Feature Stories

In-depth Articles from the Faculty of Engineering and Design

High-Stakes Tech

In December of 2017, slightly less than one year before Canada would become just the second country to legalize the recreational use of cannabis, Smiths Falls, ON based Canopy Growth Corporation hired Carleton electrical engineering alumnus Peter Popplewell (BEng/02, MASc/04, PhD/10) as the company’s first Chief Technology Officer and only dedicated technology research and development…

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Athletes Apply Skills to Engineering

Two gifted athletes, scholarship recipients, and first year engineering students have just completed their first semester at Carleton University. Their chosen paths are quite different, and yet the two young women share a few common... More

December 17, 2019

Autonomous Vehicle Project Wins W.E. Cowie Award

A group of Carleton University engineering students were presented with the 2019 W.E. Cowie Innovation Award, valued at $25,000, for their fourth year project, Vehicle Tracking and Collision Avoidance for Autonomous Vehicles. The W.E. Cowie Award... More

December 13, 2019

From Textbook to Tarmac

10 years ago, Daphne Ong (BEng/12, MASc/15) posed for a photo in a lab at Carleton University. For the next five years, she was the face of undergraduate education at Carleton’s Faculty of Engineering and... More

November 26, 2019

The Future of Autonomous Vehicles

Technology in autonomous vehicles (AV) is developing at top speed. But major changes in transportation infrastructure will be required before smart cars fully replace traditional ones. Rahul Singh, head of Autonomous Vehicle Software Development at... More

October 7, 2019

Digital Cartographers

Canada’s National Capital Region is a whole lot bigger than most metropolitan areas. At nearly 5,000 square kilometres, it’s almost as large as Prince Edward Island. The National Capital Commission (NCC) owns more than 11... More

September 6, 2019

Discussing Diversity in STEM

Environment and Climate Change Minister, Catherine McKenna, sat down with a couple dozen students from Carleton University’s Faculty of Engineering and Design on Sept. 5, 2019, for an informal conversation about the value of equity,... More

August 21, 2019

Embracing Change

Higher education, like much of the world, has entered a period of rapid change. Traditional approaches to teaching and research need to evolve to better equip students and professors with the tools they need to... More

August 20, 2019

Developing Real-world Skills with Real Estate

You could say that real estate developers are project managers par excellence. Certainly they are entrepreneurs and risk-takers whose massive projects generate jobs and investment, and whose decisions shape the city, including the homes and... More