NSERC makes first design engineering chair awards

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Council (NSERC) has unveiled the first recipients of its research chairs for design engineering. The $4.8 million in awards to establish five chairs were made following a national competition and announced earlier this month in Halifax. The winning universities are: Dalhousie Univ ($810,000), Univ of Sherbrooke ($1 million), École Polytechnique ($1 million), Univ of Manitoba ($1 million), and Univ of Calgary ($1 million). The chairs are the first to be awarded since NSERC created the Canadian Design Engineering Network, linking design engineering schools across Canada....