Biomedical and Mechanical Archives | Faculty of Engineering and Design

June 18, 2024

Students Tackle Real-World Issues Through Capstone & Studio Design Projects

Every June, a graduating class walks across the convocation stage degree in hand and a mind brimming with ideas. For this year’s graduating Engineering and Design students, it wasn’t long ago that they presented and... More

May 28, 2024

Expanding Canadian Investment in Aging in Place Technologies

For older adults who want to live independently, transportation can be a major challenge. Many rely on public transportation to get them to appointments and shopping centres. But in Canada, public transportation is not always... More

Photo for the news post: Top 5 Robotics Innovation Stories of The Year

April 16, 2024

Safety in Motion

This article is republished from Engineering Matters, the newsletter of Engineers Canada, as part of the Building Tomorrows series which highlights the important contributions of engineers and the many ways they help to make our... More

August 8, 2022

Paying it Forward

Carleton Mechanical Engineering student Mieke Wilkinson has a lot to be thankful for. The recent winner of a 2022 Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation (CEMF) Undergraduate Women in Engineering Scholarship comes from a long line of... More

November 29, 2019

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... More

May 29, 2019

Accessibility Innovations

Yazmine Laroche, the federal government’s first-ever Deputy Minister of Public Service Accessibility, will receive an honorary degree from Carleton University on June 14, 2019. She is being recognized for her significant contribution to greatly improved... More

May 20, 2019

Revolution on the Road

Carleton is a key part of Ottawa’s connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) community, and on May 17, 2019 a large contingent of faculty and graduate students from the university helped launch the Ottawa L5 CAV... More

April 2, 2019

A Smashing Success

The Carleton University Crash Dummy (CUCD) team performed a rear-end collision test between a motor vehicle and cyclist in co-ordination with the Ottawa Police Service Collision Investigation Unit on Friday, March 29, 2019, at the... More

January 15, 2019

The Future of Helmet Testing and Design

Although the athletic and medical communities have become increasingly aware about the dangers of concussions and other brain injuries over the past few years, we still don’t have a precise picture of what happens inside... More