In their spare time, many engineers and biologists enjoy writing philosophical letters to editors of scientific journals, claiming that the age of collaboration and multidisciplinary research is upon us, even though we’ve been hearing this for much of the past 20 years.

Dr. Green is the Director of the NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). We caught up with Dr. Green at McGill’s 2011 Human Genetics Graduate Student Research Day, where he gave the keynote presentation.

As you read this, I urge you to conduct a little experiment. Acquire a bowl of M&Ms and get munching — with one condition. Do not eat the blue ones. Pretend they're healthy.

Looking at an average McGill classroom, it seems that we are living in an age of paper cup coffee and shiny logo laptops.

All of the recent talks over the new 4G networks means little without devices to harness the power of these new powerful networks. In comes the HTC Raider a 4.5-inch, dual core powered phone that is the first LTE phone in Canada to harness both 4G LTE and A Dual Core processor.

In the 1980’s when people began thinking about making the Internet more accessible Apple Corporation launched a product called HyperCard in 1987 that popularized words like hyper-text and hyper-links.

McGill’s Energy Dashboard displays graphs of how much energy is consumed in buildings all over campus. Here, we show the consumption of electricity in the Trottier building during the week of January 16 2012.

We met Dr. Chan Carusone during his last visit at McGill, where he gave a guest lecture about the ongoing research in his lab at UofT. He and his students are designing nanoscale electronic chips for the communication of information. Some of our readers will recognize him as the co-author of the textbook Analog Integrated Circuit Design.

We met Veronika at the annual Eureka Festival in downtown Montreal. She’s a neuroscience researcher at the Montreal Neurological Institute.

Resonators, as the name suggests, are devices that display the property of resonance. They oscillate at their natural frequencies at which the amplitudes are much larger. This means that they can be used to either generate waves that have a certain frequency or to select desired frequencies from a given signal. Therefore, they can act as actuators and/or as sensors!

The influence of Apple under the guidance of Steve Jobs, both on the computer world and on the way we view design today is, without exaggeration, monumental. The man whose name came to be epitomised with the Apple brand, was responsible for a primary change in thinking of the way we interact with computer devices.

The elements of engineering as I understand them now have, to a great extent, come from my experience as an engineering student. Here, I attempt to explain the utility of engineering within the historical context of Imperial Russia, although my analysis is colored by my own practice of engineering. This has led me to focus on historical details that may seem overly specific, but that are important in the larger context of engineering development.