Graduate Students

11th Annual Celebration of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

admin — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 19:19:21 +0000

Over the past twelve years, the ɬ�﷬ Engine Centre has been supporting entrepreneurially-minded ɬ�﷬ technological innovators. Our annual

Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #3 – Startup Law 101

admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:13:15 +0000

Led by a team of caseworkers from Compass Startup Legal Clinic, this workshop provides startup founders with a clear path through the legal landscape, offering insight on important considerations such as

Impactful Connections: Celebrating Women Innovators and Entrepreneurs

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:15:21 +0000

Join us for a networking event dedicated to women innovators & entrepreneurs looking to forge meaningful connections.

Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #4 - Foundations of IP and Patent Searching

admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:30:06 +0000

This workshop will demystify and explain the various form of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets.

Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #5 - Market Research and Analysis of Competition

admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:32:18 +0000

This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of market research, how to analyze the competition, and the resources available at ɬ�﷬ to perform market research.

Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #6 - Customer Discovery

admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:34:14 +0000

This workshop will provide an overview on the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model canvas.

Congratulations to Professor James Richard Forbes for winning the ICRA (Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation) best paper award!

admin — Fri, 23 May 2025 01:37:49 +0000

We want to extend our congratulations to Professor James Richard Forbes for winning this year's ICRA (Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation) best paper award! This is a major achievement!

Some statistics about this year's ICRA submissions: 4153 papers reviewed; 1606 papers accepted; acceptance rate of 38.7%.

TISEDTalk: Bridging the Gap Between the Environmental Impacts of Tyre Particles, Tyre Recovery and End-of-Life Solutions

admin — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:08:50 +0000

Date: September 29th, 2025 | Time: 1:00 PM | Location: Macdonald Engineering Building- MD 267

Tyres keep the world moving—but at a cost. From microscopic wear particles to end-of-life waste, the environmental footprint of tyres spans their entire lifecycle. In this eye-opening seminar, Dr. Linda Mitchell, Science, Research and Innovation Manager at Tyre Stewardship Australia, will unpack the complex challenges and emerging solutions across the global tyre value chain.

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Prof. James Forbes and co-authors Zi Cong Guo and Tim Barfoot win Best Paper at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

admin — Thu, 22 May 2025 20:13:42 +0000

Prof. James Forbes, Zi Cong Guo, and Tim Barfoot win Best Paper at top robotics conference, the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Their paper, "Marginalizing and Conditioning Gaussians onto Linear Approximations of Smooth Manifolds with Applications in Robotics," was selected out of 1606 submissions.

Recent ɬ�﷬ Graduate Victoria Anson Appointed to Two Prestigious Boards

admin — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:41:36 +0000

Only a few weeks after graduation, Victoria Anson (Materials Engineering, Class of 2025) has been appointed to two international boards: the Copper Club Board of Directors and the ASM International Board of Trustees. Her dual appointments highlight her involvement in the mining and metals, metallurgical, and materials industries.

ɬ�﷬ Design Day 2025

antonella.fratino@mcgill.ca — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:15:26 +0000

Join us in celebration of our students’ engineering and design accomplishments on April 8th for the 2025 edition of ɬ�﷬ Design Day!

Fall 2024 E-IDEA Student Showcase / Automne 2024 Vitrine des étudiant·e·s E-IDEA

antonella.fratino@mcgill.ca — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 20:41:04 +0000

La version française suit.

Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering (SURE) 2024 Poster Presentation

yue.gao3@mcgill.ca — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 18:54:32 +0000

Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering (SURE) 2023 Poster Presentation

yue.gao3@mcgill.ca — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 15:44:12 +0000

Interstellar Travel: Are We Ready?

antonella.fratino@mcgill.ca — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:46:10 +0000

Interested in the future of space exploration? You won’t want to miss “Interstellar Travel: Are We Ready?” which brings together a panel of renowned experts to discuss the science, engineering, and ethics of travelling to the stars.