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« Integrating immigrants into the workforce
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« President's Distinguished Achievement Awards
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This photograph (by Manufacturing Sciences Technologist John Heinbuch) shows the intense light beam from the Fanshawe College multi-gas pollution monitor. The beam is transmitted from A-Block to B-Block where it is reflected back to A-Block for analysis. The unit is operated during the spring, summer and fall when smog gases such as ozone are most prevalent. This device is presently setup to analyze the air for 10 pollutant gases. The so-called DOAS (for Differential Optical Absorption Spectrometer) shown in the picture is part of a comprehensive study of how London’s air pollution affects people whose respiratory system is compromised (COPD patients).

This research project, which is supervised by Drs Barrow Baldwin, Mollin Rampersad and Victor Sells of the Manufacturing Sciences Division, is funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the Ontario Innovation Trust (OIT) and Centre for Research in Earth and Space Technology (CREStech). The project, which began in the summer of 2001, has provided training for five co-op students.