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…

View Full Story

Helping Women LEAP into Engineering and IT

Adjusting to university can be challenging, and Carleton’s Leading Engineering Applicant Program (LEAP) is helping make that transition a little easier for young women who are pursuing studies in engineering and information technology. Each year,... More

October 1, 2020

Digitizing Carleton

Professor Stephen Fai knew that the global switch to an online world amid a pandemic was an opportunity for innovation at Carleton University. As Director of the Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS), Fai leads a... More

July 8, 2020

Celebrating Student Engagement

For just the second time since being established, this year’s Adrian D.C. Chan Award for Volunteer and Community Service has been presented to two engineering undergraduates, Johan Prent and Teodora Blidaru, to acknowledge their innovative... More

May 6, 2020

Sparking New Life

Standing seven storeys tall at 75 Sparks Street, downtown Ottawa’s Saxe Building has been unoccupied for roughly the past decade of its more than a century-long lifespan. Originally completed in 1909, the early reinforced concrete... More

May 4, 2020

Tracking the Spread

The amount of time we spend puzzling over exponential growth curves has increased, well, exponentially. But the COVID-19 models shown at daily press briefings have their limits. As we move from containing the virus to... More

February 10, 2020

Meet the Boreal Builders

In the summer of 2019, the Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek – Gull Bay First Nation (KZA-GBFN) began harnessing and utilizing renewable energy with its Giizis Energy solar storage micro grid facility – a first of its... More

February 10, 2020

Building Blocks

Making our homes and workplaces more energy efficient is a crucial front in the fight against climate change. Roughly one-third of the world’s energy is consumed by buildings, and in Canada, where residential and commercial... More

February 5, 2020

Piloting Unique Approach to Wildlife Conservation

The Morris Island Conservation Area is only about an hour’s drive west of Ottawa, but on a brilliant autumn morning, the city feels a world away. The 47-hectare mix of forested woodlands and wetlands is... More