Events

ABSTRACT:   Polymeric materials are ubiquitous in the modern world, finding use in everything from coffee cups to truck beds to drug-eluting stents and carbon-fiber reinforced aircraft components. As our demands of these materials increase, the need for improved properties, added functionality and advanced manufacturing processes grows, and the elucidation and application of key composition-structure-processing-properties relations becomes increasingly critical.

Come to "Stop and Talk", a chance to chat with President Feridun Hamdullahpur in the Great Hall of the Student Life Centre (SLC). There's no agenda or formal remarks, just a chance to connect and talk about how your term is going and anything else that's on your mind. 

Learn what a graduate degree in Engineering can offer you!

Thinking about graduate studies in engineering? Come meet representatives of top schools from across Canada to talk about opportunities to pursue Masters and PhD degrees.

ABSTRACT:  While we have isolated and regenerated celluloses for textile applications since the turn of the century (e.g. viscose), nature continues to offer new insights into how we could reintegrate biodiversity and heterogeneity into cellulose-based materials as a means of modulating its physico-chemical properties. Cellulose is one of the most abundant organic polymers on earth and serves as an important structural component of the cell walls of plants.

ABSTRACT:  Truly rational design has been a major goal of bioengineering for some time. And while certain aspects of genetic engineering have become more predictable, the need for information about cellular behaviour has only continued to grow. The availability of genomic, transcriptomic, and metabolomic data has opened the door to the synthesis of multiple levels of information in biological research.

Information Session:

Date:  Thursday, October 13, 2016

Time:  11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Pop Up Class # 1 Problem Identification - The Start in Startup

Date:  Friday, October 28, 2016

Time:  4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Pop Up Class # 2 Founder Traits - Do you have what it takes?

Date:  Saturday, October 29, 2016

This thesis is restrictedbut on display in the Engineering Graduate Studies Office (DWE 3520) until the defence date. Anyone wishing to review the thesis must sign the required non-disclosure agreement form. It is available for perusal and may be signed out overnight.

Registration: What's Next Conference

ABSTRACT:  The current drug development process is both very slow (15 year average) and costly ($1.5B/drug average). Despite this hefty investment, inefficiencies in the drug screening process routinely result in the withdrawal of drugs from the market due to serious toxicities and adverse cardiovascular effects. Safety screen assessments performed on cell cultures and animal models do not always correlate with clinical risk.