McGill’s latest Trudeau Foundation Scholar bridges engineering and ethics

27 May 2025

Leah Davis’s research into how artificial intelligence systems interact with their social environments sits squarely at the intersection of engineering and the social sciences, blending technical...

Bilingual glossary shines a spotlight on innovation in Quebec

19 Nov 2024

Quebec’s photonics sector works to advance innovations from fibre optic cables to laser surgery and contributes $3 billion annually to Canada’s GDP, yet it gets little attention. Odile Liboiron...

Lawrence Chen awarded Quebec’s Guy-Rocher prize for teaching

14 May 2024

Lawrence Chen, PhD, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded the Guy-Rocher prize for excellence in undergraduate teaching at the university level from...

Five McGillians among new inductees into Canadian Academy of Engineering

6 May 2024

Today, the Canadian Academy of Engineering announced the election of fifty-three new Fellows, with five of them hailing from McGill University. This year’s cohort includes Associate Vice President...

Prof. Xiaozhe Wang and Prof. Agus Sasmito receive inaugural Rubin & So Foundation Faculty Scholar Award

7 Nov 2023

The Faculty of Engineering and the Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design (TISED) are pleased to announce the recipients of the inaugural Rubin & So Foundation Facuty...

Gracie Diabo: Hoping to inspire Indigenous youth

20 Sep 2023

Gracie Diabo is a Kahnawa’kehró:non student born and raised in Kahnawá:ke Mohawk territory, and a Loran Scholar, starting her bachelor’s in software engineering at McGill this fall. We caught up...

Pushing the speed limit: What will the future of the Internet look like?

14 Jun 2023

More people rely on the Internet to work, play, shop, and connect with others, growing the demand for global data traffic by 40% every year. To keep pace with the drive for more bandwidth, McGill...

IEEE honours Faculty of Engineering profs

4 Oct 2022

McGill professors David Plant and Lawrence Chen, both from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, were celebrated at the recent Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ...

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