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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Designing for the Future

A team of graduate students from Carleton University have won a global workplace design competition. Master of Design students Cathy Malcolm Edwards, Dawson Clark, Najeeba Ahmed and Ruzbeh Irani were announced as the winners of... More

September 3, 2021

Dinner in the Street

Dinner in the Street, a recently released handbook from the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism, isn’t just forward-thinking — it’s a report on the future. Created with the help of recent Master of Architecture... More

August 30, 2021

A Canadian to Watch

Carleton alumnus Philip Asante (BEng/12) has been nominated and featured as a 2021 Canadian to Watch by Automotive News Canada, a leading paper on the global automotive industry. As a Software Integration Lead Engineer, Autonomous... More

July 12, 2021

Carleton’s Richard Yu Named a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering

Carleton University’s Richard Yu, professor in the research-intensive Faculty of Engineering and Design with the School of Information Technology, was named a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) at a virtual ceremony on... More

June 17, 2021

Teaching Machines to Learn: Carleton Grad Receives AI Scholarship to Advance Biomedical and Healthcare Fields

In high school, Khoa Tran took every advanced math, chemistry, physics and biology course available. When it came time to choose a university, he found it difficult to choose which field to pursue because he... More

June 15, 2021

A Residential School Reclaimed: Transforming Tragedy into Hope

The colossal, three-storey red brick building is surrounded by farm fields and prairie wetlands, overshadowing everything else on the outskirts of the Muskowekwan First Nation, a Saulteaux community in southeastern Saskatchewan. A long, elm-lined driveway leads... More

June 8, 2021

Heritage Environment and Restoration (HER) Design Group Rehabilitates the Past

In August 2020, five Carleton students began an ambitious Capstone design project to rehabilitate a heritage building in Ottawa. Kristen Dam, Alexandra LeBarron, Megan Lawlor, Julia Starkiewicz and Sydney Wilkins were all Civil Engineering or... More

March 5, 2021

Faculty of Engineering and Design Host Empowering Gender Minorities Panel

Empowering women and gender minorities – individuals whose gender expression differs from the presumed majority of the population – within the fields of engineering and information technology (IT) is an evolving conversation that extends well... More