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.
- Taylah Griffin, a Boeing systems engineer, is encouraging indigenous youth in Australia to enter STEM fields to close the diversity gap.
- Dr. Hamid Abdi and his team are creating a smart schoolbag that can tell if students are forgetting items like homework or books using RFID tags cross-checked with an online item list.
- Pégase is a telescope mount designed for people in wheelchairs. The mount and eyepiece can be adjusted to the height of the wheelchair to be as accessible as possible.
- POD is a device that helps you focus and increase productivity based on the Pomodoro theory: a method of alternating between timed spurts of productivity and short breaks.
- Geizeer is a desktop ice cooler that can powerfully output air from all directions. This eco-friendly device USB rechargeable and made of wood for a sleek design.
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 - University of Saskatchewan has committed to increasing its number of Indigenous engineering students.
- APEY News
- ASET News
- EGBC News - A recording of the Professional Governance Act webinar is now available
- Engineers Nova Scotia News - Registration is now open for the 2019 Engineers Nova Scotia AGM and Engineering Conference.
- Engineers PEI News
- NAPEG News
- OACETT News
- PEGNL News
- PEO News
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- The living tech we need to support human life on other planets: Lynn Rothschild, astrobiologist, gives some unconventional suggestions for living on another planet, like bacteria-generated power or homes grown from fungi.
- The world’s first crowdsourced space traffic monitoring system: Space environmentalist Moriba Jah talks about the large amount of debris and trash orbiting our planet and a possible solution.
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"Engineering or technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed."
—David Billington
Thanks for reading and have a great month!
Gavin Simone, P.Eng., PMP, LEED AP
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