Undergraduate Archives | Faculty of Engineering and Design

May 2, 2023

Engineering Students Win Big at Provincial and National Engineering Competitions

Earlier this year, a team of Carleton University's Faculty of Engineering and Design students took home first and second places at the 44th Ontario Engineering Competition and the 2023 Canadian Engineering Competition. All are second-year... More

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

December 7, 2022

How to Choose the Right Engineering or Design Program at University

How do you know which university program is right for you? That is the question on everyone’s mind when it comes time to apply for university. To help high school students and their families who are... 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

March 21, 2022

Empower Voices

Creating a diverse and inclusive workforce starts long before students graduate. One of the early steps is welcoming students into a classroom environment where they: feel welcomed, safe to collaborate, and supported to develop their... More

March 8, 2022

Carleton Celebrates International Women’s Day with Fourth Annual Breakthrough Breakfast

In honour of International Women’s Day, the fourth annual Breakthrough Breakfast took place on Thursday, March 3 to celebrate and support women in STEM. It was one of many events during International Women’s Week, led... More

November 11, 2021

Celebrating 60 Years of Carleton Engineering

It takes a first cohort to start a longstanding tradition. It all began with the Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) students who enrolled at Carleton in the fall of 1957. There were some 60 students that... More

August 30, 2021

A Canadian to Watch

Carleton alumnus Philip Asante (BEng/12) has been nominated and featured as a 2021 Canadian to Watch by Automotive News Canada, a leading paper on the global automotive industry. As a Software Integration Lead Engineer, Autonomous... 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