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The Rector of
the Université de Montréal, Robert Lacroix, and the
Director of the École Polytechnique, Réjean Plamondon,
enthusiastically welcomed today’s announcement by Prime Minister
Jean Chrétien that an Advanced Aerospace Technologies Research
Centre, part of the National Research Council of Canada, will be
created and established on the campus of the Université de
Montréal.
“By deepening and directing existing collaboration between
the different groups of researchers and the aerospace industry,
researchers can participate fully in the advancement and diffusion
of scientific and technological knowledge. Students will have the
occasion to work on leading-edge projects in their field, and industry
will soon benefit from new applications emerging from research focused
on its needs,” noted Lacroix.
The Centre will be built on the campus of the Université
de Montréal, near the École Polytechnique. It will
offer professors and students of the Université de Montréal
and the École Polytechnique its physical facilities for joint
research and development projects, while researchers from the Centre
will be encouraged to become involved in the life of the university.
Including its two affiliated schools, École Polytechnique
engineering school and École des Hautes Études Commerciales
school of commerce, Université de Montréal is one
of Canada's leading research universities. It offers bachelor, master's
and doctorate programs in nearly every field of knowledge. It has
1,700 professors and more than 44,500 students, and with 10,265
of them in graduate and postgraduate programs, UdM boasts the second
highest number of graduate students in Canada. In terms of grants
and research contracts, it ranks 2nd among all Canadian research
universities.
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For
information
Sophie
langlois
Direction des communications
Tel.: (514) 343-7704
www.umontreal.ca
François
Brochu
École Polytechnique
Tel.: (514) 340-4711, ext.4915
www.polymtl.ca
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