The research of Ming Yuan Chen, professor, and Oman Abuobidalla, PhD student in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering, was featured in a Canadian Press article. The duo developed a mathermatical model that could help prevent rail disasters such as the one that occured four years ago in Lac Mégantic.
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