Past Event! Note: this event has already taken place.
| When: | Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 |
| Time: | 4:00 pm — 6:00 pm |
| Location: | Hub350, 350 Legget Drive, Kanata |
| Audience: | Alumni, Carleton Community, Faculty, Professionals, Staff and Faculty |
| Contact: | FacultyofEngineeringandDesign@carleton.ca |
*PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
The Faculty of Engineering and Design regrets to announce that this year’s 2022 homecoming event, originally scheduled for September 22, has been cancelled. We look forward to reconnecting with alumni and friends soon!
Guest Speakers
Joan Haysom
Joan Haysom has over 25 years of engineering experience, with a first half in the high-tech sector and a second half focused on renewable energy and low carbon energy systems. As the Innovative Energy Market Chief at J.L. Richards & Associates, she leads a team that offers consulting engineering services that reduce energy costs and slash GHG emissions for commercial, educational, and municipal clients. These projects include net-zero energy and net-zero carbon facilities, peak demand management, integration of solar, and deep energy retrofits. Joan has volunteered her time extensively in stakeholder and board positions, including to the IESO, the City of Ottawa Energy Evolution, the Ottawa Renewable Energy Cooperative, the Ottawa Climate Action Fund, as an adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa’s SUNLAB research group. She received the Women of Distinction in Solar award from CanSIA in 2016, and recently completed retrofits to achieve a net-zero carbon household.
Toon Dreessen
Toon Dreessen serves as President of Architects DCA, leading and responsible for award-winning projects in infill development, laboratory, research, industrial and high-profile projects. He is a recipient of the Alpha Rho Chi medal, a member of the American Institute of Architects and was inducted into the RAIC College of Fellows in 2016 and the Order of DaVinci in 2020. Toon leads Architects DCA’s activism in the role of architecture in social justice, gender equity, fiscal responsibility and the role of architects in a strategic, visionary, and thoughtful planning. He served six years on Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) Committees before joining the OAA Council where he served for six years, including two as President.
Funto Oshunmakinde
Funto Oshunmakinde is a Market Operations Analyst at Peak Power, where she helps commercial consumers reduce their energy consumption from the grid through the operation of energy storage systems. She also helps consumers understand the importance of energy programs such as global adjustment and demand response management in saving energy and reducing their utility bills. She has a passion for incorporating innovative technologies to help consumers with managing their energy demand and is constantly tinkering on ways to make energy more reliable and carbon-free.
Dr. Elisabeth Gilmore (Moderator)
As an Associate Professor in Carleton’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dr. Elisabeth Gilmore works at the intersection of technology, society, and policy to better understand and identify solutions to the complex problems posed by climate change and other local to global environmental issues, like air pollution. Her research has focused on developing scenarios for integrated assessments of climate change, modeling human responses to environmental changes, and technological and societal transformations for mitigation and adaptation to climate change. She integrates tools and knowledge across engineering, social and economic sciences, and public policy.
This event is being hosted as part of Carleton University’s 2022 Throwback homecoming celebration. Throwback is an opportunity for Carleton to open its doors to alumni, donors and community members to celebrate our shared past, present and future through reunions, family-friendly and community-building events, spirited challenges, targeted discussions, and much more.