{"id":58193,"date":"2019-07-16T16:12:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T20:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=58193"},"modified":"2025-09-30T10:54:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:54:03","slug":"science-showcase","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/science-showcase\/","title":{"rendered":"Science and Engineering Showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Carleton University\u2019s cutting-edge research and teaching facilities were showcased to a group of senior government officials during the Deputy Ministers Science Committee (DMSC) retreat on July 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attendees at the annual gathering of more than a dozen leaders from science-based government departments and agencies visited the Northern Nomad<\/a> tiny house and Chemistry Superlab<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They were accompanied on the early-afternoon tours by Carleton President Benoit-Antoine Bacon<\/a>, Vice-President (Research and International) Rafik Goubran<\/a> and Faculty of Science Dean Chuck Macdonald<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bacon greeted Kirsty Duncan<\/a>, Canada\u2019s Minister of Science and Sport, when she arrived in the morning for part of the retreat\u2019s agenda, which included sessions on science policy and infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Committee members include Canadian Food Inspection Agency president Siddika Mithani, Canadian Space Agency president Sylvain Laporte, National Research Council president Iain Stewart, Public Health Agency of Canada president Tina Namiesniowski and federal chief science advisor Mona Nemer, as well as deputy ministers or associate deputy ministers from several government departments, among them Environment and Climate Change Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Transport Canada, and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cFor this project, we had two lofty goals \u2014 net-zero energy and net-zero water,\u201d Prof. Scott Bucking from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering said to a small group outside the Northern Nomad tiny house, which overlooks the Rideau River near Richcraft Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cWith the testing we\u2019re doing now, we want to be able to show that we\u2019re achieving that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Inside, as Louis Armstrong\u2019s \u201cIt\u2019s a Wonderful World\u201d played softly in the background, Seungyeon Hong, a master\u2019s student who managed the project, explained some of the tiny house\u2019s distinctive features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Built by Carleton architecture and engineering students<\/a>, Northern Nomad is a 220-square-foot building that\u2019s designed to produce as much energy and water as it consumes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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