For two weeks during this past August, I have had the pleasure of attending the AI For Engineering Summer School 2019 hosted by Autodesk. This two-week course took place at the beautiful Autodesk Technology Centre located in the MaRS Discovery...
Conference season at Quanser is a stressful but exciting time. Each year, the Engineering team is called upon to create demonstrations of our equipment. These demos showcase the key features and advantages of the Quanser approach to engineering education and...
The holidays are around the corner, and you may find yourself locked out of your office or classroom for a couple of days. What are you going to do with all that free time? Some of you may be lucky...
For the past three months, I coached a FIRST Lego League team. In this competition kids aged 9 to 14 design, build, and program an autonomous Lego Mindstorms robot, then compete on a table-top playing field at a tournament. Teams also...
What is an engineer? What does it mean to design? How do you build a robot? The students in my daughter’s kindergarten class can tell you! Derek and I visited her class last week to share our passion for engineering....
It all started in my grade 12 physics classroom. The birthplace of my doubt. I was hanging on by a thin rope connecting my desire to innovate and my parents’ desire for me to become a neurosurgeon. I questioned the...
