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standing reputation for excellence in both education and research. Our engineering, When the Mars Exploration Rover dvancement news , , and information programs engage our mission landed twin robots on the students to ensure they obtain the best possible education and prepare themselves for Red Planet in 2004, the challenges of a successful and satisfying career. navigating robots on another planet became immediately evident: an airbag This fall, we are pleased to introduce our new Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) in that didn’t fully retract prevented Spirit Architectural Conservation and Sustainability. It provides a unique, innovative focus in from simply driving forward off the a multidisciplinary program that blends both engineering and architectural studies. lander. Engineers told Spirit to turn This is in addition to two recently launched programs that reflect the most recent in place and exit from a side ramp—a developments in science and technology: Sustainable and Renewable Energy command that, due to the distance and Engineering and the Biomedical and programs. line of sight between Earth and Mars, took more than a week to be realized. In this issue, we would like to invite you to see our new Canal building, one of the Today, space systems engineers smartest in North America, which we officially opened January 20th, 2011. It continue to design and improve includes new labs and facilities, which will engage students in our new and exist- navigation systems to enable rovers to Message from the dean Message from ing programs across the faculty such as Biomedical and , Biomedi- make decisions and avoid hazards on cal and Mechanical Engineering, Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering and their own—and eliminate the lengthy the new Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Engineering. The 100,000 square delays in data transmission. foot building also earned 5 out of 5 Green Globes for green building design, operation “The goal is to remove human input and management. from small decisions. An autonomous navigation algorithm makes the robot The engineering and design professions have become the main engines of economic aware of its position in the environment photo: James Park growth through the introduction of new products and technological innovations so that it may determine the best route necessary to continue to improve our standard of living. Our new programs and to a destination,” says Jesse Hiemstra, “I taught here for 31 years, so I have a very close relationship with Carleton. I like to contribute whatever I can facilities will fill the need to educate and create these innovations to better our society, an undergraduate student working with to further the advancement of research and teaching in this field,” says Jo Yung Wong of his gift to establish and we invite you to join us. Carleton researchers on the mobility a laboratory for robotics, more specifically, terrestrial and extraterrestrial mobility, guidance and control. The Jo Yung Wong Laboratory will be housed in the engineering building currently under construction. system for the Kapvik microrover RafikG oubran, PhD/87, PEng for the Canadian Space Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Design Agency. A student in the space systems Wong hopes that the research to be conducted at the new laboratory will make design stream of the aerospace Carleton a leader in mobility, guidance and control of Earth-bound off-road vehicles and engineering program, he’ll soon extraterrestrial rovers. have access to a state-of-the-art lab “This lab will be unique and it is believed that no other university has established a dedicated to projects like the rover that similar facility,” says Wong. “Hopefully, it will become a centre of excellence in the field, enable the exploration of space. nationally and internationally.” The Jo Yung Wong Laboratory for This type of research comes at an important time for space exploration, when scientists Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Mobility, and engineers are looking for ways to extend human missions to the moon and beyond, FSC Label – Portrait Artwork Matrix Guidance and Control, is the result of Wong says. a generous $100,000-gift from Jo Yung When he heard about the idea of establishing this specialized laboratory, he thought that FSC Label Artwork FSC_Labels_English FSC_Labels_Portrait Wong. 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Many of us have little tricks for trying He faced a few design obstacles that the UV lights are activated. Since UV tudent success to disguise shoe odour, whether it be ultimately resulted in the creation of the lights can be harmful to your eyes, the powders, air freshners or fabric softner UVSP. trendy sports bag and zippertag security sheets, but Industrial Design student The UVSP is a small trendy gym bag ensure safe usage. The UVSP requires Rahim Bhimani, 23, thought why mask with two UV hubs. The hubs are placed AA batteries and each cleansing cycle the odour when you can actually get inside the shoes and, once the bag is lasts about three hours. rid of it? He recently developed the closed and the zippertag is buttoned, Not only does the UVSP eliminate Ultraviolet Sports Pack (UVSP) — “the shoe odour, it will also extend the life product that severs the link between of the shoes and the technology can be

tudent success sport and smell.” transferred to other sports equipment

S The UVSP uses ultraviolet light to such as hockey skates or gloves. kill athletes’ shoe bacteria and the It was also one of 20 finalists for the resulting odour. His initial idea was 2010 , worth about to create a shoe dryer but found that $31,900, aimed at encouraging and shoe wetness wasn’t a major concern of inspiring young design engineers. There athletes – smell was. are about 500 entries from 18 countries “It didn’t kill the bacteria, it just in the design contest. masked the smell temporarily,” he said. “It would be really awesome to see His idea then shifted to to UV-C light the project hit the market; that would be because it is often used to kill germs. a dream come true for me,” he said.

Mark Cuss Memorial Scholarship Winner

Carleton student Christopher Polowick has won the Mark photo: Pat Bolduc Cuss Memorial Scholarship from Unmanned Systems . Mark Cuss, in whose name the scholarship is awarded, was a young, gifted engineer who worked on UAVs for CDL Systems of Calgary. He died in 2007 after a courageous Meet the Metric Wave 22-month battle with cancer. The $2,500 scholarship is awarded annually at the Carleton architecture student Steph Bolduc (bolducdesign. students to redesign the student lounge in the Architecture Unmanned Systems Canada Conference to students with com) has won first prize in the student design category of the building. a strong academic record, demonstrated interest and 2010 Ontario Wood Works Awards Program sponsored by the “Steph’s bench is an incredibly functional and sustainable knowledge of the unmanned systems field, along with a solid Canadian Wood Council. He beat out 50 other entries from piece of furniture that demonstrates the kind of outside- recommendation from a supervisor. seven competing schools. the-box thinking that we teach in the Azrieli School of “Chris is an excellent choice for this award as he is highly At the gala awards presentation in Toronto, he was Architecture and Urbanism at Carleton University,”said Boyle. motivated, hard-working and has excellent problem-solving presented with a cheque for $7,000 for his innovative product New this year is a $10,000 institutional award that skills,” says Engineering Prof. Jeremy Laliberté. called Metric Wave that uses computer-based design and recognizes the school and department that supported the Polowick is a fourth-year student in the Department of computer numerical control (CNC) manufacturing to create winning submission. The Azrieli School will use the prize to Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He recently returned a highly adaptive, multi-purpose bench. The bench can be purchase capital equipment to benefit future students. “This from a 16-month internship at Defence Research and easily modified to suit any location, such as commercial prize acknowledges the critical role that faculty engagement Development Canada (DRDC) where he worked on some of waiting areas at airports, malls and hospitals, bars and plays in encouraging and facilitating student participation their cutting-edge unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) projects. restaurants, convention centres and even residential in this challenging program,” says Sarah Hicks from Ontario “We are very proud of Chris,” says his former superviser at installations. Wood Works and the Canadian Wood Council. DRDC. “He has demonstrated innovative and unique thinking “I designed it so that the customer has control over the The four-year-old competition is a real-life problem- and his most lasting and influential contribution to our final product, including , size and ability to fit solving exercise where students are asked to create products organization will be his ‘never, never give up’ attitude.” with the intended setting,” says Bolduc. “It’s comfortable, that have the potential to expand markets for Ontario Unmanned Systems Canada – Systémes télécommandes strong, multi-purpose, easy to assemble, can be designed wood products. Participants are challenged to examine Canada is a Canadian-registered, not-for-profit association centrally and cut locally and uses little glue, making it an consumption trends, barriers and opportunities that relate representing the interests of the unmanned vehicle systems environmentally-friendly product.” to the forest products sector and to use this information to community. Fast fact... Bolduc originally submitted his design as part of Sheryl create a viable product that overcomes existing challenges or Interested in hiring a co-op student? Boyle’s third-year Materials Application Workshop that asked takes advantage of new, emerging, or previously untapped Discover how the co-op advantage markets and opportunities. can benefit your company by visiting carleton.ca/co-op.

4 Winter 2011 5 Fast fact... The 100,000-square-foot Canal building received five out of five globes on the Green Globes rating scale

NEW Bachelor of Engineering in Faculty news Architectural Conservation and Sustainability

and the assessment and retrofit of existing structures. The environmental stream will focus on sustainable building practices with

Faculty news an emphasis on water quality and conservation, air quality, life cycle analysis and disposal of materials and waste streams. In their final year, the students will complete a specialized design project requiring them to solve real-world problems in their respective areas. The program also includes possible co-op placements. This new program has been designed to meet the strict professional and academic requirements of the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board. “This degree will give our students an opportunity to incorporate cutting- Civil and Environmental Engineering Chair Professor Paul Van Geel edge research and into the design of buildings that work with Carleton is launching a new Bachelor of Engineering in Architectural Conservation our environment,” says Engineering Sustainable Growth for Engineering and Sustainability. Professor Paul Van Geel, who helped The program, which begins in September 2011, will focus on the restoration design the new program. “For example, of heritage structures, the reuse and retrofit of existing buildings and the design students will learn how to use natural Carleton’s dynamic Faculty of Engineering and Design is Sustainability Engineering, which is admitting students for of new energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly buildings, for which the light more effectively to reduce energy expanding—into both a new building and a new area of study. September 2011. The new program fuses the disciplines knowledge has been increasingly sought after in the field. demands for heating and cooling while In order to accommodate the growth of the faculty, a new of engineering and architecture, and is closely linked to “As the design and construction of sustainable buildings requires close co- also using the sun’s energy to produce 100,000 sq. ft building has been erected alongside the Rideau the Bachelor of Architectural Studies concentration in operation among the team of and engineers, this new interdisciplinary solar power. And students will learn Canal on Carleton’s campus. It officially opened at the end of Conservation and Sustainability, which is housed at the program will meet this need by producing graduates who will follow green how to use our water resources with January. Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism. Engineering and principles and practices,” says Dr. Rafik Goubran, dean of the Faculty of Engineering rainwater and grey water recycling Professor Rafik Goubran, the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture students studying conservation and sustainability and Design. through to the design of green roofs Engineering and Design, says that the new facility will be share a number of core courses, which creates a learning Students will be able to choose one of two specializations. The structural stream that control and filter storm water “one of the smartest buildings in North America.” Its ‘smart’ atmosphere that is not just interdisciplinary but also functions will concentrate on conservation and sustainability in the design of new structures runoff.” features include the extensive use of sensors to monitor the as preparation for the collaborative work between engineers state of the building, as well as a vegetation-laden ‘green and architects that often occurs in real-world projects in roof’ that incorporates technology used to analyze rainfall and sustainable building design. snowfall in order to determine their usefulness as elements of Students in the Architectural Conservation and Ontario Research Fund-Research Infrastructure Program sustainable systems. Sustainability Engineering program may choose from one Through the Ontario Research Fund-Research Infrastructure “This will let us screen new materials and manufacturing Large sections of the building are devoted to biomedical of two streams or areas of study: the structural stream Program (ORF-RI) , Dr. Jeremy Laliberté has received $39,250 processes to make sure they have sufficient impact damage engineering, including the undergraduate Engineering or the environmental stream. Students in the structural to research advanced materials that could make airplanes resistance for aircraft applications. Since the drop tower is programs in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering and stream will learn how to use the principles of conservation safer and more fuel efficient. In his new lab at Carleton, Dr. instrumented, I will be able to measure the load history during Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering. The biomedical and sustainability in both the design of new, sustainable Laliberté is helping develop these materials by measuring the impact event so I can determine the amount of energy engineering programs are geared towards innovation in structures and the retrofitting of existing structures. Students their resistance to low velocity impact damage. absorbed and also figure out at what energy levels failure the field of health in such areas as medical instrumentation, in the environmental stream will learn how to incorporate The grant, which matches CFI-LOF funding received in occurs in different materials”, said Dr. Laliberté. patient monitoring, electronic health records, biomechanics conservation and sustainability into building practices, 2009 to establish the facility, will be used to purchase an This will allow Dr. Laliberté to measure the post-impact (including the creation of artificial limbs and organs) and with emphasis on life cycle analysis, water and air quality instrumented drop weight impact test system that is used to tensile and compressive strength of the panels to determine medical imaging. management, and waste disposal. test the response of materials to low velocity impact events. how much residual strength they have after being impacted, The building will also house the Bachelor of Engineering The new building and programs amount to great news for The lab will be used to study the impact damage tolerance especially for new materials such as advanced carbon fibre program in Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering students interested in some of the most burgeoning, of advanced composite materials when they are subjected to composites as part of the aircraft certification process. and a new program in Architectural Conservation and cutting-edge fields in engineering. various types of impactors at different energy levels.

6 Winter 2011 7 Award Winning Faculty Distinguished Professor Monique Frize had another accomplishment to add to her achievements this past November – The Gold Medal in ds A Research Acheivement Awards war Engineering Management from the Professional Engineers of Ontario. Spanning her 40 year career, she has been awarded 5 honourary doctorates from Canadian Universities, is a Fellow of the Canadian Everyone is seeking more cost-effective and sustainable Academy of Engineering and of Engineers Canada and holds the title initiatives to heat their homes and other buildings. One of war of Officer of the Order ofC anada. Dr. Frize was also the first holder of the ways to do that is through the use of low-temperature A ds the Northern Telecom – Natural Sciences and Engineering Research geothermal heat pumps that can provide supplemental Council (NSERC) Chair for the promotion of women in engineering heating. in Canada in 1989. By 1995, the number of women graduating from Carleton Professor Paul Simms will use the $15,000 engineering had risen to nearly 19 per cent. Dr. Frize is largely credited honorarium from his Carleton University 2011 Research as the pre-eminent advocate for the advancement of women in the Achievement Award to undertake a new study to look at ways profession. Just last year she published her first book: The Bold and of improving this kind of heating system. the Brave: A history of women in science and engineering. “Ground heat can be easily captured through pumps and Dr. Frize was nominated by fellow Carleton Professor Moyra McDill. pipes and it stays warm longer because of the protection it “Monique has been the pre-eminent woman in Canada for the receives from soil and water,” says Simms. “But a lot more can advancement of women in engineering over the last 20 or more years. be done to optimize these systems from the point of view of As you will see, in recent years she has extended that reach to the the type of soils and their thermal properties.” international community and the support of women in countries where Simms will explore the feasibility of soil layering, using a there is very little, if any, other support,” she wrote. climate-controlled test pit that was built for his research on “I was shocked. I was really surprised because there have been so mine waste management. few women I never thought my name would go up there,” she says in “This research could eventually lead to real-world solutions response to the honour. “It means a lot.” for homeowners, industry and government by cutting costs

Although she retired from teaching this past June, Dr. Frize is and generating investment while reducing our environmental Photo: Christopher King a Distinguished Professor at Carleton, continues to supervise 12 footprint,” he says. graduate students and research her second book. Simms, an associate professor with the Department of Professor Matida is one of 10 recipients of this year’s Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been test-driving Carleton Research Achievement Awards, worth $15,000, innovative ways of containing and disposing of mine tailings that honour faculty for innovative research that helps solve under controlled climatic conditions. He has been using an real-world problems. environmental test pit funded by the Canada Foundation His research concentrates on how medications dispensed for Innovation (CFI). In Canada, mine tailings are produced by inhalers reach the lungs, or how well they don’t. at a rate 20 times greater than municipal waste. There have “Anyone who relies on medical inhalers to help them Celebrating Number 100! been many catastrophic failures of tailings impoundments, breathe when they are gasping for breath knows how crucial with devastating ecological and economic consequences and they are,” says Carleton Engineering Professor Edgar Matida. Over the past 35 years, Professor Jim Wight has had a continuous sometimes loss of life. Simm’s research is helping develop “They can save lives. We think there is even greater potential stream of graduate students pursuing their thesis research in safer tailings management practices. for these inhalers to help people coping with lung and the fields of microwave circuits, phase locked circuits, antenna non-lung diseases as, right now, a lot of the medication isn’t structures, and signal processing for wireless communications reaching the lungs.” and radar. On January 24, 2011, Mr. Denis Kutman became Prof. Matida has received funding from the Natural Sciences Wight’s 75th MASc student to defend his thesis. Including the 25 and Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Canada PhD students who have already graduated under Prof. Wight’s Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to purchase the necessary supervision, Denis has the honor of becoming number 100!! equipment and build the infrastructure to conduct the Denis’ thesis topic was on “Solutions for Radar Pulse research. Deinterleaving”, and was undertaken in collaboration with the The research team includes Carleton’s Junjie Gu, Matthew Defence Research and Development Canada-Ottawa. Johnson, Fred Nitzsche and Cythia Cruickshank, as well as Prof. Wight’s students typically undertake their research researchers from Umea University in Sweden, the University of in conjunction with government research labs (such as the Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany, University of Waterloo and Communications Research Center and the Defence Research and the University of Alberta. Development Canada-Ottawa) or industry research labs (such as Matida and Cruickshank are also working with 5 students Ericsson Canada, EMS Satcom, D-TA Systems, and S-5 Systems). on a new fuel cell by performance testing flowing electrolyte – This collaboration provides the students with a “real world” direct methanol fuel cells.

Photo: Chris Strangemore component to their research, and allows the collaborating research “Potential applications include golf carts and forklift trucks, Professor Jim Wight (centre) with his first graduate student, Scott Harris (left) teams to undertake “high risk” projects without jeopardizing but this cell could eventually be used to power portable and his 100th graduate student, Denis Kutman (right). research schedules and product development. devices such as blackberries, i-Pods or cellphones,” notes Matida. “They would be competitive against batteries and hydrogen fuel cells because of their high power and energy densities, and viable infrastructure requirements.” Photo: Christopher King

8 Winter 2011 9 Meet the Teachers The Faculty of Engineering and Design welcomes its newest teachers and researchers who share our commitment to an outstanding experience of learning, discovery and innovation for students.

Karim Ismail, assistant professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering A

Dr. Karim Ismail conducts research on the safety of non-motorized modes of dvancement news transportation using advanced computer vision techniques. During his PhD at the S taying Ahead of the Fizzle University of British Columbia, he developed novel techniques for road safety analysis by Amanda costen by tracking road users, vehicles and pedestrians as they appear in video sequences and by analyzing their interactions. This research helps to solve an existing paradox in road With energy prices in Ontario expected to rise by 46 per eachers safety analysis according to which road collisions, the events that ought to be eliminated, cent over the next five years, energy-saving tips are becoming T must be observed and recorded for the methodological correctness of road safety a frequent feature in local media. If debates over time-of-use analysis techniques. rates, the impact of the HST, and large investments in green- energy projects and infrastructure didn’t catch your attention, Lorenzo Imbesi, associate professor, School of Industrial Design the spike in your bill with the onset of winter would have. Dr. Lorenzo Imbesi’s area of expertise is design theories and culture, focusing To help provide relief, the provincial government is on the narrative, social and ethical impact of new technologies and artifacts. His introducing the Ontario Clean Energy Benefit, which takes Meet the current research looks at new expressions and critical roles of the design industry effect in 2011. The benefit should reduce Ontarians’ hydro in contemporary societies. Before coming to Carleton, he taught and researched bills by 10 per cent. at Sapienza University in Rome. He has been an avid critic and essayist for many The brouhaha over the cost of energy doesn’t surprise years and is co-director of the magazine DIID – Disegno Industriale. He is author Zakaria El-Ramly, MEng/71, PhD/75. He’s worked in the energy of InterAction by Design, 09 YoungDesign, Ethics & Design and D_Generation. industry for 45 years, spending a large portion of his career at He is a new associate professor with the School of Industrial Design, has a PhD in BC Hydro before founding his own company. and is an . “As a society, we haven’t been able to establish a balance between a free market and control in the energy sector. Roger Connah, Associate Professor, Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism Canada is a long way from a stable business environment,” he Roger Connah is currently the Associate Director of Graduate Studies, Azrieli School says. of Architecture & Urbanism. He is the founder of the Dysinternet and has travelled El-Ramly, president and CEO of ZE PowerGroup Inc., has for over 4 decades. His latest Architectural publications include: Pulp Architecture a diverse energy background spanning engineering, energy (2009), Architecture Degree Zero (2008). He just translated the first volume of management, rates and regulation, policy and business lost poetry by Sisyphus Montale (Trieste 2010) and is at work on the biography of development, and energy trading. He brings all his experience Montale, and a book: ‘Generosity and the Australian Architect Gregory Burgess. His to ZE PowerGroup, providing strategic consulting and other forthcoming publications include: Aalto-Ego (Vertigo Press 2011); a volume software development focused on the needs of the energy on the murdered Pakistani artist Zahoor ul Akhlaq called The Rest is Silence (OUP, industry. Karachi 2011) and Being: an Architect (with Ian Ritchie) Recently appeared as Ifti Ali “Over my career, the biggest change in the industry has Kahn in the hit black comedy “Little Professor on the Prairie”. been the degree to which energy is regulated. There have been attempts to deregulate price and allow an open market,” Jie Liu, assistant professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering he says. “Now we see policy—guiding principles rather than Dr. Jie Liu conducts interdisciplinary research in intelligent sensing, machine fault regulation—guide aspects beyond price, such as renewable diagnostics and failure prognostics, mechatronics, vibration and system control. He energy sources and carbon emissions.” Zakaria El-Ramly describes himself as a “practical academic.” His company ZE PowerGroup Inc. reflects his zeal for tackling problems in the energy industry by received his B.Eng. in precision engineering from Tianjin University (China) in 1998, Carleton’s latest program in energy, a new master’s degree looking ahead of the curve and identifying what’s next. his M.Sc. in control engineering from Lakehead University in 2005, and his Ph.D. in in sustainable energy offered jointly by the faculties of Public mechanical engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2008. After his doctoral Affairs and Engineering and Design, addresses the industry in in business lines as diverse as marketing, rates and forecasting, and study, he worked as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical a way that appeals to El-Ramly. business development. Engineering at UC Berkeley for approximately two years. When the first students begin the program in September When he saw deregulation coming, El-Ramly left his executive vice- 2011, they will receive advanced training in sustainable president position at Powerex (a subsidiary of BC Hydro) to start ZE Shelagh McCartney, assistant professor, Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism energy across two distinct disciplines: engineering and public PowerGroup in 1995. Professor Shelagh McCartney’s expertise in design and development focuses on policy. With a choice of studying sustainable energy policy, “I realized one had to stay ahead of the curve or fizzle,” he says. “I urbanization and housing. Her current research is on informal housing in rapidly growing mechanical energy conversion or efficient electrical energy had seen small ideas grow into big ones at Carleton, and the power urban agglomerations and the effect this has on growth patterns of the broader city systems, students in all streams will be exposed to issues of new ideas has stayed with me.” and development practices. During her masters and doctoral work at Harvard as a surrounding the policy and engineering possibilities that will Recalling transformative projects he saw at Carleton—the Wired Fulbright scholar, Professor McCartney examined land policies and its effect on housing improve energy production and delivery systems. City Project, a revolutionary experiment in telecommunications in the of aboriginal peoples in Canada and the ; and growth of rapidly growing “Carleton’s approach is a good one. It will help the 1970s, and work on integrated circuits that lead to microchips—El- cities around the world and the effect of development policies on the growth of informal industry,” says El-Ramly. “Carleton adopts social and academic Ramly embarked on his own “small idea”. housing morphology respectively. Prior to coming to Carleton, Professor McCartney problems, has an industry focus and provides a practical ZE PowerGroup marries policy and software, a testament to taught at Harvard and the universities of Toronto and Waterloo. Her eight years of education.” El-Ramly’s flexible thinking. The strategic consulting and software professional practice encompasses both lead design, technical and management roles. El-Ramly’s own education at Carleton was in mechanical and development firm serves the emerging needs of energy markets. aeronautical engineering—his doctorate was on how large Its ZEMA software is on its way to becoming the global industry Qi Zhu, assistant professor, Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism aircraft wings affected smaller aircraft behind them. When standard for data management and analysis. The company was Professor Qi Zhu has a remarkable record in her professional practice especially in the energy sector found him after graduation, he realized his named Data Management House of the Year in 2009 and 2010 by the area of lighting and museum design. She has been working at one of the most academic background allowed him to think clearly about the EnergyRisk, the magazine for commodity traders and risk managers. important firms in lighting design inW ashington, DC and now joins the School of issues and he rose through the ranks at BC Hydro, working “I’m a practical academic,” says El-Ramly. “I wanted to do Architecture and Urbanism. Her expertise ranges from digital representation to the something that would serve society.” cultural interaction between Asia and Western cultures. 10 11 Aerospace Roundtable Event News and events Photo: Christopher King / Carleton Now Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering: professors Metin Yaras, Dean Rafik Goubran, Daniel Feszty, Jeremy Laliberté, Henry Saari, Associate Dean Fred Afagh and Rob Langlois at Parliament Hill. Carleton University, Alenia North event,” says Dr. Metin Yaras, Chair of sector and in the production of America Inc. and the Italian Embassy the Department of Mechanical and radar and air traffic control systems. brought together prominent leaders Aerospace Engineering at Carleton. is also well-known worldwide in the aerospace field to discuss future “We’re excited to share ideas that for flight training, aeronautical research collaborations and innovative will help lead the way in aerospace motors, surveillance systems and projects on September 27th, 2010 in innovation in Canada and around the electronic defense. In particular, what a roundtable event held on Parliament world.” distinguishes the Italian aerospace Hill. With a turnover over seven billion sector is its expertise at the regional “Carleton created the first B.Eng. euros a year, the Italian aerospace , such as the technological districts in Aerospace Engineering in Canada industry is in seventh place in the world in the regions of Apulia, Campania, and continues to offer leading-edge and contributes one per cent of the Lazio, Piedmont and Lombardy. programs in this field, which made national GDP. Italy has a renowned us a natural co-organizer for this position in the world in the helicopter

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