Engineering Newsletter – January 2020

• Ahmad Naveed, a recent UBC engineering graduate has created a thief-tracking app where people can get informed about thefts in their area and share details and add locations of thefts that have happened to them.
• Divyesh Patel, an engineer from India who had over 10 years of Engineering experience shared how challenging it was to find a job in his field when he moved to Canada. Now, ASET CEO Barry Cavanaugh is calling for associations to simplify the licensing process for foreign-educated engineers.

• ConVRse is a virtual reality app to help students learn and practice speaking English. The app immerses you in a “natural” environment where you can be surrounded by the language, interact with the culture and have face-to-face conversations.
• Flash Forest is a technology to speed up tree planting rates significantly by using drones to plant 1 billion trees by 2028. They use mapping, spraying and planting drones that are all unmanned. One drone can plant 10 times faster than a human could.

• iKlips C is an Apple MFi certified USB-C and Lightning Flashdrive that can be plugged right into your iPhone or iPad to make managing files and backing up your smartphone easier.

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.

1. APEGA News
2. APEGNB News
3. APEGS News
4. APEY News
5. ASET News – ASET is working to make it easier for foreign-trained engineers to find work in their field in Alberta, listen to the Global News report here
6. EGBC News
7. Engineers Nova Scotia News – Changes to building code regulations
8. Engineers PEI News
9. NAPEG News
10. OACETT News
11. PEGNL News
12. PEO News

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1. 5 steps for clean air in India: Arunabha Ghosh, a public policy adviser, talks about his 5-step plan to fix the air quality in India, some of the worst air quality in the world.
2. Why I draw with robots: Sougwen Chung, an artist that researches dynamics between humans and machines, talks about how she “taught” a robot how to draw in her own artistic style and how it made mistakes, just like her.

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