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Students and others gathered in informal groups Thursday to support one another and to share memories of PhD students Iman Aghabali and Mehdi Eshaghian, and former McMaster postdoctoral researcher Siavash Maghsoudlou Estarabadi, who had worked in McMaster’s Faculty of Health Sciences until 2018. Continue to full article

While the world turns its gaze to climate change today, McMaster Engineering continues to work to make our planet a more sustainable and healthier place. Here are five researchers who are tackling climate change or studying it as part of their work.  1. Lotfi Belkhir, W Booth School of Engineering Practice – How smartphones are heating up the

Top researcher Ali Emadi explains why electrified vehicles are the future and describes his love for mentoring students. If you pick a letter from the alphabet, chances are Ali Emadi has a title with that capital letter. Professor. Lead Faculty Advisor for the McMaster Engineering EcoCAR Mobility Challenge. Canada Research Chair in Transportation Electrification and

One big responsibility educators have is to make sure their students are prepared for the demands of the real world. That’s why it is so important for educators to equip their students with the right tools and skills so they can excel in the growing digital landscape. Dr. Ali Emadi, the Canada Excellence Research Chair

Dr. Ali Emadi has set up a platform that is preparing the next paradigm shift in electrical power. Read more about a green technology program as spotlighted by the The Canada Excellence Research Chair Program.   “If Alexander Graham Bell came back and looked at today’s information technology, he wouldn’t understand a thing because there

Election to NAI Fellow status is a high professional distinction awarded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society. Emadi is the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Hybrid Powertrain

The McMaster University EcoCAR3 team traveled to Yuma, Arizona and San Diego, California to compete in the Year 2 EcoCAR 3 Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition from May 15 to May 26. The four-year EcoCAR 3 challenge pits 16 North American university teams, composed of engineering, business and communications students, against one another to redesign a more

April 19, 2016: Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne wished McMaster’s EcoCAR 3 team good luck in an upcoming competition and lauded the University’s position as a research and innovation powerhouse in a video message. Wynne sent well wishes for the upcoming Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition in Yuma, Arizona and San Diego, California on May 15 to

March 24, 2016: Monika Bialy, Ph.D student has been honoured ​by NSERC​ with the prestigious Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarships-Doctoral ​Program​ (CGS D) ​award​ of $70,000 over 2 years. Monika was also recently featured in the McMaster Faculty of Engineering campaign, #ThinkEngineering.

On June 10, 2015 the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation awarded $4.4M to McMaster University for the project: Virtual Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicle Powertrain and Integration Lab–a unique axle-mounted all-wheel drive chassis dynamometer system with vehicle-to-grid capabilities for advanced research on the next generation of vehicles with electrified powertrains. New Facilities to develop