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Thirty-one years have passed since the anti-women attack that took the lives of 14 young women and injured 13 other individuals on December 6, 1989, at Polytechnique Montréal. To honour the memory of the victims of this tragedy, several commemorative acti ...
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If all goes as planned, Professor Giovanni Beltrame’s team (Department of Computer and Software Engineering) will travel to Lucerne, Switzerland in July 2021- accompanied by his three robot rovers and a robot dog. The group’s mission? Map terrain totally ...
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You can’t see it with the naked eye, but a new fluorescent organic light-emitting diode (OLED) could shed light on the development of innovative applications in devices such as smartphone and television displays using near-infrared light. Created through ...
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Polytechnique Montréal, Hydro-Québec, the Centre de services scolaire de Montréal, the Centre de services scolaire de la Seigneurie-des-Mille-Îles, the Centre de services scolaire des Samares, Natural Resources Canada’s CanmetENERGY Research Centre, the U ...
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A multidisciplinary team and their project, led by Polytechnique Montréal’s Professor Frédéric Leblond and the CHUM’s Dr. Dominique Trudel is moving into Phase II - developing a diagnostic tool using saliva samples to detect COVID-19 carriers. Over the ne ...
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Professor Frédéric Leblond has received funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Government of Québec for a research project to create a biofluid characterization platform using Raman spectroscopy. The purpose? To develop a saliva test to ...
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Follow the unbreakable bouncing phone! A Polytechnique Montréal team recently demonstrated that a fabric designed using additive manufacturing absorbs up to 96% of impact energy – all without breaking. Cell Reports Physical Science journal recently publis ...
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Gaëlle Patricia Talotsing, étudiante au doctorat en génie informatique, et Arij Guerziz, étudiante au doctorat en génie mécanique, représenteront notre université d’ingénierie aux étapes suivantes des concours nationaux de vulgarisation scientifique. ...
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Assistant Professor Bruno Blais (Department of Chemical Engineering) will contribute to the assessment of researchers’ needs within the NDRIO organization, which coordinates and funds strategic Canadian activities related to top-tier digital calculations ...
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Instead of relying on fossil fuels, chemical processing plants may soon be able to use electrically-generated heat units. Leading the charge is Pyrowave, a company established in 2014 by two Polytechnique Montréal graduates, who today announced a research ...
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Full professor Foutse Khomh (Department of Computer and Software Engineering), has earned an award from CS-Can | Info-Can, an organization dedicated to excellence in information technology and computer science research, innovation, and teaching in Canada. ...
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The Government of Québec must demonstrate transparency and reconsider its position in regards to the Québec Experience Program (FR: Programme de l’expérience québécoise- PEQ), and needs to enhance the program and respect the commitment it’s made to intern ...
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Recognize, support, and develop talented women: an ambition that Polytechnique Montréal- with one of the largest engineering student bodies in the country- has embodied for some time now. For Polytechnique’s personnel, the commitment to gender parity rece ...
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Five professors have earned funding totalling $2.2 million for their research projects – three of which will be undertaken as part of the RIME UQAT-Polytechnique program. ...
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Due to his innovative ground-movement monitoring research project, Professor Fabien-Ouellet recently earned research funds from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John-R.-Evans Leaders Fund, as well as from the Government of Québec. ...
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Diagnosing the different subtypes and grades of prostate cancer could become more accurate with the use of Raman microspectroscopy, an approach developed by a team from Polytechnique Montréal and the Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l’Universi ...
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Over the past few weeks, Québec’s dentists, ophtalmologists, and oto-rhino-laryngologists have reopened their clinic doors. Yet how much risk are they subject to, given the realities of COVID-19? A Polytechnique professor is delving into the question and ...
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Nadine Girault, Québec’s Minister of Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration, announced last Thursday that certain adjustments would be part of Programme de l’expérience québécoise (PEQ) reformulation efforts. While some universities’ requests ...
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The Polytechnique Montréal library team has just earned a prestigious award from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). The Polytechnique team’s article about the evolution of graduate student documentary training by means of a workshop, t ...
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Engineering Physics Professor Clara Santato and Mechancial Engineering Professor Isabelle Villemure (right-hand side in photo) eached received a $1.65 M grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) Collaborative Res ...
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