McMaster University one of twelve teams competing in the Battery Workforce Challenge hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy and Stellantis

McMaster University was announced as one of the 12 universities across North America, and one of two universities in Canada, to be selected to participate in a new student-led competition in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy in partnership with Stellantis, the company formed by the merger of Fiat Chrysler and Peugot, and other government and industry sponsors. The Battery Workforce Challenge is a new three-year student competition that began in…

Justin Trudeau and cabinet visit McMaster research and innovation hub

Everyone knows research is important, but there’s no affirmation like having the Prime Minister of Canada visit to see what you’re doing to move the country forward. Such was the case Wednesday morning when Justin Trudeau visited the McMaster Automotive Resource Centre (MARC) and the neighboring McMaster Manufacturing Research Institute. https://vimeo.com/792766725 Members of the Liberal cabinet joined the prime minister after Trudeau had chatted with faculty and student researchers at…

McMaster announces ten new Canada Research Chairs

Ten new researchers across three faculties have been named new Canada Research Chairs, a prestigious honour created to promote Canada’s world class research and development. Four additional researchers have had their chairs renewed or advanced. “Congratulations to McMaster’s Canada Research Chairs for this important recognition of their ground-breaking and innovative work,” says Karen Mossman, vice-president, research. “The Canada Research Chairs program is vitally important to our research enterprise as it…

Spring HEVPD&D-CREATE and EECOMOBILITY Conference

Automobile electrification is a key strategy in reducing transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel consumption. The EECOMOBILITY project aims to develop a new revolutionary long range Electric Vehicle (EV) and associated processes and subsystems. An annual conference is organized every spring that brings researchers from the HEVPD&D CREATE and EECOMOBILITY projects together for research collaboration and updates. This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference was…

Electric Vehicle Lab Draws Prime Ministerial Visit

The University of Windsor’s Centre for Hybrid Automotive Research and Green Energy (CHARGE) lab hosted Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday. Trudeau was greeted by University of Windsor president Robert Gordon, vice-president research and innovation Chris Houser, dean of engineering Bill Van Heyst, and professor Narayan Kar, Canada Research Chair in Electrified Vehicles. After a tour of the facility, Trudeau took part in a roundtable discussion with engineering students and faculty…

Fall 2022 HEVPD&D-CREATE and EECOMOBILITY Conference

Automobile electrification is a key strategy in reducing transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel consumption. The EECOMOBILITY project aims to develop a new revolutionary long range Electric Vehicle (EV) and associated processes and subsystems. An annual conference is organized every spring that brings researchers from the HEVPD&D CREATE and EECOMOBILITY projects together for research collaboration and updates. This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference was conducted virtually,…