/engineering/taxonomy/term/198/all en /engineering/channels/event/techaccel-showcase-359086 <h4>Come and meet our TechAccel teams! Student startup teams funded and supported by <strong><a href="/engine/" title="">The UUֱ�� Engine</a> </strong>will be present to demo their projects and businesses!</h4> Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:50:50 +0000 admin 9209 at /engineering /engineering/channels/event/pre-startup-skills-workshop-3-introduction-industry-analysis-358777 <p>This workshop will introduce the fundamental tool of Industry Analysis which companies use for strategy development. For startups, understanding the industry is a critical step in determining market entry and market positioning.</p> Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:06:52 +0000 admin 9201 at /engineering /engineering/channels/event/pre-startup-skills-workshop-4-market-research-and-analysis-competition-358778 <p>This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of market research, how to analyze the competition, and the resources available at UUֱ�� to perform market research.</p> Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:07:58 +0000 admin 9202 at /engineering /engineering/channels/event/pre-startup-skills-workshop-5-foundations-ip-and-patent-searching-358779 <p>This workshop will demystify and explain the various form of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets.</p> Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:09:13 +0000 admin 9203 at /engineering /engineering/channels/event/pre-startup-skills-workshop-6-customer-discovery-358780 <p>This workshop will provide an overview of the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model or lean canvas.</p> Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:10:31 +0000 admin 9204 at /engineering /engineering/channels/event/call-applications-techaccelr-grants-358184 <h2><strong>Application deadline is September 29, 2024@ 11:59 PM ET, with project start date of November 1, 2024. </strong></h2> Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:55:39 +0000 admin 9192 at /engineering /engineering/channels/event/application-deadline-techaccelr-grants-358178 <h2><strong>Application deadline is September 29, 2024@ 11:59 PM ET, with project start date of November 1, 2024. </strong></h2> Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:39:12 +0000 admin 9194 at /engineering /engineering/channels/event/application-deadline-chwang-seto-innovation-fellowships-program-358181 <h2><strong>Application deadline is November 3, 2024@ 11:59 PM ET, with project start date of January 6, 2025. </strong></h2> Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:49:00 +0000 admin 9195 at /engineering /engineering/channels/event/call-applications-chwang-seto-innovation-fellowships-program-358182 <h2><strong>Application deadline is November 3, 2024@ 11:59 PM ET, with project start date of January 6, 2025. </strong></h2> Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:49:58 +0000 admin 9191 at /engineering /engineering/channels/event/scientific-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-creating-new-economic-cultural-and-social-environment-287354 <p>Dr. Orna Berry is a renowned entrepreneur, known for promoting excellence and innovation in Israel. Dr. Berry has held various key positions including Chief Scientist and Director of the Industrial Research and Development Administration. Dr.</p> Mon, 28 May 2018 13:38:53 +0000 michael.cardillo@mcgill.ca 7765 at /engineering /engineering/article/news/future-shopping-here-mcgill-launches-frictionless-laboratory-store <p>As mom-and-pop stores and multinational corporations alike confront historic challenges to their industry during the pandemic, they are looking outward for ideas and technologies that will put them on solid footing both now and in the future. A world-class university and a global retailer have joined forces to provide solutions as they unveil one of the first live laboratory stores in North America.</p> Mon, 18 Jan 2021 20:39:43 +0000 Ashley Rabinovitch 8504 at /engineering /engineering/article/quest-low-cost-ventilator-world <p>In March, as the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic was spreading like wildfire through Italy and other countries, hospitals worldwide grappled with the lack of ventilators to provide oxygen to severely ill patients gasping for air.</p> <p>Governments scrambled to procure enough of the life-saving devices for their citizens, and manufacturers struggled to meet the soaring demand. <strong>Reza Farivar</strong>, MSc’02, PhD’08, watched this situation unfold with concern, wondering if there was anything he could do to help.</p> Mon, 04 Jan 2021 18:57:17 +0000 Diana Kwon 8486 at /engineering /engineering/article/news/future-ready-spinal-tap <p>Have you ever wondered what the future really looks like? Or wondered what it would be like to be able to touch it? Faculty of Engineering Professor <a href="/mecheng/people/staff/mark-driscoll">Mark Driscoll</a> does so on a regular basis. In fact, there is a machine in his lab in the Macdonald Engineering building that lets you do just that.</p> Wed, 03 Feb 2021 19:39:56 +0000 Junji Nishihata 8518 at /engineering /engineering/article/news/clean-concrete-technology-ready-ramp <p>The year is off to an auspicious start for Carbicrete, whose made-at-UUֱ�� technology could make concrete products more environmentally friendly.</p> <p>The Montreal startup was named this month to the 2020 <a href="https://www.cleantech.com/release/top-private-companies-in-clean-technology-named/">Global Cleantech 100</a>, a list compiled by San Francisco-based research firm Cleantech Group as “a guide to the most innovative and promising companies poised to impact the market and the future of global industries in the next five to ten years.”</p> Wed, 03 Feb 2021 20:53:33 +0000 Chris Chipello 8523 at /engineering /engineering/article/news/professor-sylvain-coulombe-appointed-associate-vice-principal-innovation-and-partnerships <p>Martha Crago, Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation (R&I), is pleased to announce the appointment of Sylvain Coulombe as Associate Vice-Principal, Innovation and Partnerships, effective September 1, 2018, for a five-year term.</p> Mon, 10 Sep 2018 20:04:12 +0000 Faculty of Engineering 7798 at /engineering