Co-op Archives | Faculty of Engineering and Design

August 8, 2024

Dream Gig: Industrial Design Grad Finds Her Flow at Outdoor Gear Company

Like many kids growing up in Ottawa, Olivia Pucci was drawn to water. The city’s geography is defined by two rivers and a canal, all of which are sprinkled with places for aquatic play. Pucci... More

February 28, 2024

Opening Doors and Shaping Futures for Black Youth at Carleton University

In order to seize an opportunity, you need to get one in the first place. Not all young people have the same access to jobs and internships, and members of equity denied groups face challenges... More

June 19, 2023

Reflecting on Two Years of the Women in Engineering & IT Program

Elsie MacGill’s story is etched into the fabric of Canada’s engineering history. In 1927, MacGill became the first Canadian woman to receive an engineering degree and in 1929, she became the first aeronautical engineer in... 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

January 24, 2019

Small Team, Big Responsibilities

Brash Product Development is a design agency tucked away on a side street of Ottawa’s trendy Hintonburg neighbourhood, a block from SuzyQ Doughnuts and local brewery Tooth and Nail. From the outside, you might mistake... More

October 17, 2018

It’s So Much More Than Math

Asked to reflect on when her interest in engineering began, Megan McEwen tells a story about her ninth birthday, when she ripped the small circuit out of a musical birthday card. Examining the extracted device, she... More

September 7, 2018

Flex’s First Pick

Carleton students from electrical and mechanical engineering, along with students from the Sprott School of Business have been granted exclusive access inside multinational technological manufacturer Flex, thanks to the Carleton co-op program’s partnership with the... More

February 8, 2018

Thinking Outside the Black Box

“It’s no secret that travelling by air is among the safest methods of getting from point A to point B,” says Paul Young-Davies, senior manager of software engineering at DRS Technologies Canada. Experts agree that... More