An Explosive Opportunity
Curiosity and a thirst for knowledge led to a President’s 2010 Doctoral Fellowship for a Carleton PhD student in Systems and Computer Engineering. After obtaining a BSc in Electrical Engineering from...
View ArticleA Little Light Solves Big Problems
A Carleton professor and his team of researchers are using standard optical fibre to develop a device that can quickly detect toxins in drinking water or diseases in humans. Jacques Albert is the...
View ArticleTraining the Healer of the Future
With the research Shichao Liu is conducting he might one day be able to remotely control a surgical robot from his workspace at Carleton … in his home country of China. Liu, who arrived at Carleton...
View ArticleLight Through Silicon: The Next Optic Measuring Device
He’s only been here for two months, but already Yule Xiong’s English has improved greatly. “Everyone is so nice,” he says of Carleton. “I have to work really hard for them.” With an undergraduate...
View ArticleThe Next Best Thing in Electronics
Take a look at the electronic device you are using to read this article. It may use technology developed by Professor Michel Nakhla and his students. Nakhla is a Chancellor’s Professor of Electrical...
View ArticleImproving Solar-Energy Systems
As a student wooed by Carleton while living several thousand kilometres away in Iran, Mohammadreza Ataei already knows a thing or two about efficient communications. Ataei was completing a master’s...
View ArticleSpeeding up the Information Highway
Halim Yanikomeroglu and Rozita Rashtchi are road builders, but their tools of the trade aren’t bulldozers and paving trucks. Instead, these researchers are using computers and engineering innovation...
View ArticleBuilding a Brain
Tiny spheres, hundreds of them packed together like an aquarium full of golf balls, appear on the computer screen. Spidery veins of colour sprout from two or three of the top balls, branching out like...
View ArticleA Smoother Landing
Guiding a helicopter into a six-meter wide hangar on the Canadian Navy’s HMCS Halifax is an impressive feat – especially if it’s done in a storm. Think back: how hard was it to learn parallel parking?...
View ArticleWomen Wanted for Study of Engineering
By the time Monique Frize graduated with a degree in electrical engineering in 1966, she had learned to be “one of the boys.” Nearly fifty years later, women engineers are not such an oddity and,...
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Engineering the future of cellular communications
It’s a busy place. On any given day students and faculty members are researching solutions to real problems. Traffic jams. CO2 emissions. Ad hoc networks in war zones. Step inside this place and...
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The cocktail party analogy
Richard Dansereau has a theory. And it’s set at a cocktail party. A soirée complete with the usual distractions like people coming and going, interrupting conversation. Of course, there’s the one...
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Canada-India Centre
Carleton’s cutting-edge research concerning India, and technologies and business and entrepreneurship practices relevant to the Asian country, are opening up new doors to international agreements. The...
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A glimpse into history and a promise for the future
Stephen Fai is building potential for his Carleton research lab from the ground up — but not literally. That’s because Fai’s work in Carleton’s Immersive Media Studio (CIMS) centres on the digital...
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Carleton and China Collaborate on New Technology for Wastewater Treatment
A team of researchers across disciplines at Carleton University is working on an international project with China that has the potential to change the whole concept of wastewater treatment in an...
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Revolutionary fitness tracker technology on the move
The technology in fitness trackers is changing the way researchers study exercise. But a Carleton electrical engineering professor has recently launched a sensory network device he says revolutionizes...
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How the cloud can make smart cities
How do you collaborate on engineering research across the country? Through the power of the Internet and cloud computing, of course. A Carleton researcher has a vision for a cloud-based platform that...
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Flying high: Carleton’s aerospace research brings the best together from many...
What does the cockpit of the future look like? The answer may surprise you. No more intimidating banks of switches and dials. Instead, it’s a few small flight indicators and a computer screen. The...
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A SERENE Look at Cybersecurity
Despite regular news reports of hackings, cyber-attacks, identity theft and state-funded malware infecting individual and public sector computers, security experts do not agree on which present the...
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Carleton’s iAero team
Aerospace is one of Carleton’s long-standing areas of research strengths. The federal government recently added this sector to its science and technology strategy to encourage cross-disciplinary...
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