Montréal is seeing impressive growth in the next generation – and semester!- of students, with enrolment surging by 8.5% for the Summer Semester. The largest increases are in Master’s and Certificate progra ...

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A banner year for Polytechnique Montréal, as three professors named fellows in the Canadian Academy of Engineering

June 16, 2020

L. to r.: François Bertrand, Carl-Éric Aubin, and Yvon Savaria The Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) is a time-honoured organization comprising many of the country’s most experienced engineers, who amply demonstrate dedication to science and engineeri ...

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Professor Michel Gendreau: part of a new Research Chair partnership examining smart supply chains

June 11, 2020

Michel Gendreau, Full Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, is collaborating with other eminent researchers leading NSERC’s new Research and Innovation Chair in Planning of Intelligent Logistics and Transportation Systems ...

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COVID-19: Polytechnique Montréal Cybersecurity experts sound the alarm on tracing applications

May 28, 2020

Polytechnique Montréal’s expert professors in cybersecurity are ensuring that contact-tracking applications that the Canadian and Québec governments may soon adopt are trustworthy and respect citizens’ privacy. Group members are also going even further th ...

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COVID-19: Polytechnique professors in transportation and sustainable mobility prepare for deconfinement

May 1, 2020

As the Government of Québec unveils its deconfinement plan, professors specializing in transportation and sustainable mobility in Polytechnique’s Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering, all of them associated with the Mobilité Chair, are t ...

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COVID-19: water management and analysis tools to prepare for deconfinement

April 27, 2020

As talk of deconfinement begins in Québec, two professors at Polytechnique Montréal’s Centre de recherche, développement et validation des technologies et procédés de traitement des eaux (centre for research, development and validation of water-treatment ...

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COVID-19: a Polytechnique Montréal team helps Sainte-Justine UHC’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

April 23, 2020

Every day at about 4:30 p.m., Professor Philippe Doyon-Poulin invites his team of students and collaborators to a videoconference meeting to review the progress of each one’s work. All are now devoting their time to solving a single challenge: adapting th ...

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COVID-19: fast-tracking the clinical trial process

April 20, 2020

Overshadowed by the many scientific breakthroughs that are taking place during the COVID-19 crisis, there is one that could make waves in the world of clinical research once the storm is over. A professor at Polytechnique is directly involved in the proje ...

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COVID-19: in an exception this year, capstone project at Polytechnique uses simulation

April 17, 2020

In barely two weeks, many Polytechnique Montréal teachers had to adapt their courses to enable their students to continue their semester in distance-learning mode. In the coming days, we will be sharing some of their stories with you. ...

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COVID-19: Polytechnique graduate students connect online, thanks to a Discord server

April 16, 2020

Using a Discord community server, the Association des étudiants des cycles supérieurs de Polytechnique (AÉCSP) is offering its members a space to interact as a group, in order to break down the isolation. ...

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COVID-19: Polytechnique computers still hard at work

April 15, 2020

In barely two weeks, many Polytechnique Montréal teachers had to adapt their courses to enable their students to continue their semester in distance-learning mode. In the coming days, we will be sharing some of their stories with you. ...

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Polytechnique's University Executive highlights the community's dedication

April 14, 2020

Pierre Lassonde, Polytechnique Montreal's new Chair of the Board of Directors as of March 18, 2020, and university President Philippe Tanguy thanked the Polytechnique community for their patience and dedication during this challenging time. The follo ...

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COVID-19: Polytechnique community members support the SantéLibre initiative

April 9, 2020

SantéLibre is positioning itself as a central platform to meet the urgent needs of Québec hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic. Members of the Polytechnique Montréal community are now supporting the initiative by helping to coordinate the work of San ...

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COVID-19: TransMedTech Institute is on track to enabling the reuse of N95 masks

April 8, 2020

In less than three weeks of work, several innovations are already emerging from the mobilization activities of the TransMedTech Institute. Among them are two procedures for rehabilitating N95 masks, initiatives to which professors from Polytechnique Montr ...

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COVID-19: Polytechnique Montréal answers the Québec government’s call to provide the health network with personal protective equipment

April 7, 2020

Staff members in Polytechnique’s departments and services quickly located, collected and coordinated the delivery of personal protective equipment to caregivers in Montréal, while complying with access and physical distancing constraints. ...

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COVID-19: A Polytechnique course maintained… by an Australian virtual microscope

April 2, 2020

In barely two weeks, many Polytechnique teachers had to adapt their courses to enable their students to continue their semester in distance-learning mode. In the coming days, we will be sharing some of their stories with you. The virtual microscope adop ...

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COVID-19: the Polytechnique Montréal community is involved in more than 10 projects

March 31, 2020

Several members of the Polytechnique community have launched initiatives in recent days in an effort to help halt the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and COVID-19. Here are some examples. ...

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Pierre Lassonde named Chair of Polytechnique Montréal’s Board of Directors

March 18, 2020

During the course of their regularily scheduled operations, the Québec government's Conseil des ministres today decreed that effective immediately, Pierre Lassonde has been named Chair of Polytechnique Montréal's Board of Directors. Lassonde, hi ...

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Polytechnique Montréal’s Sixth edition of the Order of the White Rose

March 8, 2020

Polytechnique Montréal will award a $30,000 scholarship to a Canadian woman engineering student who wishes to pursue graduate-level engineering studies. ...

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Work by engineering physics researchers ranked among the most important discoveries of the year by "Optics and Photonics News"

December 13, 2019

Work conducted by the team at the Canada Research Chair in Ubiquitous Terahertz Photonics, led by Professor Maksim Skorobogatiy, has been acclaimed among the most important discoveries of 2019 by a prestigious journal of the Optical Society. ...

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