CuriositE: Engineering Student Life Faculty of Engineering

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Dr. Mojgan Daneshmand was one of the 176 people who lost their lives on Ukrainian Airlines flight 176 from Tehran to Kiev on January 8th, 2020.
In this episode we hear reflections from three of her former students:
Nahid Vahabisani, RF Engineer with MDA Corporation
Mohammad Zarifi, Assistant Professor at UBC
Dorsa Nahid, 5th year Computer Engineering student at the U of A.

Part 1.
Chemical Engineering Industrial Professor Marnie Jaimieson
 
Part 2.
Mining Engineering Industrial Professor John Sammut
Mining Engineering Students Joshua Magtoto and Brett Amero
 
 
 

Show notes:
This interview was with Engineering Student Success Centre Director Peggy Jankovic and Lead Teaching Assistant Samir Ead.  The conversation was recorded live during Open House 2019 in front of the Elko Engineering Garage.  
Also mentioned in the introduction was the TED talk delivered by Associate Dean (Outreach), Dr. Ania Ulrich, entitled "Engineering with Decency"
ESSC: https://www.ualberta.ca/engineering/student-services/academic-support/engineering-student-success-centre
Ted talk link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3y0njMDZ5Y

The trees that recently arrived in the NREF 2nd floor atrium were the result of an initiative by a group of Engineering students who applied for a grant. In this episode we hear how it all happened, and talk to a few of the people who played a part in seeing the project to successful completion.

Professor Doug Tomlinson pitched the idea of holding an ice beam competition that saw teams experiment with adding different kinds of materials to a 10cm x 10cm x 60com piece of ice and then testing the final product in a load frame.  In this episode we also hear from fifth-year environmental engineering student, Joey Ting.