Training

Manufacturing engineering is an interdisciplinary field which requires the integration of material science, solid mechanics, vibrations, kinematics, control, metrology, machine design, computer graphics, and instrumentation. The projects and expertise within the NSERC CANRIMT reflect these same fields and the network approach offers a unique environment to broaden HQP training support.

A project team includes an HQP, a supervisor and additional help in the form of co-supervisor and collaborators. Collaborators may be Network members either with key expertise or responsible for strongly connected projects; they may also be key R&D staff of Network partners responsible for ensuring the industrial relevance of the research and offering expert advice to the HQP’s.  They may also be academic collaborators from internationally-recognized research groups with relevant expertise.

The HQP support team approach ensures that the graduate student’s research is world leading and industrially relevant. The training is complemented by internship periods at industrial partners’ plants and development centres, at other member’s laboratories and at collaborating international research centres.

Industrial internships of three to four months provide students with opportunities to appreciate industry’s current technologies and needs, and also to consider how their research will be implemented to solve real problems under the guidance of industrial expert collaborators. Pratt & Whitney Canada, Honda Canada, Ontario Drive and Gear, CADLINK and RTI Claro have contributed to the preparation of the proposed projects. These Canadian companies have established internship programs to which our students will have priority access.

TRAINING PLAN

The Scientific and technical objectives of the Network will be met through the research conducted by graduate students. The training of HQP will play a central role in achieving Phase 2’s goals and the transfer of developed technologies.

HQP for final report – Year one

As of June 2017, 23.5 Master’s and M.Eng. students, 24 Ph.D. students, 6 Postdoctoral Fellows and 5.1 Research Engineers have been recruited to NSERC CANRIMT for a total of 59.6 HQP in these 4 categories, (see the Tables below)

NSERC CANRIMT HQP – July 2016 to June 2019

Theme MASc/M.Eng.
(Allotted/Hired)
Ph.D. PDF
(All Themes)
Tech/
Professionals
TOTAL undergrad TOTAL
all
TOTAL FROM PROPOSAL 31 34 13.5 4.6  83.10 19 102.1
Theme I 3/10 7/6 2/1 1/3  13/20 5/0 18/20
Theme II 5/6 11/16 2/3 0.6/0 18.6/25 4/0 22.6/25
Theme III 1/3 4/7 1/0  6/11  0/0 6/11
Theme IV 22/24 12/13 5.5/5 1/5 40.5/47 5/8 45.5/55
Theme V 0/6 0/1 3/3 2/5 5/15 5/2 10/17
TOTAL 50 43 12 13 118 109 128

NSERC CANRIMT HQP by UNIVERSITY PARTNERS – July 2016 to June 2019

University Partner BASc
(Allotted/Hired)
MASc/M.Eng.
(Allotted/Hired)
Ph.D.
(Allotted/Hired)
PDF
(All Themes –
Allotted/Hired)
Tech/
Professionals
(Allotted/Hired)
Total
(Allotted/Hired)
Calgary 0/0 2/0 1/6 3/6
Polytechnique Montreal 4/0  0/2 5/6 9/8
McMaster 5/8 24/23 12/11 5/5 1/3 47/50
UBC 5/2 1/14 9/11 7/6 2.6/8 24.6/41
Victoria 0/0 0/ 1/1 1/2
Waterloo 5/0 4/5.5 5/4 1/0  1/0 16/9.5
Windsor 0/0 1/1 0.5/0  0/1 1.5/2
Total
19/10 31/50 34/43 13.5/12 4.6/13 102.1/128

In addition to cash support from the industrial partners, UBC receives $70,000 per year in cash contributions from their administrations to provide technical and computational support to the Network students.

Together, the 7 university nodes will comprise an established infrastructure to jointly offer access to a world class environment for the training of HQP. The academic members of the Network will work very closely with the manufacturing research and development staff of the industrial partners in directing research and supervising graduate students. In addition, almost every graduate student will be co-supervised by Network members or international collaborators.

GRADUATIONS –  

A total of __ Network:  (  ) M.Eng, (2) MASc, and (   ) Ph.D. students have now graduated since January 2016

GRADUATIONS – January 2016 to June 2021

I II III IV V TOTALS
June 2019
BASc 2 2
MASc./M. Eng.
4 3 1 10 6 24
Ph.D. 3 5 3 2 1 14
Postdoctoral Fellow 2   1 6 9
Research Engineer 1 1 3 5
TOTALS 8 10 4 14 18 54