The U of O Rocketry Team has been preparing their hybrid rocket, Gee Force One, for an upcoming LaunchCanada competition at the end of August. But this is just the beginning of their ambitions for the academic year.
Engineering
Amanda Doku was one of two students from the University of Ottawa to receive the prestigious scholarship for the 2022-23 academic year.
“Imagine visiting a store virtually to touch fabric or […] imagine smelling a perfume before you buy it online,” said Dr. Melike Erol-Kantarci to explain the concept of extended realities.
As hospitals brace for an expected surge of COVID-19 patients and concerns around a shortage of personal protective equipment grow, University of Ottawa engineers are pumping out plastic face shields for frontline health-care workers at the Richard L’Abbé Makerspace lab on campus.
The executive committee of the University of Ottawa’s faculty of engineering is recommending students be given the option, after receiving their final course mark, of having ‘satisfactory’ or ‘not satisfactory’ appear on their transcript rather than an alphanumeric grade, pending approval from the faculty council.
Thirty years after the Polytechnique massacre in Montreal, women in the world of STEM continue to face gender inequality and discrimination. Students in STEM at the U of O reflect on the tragedy and highlight issues persisting within their fields.
“When the Titanic sank, they were actually the last people who got out, so we dye ourselves purple to honour and remember them,” says Sam Garcia, vice-president external for the Engineering Student Society.
What really grinds my gears about this, is who actually gets to pick their high school?
“Honestly, I think working with the arts students was a big shift, a big culture shock, because in our projects in classes, we only work with engineering students (and) everyone has a similar way of thinking.”
From Oct. 14 to 15, the semi-annual deCODE: Hackathon will be returning to the University of Ottawa, this time with a few changes—namely, a smaller group of participants to boost competition.
What kinds of advantages does this kind of environment provide students, particularly in terms of educational value?
Now that Syrian refugees have made Ottawa their home for close to a year, many of them, especially women, are looking to transition into the workforce.
U of O team competes against other engineering students across North America The University of Ottawa hosted 21 teams of engineering students from colleges and universities across Canada and the United States for the Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race 2016, an annual event put on by a group of current students and alumni of the …
The Telfer School of Management recently launched the Entrepreneurship Foundry Course, which, like entrepreneurship itself, is a product of a variety of disciplines and skills.
The collaboration between art and science was natural and probably destined to happen. The curators chose the space based on the similarities between artists and engineers.
“Most (students) were unaware of this change, and the ones that are being informed do not see that as a positive change.” —Jean-Philippe Dubé.
The Faculty of Engineering has challenged the University of Ottawa community to put their fingerprints to good use to help a six-year-old boy in need of a prosthetic limb.
“In the same way, attempting to capture in a few minutes the life and ideals of a visionary and a man who rose above all the challenges of his time to leave a lasting legacy in the hearts of many is a quite difficult endeavour,” he said.
A group of six University of Ottawa engineering students have returned from a prize-winning bout at the Valeo Innovation Challenge in Paris, where they showed off their designs for a hybrid vehicle.
