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January 10, 2019 / Department News

Globe & Mail: Engineering students build business training into their degrees

Soon after Ishwar Puri arrived at McMaster University in 2013 as dean of the faculty of engineering, he got in touch with Len Waverman, dean of the Hamilton university’s DeGroote School of Business.

January 4, 2019 / Department News

McMaster Engineering announces new faculty appointments

We are pleased to announce the following new appointments to the Faculty of Engineering.

December 19, 2018 / Department News

McMaster Engineering’s Top 10 Stories of 2018

From alumna Donna Strickland winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, to researchers inventing a patch that can tell you if your food has gone bad, to increasing first year female enrolment by five percent, here are the top stories of 2018.

December 3, 2018 / Department News

Hassan Z. Ashtiani gets Best Paper Award

Best paper award in the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference

November 12, 2018 / Department News

6 tips for startup success from McMaster Engineering innovators

Are you looking to build your big idea into a start-up success? In recognition of Global Entrepreneurship Week, accomplished McMaster Engineering innovators and up and coming student startups share valuable advice for budding entrepreneurs.

October 31, 2018 / Department News

Computing and Software research team wins IBM Project of the Year Award

McMaster’s Computing and Software associate professor, Christopher Anand and his research team have won the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies Project of the Year Award.

October 30, 2018 / Department News

McMaster to participate in major North American automotive competition

McMaster University is among two Canadian institutions competing in a North American competition to improve the energy efficiency and safety of an SUV.

October 29, 2018 / Department News
Source: Fireside with the Dean

Personal History: Five Years Later (Dean's blog)

Upon first arriving at McMaster University, I entered a Faculty that had high aspirations. While globally recognized for our education and research, we had not, however, consistently benchmarked ourselves against other exemplars of demonstrated excellence.

October 25, 2018 / Department News
Source: McMaster Brighter World

McMaster maintains status as Canada’s most research-intensive university

For the second consecutive year, McMaster has been named Canada’s most research-intensive university in the annual ranking of the country’s Top 50 Research Universities. McMaster researchers brought in $379.9 million in total sponsored research income – up more than $25 million from last year.