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The Association francophone pour le savoir (Acfas) presented its 2011 awards yesterday during its annual benefit gala at the Montréal Science Centre. Viviane Lalande, a master's student in biomedical engineering at Polytechnique, won one of the five a ...
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On September 22, Pierre Baptiste, Head of the Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering, enthusiastically launched the new health systems engineering option, offered within the course-based master's degree in industrial engineering. Attend ...
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Genome Canada, in partnership with Génome Québec, is pleased to announce that $1.12 million has been awarded to a multi-university research team for the research project Boosting Entrepreneurial Skills and Training: BEST in Genomics! Polytechnique Montréal ...
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Polytechnique Montréal lecturer Renée-Pascale Laberge won the Best Paper award at the International Conference on Engineering Education (ICEE) in Ireland in August. Her article on Polytechnique's interpersonal communication and teamwork course earned ...
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A partnership agreement between Polytechnique Montréal and Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQÀR) gave a group of 40 firefighters the opportunity to undertake a certificate program in fire safety emergency operations management in Lévis on Friday, Septembe ...
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It's a bit of a challenge. But, imagine a microscopic jet vacuum cleaner, the size of a pen nib that hovers over cell surfaces without ever touching them. Then imagine that the soap in the cleaning solution is replaced with various molecules that can ...
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Today, Polytechnique Montréal was awarded Sustainable Campus certification by the Sierra Youth Coalition, a national non-profit organization that publicly recognizes universities' sustainable development efforts. ...
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The Québec Consortium for Drug Discovery (CQDM) announces that it has granted $1,9 million in funding to Professor Sylvain Martel, Director of Polytechnique Montréal's Nanorobotics Laboratory, for his research project on colorectal cancer treatment. ...
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Polytechnique's technical societies are seeking new members for their 2011-2012 teams. These committees, which bring together people who've been bitten hard by the engineering bug in every sub-field, tackle a range of technical projects each year ...
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The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) announced today that it will invest nearly $800,000 to finance research facilities for two projects at Polytechnique Montréal. ...
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Welcome days, departmental activities, information stands hosted by experienced students, guided tours, workshops on finding housing in Montréal, orientation sessions for foreign students, activities offered by the Programme d'intégration des nouveaux ...
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The International Microwave Symposium, which welcomes more than 10,000 people each year, was held from June 5 to 10 in Baltimore, Maryland. Liang Han and Zhen Yu Zhang, doctoral students supervised by Professor Ke Wu, each won an award issued by the Microw ...
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On August 22, prizes were awarded in recognition of the best personal projects completed by third-year electrical engineering students as part of the course Projet personnel en génie électrique ("personal electrical engineering project," or ELE30 ...
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Polyproject, Polytechnique's new technical society bringing together students who share a thirst for innovating, has been chosen in the AVENIR Science and Technological Applications category from among about 100 entries presented this year from Québec ...
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In line with its mission to encourage the creation of new businesses with high knowledge content, Univalor is pleased to announce that Luc E. Morisset, who led the team of business development since the establishment of Univalor ten years ago, will continu ...
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This past May and June provided an opportunity for Polytechnique's Baja SAE team to pit itself against international adversaries in two annual competitions hosted by our neighbours to the south: in Pittsburg, Kansas, and Peoria, Illinois. ...
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The Archimède team made quite the impression at the International Submarine Races, held June 25 to July 3 at the U.S. naval base in Bethesda, Maryland. After several adrenaline-charged test days, the technical society earned third place out of 29 teams and ...
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In May, Polytechnique's Service des stages et du placement (internship and placement department) concluded a co-operation agreement with the youth employment service Carrefour jeunesse-emploi de Duplessis (CJED) in Sept-Îles with a view to increasing ...
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Although it has existed for less than a year, PolyProject, the new technical society devoted to designing, manufacturing and ultimately marketing the most promising student invention concepts, is racking up major awards. Its "low-cost optical data glo ...
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The 6th Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition took place June 16-18 in Green River, Utah, where the new Polytechnique Montréal technical society Oronos tried out its Hélios rocket for the first time. ...
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