Price Faculty of Engineering News Archive

Faculty of Graduate Studies
Big issues, new ideas, three minutes
March 17, 2023 —
After being selected from three rigorous heats over the past month, twelve finalists are now ready compete in the 3MT Finals on March 30.

Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Participants needed for autonomous agricultural machinery study
February 15, 2023 —
A $25 UM bookstore gift card will be provided as honorarium.

Students
Academic Integrity and Artificial Intelligence
February 10, 2023 —
Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity, what students need to know

Price Faculty of Engineering
UMSAE Aero exhibition opening at Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada
January 24, 2023 —
UMSAE Aero is thrilled to announce the upcoming opening of a temporary exhibit at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada! The exhibit will be open until June 2023 and showcases past and present aircrafts designed and built by the UM’s Aero team.

Price Faculty of Engineering
Dr. Marolo Alfaro honoured by Canadian Geotechnical Society
December 14, 2022 —

Winnipeg Free Press: UM project hopes to turn fungi, moulds into walls, insulation to address First Nations housing shortage
December 12, 2022 —
Mercedes Garcia-Holguera walks up the front steps of a white shed in the southwest corner of the University of Manitoba’s Fort Garry campus. It’s among many other structures scattered throughout the area, next to a gravel road, with no signs or windows hinting at what might be inside. “Prepare your nose,” she says, opening the door.

Price Faculty of Engineering
Honouring those lost during the tragedy at École Polytechnique
December 6, 2022 —
On December 6, 1989, 14 women were killed by a gunman at École Polytechnique. Today, the engineering community gathered to honour those 14 women who lost their lives due to misogyny and hate.

Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
New Biosystems Engineering instructor enjoys helping students tackle complex ideas
November 29, 2022 —
Ella Morris joined the Department of Biosystems Engineering as Instructor I (Indigenous Scholar) on September 1, 2022.

Price Faculty of Engineering
Don Petkau recognized for outstanding contribution to engineering education
November 21, 2022 —
At the Biosystems Alumni of Influence Awards Luncheon on November 15, Petkau was presented with the frame of the nomination citation and a photograph of him. The frame will hang alongside past winners on the Champion of Engineering Wall in EITC.

Actually, it is rocket science
November 18, 2022 —
Ferguson is an associate professor in mechanical engineering, the NSERC / Magellan Aerospace Industrial Research Chair in Satellite Engineering at UM, and the director of STARLab, a suite of projects based in the Price Faculty of Engineering and where he is telling me about his work.