On Wednesday April 22nd, 2020, Dr. Maxwell shared insights from his research on the challenges of innovating at the York University Scholars’ Hub @ Home speaker series . In this lecture, following Albert Einstein’s guide “In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity“, Dr. Maxwell provided tools and frameworks to help identify specific actions […]
BEST partnered with BattleSnake for the “Stay Home and Code” event, a two-week online programming league raising money for Food Bank Canada. On Tuesday April 21st, 2020 , Dr. Maxwell ran a live workshop about “Introduction to Design Thinking” on the playBattleSnake.com Continue to full story at BESTlassonde.ca🔗 Design thinking for software development from Lassonde School […]
In early April, five groups of students from the Lassonde School of Engineering, Schulich School of Business and the Faculty of Health at York University pitched their business ideas as part of the BEST Certificate’s Entrepreneurship and Technology Ventures course (ENTR 4500). The groups were SleepPODzzz, Team Outfyts, Team PestTech, Team Cannabliss Spa and Team […]
Congratulations! Professor Hossam Sadek was recently awarded Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, effective July 1, 2020. Your commitment to the Department and engagement in enhancing the student learning experience have not gone unnoticed. We are glad to have you on our team!
Congratulations to the following Mechanical Engineering Professors who successfully received the 2020 Lassonde Innovation Fund! Ronald Hanson for Aerodynamic Characterization of Microplastics. Abstract: Sampling in remote regions, such as the Arctic, suggests that that Microplastic (MP) pollution, thought to originate in industrialized locations is transported by the atmosphere. Physical experiments will be performed to quantify […]
Professor & Mechanical Engineering Department Interim Chair, Alidad Amirfazli, is working on a low-cost, face shield design that may help to offset the PPE shortage for frontline COVID-19 workers. Unlike others, who have used 3D printing to make face shields, which takes a couple of hours, Alidad has designed and built a face shield with […]
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