Here is your monthly dose of my Canadian engineering news created for licensed and aspiring engineers, geoscientists and technicians in Canada. Stay informed and impress your colleagues with your newfound knowledge.
- Gianfranco Mazzanti, an engineering professor at Dalhousie University, created a brewing science course where chemical engineering students are learning the process of brewing beer.
- A group of engineers in British Columbia, including geotechnical engineer Jonathan Fannin, are speaking out about the need for better forecasting and coordination to help the province prepare for natural disasters.
Measuring distance is made easy with iRuler, a laser that can detect length, area and volume up to 98 feet.
Tourbox Elite is for the creative engineer. It’s a Bluetooth-connected controller for editing digital content that lets you control a virtual brush, edit video and audio, and more with a game-like controller.
WittBoy is an automatic weather station for your home that tells you the current weather and can sound alarms if needed, based on UV rays, rain, temperature, humidity and wind.
What technology or gadget are you currently enjoying and would recommend to other aspiring and licensed engineers? Let us know in the comments below.
Here are the news links to every Canadian Association. If there is anything beyond the normal stuff (elections, new appointments), I'll try to list them below. During certain parts of the year (e.g. Summer, X-Mas), the news tends to slow down.
- APEGA News
- APEGNB News
- APEGS News
- APEY News
- ASET News
- EGBC News - read new practice resources published in 2021
- Engineers Nova Scotia News
- Engineers PEI News
- NAPEG News
- PEGNL News
- PEO News
- Engineers Canada - top engineering news stories of 2021.
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The global risk of flooding — and how to turn the tide: Virginia Smith, a water resource engineer, talks about the changes needed to slow the flow of future floods and how everyone can do their part to mitigate the risk of rising waters.
The dreams and details of a green shipping revolution: The chairman of the largest container shipping company in the world, Jim Hagemann Snabe, explores the idea of “power-to-X,” a process to create green fuel to power ships.
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."
— Abraham Lincoln
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Gavin Simone, P.Eng., PMP, LEED AP
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This month’s question is, what would you send up to space and why?
My 6 year old son’s answer is: a toy car so that the aliens have something to play with 🙂
I’d send up myself to escape from the covid and nonsense era.
I would send my drone, and capture a lot of pictures and videos of the lovely planet earth.
I would send myself with my survey equipment and make a real map of the universal
I have 2 answers for this one –
a) I would like to travel to space myself with my son we both are fond of traveling and adventure – traveling to space would be just so much more fun.
b) On a philosophical note, If there was a capability to purge our biases, negativity, and hatred out of our planet – then we would have just blessed ourselves and the generations to come.
I’d like to send up some Christmas lights with a small solar panel. Just a little holiday cheer in orbit.
I would send myself to space to discover new worlds.
I will send a picture of our planet Earth so that aliens will know how our planet looks like!
I would absolutely send myself, it has been a life long dream of mine to go to space. Hopefully a round trip!
It’s probably time to send up a garbage collection satellite to collect all the circulating space junk.
I’m thinking a 2 tonne lump of bubble gum should do the trick – it sticks to everything.
I would send a satellite with a camera.
A space elevator to expedite space exploration!
I would send a garbage collector into space to clean up all the space debri we humans have sent for decades now. Space debris is a known issue for quite a while now and it would be nice to send a robot that could 1. Disintegrate large debris 2. Redirect smaller debri towards the Earth that will disintegrate on its way into the Stratosphere as it will be
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