/engineering/taxonomy/term/719/all en /engineering/article/news/using-ai-help-railroads-save-fuel-cut-greenhouse-emissions <p>Dev Jain was eager to participate in this year’s ƻ����Ժ Dobson Centre X-1 Accelerator, an intensive 10-week summer program that helps promising start-ups hone their business plans and prepare to pitch investors. But the young entrepreneur and recent ƻ����Ժ graduate had a more urgent duty to fulfill.</p> Fri, 27 Nov 2020 20:07:11 +0000 Chris Chipello 8460 at /engineering /engineering/article/news/phd-student-earns-borealis-ai-graduate-fellowship <p>A PhD student in the Faculty of Engineering, Ibtihel Amara is a bridge builder. But not the kind of bridge one usually associates with engineers. Affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the <a href="/cim/">Centre for Intelligent Machines</a> (CIM), Amara is looking to bridge the “trust gap” between humans and intelligent machines.</p> Wed, 03 Feb 2021 19:55:37 +0000 Neale McDevitt 8519 at /engineering /engineering/article/news/rising-stars-0 Before Montreal became a global AI hot spot, the Faculty has been contributing to the field through the Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM), and researchers like Professor Warren Gross and Arash Ardakani are carrying on this leading-edge work. Mon, 02 Mar 2020 16:41:27 +0000 Peter Farbridge 8270 at /engineering /engineering/article/news/ai-students-students <p>The end of every academic year brings around many recurring activities. Exams are one such example, and final project presentations are another classic year-end hoop for students to jump through. But on March 28, in the upper mezzanine of the Trottier Building, a group of 23 students held their project presentations, with an interesting twist: they had been entirely instructed by other students over the course on an eight-week boot camp.</p> Tue, 23 Apr 2019 19:41:17 +0000 By Junji Nishihata, Communications Officer, Faculty of Engineering 8092 at /engineering