Feature Stories Archives | Faculty of Engineering and Design

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

December 3, 2020

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