{"id":261,"date":"2023-10-20T14:22:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T18:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/?p=261"},"modified":"2025-07-29T14:55:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T18:55:45","slug":"peo-innovation-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/2023\/peo-innovation-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"PEO Innovation Challenge"},"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-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 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 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-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        PEO Innovation Challenge\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Viau served as a judge for the PEO Innovation Challenge, alongside Drs. Banu \u00d6rmeci, Kamal Hossain, and Reza Foruzanmehr (uOttawa), which took place Sunday September 17th at the University of Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eight projects were presented by students and engineering professionals on the topic of &#8220;Creating sustainable solutions for economic and environmental residences&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carleton University students Farzam Sepanta (supervised by Dr. Liam O&#8217;Brien) and Nolan Duff (supervised by Dr. Scott Bucking) took first and second place in the competition, respectively. Job well done to everyone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2025\/07\/PEO-Ottawa-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2025\/07\/PEO-Ottawa-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2025\/07\/PEO-Ottawa-512x384.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2025\/07\/PEO-Ottawa-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2025\/07\/PEO-Ottawa-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2025\/07\/PEO-Ottawa-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2025\/07\/PEO-Ottawa.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"> <font size=\"-2\">(Photo credit: Saif Ahmed)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Viau served as a judge for the PEO Innovation Challenge, alongside Drs. Banu \u00d6rmeci, Kamal Hossain, and Reza Foruzanmehr (uOttawa), which took place Sunday September 17th at the University of Ottawa. Eight projects were presented by students and engineering professionals on the topic of &#8220;Creating sustainable solutions for economic and environmental residences&#8221;. 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