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For the second year running, Polytechnique Montréal students took second place overall at the Canadian Mining Games, whose 22nd annual edition was held February 23–26 at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario. ...
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On Saturday, February 25, at the invitation of Polytechnique Montréal's Electrical Engineering Department, more than 40 students with science and technology training from colleges and CEGEPs across the province took part in the first edition of the “B ...
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The Mayan Cats of the Sun, a Polytechnique team made up of computer engineering and software engineering students, took first place overall at the 10th Computer Science Games, held February 24–26 at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. ...
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Swimmer Frédéric Le Blanc of the Université de Montréal Carabins, a civil engineering student at Polytechnique Montréal, was named male athlete of the week by the Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ). Frédéric won three medals, including one gold, at ...
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On February 27, Compute Canada, the national platform of high-performance computing (HPC), announced the allocation of nearly $80 million in state-of-the-art computing, storage and support resources for a number of leading-edge projects across the country. ...
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The Interuniversity Research Centre for the Life Cycle of Products, Processes and Services (CIRAIG) is pleased to announce that the Ministère du Développement économique, de l'Innovation et de l'Exportation (MDEIE) has selected the CIRAIG to imp ...
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Canada's top researchers in natural sciences and engineering were honoured today at an awards ceremony hosted by His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada. Sébastien Loranger, a master's student in engineering ...
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The Canada Council for the Arts has announced nearly a million dollars in grants to seven Canadian research leaders, among them Professor Raman Kashyap of Polytechnique Montréal. ...
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Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for Science and Technology, announced that Strategic Project Grants will be awarded to support 70 research teams in universities in every region of the country. Based on partnerships with industry and government ...
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Researchers at Polytechnique Montréal have succeeded in changing the genetic material of cancer cells using a brand-new transfection method. This major breakthrough in nanosurgery opens the door to new medical applications, among others for the treatment o ...
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The Fondation de Polytechnique is thrilled to announce a $20,000 donation from TELUS's Montréal Community Investment Committee to the Chaire Marianne-Mareschal, whose mission is to promote engineering among women. The committee also gave $10,000 to th ...
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Polytechnique Montréal welcomed 369 visitors — a record — at the 2012 edition of its information evening for prospective students, held February 8. ...
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In January, biotechnology company Biomomentum Inc. obtained a CE compliance marking from the European Union for the Arthro-BST, a technology developed in the mid-2000s by two doctoral students in biomedical engineering, Martin Garon and Éric Quenneville, ...
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Michel Meunier, a professor in Polytechnique Montréal's Department of Engineering Physics and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Micro- and Nano-Engineering of Materials Using Lasers, has been named a Fellow Member of the Optical Society of Ameri ...
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Beating out some 10 other Canadian institutions, including University of Toronto, École de technologie supérieure, Concordia University, Université Laval and several more, two teams of Polytechnique Montréal students scored a veritable tour de force when b ...
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The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) announced, on January 24, 2012, an investment of nearly $400,000 to finance facilities for research on coatings and surface engineering. This is in addition to a subsidy for an identical amount from the Gouvernem ...
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David Haccoun, a full professor in Polytechnique's Department of Electrical Engineering, has received the 2012 R. A. Fessenden Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his contribution to the field of telecommunicat ...
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On December 7, prizes were awarded to honour the best personal projects created by third-year students as part of the Projet personnel en génie électrique (personal electrical engineering project) course (ELE3000). ...
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Polytechnique delegation leads 10 other university institutions to finish first overall at the 2012 Jeux de Génie/Engineering Games. ...
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Prepared by the Comité de développement durable de Polytechnique (sustainable development committee-- CODDEP), in association with many members of the Polytechnique community, the 2010-2011 Sustainability Report, titled Engagés vers un campus durable (Com ...
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