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Mohamad Sawan, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Polytechnique, has received the J.-Armand-Bombardier award on Thursday, October 6, 2005, from the Association francophone pour le savoir (Acfas) during the organization's 61st S ...
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A research team headed by Professor Gilles Savard of the Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering has installed a new airlift planning system for the Air Transport Group of the Canadian Armed Forces. In place since February 2005 at 1 Canadian ...
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On October 6, the Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering awarded entrance scholarships to nine industrial engineering undergraduates. The scholarships are granted to students whose admission applications show a performance rating of above 3 ...
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October 3, 2005
Bernard Lamarre and Robert L. Papineau, respectively Chairman of the Board and Director General of École Polytechnique de Montréal, today officially opened the first "sustainable buildings" ever to be erected by an educational institution in Québec: the Claudette-MacKay-Lassonde and Pierre-Lassonde buildings. Also present at the ceremony were Honourable Jean-Marc Fournier, Québec Minister of Education, Leisure and Sport; Robert Panet-Raymond, Vice-President of the Fondation de Polytechnique; and two major donors, Pierre Lassonde and Lorne M. Trottier. From their earliest stages, the buildings set out to obtain LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
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Bernard Lamarre and Robert L. Papineau, respectively Chairman of the Board and Director General of École Polytechnique de Montréal, today officially opened the first "sustainable buildings" ever to be erected by an educational institution in Qué ...
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Robert L. Papineau, Director General of Polytechnique, has had his mandate extended to May 2007. ...
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École Polytechnique will join the delegation accompanying Québec Premier Jean Charest to China September 21-29, 2005. ...
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In collaboration with the Regroupement des collèges du Montréal métropolitain (RCMM), Polytechnique will present a series of engineering conferences in cégeps beginning in the fall of 2005. ...
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Yannick Keith Lize, a doctoral student in the Department of Engineering Physics, was recently honoured by the Canadian Association of Physicists with its CAP/NSERC Student Presenter Award. ...
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On June 29, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) announced new investments to attract and retain high-calibre researchers. ...
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Ke Wu, a professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Canada Research Chairholder in Radio and Millimetric Wave Engineering and Director of the Poly-Grames research centre, has just been elected to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). ...
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On July 9, Robofoot, École Polytechnique's robot soccer team, headed to Japan to participate for the first time ever in the RoboCup. More than just a game, the RoboCup project is a forum for experimentation and exchange between international researche ...
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Wladimir Paskievici, Professor Emeritus at École Polytechnique, and David Rioux, an undergraduate student in engineering physics, were honoured at the 26th Annual Canadian Nuclear Society Conference, held in Toronto in June. ...
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Between teaching in the Department of Electrical Engineering and conducting research into telecommunications, Professor Christian Cardinal still finds time to make music - jazz, to be specific. In fact, Mr. Cardinal has just launched his first album, Djang ...
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Archimède returns from the 8th International Submarine Races with a respectable third place in the two-person, propeller-driven category. ...
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Philippe A. Tanguy, professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, was recently appointed to the founding commission of the Hassan II Academy of Science and Technology. The commission is responsible for creating the Académie des sciences du Maroc, co ...
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Portrait de femme I, a painting by Nicole Roy, Assistant to the President at École Polytechnique, was honoured at the 13th Salon des arts visuals in Brossard in May 2005. The work was featured on the cover of the Brossard Éclair on May 5. Well known at Pol ...
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Founded in 1886, Sigma Xi is an honour society that brings together scientists and engineers from around the world to promote original scientific research. The Montréal chapter, established at McGill University and composed of academic, government and indu ...
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June 28, 2005
Media representatives are invited to cover the 10th Annual Conference of the International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society (IFESS2005). The world's most renowned experts in functional electrical stimulation will attend the event, to be held at Montréal's Mount Royal Centre from July 5 to 8.
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Imagine a day when the paralysed will be able to control robotic arms through thought alone, when tiny electrodes lodged in the brain will provoke electric sparks for the blind to see again, or when amputees will walk with artificial legs controlled by the ...
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