Engineering Spotlights
Our Engineering Spotlights feature the amazing students, faculty, and staff of ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ®'s Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering.
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Meet Berry, ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® Sustainable Design Engineering student and 3M National Student Fellow.
![close-up of Arduino circuitry](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_spotlight_round/public/2024-06/sde_expo_spotlight_4_rnd.jpg.webp)
Sustainable Design Engineering students Ben Keizer, Tung Nguyen, SoumyaDeep Chowdhury, and Luke McCarvill and their TrashTech project centres around developing a reduction-focused domestic waste management product. It aims to conduct waste classification using machine vision, weight sensing, and meaningful data communication to users through a web application, much like Fitbit’s functionality and related smartphone application.
![five engineering students working on a project](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_spotlight_round/public/2024-06/engineering_clinic_3_rnd.jpeg.webp)
Sustainable Design Engineering student team members Lauren Daigle, Christian D'Entremont, Ben MacEachern, Josh McIsaac, and Owen Stewart worked with Parks Canada to design of a user-friendly display for the electric pedestals at campsites to inform campers of their energy consumption.
![four engineering students and their second-year project](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_spotlight_round/public/2024-06/sde_design_clinic_second_rnd.jpg.webp)
Student team members Remi Antoun, James Campbell, Chukwuma "Prince" Ezeilo, and Huy "Alvin" Nguyen worked with the Abegweit First Nation to solve the ongoing challenge of transforming wind-damaged forests into productive blueberry crops while safeguarding the suitability of the land for wild blueberry cultivation.
![Dr. Libby Osgood working with Engineering student Luke McCarvill](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_spotlight_round/public/2024-05/esc_spotlight_rnd.jpg.webp)
Meet the student associates of the ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® Engineering Success Centre, and find out how they're building leadership skills helping their peers and friends!
![a welder standing behind a work table](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_spotlight_round/public/2024-01/sdoucette_spotlight_rnd1.jpg.webp)
"Sometimes I do get weird and special requests from all sorts of people as we build all sorts of machines and prototypes—that's what makes my job so unique."
![¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® professor Stephanie Shaw](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_spotlight_round/public/2023-12/sshaw_spotlight_fsde_rnd.jpg.webp)
An assistant professor in ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ®'s Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering, Dr. Shaw's research focuses on resource consumption, energy, and emissions.
![¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® engineering student Rosaline in the faculty of sustainable design engineering building](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_spotlight_round/public/2023-10/rosaline_spotlight_rnd.jpg.webp)
Meet Rosaline, ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® Bachelor of Sustainable Design Engineering student. Originally from Damascus, Rosaline hopes to work in the sustainable energy sector and obtain a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
![¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® engineering student Yvan in the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering building lobby](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_spotlight_round/public/2023-08/yvan_spotlight_rnd.jpg.webp)
Meet Yvan, Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Design Engineering graduate (Class of 2023). Originally from Mauritius, Yvan had always wanted to come to Canada for university, and discovered ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ®'s Engineering program was a perfect match.
![upei engineering student bridget patterson in the faculty of sustainable design engineering building](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_spotlight_round/public/2022-09/bpatterson_spotlight_rnd.jpg.webp)
"Overall, my drive to graduate and continue to elevate my education comes from my passion for helping people in the most impactful way possible."