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Caroline Boudoux and Nicolas Godbout launch Castor Optique, a new spinoff from Polytechnique Montréal

September 19, 2013

After returning from the United States and Europe, where they had presented their fibre-optic coupler to potential partners, Caroline Boudoux and Nicolas Godbout knew what they had to do. To accelerate the commercialization of their invention, the two prof ...

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Professor Éric Laurendeau live from the historic inaugural flight of the Bombardier CSeries airplane

September 16, 2013

This morning, the plane took off from Montréal–Mirabel International Airport around 9:55 a.m. EDT and landed about two and a half hours later. ...

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Université de Montréal ranks among top 100 universities worldwide

September 10, 2013

Université de Montréal has placed 92nd in the QS World University Rankings released today. This new result for the university is 22 positions higher than its ranking last year and 45 higher than two years ago. Université de Montréal remains one of the hig ...

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Poly eRacing: a positive result for 2013!

August 29, 2013

The most recent results from Poly eRacing, Polytechnique Montréal's electric race car group, are promising for future competitions! ...

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Bottled water removed from Polytechnique Montréal's Lassonde buildings and the Université de Montréal campus

August 20, 2013

Phase II of the Go Blue campaign officially begins today. Bottled water has now been removed from food services, student cafés and vending machines at Université de Montréal's de la Montagne and St-Hyacinthe campuses as well as at Polytechnique Montr ...

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Focus on the fall 2013 academic term!

August 16, 2013

Welcome days, departmental activities, information booths manned by experienced students, guided tours, workshops on finding housing in Montréal, orientation sessions for foreign students, activities offered by the Programme d'intégration des nouveau ...

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PolyOrbite enters Canadian Satellite Design Challenge

July 30, 2013

The second annual Canadian Satellite Design Challenge national competition finals take place in May 2014. Teams from various Canadian universities will design, build, test and launch a nanosatellite into space. ...

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Gilles L'Espérance wins award from Metal Powder Industries Federation

July 29, 2013

Gilles L'Espérance, full professor in the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering and Director of the Centre for Characterization and Microscopy of Materials, (cm)2, at Polytechnique Montréal, has received the prestigious Distinguished S ...

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Finalists announced for 15th edition of Forces AVENIR university program: four Polytechnique projects chosen

July 23, 2013

On July 16, following a selection process, the finalists were announced for the Forces AVENIR university program. ...

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Zéphyr MKII rocket by Polytechnique's Oronos wins first place in the 2013 IREC

July 8, 2013

On July 4, the Polytechnique community, the young campers from Folie Technique and the media were invited to meet three members of the technical society that had just won first place in the Intercollegiate Rocketry Engineering Competition (IREC) for the s ...

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Professor Raman Kashyap is named a Fellow of SPIE

July 4, 2013

Raman Kashyap, full professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, was promoted to Fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) in June. ...

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Polytechnique students make their mark at the 4th Concours Jeux Mathématiques

June 24, 2013

Students from the Combinatorial Optimization course (MTH6311) took second place at the 4th Concours Jeux mathématiques (mathematical games). ...

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2013 Journée des futurs étudiants: Polytechnique contributes to the development of a renewable energy project in Brazil by holding an eco-responsible event

June 21, 2013

The event was held for the third consecutive year with an eco-responsible approach. ...

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Polytechnique student honoured at 17th awards gala for Chapeau, les filles! and Excelle Science competition

June 19, 2013

The 17th gala for the Chapeau, les filles! competition and its Excelle Science component took place on June 10 at the Québec National Assembly, in the presence of Pierre Duchesne, Minister of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology. Fifty-seven ...

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Florence Morin Bernard wins the first edition of the Prix Augustin-Frigon competition

June 17, 2013

Polytechnique mechanical engineering graduate (2013) takes the prize for the quality of her thinking. ...

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Twenty-two Canadian automobile journalists wrap up the Ottawa-to-Montréal Eco-Run at the Polytechnique Montréal's technical company workshops

June 14, 2013

On June 6, at their downtown workshops, Polytechnique Montréal students welcomed not only AJAC journalists driving of 22 green-energy vehicles, but also Formula One driver Jean-Eric Vergne. ...

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Signing of an agreement for an innovative 3D printing project

June 13, 2013

An agreement has been reached between CRIAQ (the Consortium for Research and Innovation in Aerospace in Québec), Pratt & Whitney Canada, Bell Helicopter Textron Canada, Bombardier Aerospace, Polytechnique Montréal, McGill University and Université Lav ...

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Ville de Montréal, John Meunier Inc.-Veolia Group and Ville de Laval, in partnership with the NSERC Industrial Chair in Drinking Water Treatment at Polytechnique Montréal: a collaboration honoured at the ADRIQ event Célébrons le Partenariat

May 28, 2013

On Thursday, May 16, at the Musée de la Civilisation de Québec, the fourth edition of the ADRIQ Célébrons le Partenariat (celebrate partnership) event took place. The event aims to recognize the commercial successes resulting from technological collaborat ...

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Technology developed at Polytechnique is a finalist for the BDC Young Entrepreneur Award

May 24, 2013

The Business Development Bank of Canada announced today that the “Power Up Eco-Change” project submitted by Jocelyn Doucet, owner of the Kengtek company and associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, will represent Québec in the finals ...

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William Sanger, Bertrand Nembot and Antoine Troadec win Découverte award at 2013 FinTech Conference

May 21, 2013

The FinTech 2013 contest, organized by Finance Montréal, took place May 16. One panellist after another underscored the strengths of Montréal's financial cluster while also exchanging views on the challenges the city will need to carry off. ...

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