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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 6, 2018 / Department News

One small step toward a more sustainable campus

Two civil engineering and society students are helping to reduce waste on campus with the Bring Your Own Container (BYOC) initiative.

November 2, 2018 / Department News

ITE - McMaster Student Chapter wins 2018 CITE Delta Award

The Delta Award recognizes those Student Chapters who have achieved overall improvement from year(s) past with respect to Chapter Activities

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.

October 12, 2018 / Department News

Civil Engineering Alumnus Honored by The Masonry Society

Dr. Ahmed Ashour, one of our department’s former PhD students, has been awarded the TMS Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award for 2017 during The Masonry Society (TMS) Annual Meetings held on October 4 in Cleveland, Ohio.

October 11, 2018 / Department News
Source: McMaster Daily News

Student satisfaction helps drive McMaster higher in Maclean’s rankings

McMaster University has jumped two places to No. 4 on the Maclean’s annual rankings of Canadian universities, in the category for universities with a broad range of research and PhD programs, including medical schools.