{"id":448,"date":"2018-06-13T14:03:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T18:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/engineering-design\/?page_id=448"},"modified":"2025-03-28T11:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:59:11","slug":"fed-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/engineering-design\/news-and-events\/fed-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/engineering-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/feature-stories.jpeg); background-position: 51% 100%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.600);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Feature Stories\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"feature-stories\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Feature Stories<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In-depth Articles from the Faculty of Engineering and Design<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 60%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h2 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-2xl md:text-3xl lg:text-4xl lg:leading-[3rem] pb-4 after:w-8 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Ice, Ice, Maybe\n                    <\/h2>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                            \n\n<p>It\u2019s 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\u2019re here to install monitoring equipment that will help them better understand and address the impacts of climate change on the iconic 7.8-km Rideau Canal Skateway, a four-year research partnership with the National Capital Commission (NCC), which manages the world\u2019s largest skating rink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/rideau-canal-skating-changing-climate\">View Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n                    <div class=\"cu-textmedia-bgimg flex-1 rounded-xl bg-no-repeat bg-cover \" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/engineering-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/skateway-research-1600x700-3.jpg); background-position: 50% 50%; transform: 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                             Story by Alejandra Fernandez, video by Nicholas Arcuri After five decades at Carleton University, Department of Electronics Chancellor\u2019s Professor Jim Wight still walks into the&hellip;\n                            <\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    \n    <footer class=\"px-6 pt-3 mt-auto md:pt-5\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/engineering-design\/story\/celebrating-50-years-of-impact-professor-jim-wights-legacy-at-carleton\/\" class=\"cu-button cu-button--red cu-button--small\">\n            Read story\n            <span class=\"sr-only\">\n                titled\n                Celebrating 50 Years of Impact: Professor Jim Wight\u2019s Legacy at Carleton\n            <\/span>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/footer>\n<\/div>\n\n            \n                    \n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-card rounded-lg @container md:max-w-xl flex flex-col gap-3 bg-white shadow-lg shadow-cu-black-100 group duration-300 ease-in hover:scale-[1.02] 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class=\"text-base text-cu-black-700\">\n                                    By: Alejandra Fernandez From building Carleton University\u2019s first student-led CubeSat to attending milestone moments in modern lunar exploration,\u00a0Carleton\u2019s\u00a0CUonOrbit\u00a0student club\u00a0is proving that hands-on learning and ambitious\u00a0extra-curricular&hellip;\n                            <\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    \n    <footer class=\"px-6 pt-3 mt-auto md:pt-5\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/engineering-design\/story\/inside-cuonorbit-carletons-student-team-reaches-new-heights\/\" class=\"cu-button cu-button--red cu-button--small\">\n            Read story\n            <span class=\"sr-only\">\n                titled\n                Inside CUonOrbit: Carleton\u2019s Student Team Reaches New Heights\n            <\/span>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/footer>\n<\/div>\n\n            \n                    \n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-card rounded-lg @container md:max-w-xl flex 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