- Design without borders.
GLOBAL COLLABORATIVE DESIGN is already well entrenched within manufacturing and other sectors, according to a recent report from research firm Aberdeen Group of Boston. Many companies who use the method find that it saves money. The group's report, Profitable Design Chains: Global Product Design Comes of Age, finds that global ......
- Federal Government Announces $1 Million Research Prize
to Honour Herzberg.
Secretary of State for Science, Research and Development Dr. Gilbert Normand has announced a $1 million science and engineering research prize in honour of the late Gerhard Herzberg, FCIC, winner of Canada's first Nobel Prize for research in chemistry. The annual award is a millennium project of the Natural Sciences ......
- CAD Students Teach the Pros
Atlanta, GA—Georgia Tech Engineering Research Engineer and Engineering Instructor Tord Dennis is planning to launch his students on a "Grand Experiment" to learn the best practices in engineering design and collaboration at some of the nation's major manufacturing companies, and then share those lessons with software vendors, the American Society ......
- Suzanne Fortier, FCIC, president of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) awarded the 2005 Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering to David Dolphin, FCIC.
Suzanne Fortier, FCIC, president of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) awarded the 2005 Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering to David Dolphin, FCIC. The prize is widely recognized as the country's most prestigious science award and guarantees $1 million in research funding over the ......
- Design Goes Global
Engineers in many distant Fleetguard facilities contributed during the two-year development of a new line of composite-body filters. It is far from the first global design project for the auto industry supplier, but it marks a major change in the way design teams communicate. "We're using video teleconferencing less and ......
- Science Promotion and Popularization: The Very Heart
of the NSERC Mission.
The Michael Smith Awards for Science Promotion, SPARK, and PromoScience - all NSERC initiatives - go a long way towards promoting awareness among Canadians of science and engineering research. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) is a federal organization that makes strategic investments in Canada's capabilities ......
- Biochemist uses protein engineering to create new
therapeutic drugs.
Simon Fraser University's (SFU) Thor Borgford, MCIC, is one of Canada's leading researchers in protein engineering, a field of inquiry which offers new hope for fighting disease, reversing genetic disorders and other therapeutic activities. A biochemist, Borgford operates very much like a traditional engineer, designing and building better structures using ......