Competitions and Awards (External) Archives | Faculty of Engineering and Design

August 1, 2024

Carleton University: Recognized Globally by U.S. News & World Report

Carleton University’s Faculty of Engineering and Design (FED) prides itself for bridging the talent pipeline in local, national and international markets and supporting our students’ and faculty members’ research and entrepreneurial endeavors. Recently, Carleton’s engineering... More

July 15, 2024

Designing a Life-saving Flash Flood Device

In decades past, the mention of flash floods and fatalities rarely frequented Canadian news coverage, but today, it's on the rise in headlines. With the climate changing, rising temperatures mean more evaporation and moisture and,... More

March 14, 2024

Building a Sustainable Career in Engineering

Abi Kang had always liked math and science—but she was interested in architecture too. Through Carleton’s Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Engineering program, she found a way to combine these passions into one degree. The Architectural... More

February 22, 2024

Giving Back: to BEng & Beyond

Normally, there is a single recipient for the annual Adrian D.C. Chan Award for Volunteer and Community Service. But when two Faculty of Engineering and Design students like Nikita Yovchev and Ankita Dey applied, the... More

February 16, 2024

Stunning, Award-winning Design Meets Soul and Sustainability

Jutting horizontally from a cliff, with floor-to-ceiling windows that bathe its interior in light, the m.o.r.e Cabin seems to defy gravity. The off-grid cabin floats in the treetops on the shore of a lake at... More

October 24, 2022

CU InSpace

Students on Carleton’s CU InSpace team are reaching for the stars – or at least taking a solid first step. This team of undergraduate students designs, engineers and builds high-powered rockets for intercollegiate rocket engineering... More

September 30, 2022

A Golden Sustainable IDEA

Even if you are just lounging around the house, dieticians recommend drinking two litres of water each day, or even more. But if you are sweating out a hike in the hot sun, you will... More

September 20, 2021

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

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

February 26, 2021

Carleton Students Set to Compete at 2021 Canadian Engineering Competition

On top of their technical knowledge, hard work and creativity, Ragini Bakshi and Hodhan Osman feel like friendship will give them an edge at this year’s Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC). “It really helps if you... More

October 3, 2018

Accessible IDeAs

When Alicia Stewart, who graduated last spring from Carleton University’s Industrial Design program, was tasked with working at BEING Studio to create a comprehensive design for her thesis project, she never expected to develop such... More