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Monique Frize French Interview

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Monique Frize a suivi deux années de sciences pures et de mathématiques à l'université d'Ottawa avant de s'orienter vers l'ingénierie électrique. Elle a reçu une bourse Athlone pour financer une maîtrise en ingénierie biomédicale à l’Imperial College de Londres. Elle a travaillé pendant sept ans à l'hôpital Notre-Dame de Montréal, puis, à partir de Moncton, a été nommée chef…

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Suzelle Barrington French Interview

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Madiha Kotb French Interview

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Le choix de devenir ingénieur s’est dessiné dès un jeune âge pour Madiha El Mehelmy Kotb alors que son professeur de 5e année du primaire a remarqué son « talent pour les mathématiques ». Ayant grandi avec un père ingénieur, Madiha découvre rapidement son intérêt pour ce domaine. Elle début le programme d'ingénierie des matériaux à l'université américaine du Caire, mais à la…

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Nathalie Roy Full Interview

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Dre. Nathalie Roy, ingénieure civile et la vice-doyenne à la formation, et à l'équité, à la diversité et à l'inclusion à l'université de Sherbrooke décrit son parcours en recherche ainsi que son rôle dans l’évolution de l’éducation du génie au niveau universitaire. Après un retour aux études pour changer de domaine, elle fait une maîtrise et un doctorat en ingénierie à l…

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Andrew Hrymak Full Interview

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Abstract: Chemical engineer Andrew Hrymak describes his experiences as an undergraduate and graduate student, a university professor and Department Chair at McMaster University and as Dean of Engineering at Western University. Drawn to chemical engineering by a design project in the first year of his undergraduate program, that involved a processing plant to generate electrical power from steam, his… more

Axel Meisen Full Interview

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Abstract: Dr. Axel Meisen developed an interest in chemical engineering in his native Germany and competed an undergraduate degree at Imperial College in London before immigrating to Canada. He describes his first summer jobs with British Gas in the United Kingdom, and at a smelter in Peru where he witnessed a human dimension to engineering through his interaction with the local workers there. He recalls… more

Elizabeth Weckman Full Interview

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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…

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Boro Lukajic Full Interview

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Geotechnical engineer Boro Lukajic immigrated to Canada after completing an engineering degree in what was then Yugoslavia.  He became fascinated about the Canadian Arctic – impressing a Canadian Immigration agent at the Canadian Embassy in Vienna by sharing this fascination – and so was delighted to spend his first assignment in Labrador working on the Churchill Falls hydroelectric…

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Cory Jones Full Interview

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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.…

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Doug VanDine Full Interview

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Geotechnical engineer Doug VanDine describes his experiences as an employee of a consulting engineering firm, a professor at Queen's University in Kingston, and as a sole practitioner engineering consultant. Drawn to geotechnical engineering by his love of math, science, and the outdoors, he worked in the western Arctic on three projects after completing his undergraduate degree at Queen's…

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Hugh Fraser Full Interview

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Abstract: Hugh Fraser is an agricultural engineer who grew up in rural Quebec and completed a year as an agriculture student at the University of Guelph before switching into the engineering program there. He attributes his interest in agricultural to his teenage summers working on his family's dairy farm, working field machinery, bailing hay, wrangling steers and picking rocks. His interest in engineering… more

Michael Carter Full Interview

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Abstract: Dr. Michael Carter is an industrial engineer who, after completing degrees in mathematics, started as a professor at the University of Toronto in 1981. He defines industrial engineering as "the applications of mathematics, computers, and psychology to developing and building human systems". Dr. Carter's initial interest was optimization and scheduling, and he developed an algorithm for scheduling… more

Christine Mackinnon Full Interview

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Abstract: Christine MacKinnon recalls loving math and biology when she finished high school, and so took agricultural engineering, two years at Nova Scotia Agricultural College and then finishing at Macdonald College at McGill. Her first job after graduation was designing farm buildings in Nova Scotia, but she soon moved to Saskatoon to do a Masters degree at the University of Saskatchewan studying… more

Emily Cheung Full Interview

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Abstract: Emily Cheung took civil engineering at the University of British Columbia because "dams and bridges, that's where I want to be." Her interests evolved from structural engineering to hydrotechnical engineering, and she earned a Master's degree in environmental fluid mechanics. She and her husband decided to leave Vancouver, where the housing market was "unreachable" and the work opportunities "not… more

Fred Dermarkar Full Interview

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Abstract: Fred Dermarkar was inspired to become an engineer by his father, a civil engineer, his uncle, a mechanical engineer and by a love of math, physics, and chemistry and math and physics puzzles. He graduated as a mechanical engineer from the University of Toronto at a time when the Pickering B, Bruce B and Darlington nuclear power plants were under construction. His first job involved developing the… more