Denis Rancourt

- Supervise industrial contracts and funded research projects - Supervise graduate students at master’s, PhD and postdoctorate levels - Create and manage the Center for radical innovation at Sherbrooke University (CIRUS) - Establish and manage Perseus research laboratory (Human performance and safety) - Teach design, signals, dynamics and many biomechanics classes

- Guide lawyers from large Québec law firms for various cases in relation to biomechanics - Perform biomechanical expert testimonies for civil and criminal courts and police ethics offices - Supervise company experts in various technical fields for court case investigations - Assume president and financial responsabilities since its foundation

- Guide company experts in the development of improved rock drilling bits - Supervise efforts to elaborate valid explicit models of rock drilling bits - Collaborate to improvement of existing manufacturing processes - Support company in developing and performing experimental testing plans

- President, NSERC Discovery grant 1512 - Solid Mechanics, 2009 and 2010 - Review multiple research grant applications, in particular : . Create - Foncer, 2016 . NSERC Discovery grant member (2006-2010) and 2015 . Several NSERC CRD grants . Steacie, 2012

- Support expert team to develop FE models for various dynamic simulation projects - Model bike helmets subjected to high speed impacts

- Design, validate and implement new technologies for flight simulators - Guide expert team and collaborate to new product development

- Elaborate and guide flight tests for a three partners aerospace consortium - Model and experimentally validate aircraft engine mounts

- Supervise industrial contracts and funded research projects - Supervise graduate students at master’s, PhD and postdoctorate levels - Create and supervise biomechanics research laboratory - Teach statics, dynamics, modelling, control systems and biomechanics classes

- Manage engineering department, including 4 engineers and 3 technicians - Develop and implement an R&D portfolio in collaboration with marketing and sales - Plan and supervise clinical design reviews with orthopaedic surgeons - Design, validate and produce orthopedic implants for joint replacement and spinal fixation

Major in system design, modeling and control. Minor in anatomy and physiology. Studied and measured upper mechanical impedance in drill task to prevent injuries.

Attended an advanced class in functional anatomy, including complete human body dissection laboratories.

Develop custom instrumentation and measured friction force at trabecular bone - porous implant surfaces.

Designed, fabricated and used a custom hydraulic system to measure pressure drop of artificial cardiac valves.