A team of Red River College students are designing, building and racing their own battery-powered car in the Shell Eco-Marathon taking place in California in April, 2018. And they need your help to decide the car name!
Click Here to vote for your favourite car name.
Students, faculty and staff have until this Friday, September 29, 2017, to vote. Read More →
Join Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan) to discover Career-Launcher Internships that offer grads paid internships in clean technologies and natural resources. In this CICan webinar, you will learn how your institution, your grads and your local employers can benefit from these wage subsidy internship programs. Read More →
Applied Research Tools and Instruments (ARTI) Grants are offered through the College and Community Innovation (CCI) Program, which is managed by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
The objective of the ARTI Grants is to support the purchase of research equipment and installations to foster and enhance the capacity of colleges to undertake applied research, innovation and training in collaboration with local companies, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Read More →
Applied Research and Development (ARD) Grants are offered through the College and Community Innovation (CCI) Program, which is managed by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
These ARD Grants are intended to provide companies that operate from a Canadian base access to the unique knowledge, expertise and capabilities available at Canadian colleges and to train students in essential technical skills required by companies. The mutually beneficial collaborations are expected to result in economic benefits to the company and/or Canada. Read More →
Winnipeg Free Press business reporter Martin Cash recently published an article about our incoming Innovation Centre, a $95 million building project currently in its design stages.
“Less than five months after Red River College initially announced plans to build a $95 million Innovation Centre just north of its Princess Street campus, site preparations for the building are already underway,” Cash wrote.
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What is a patent? What’s the value of a trade-mark? How to protect a new design? Or a new piece of art? These are questions that, as an entrepreneur, or as a business development agent you have probably faced.
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) have announced that, following the success of the Community and College Social Innovation Fund (CCSIF) program, the federal 2017 budget provided an additional $10 million over two years beginning in 2017-18 to continue this initiative.
The deadline for submitting applications is December 8, 2017.
*Internal deadline: We have set an internal deadline of November 29 to allow the College’s Research Partnerships & Innovation office to review proposals and insure that the application package is complete. For inquiries and internal submissions:
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Research team members from the College’s Electric Vehicle Technology & Education Centre participated in the 7th Annual MEVAfest this past weekend. Read More →
This three-day course educated participants on:
The workshop also focused on the setup and use of blower door equipment, and finished with a full live test of the CARSI building at Red River College, which incorporates diagnostic tools and analysis/reporting of the test data.
Increasing air tightness in a building is now widely recognized as one of the most influential factors affecting the building’s performance in terms of energy use, comfort, indoor air quality, durability and even noise transmission.
Even though airtightness testing of residential houses is quite common, airtightness testing of commercial buildings is only now starting to grow.
Testing equipment is now evolving to measure a larger range of commercial building types; however, since this type of testing is still relatively new to the United States and Canada, there remains very few qualified personnel able to perform these tests to specific standards.
The Paterson GlobalFoods Institute (PGI) was recently profiled on CTV Winnipeg as students started their first day of school.
Watch CTV’s coverage here and here. Read More →
RRC Polytech campuses are located on the lands of the Anishinaabeg, Ininiwak, Anishininwak, Dakota Oyate, and Denésuline, and the National Homeland of the Red River Métis.
We recognize and honour Treaty 3 Territory Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, the source of Winnipeg’s clean drinking water. In addition, we acknowledge Treaty Territories which provide us with access to electricity we use in both our personal and professional lives.