Organization: Simon Fraser Univ

Precarn funds graduate students

Precarn Inc has awarded $540,000 to support a variety of disciplines relating to university-based robotics and intelligent systems projects. The $7,500 awards went to 72 graduate students in areas such as electrical and mechanical engineering and psychology. Precarn has also made an award of nearly $1 million to support a surveillance project led by MacDonald,…

SFU receives research chair in pest management

An industrial research chair (IRC) in pest management has been established at Simon Fraser Univ (SFU) and will be held by Dr Gerhard Gries. The IRC is renewable and worth $2.5 million over five years. Funding was provided by a $1.2 million grant from Science and Engineering Research Canada (NSERC) and matched by several firms…

BC institutions create unique convergence campus

Four British Columbia-based institutions have formed a consortium to create Great Northern Way Campus (GNWC) to foster collaborative research and innovative academic programming at the convergence of science and technology with art, culture and design. The Campus will be located on a 7.6-hectare site just east of downtown Vancouver on land donated in 2001 by…

NSERC backs telelearning research network

A new research network for telelearning has emerged in the wake of the defunct TeleLearning Network of Centres of Excellence. LORNET is a research network of six universities that has received $7.5 million in financing from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) through its Research Networks Grants Program for large-scale, multisectoral projects. Another…

SSHRC funds advanced materials research

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has awarded a $159,000 grant for a study on the growth challenges of advanced materials firms. The study will be undertaken by Dr Elicia Maine, assistant business professor at Simon Fraser Univ. Maine will collaborate with researchers from the Univ of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of…

Cogent acquires DSP technology from SFU

Vancouver’s Cogent ChipWare Inc is acquiring digital signal processing (DSP) technology from Simon Fraser Univ (SFU) to strengthen its position in the voice communications over data networks market. The agreement will see ChipWare take possession of the relevant intellectual property covering patents, computer architecture, microprocessors, memory and software tools for system-on-a-chip applications. The first products…