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| On August 19, Dr. Wu's Group Fall Research Conference was held at GSA Lounge. Dr. Wu gave a presentation "The History of Classical Stability Concepts: Lagrange, Poisson and Lyapunov Stability". A former Ph.D. student, Dr. Pooya Sekhvat, returned and gave a talk "Now That You Graduated, What Next?". Here are Dr. Sekhavat's abstract and Bio. |
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| On August 8, Mr. Graham Leverick successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis entitled "Entropy Measures in Dynamical Systems and Their Viability in Characterizing Bipedal Walking Gait Dynamics". Here is a picture after the defense with the examination committee members. |
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| On March 15, 2013, Dr. Wu organized a workshop and tour with women engineers at Standard Aero. The workshop and tour is co-sponsored by UM Faculty of Engineerng, CSME and StandardAero. Here is a poster and a report. |
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On January 30, 2013, Dr. Wu organized and chaired a hand-on workshop: " Negotiating an Excellent Job " for woman students in engineering. Here are two posters about the speaker and the pannel. Here is a report. |
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| The University of manitoba had a new release today announcing Dr. Christine Wu's NSERC Industrial Research Chair at the site of Mtor Coach Industries Inc., the industrial sponsor for the NSERC IRC Program. Here are two media coverages from Winnipeg Free Press and UM Bulletin . |
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| On January 18, 2013, Mr. Jim Kor, founder of KOR Product Design and KOR Ecologic, gave a talk Urbee --- Engineering the Eco-friendly Vehicle of Tomorrow. Dr. Wu co-organized and chaired the event. Here is a report. |
| 2012 |
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| The group has Christmas lunch at Sushi Gen, a fine Japaness/Korean restaurant in Winnipeg. |
Mr. Gregg Streuber won the 1st place in the Applied Sciences Category, 2012 UM Underferaduate Research Poster Competition. A record of 120 posters were on display. The posters were divided into 6 categories: Applied Sciences, Creative Works, Health Sciences, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Qualitative Research Group, Social Sciences/ Humanities. Gregg did his summer research in my lab with an NSERC Undergrdauate Summer Research Award. Congratulations, Gregg. |
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| Miss Y. Sun, Mr. AKM Shafiullah, Mr. D. Koop and Mr. M. Alghoneh gave presentations at CSME International Congress 2012 in Winnipeg, MB (left 4 pictures). Mr. Alghoneh won the top 10 finalists for the CSME 2012 Graduate Student Paper Competition. The top 10 finalists were announced at the Congress Banquet. |
| 2011 |
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Miss Ke Xu, Mr. A K M
Shafiullah, Mr. Rushdi Kazi and Mr. Sean O'Brien give presetations at CANCAM 2011 in Vancouver, B.C. |
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The group have a spring Potluck party with Dr. Sepehri's group at St. Vital Park on May 16, 2011.. |
  
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Pictures from Group Research Conference and lunch at Degrees Restaurant on May 13, 2011.
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The group has Christmas lunch at East Indian Company, a fine Indian restaurant in Winnipeg. |
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| Mr. Graham Leveris at 2010 U of M Undergraduate Research Poster Competition. His poster is on Mechanical Design, Modeling and Testing of a Variable-Buoyancy Kinetic Sculpture. |
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Pictures at the news release event with VP of MCI (2nd from left), Mr. Jim Macdonald, Director of Engineering, MCI (6th from left), Dr. Wu (5th from right), Mrs Deanna Lanoway, Director of Business Development, MITACS (4th from right), Mr. Daniel Fontaine, Executive VP of MITACS (3rd from right) and my team of students, Mr. AKM Shafiullah, Miss Ke Xu, Mr. Sean O'Brien, Dr. Caixia Yang, Mr. Sushil Doranga and Mr. Graham Leveric. |
Viewing the interior of a new coach. |
  
  
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| The group research confernce is held on August 30. Every member gave a presentation of their research project. The above are the new group members. |
The top two pictures are group pictures taken during the conference. The botoom two were taken from a Chinese restarount where we had lunch. |
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| At the weekly meeting on August 13 with Mr. Brad Lamothe (2nd from left) from MCI. It is the last day of the summer research term for Mr. Stephen Cull. |
After the meeting, we had a goodbye party for Stephen (4th from the right). |
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| At the banquet of 16th US National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNCTAM) on June 27 - July 2, 2010 at the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, PA. . |
In front of Penn Stater Conferenc Center. |
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| Dr. Yogendra Nath, Professor and Head of Department of Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, visited my lab on June 23, and gave a research talk titled "Mathematical Modeling of Mechanical Systems". |
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| At the banquet of CSME 2010 Forum in Victoria, BC with some professors. (Front from left: Z. Dong, UVic; me, UM; J.Zu, UT; Y.Luo, UM. Back from left: K.Liu, LakeheadU; D. Zhang, OUIT; J. Shan, YorkU; Y. Shi, UVic; Y. He, OUIT and Q. Peng, UM.) |
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Victoria Government Parliament Buildings. |
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Dr. Erdman, director of Medical Devices Center at University of Minnesota and a world renowned scientist in mechanisms design, visited my lab on May 10. Daniel Giesbrecht, Derek Coop and Sean Obrien showed Dr. Erdman their legged walking mechanisms.
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The group members at the spring research conference held on May 11. Missing from the picture, Mr. Ehsan Jalayeri. |
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At SAE Congress 2010 in Detroit with Dr. Yang. |
Talk with Mr. Kobashi, a reearch enineer at Honda, about the Honda's newest mobile device. |
| 2009 |
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| Mr. Derek Koop (left), Miss Ke Xu and Mr. Steohen Cull (middle) and Mr. Graham Leverick (right) at 2009 U of M Undergraduate Research Poster Competition. The three posters are on design of a passive dynamic bipedal walking robot (Derek), design of loading profiles for accelerated durability testing for motor coaches (Ke and Stephen) and acceleration responses of motor coaches subjected to various road conditions (Graham). |
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| Department Undergraduate Open House showcases the department research facilities and encourages undergraduate students to continue to graduate studies.The students took a lab tour and the event finished with a pizza-and-beer party. |
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| Group research conference on August 31. Every group member gave a presentation of his/her research conducted in the summer. Here is the program. |
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Giving a talk at China Petroleum University. |
Giving a research talk at Peking University. |
Giving a talk at TsingHua University. |
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| Accepting the certificate of Fellow of CSME with Dr. Jean Zu, President of CSME from 06-08. |
At CANCAM09, Dalhousie University. |
CSME Award Ceremony at CANCAM09. |
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| 2009 Canada-wide Science Fair was held at University of Manitoba. Students took a lab tour and tried their hands on passive dynamic bipedal walkers and quadrupeds. |
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| Tour to Westest and the kick-off of MITACS-MCI project on Development of a mathematical tool for acceleratated testing of ground vehicles. |
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Group research conference on May 4. Five new members joined the group. Every member gave a presentation of their past research project. Here is the program. |
| 2008 |
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| Mr. Derek Koop (left) and Mr. Dean Ferley (right) at 2008 NSERC Undergraduate Poster Competition. |
Mr. Mathew Nesbitt at 2008 NSERC Undergraduate Poster Competition. |
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Looking at Mr. Jansen's "Wind Beast". |
| 2007 |
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| Picture with Dr.
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from Moscow Staste University at Dynamic Walking 07 on the Åland islands in the Baltic Sea, Finland. |
The Linden: Thursday dinner cruise |
