Engineering Newsletter – April 2022

Here is your monthly dose of my Canadian engineering news created for licensed and aspiring engineers, geoscientists and technicians in Canada.

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Gavin Simone, P.Eng., PMP, LEED AP

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  1. Practice PPE Exams turns 10 years old this month. I appreciate your support over the months/years. This month’s question is, what engineering things were you up to at age 10?

    1. When I was 10, I was making Lego traffic lights, bridges, and road detours for my Hot Wheels toy cars on my city road map carpet.

    2. When I was 10 I loved playing building dams on small streams of water that would form after it rained in my elementary school playground. I remember using sand and twigs and improving my designs with rocks and other materials available in the surroundings. Never thought I would become an engineer years after.

    3. At the age of 10, I still remember I broke open my dad’s old speaker system to see where the sound comes out from.

  2. I was adding new components and accessories to my bike. I added different colour lights, matching saddles, and of course noise makers on my spokes.

  3. Patrick Bailey

    At 10 I was reading Backyard Ballistics and building Potato Cannons out of Pringles cans with my Dad (also a chemical engineer)

  4. Rupak Banerjee

    At age 10, I was intrigued by space and had been gifted a telescope kit. I was putting that together. A very basic unit that let me understand how the two lens system works.

  5. At 10 years old I spent much of my time out of doors in a rural location. I was digging holes and playing with soil, wading and damming small creeks and constructing tree forts.
    Happy practice PPE anniversay Gavin!

  6. Louis Lemaire

    When I was a kid, I was always taking electronics apart (and not usually putting them back together, lol). My Dad was a mechanic and woodworker often he would bring me into the shop and we’d work on repairing an engine or building something out of wood.

  7. When I was 10, I was in prime lego structure time! I was building cars and tracks with my younger brother and racing them to see who the better “engineering kid” was (as both my parents are engineers).

  8. Antonio Mejia

    At age 10 I was as well taking apart all electronics at home. I was always curious to know what was inside that could make those things work.

  9. I made a mini car that was powered by two motors. I took the body and wheels off another mechanical toy car I had and just attached the motors to the rear wheels. It worked really well except that I didn’t have a remote control so each motor was connected to handheld batteries that I had to manually engage which meant I had to run behind the car as it was going!

    PS. Thanks to your help, I finally received my P.Eng. last week.

  10. Arundeep Kakkar

    When I was 10, I was playing with Mechanical toys – making cranes, cars and houses. You remember the one’s with the screws and bolts and various plates with all holes in it to attach to each other.

    1. Thank you for the comment, Arundeep. I do remember them with their sharp edges and many holes. The toys sure have advanced over the years.

  11. At 10 I was building soap-box style go karts, and ripping apart old electronics (never got around to reassembling them). And of course there was a ton of Lego in play/

    Congrats on the anniversary, the course was very well laid out and was a great help for the recent NPPE!

  12. My dad got me some batteries, small light bulbs, and electric wires at 10. I used to connect them and played with them a lot.

  13. When I was 10 I wanted to understand how thinks worked. So I would take apart all types of electronic device and a few small engines and put them back together.

  14. Matthew Vandewiel

    When I was 10, I remember my grandpa and I building a simple hydraulic system using syringes where we could open and close as well as raise and lower a claw to grab a ball. I also played with Legos a lot trying to make really tall buildings.

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