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Congratulations to Blake Erb, M.Sc. graduate of ME Department who was a winner of NSERC Innovation Challenge Awards link.  

ME Professor, Reza Fotouhi's robotic research on agriculture in the western producer magazine link. He also spoke to CBC radio program Spark (see  Farm_Bots)

Congratulations to Matthew Dunn, M.Sc. Candidate at our college who is currently being featured as the Scientist of the Month on the Saskatchewan Science Network  (SSN).

Prof. Chris Zhang, Kirk Backstrom and the Centre for Creative and Innovative Design were recently featured in an article in the University's On Campus News link.

>Mechanical Engineering graduate Lisa Franks is competing at the Paralympics in Beijing this September as a member of Canada's Women's National Wheelchair Basketball Team.  Lisa previously competed as a wheelchair racer at the Sydney and Athens Paralympics winning a total of six gold medals and one silver medal.

More information on Lisa, and the Women's and Men's National Teams is available on the CWBA website link.

>ME students Andrew Spagrud and Jana Spindler, both star Huskie basketball players, articles from the Star Phoenix.  Spagrud link, Spindler link

>Open MSc and PhD positions in HVAC Engineering with the department of Agriculture and Bioresource Engineering link.

>ME Professor, Reza Fotouhi's robotic research in the Star Phoenix link.

>Open MSc, PhD and PDF positions in air-to-air energy recovery

>Going up? Canadian universities vie to build space elevator (Globe and Mail Article link)

>Space elevator news in the Wall Street Journal link.

>Space elevator team aims high - Sights set on major prize, sponsorship link

>Recent graduate, Ryan Chisolm, with his company Stone Castle Paving, is the top winner at the third Venture Forward business plan competition.  See link.

>ME Professor, Daniel Chen, awarded Saskatoon Engineering Society "Educator of the Year" award.

>Andrew and David Loken (ME Alumni) SP article link.

>Profs.Yang Shi and FangXiang Wu awarded CFI funding  link.

>Prof. David Torvi's firefighters' protective clothing research was discussed in a recent article in Fire Chief magazine link.

>New research developments in Mechanical Engineering.  Professional Edge article link.