/engineering/taxonomy/term/766/all en /engineering/article/news/viviane-yargeau-dean-engineering-reflects-anniversary-polytechnique-tragedy <p>When Viviane Yargeau was named the first female <a href="https://reporter.mcgill.ca/viviane-yargeau-appointed-dean-of-the-faculty-of-engineering/">Dean of the Faculty of Engineering</a> this summer, the significance of the appointment was not lost on her.</p> <p>“I felt it was a lot of responsibility to be the first [woman], to be honest,” says Yargeau, a Full Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering. “I knew the significance it held.”</p> Wed, 06 Dec 2023 19:05:38 +0000 Stephanie Wereley 9096 at /engineering /engineering/article/news/providing-opportunities-women-engineers <p>On December 6, 1989, Ian Van Cortlandt McLachlin, BEng’60, was relocating from Toronto to his native Montreal. Later that evening he heard the news about the massacre at École Polytechnique, which claimed the lives of 14 young women, most of whom were engineering students. The tragic events of that day would mark McLachlin for the next 30-plus years. In 2020, he established the 1989 Polytechnique Memorial Scholarships at ƻ����Ժ’s Faculty of Engineering, with the goal of supporting and promoting women in engineering.</p> Mon, 13 Dec 2021 19:02:26 +0000 Daniel Lukes 8698 at /engineering /engineering/article/remembering-victims-ecole-polytechnique <p>On December 6th, 1989, 14 women were murdered at École Polytechnique in Montreal. These women, most of whom were engineering students, lost their lives in a violent act of misogyny.</p> <p>Nous nous souvenons. We remember:</p> Thu, 03 Dec 2020 20:37:01 +0000 Faculty of Engineering 8470 at /engineering