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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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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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Le libre accès aux articles scientifiques joue un rôle important dans la diffusion des savoirs et la progression des connaissances, notamment en ingénierie. Ce modèle de publication savante offre des avantages aux chercheurs et aux chercheuses, mais est a ...
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À l'occasion de la Semaine internationale du libre accès, quatre membres du corps professoral de Polytechnique font part des avantages que procure l'accès ouvert aux résultats des travaux de recherche. ...
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Dans le cadre de la Semaine internationale du libre accès, voici les ressources disponibles en tout temps et les séances d'information proposées prochainement par la Bibliothèque Louise-Lalonde-Lamarre à la communauté de recherche de notre université ...
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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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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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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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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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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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