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McISCE Director interviewed in La Presse
Director of McISCE, Sylvain Coulombe, is interviewed in La Presse about the top four jobs of the future. Yes, engineers will be important, but they will need to work with social scientists to see how new technologies impact society. You can read the full article on the La Presse website.
Congratulations to all three winners of the McISCE Award for Competitions and Outreach!
This team showcases students’ pure passion for learning, engineering, and innovation. They design, build, and race a 100% electric formula car.
McISCE's $2,500 sponsorship will be used to create a new design for the vehicle's battery pack.
The McGill Chemistry Outreach Group teaches students of all ages about chemistry through fun and interactive experiments.
McISCE’s $2,500 sponsorship will be used to create new energy related experiments for students. Powering a car with a lemon battery and demonstrating hydrogen energy are some of the demonstrations the group will be creating.
The McGill Energy Association (MEA) will use McISCE’s $2,500 sponsorship to host a case competition to accurately assess @HydroQuébec's Scope Three emissions. These are emissions associated, not with the company itself, but that the organisation is indirectly responsible for, up and down its value chain.
McISCE awards Chem-E Car $5,000 and becomes one of their main sponsors for 2022-2023
The Chem-E Car Competition is an undergraduate design competition hosted by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. The McGill team is aiming to compete in-person in the 2023 regionals competition hosted by McGill University in April 2023, and if they qualify, in the 2023 Nationals competition held in November. The McGill team also does outreach to local schools.
The Chem-E Car team must design and build a small car powered and stopped exclusively by chemical reactions. According to the competition rules, the car must be able fit in a 40 cm x 30 cm x 20 cm box and carry a load of 500g for a distance ranging between 10-30 metres.
McISCE receives $2-million grant from TD Bank Group
The generous grant from TD Bank to the McGill Centre for Innovation in Storage and Conversion Energy will help bolster research capacity, support and advance clean energy storage technologies of the new green economy.
Read the full press release: Support for research in carbon-free energy storage and conversion
McGill Catalytic and Plasma Process Engineering (CPPE) lab receives NSERC funding to develop green ammonia synthesis
Prof. Sylvain Coulombe's research group, McGill CPPE, is awarded $50K from NSERC for its work on green ammonia synthesis using a plasma-catalytic plate reactor. The project is done in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich.
Link: Call for joint Canada-Germany projects on hydrogen technologies
