Group of Professor Denis Rodrigue

Regular member

Manager training

• Ph.D. in chemical engineering (Université de Sherbrooke, 1996)

Affiliation Department

Department of Chemical Engineering

Other affiliations

• Member of the Order of Engineers of Quebec – Canada (OIQ)
• Quebec Center for Functional Materials (CQMF)
• Research Center for High Performance Polymer and Composite Systems (CREPEC)
• Center for Research on Renewable Materials (CRMR)

Granting organization(s)

• Quebec Research Fund – Nature and Technologies (FRQ-NT)
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Canada (NSERC)
• Aerospace Research and Innovation Consortium in Quebec (CRIAQ)

What does the laboratory do

• Implementation of polymers (thermoplastic, thermosetting and elastomers), mixtures, foams and composites, recycling, rheology, natural fibers for applications in the automotive, construction, packaging and separation fields.
• Research and development work at all levels on polymers: from the molecule (synthesis) to the implementation of finished parts (molding techniques).

Expertise

• Polymer engineering
• Polymer foams
• Exchange phenomena
• Rheology

Service(s) offered in research and development (R&D)

Consultation on production (problem solving and optimization), characterization and reverse engineering, formulation.