September 11, 2020 McMaster part of new academia-industry partnership discovering materials using artificial intelligence The Alliance for AI-Accelerated Materials Discovery (A3MD) aims to support a suite of projects to accelerate the materials discovery process in Canada, with applications from renewable energy to smartphones.
August 28, 2020 McMaster researchers bringing to market invention to transport fragile vaccines without refrigeration The technology opens the doors for life-saving anti-viral vaccines to reach remote and impoverished parts of the world.
May 12, 2020 David Latulippe awarded fellowship to promote membrane science and technology Latulippe is named inaugural Education Innovation Fellow by the North American Membrane Society.
May 1, 2020 How McMaster engineers are paving the way for new standards for medical masks in Canada Researchers at McMaster Engineering are rigorously testing surgical and N95 mask designs in innovative ways.
March 6, 2020 Heather Sheardown honoured with YWCA Women of Distinction Award As one of the first female engineering faculty at McMaster, Sheardown has been a trailblazer for women.
March 2, 2020 Detecting toxic chemicals in wastewater faster to improve the environment A team of McMaster chemical engineers have developed a technology to detect toxic compounds in wastewater up to 24 times faster than the industry standard.
February 20, 2020 “There’s a need to keep innovating:” Robert Pelton awarded for contributions to Canada’s pulp and paper industry The Director of McMaster’s Centre for Pulp and Paper Research has received the highest individual honour from the Pulp and Paper Technical Association of Canada (PAPTAC).
October 29, 2019 Working with Indigenous communities to improve water quality Charles de Lannoy and his team of researchers look for solutions to large environmental problems using very small materials.
June 18, 2019 Matthew Ferguson’s valedictory speech Read the address from Chemical Engineering and Society graduate Matthew Ferguson.
June 9, 2019 Meet McMaster Engineering valedictorian Matthew Ferguson Matthew Ferguson shares how he accidentally became an engineer, what motivates him, the thing most people don’t know about him and more.
March 4, 2019 International Women’s Day: Zeinab Hosseini-Doust and Azucena González Gómez This year, McMaster Engineering is celebrating International Women’s Day by honouring nine women who are supporting each other through mentoring relationships.
October 18, 2018 “Resources without destruction” Chemical engineering associate professor Thomas A. Adams II focuses on sustainable energy systems.
