Type: Moving Image
Member of: EIC Full Interviews
Abstract: First Nations civil and structural engineer and project manager Cory Jones describes his introduction to engineering practice when, as a high-school student, he was employed by a contractor to help oversee the construction of a water-treatment plant in his home community of Cape Croker, Ontario. He found summer jobs while an undergraduate student at Western University and joined R. J. Burnside… more
Type: Moving Image
Member of: EIC Full Interviews
Abstract: Oral history interview with Dr. Elisabeth Weckman, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Weckman enjoyed math, sciences, history, and art in high school and eventually elected to take engineering at university instead of archeology or architecture. She started in systems design engineering but switched to mechanical, where her first co-op job was at a copper mine… more