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Madhuri Suthar, 21, gets ready for a demonstration at Vancouver’s UBC campus of her wireless communications system for railways. Suthar and the group used a van and a car to simulate a railway.
 
Train accidents — such as the one earlier this month where a runaway train loaded with oil derailed and exploded in Lac-Méganic — can be devastating. But new technology being studied by a woman from India at the University of British Columbia could make railway accidents less likely to occur. Madhuri Suthar, 21, is in Vancouver on a 12-week internship, working with UBC electrical and computer engineering professor Dave Michelson on the next generation in wireless communications for railways.
 
 
 
 
 

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