Interdisciplinary Archives | Faculty of Engineering and Design

February 14, 2023

ELITE Program for Black Youth Offers Work Placements and Workshops to Foster Career Success

Not all students have access to the same opportunities. Members of underrepresented groups often need to invest more effort to obtain opportunities that others might take for granted. “It’s important to recognize that these challenges... More

December 19, 2022

Ice, Ice, Maybe

It’s a gusty, grey morning in late November, and a small crew of Carleton University engineers and scientists are marshalling beside the Rideau Canal, halfway between downtown Ottawa and campus. They’re here to install monitoring... More

October 28, 2021

Carleton’s Mario Santana Quintero Elected a Fellow of the Association for Preservation Technology International

Carleton University’s Mario Santana Quintero, professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and cross-appointed with the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, has been named a Fellow of the Association for Preservation Technology... More

May 27, 2021

Carleton’s Women in Engineering and IT Program Expands Support with New Partners

With Carleton University’s newly established Women in Engineering and Information Technology (WiE&IT) Program officially set to launch this September, the groundbreaking initiative led by the Faculty of Engineering and Design is continuing to develop meaningful... 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 5, 2020

Carleton Drone Decontamination Research, UAV Training Program to Take Flight at Ottawa’s Area X.O Facility

From safely delivering vital supplies to remote communities using large-scale drones, to training the next generation of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) experts, two Carleton initiatives funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)... 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

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

August 21, 2019

Embracing Change

Higher education, like much of the world, has entered a period of rapid change. Traditional approaches to teaching and research need to evolve to better equip students and professors with the tools they need to... More

August 20, 2019

Developing Real-world Skills with Real Estate

You could say that real estate developers are project managers par excellence. Certainly they are entrepreneurs and risk-takers whose massive projects generate jobs and investment, and whose decisions shape the city, including the homes and... 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

May 14, 2019

Gaining the Inside Track

When it comes to developing the future of connected and autonomous vehicles in Canada, there appears to be nothing but green lights on the horizon for the national capital. Having already played host to Canada’s... More