hello,
First let me introduce my self, my name is Gaurav Agnihotri and I am currentlly working on my PhD in Mechanical Engineering from New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA. I and my spouse have recently got canadian permanent residency and we will landing in canada next year. I was wondering what is the job market for PhD's in Canada. Seconly, can anyone tell me if canada has any research labs.
thanking you all in advance

Sir,

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Gaurav it does have labs. What is ur area of specialization ? If you are into fuel cells then NRC (http://www.nrc.ca) would be a good place for you. Other than that, I dont think there are significant research organizations in Canada in your field of work.

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thanks
My field is micro mechanics (mechanical engineering)

are there any labs on structure analysis or design. I am going to have a PhD in six months. I have also done masters in computer science.
seconly are there any tec universities where i can apply for job?

http://www.mcgill.ca/mecheng/

Mcgill(Montreal) has quite a few profs of Indian decent educated in the US. They also have research facilities.


Same goes for Concordia (though Mcgill pays better, according to friends who work at both places)

http://www.me.concordia.ca/

Hope this helps.

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I am joing Concordia as an Asst. Prof. and assuming duty on the 16th of August.

I have been following this forum on and off for a while since i had an offer from Concordia. Now that everything is finalised, i got my work permit stamped last week and i cleared all official stuff here in singapore, i had time to register into this forum (sorry for being so selfish).

Concordia pays for my accomodation for the first 7 days since i land on the 11th of August.

Then i am on my own. i need some info. reg. accomodation.

As I do not have a first hand knowledge of the public transport system and weather conditions (I am from Asia), I would like to know if you can give me some key information on the types of accommodation and some of the suburbs that have easy access to Concordia.

We are a family of 2 and I would also like to know the cost of rentals, if it is not too demanding to ask.

Thank you very much for your patience

Is micro mechanics any closer to nano technology and nano machines? If it is, you may have good chances to land up in research oriented position in Canada. I think (not sure?) there are couple of companies in Vancouver area in this field.

You most likely have three options:

1. If you want to be in academic, do Post-doc at on of the Univ. in Canada - Your advisor may know academic people with similar research interest in Canada or use Internet to look up Canadian Univ. faculty research interest and contact them directly.

2. If you want to work in govt. research or govt. supported basic research in private sector, look up govt. research orgs like national research council (NRC) or major govt. funded research inititatives. Again use Internet, Canadian Govt. has lot of info online.

3. If you want to work in private sector, contact people at Portfolio companies of Canadian Venture Capital (VC) Firms. VCs have been quite active funding startups in nano area. Start from http://www.CVCA.ca" rel="nofollow">LINK website for list of Candian VCs.

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thanks
My field is micro mechanics (mechanical engineering)

are there any labs on structure analysis or design. I am going to have a PhD in six months. I have also done masters in computer science.
seconly are there any tec universities where i can apply for job?

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