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 new-found knowledge.
- Engineer Kristina Tsvetanova has developed a touchable tablet that will help visually impaired people. Blitab has a fourteen line braille display on top and a touch screen on the bottom. Blitab can also run Android apps.
- Bioscience Engineering and professor, Sammy Verbruggen, has developed a device to purfiy air while generating power. It is undergoing small scale tests and they hope to make a larger version soon.
- PCGRIP: based out of Toronto, this PCB vise will hold components and probes for you, so you can free up your hands while you work.
- Drumistic: allows you to play drums on any surface and record your playing.
- EduExo: A robotic exoskeleton kit - This 3D printable, powered kit teaches students, hobbyists and educators how to build and program robotic exoskeletons.
What technology or gadget are you currently enjoying and would recommend to other aspiring and licensed engineers? Let us know in the comments below.
- APEGA News: Major revisions are included in the new version of Oil and Gas Standard.
- APEGBC News - The BC Building Code is amended with the Energy Step Code.
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- Materials Engineering and Processing, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
- Electronics Engineer, The Imaging Systems Group, Calgary, Alberta
- Chief Mine Engineer, New Gold, Timmins, Ontario
- Senior Civil Engineer, Klohn Crippen Berger, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
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- The Future We're Building - and Boring: Elon Musk discusses how he's building a future on Mars. He also touches on his newest project: digging tunnels under LA.
- Science in Service to the Public Good: Siddhartha Roy is an environmental engineer who helped prove that the water in Flint, Michigan was contaminated. Here, he calls on scientists and engineers to protect people and the planet.
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- 04-Env-A4 Water & Wastewater Engineering
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- 04-Env-B2 Water Resources
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"Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life."
-- Bruce Dickinson.
Thanks for reading and have a great month!
Gavin Simone, P.Eng., PMP, LEED AP
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Very inspiring engineering TED talks mentioned above. I hope you enjoy them and the other content from this month.