Feature Stories Archives | Faculty of Engineering and Design

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

January 29, 2020

Bracing for Impact

On July 14, 2004, Peterborough, ON endured record amounts of overnight rainfall, and by the following morning, a state of emergency was declared. It was the city’s second “100 year flood” in two years. According... More

December 20, 2019

Athletes Apply Skills to Engineering

Two gifted athletes, scholarship recipients, and first year engineering students have just completed their first semester at Carleton University. Their chosen paths are quite different, and yet the two young women share a few common... More

December 17, 2019

Autonomous Vehicle Project Wins W.E. Cowie Award

A group of Carleton University engineering students were presented with the 2019 W.E. Cowie Innovation Award, valued at $25,000, for their fourth year project, Vehicle Tracking and Collision Avoidance for Autonomous Vehicles. The W.E. Cowie Award... More

December 13, 2019

From Textbook to Tarmac

10 years ago, Daphne Ong (BEng/12, MASc/15) posed for a photo in a lab at Carleton University. For the next five years, she was the face of undergraduate education at Carleton’s Faculty of Engineering and... More

November 26, 2019

The Future of Autonomous Vehicles

Technology in autonomous vehicles (AV) is developing at top speed. But major changes in transportation infrastructure will be required before smart cars fully replace traditional ones. Rahul Singh, head of Autonomous Vehicle Software Development at... More

October 7, 2019

Digital Cartographers

Canada’s National Capital Region is a whole lot bigger than most metropolitan areas. At nearly 5,000 square kilometres, it’s almost as large as Prince Edward Island. The National Capital Commission (NCC) owns more than 11... More