Slobodoan Simonovic, Research Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering, is helping to design a new international mechanism for coping with ever-increasing damage and loss of life caused by flooding. 

Cynthia Dunning, a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering is working with a team to develop better replacement joints (implants) for the human body. She is researching how implant characteristics, such as shape, affect their fixation within the body. Loss of fixation is one of the main reasons for revision surgery on artificial joints.

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Dean Franco Berruti and Professor Dr. Cedric Briens from the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering are joint investigators for two large industrial grants. They received a total of more than $1 million for five years from Syncrude Canada Ltd. in support of Syncrude's Reactor Utilization Program. In addition, Berruti and Briens received generous funding for two years from Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation in support of their Biooil Reforming Process.

As Hurricane Ivan ravaged the Caribbean and headed to Florida, building codes developed by Alan Davenport, professor emeritus of Civil Engineering, founder/director of Western's Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel and a world expert on wind, almost two decades ago are once again being put to the test.

Dr. T.S. Sidhu, Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received a research contract with Areva T & D (U.K.) in France for more than $200,000 in the area of power systems protection and monitoring.

Jagath Samarabandu and Ken McIsaac, faculty members in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering were featured in the Precarn Post for their research on object tracking and image-based control systems for the visually impaired.

What do engineering and psychology have in common?  John Beeckmans.

Jin Jiang, faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, plans to bring Canada’s nuclear power industry into the 21st Century, after being awarded $2 million over the next five years by Science and Engineering Research Canada (more commonly known as NSERC) and the University Network of Excellence in Nuclear Engineering (UNENE) for his leading research.

An international conference at Western on water-related disasters wrapped up Tuesday, December 14, 2004 with a strong consensus that more needs to be done to mitigate the loss in property and life from such disasters around the world.

Jeff Wood, faculty member in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, is working with General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada to assess ballistic materials for the manufacture of military vehicles.

Western Engineering researchers at the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory (BLWTL) have recently received funding from Manitoba Hydro, CEA and ICLR to study the effects of high intensity winds on transmission lines.  This is Phase 2 of a project already in progress.

Approximately 4,500 delegates from 170 governments and NGOs, with more than 40 ministers attended the United Nations World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Japan from January 18-22, 2005.

Bell Canada has donated $500,000 to CSTAR to help develop the next generation of minimally invasive surgical technologies, including robotics.

Lyndon Brown, faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received a US patent for his Power Supply and Control Equipment for Resistance Welding Machine. 

J. Peter C. King of the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory was recently featured in the New York Times regarding research he conducted regarding the weight issues of the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge.

The Western Fluidization Research Group (WFG) has recently secured a number of research grants which will help to finance further research

Professor Slobodan Simonovic, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, in collaboration with researchers from Carlton and York University, has been awarded an NSERC/PSPEC grant.

For Brent Visscher, blowing the roof off a house is nothing new. In fact, the fourth-year engineering student did so 136 times in one week.

Business Edge News Magazine featured an article on their Web site regarding  the Three Little Pigs project, lead by Western structural engineering professor Michael Bartlett.