| N° 2 – November 6, 2007 | ||
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1. 5th Anniversary Special
2. New Members
3. Research Activity Summary
4.
Controlled Goods
5. IIS Reminder
6. Nathalie Aerens is back
7. International - Spain Meeting
8. International - UK Mission
This past August 23rd, CRIAQ celebrated its 5th anniversary in the presence of Mr. Raymond Bachand, Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade.
The event was a great success! Some 150 researchers and industry leaders gathered to participate in the official ceremony, including the presentation of certificates to the "CRIAQ Pioneers" who contributed to the success of the organization from the beginning.
The CRIAQ Pioneers and their certificates with Minister Raymond Bachand and André Bazergui, CRIAQ CEO.
At the Annual General Assembly, on the morning of August 23rd 2007, CRIAQ voted in ten (10) new members. We are glad to welcome :
Suzanne Benoît (AéroMontréal), Camil Poulin (Air-Terre Équipement), Patrick Lessard (Calimacil-Probotik inc.), Pierre Labelle (CDCQ), Bogdan Ciobanu (CNRC-PARI), Pascal Désilets (CTA), John Mannarino (Mannarino Systems & Software inc.), Marc Donato (MDA Missions Spatiales), Alfonso Minnicozzi (Minicut International) et/and Hélène Séguinotte (Turbomeca).
- 1st round: 7 completed / 6 on-going
- 2nd round: 10 on-going / 3 in preparation
- 3rd round: 11 new projects / 12 in preparation
- International Projects: 2 collaborative projects with India on-going
Some of our projects (and the technologies developed) may be the subject of restrictions under Canadian Law and, in some cases, US Law. The CRIAQ Agreement stipulates that the industrial partners must inform the universities of such restrictions. We have created a process to deal with Controlled Goods issues that respects the mission and operating principles of the NSERC. A letter describing this process was sent to all our Members in August.
The Industrial Innovation Scholarships (IIS) is a joint program between the NSERC (Federal government) and the FQRNT (Provincial government) with the objective of pursuing the education of Masters and PhD students in the industrial environment. This program allows companies to obtain the services of a masters student doing research for his or her thesis in their facilities on a technology project of importance to the company, paying only $7,000 per year, or for a PhD student, $9,000 per year. CRIAQ is associated with this program and has reserved several of the scholarships for its SME members. If you would like to know how to take advantage of this program, please follow this link to the NSERC web site or call Carlos Trindade, Special Projects Director.
We are happy to welcome Nathalie back from her maternity leave. She will resume her functions as technical advisor to CRIAQ.
7. International - Spain Meeting
At the end of September 2007, Carlos Trindade met, in Spain, with representatives from the Aeronautic Division of the Junta de Andalucia and from the University of Seville to discuss possible collaborations.
Sitting: Prof. Maria Angeles Martin Prats, International Relations Coordinator, Engineering School of Seville; Simon Vazquez Gonzalez, Executive Advisor, Aeronautics Division, Junta de Andalucia; Prof. Federico Paris Carballo, group of Elasticity and Strength of Materials, Engineering School of Seville.
Standing: Carlos Trindade, Director Special Projects, CRIAQ; Prof. Johan Wideberg, Vice-Dean of External Relations , Engineering School of Seville ; Prof. Emilio Freire Macias, Director of the Engineering School of Seville; and Francisco Mencia Morales, Director Aeronautics Division, Junta de Andalucia.
Twelve delegates took part in a very successful mission which focused on advanced composite technologies in aerospace in the UK. It was organised by UKTI in collaboration with the National Composite Network (NCN) and Faraday Advance in the UK, and by CRIAQ and the Quebec Ministry of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade (MDEIE), and was partly funded by Quebec Ministry of International Relations.
The delegates and their hosts at the Airbus Filton Facility: Allan Kaye (Airbus), Louise Pichon (MDEIE), Pascal Desilets (Aerospace Technologies Centre, CTA), Adrian Tayler (Airbus), Pierre Labelle (Composites Development Centre of Québec, CDCQ), Daniel Johns (Airbus), François Trochu (École Polytechnique, Montreal), David Inston (Airbus), Martin Dodge (South West of England Regional Development Agency), Pierre Dicaire (National Research Council of Canada - Institute for Aerospace Research), Natalie Jordan (NCN), Suong V. Hoa (Concordia University), Martin Lévesque (Marquez Inc.), Pascale Jenkins (MDEIE), Larry Lessard (McGill University), Robert Fews (Bell Helicopter Textron Canada), Andrew Di Chiro (Bombardier Aerospace), George Tomka (UKTI), André Bazergui (CRIAQ).
