Engineering Conversations
Engineering Conversations has one simple goal... to promote engineering. By having conversations with engineers about their backgrounds and careers, we will showcase a wide variety of industries and explore the types of jobs that engineers perform when they finish university.
These conversations may help young people understand what it is that engineers do in their day to day work. As young people learn about these types of careers, they may be inspired to become and engineer and help make the world a better place.
Engineering Conversations is hosted by David deMontigny, an engineering professor at the University of Regina.
The University of Regina is situated on Treaty 4 lands with a presence in Treaty 6. These are the territories of the nêhiyawak (nay-hi-yuh-wuk, Cree), Anihšināpēk (uh-nish-i-naa-payk, Saulteaux), Dakota, Lakota, Nakoda, and the homeland of the Métis/Michif Nation. Today, these lands continue to be the shared territory of many people from near and far. They are an important part of our past, and an even more important part of our future.
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Engineering Conversations
Ground-based Telescopes: Sarah Gajadhar
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How many of us have spent time star gazing at night? Most of us do this for fun, hoping to see a shooting star, spot a planet, or find a constellation. Scientists take things a step further and use high tech equipment to study our universe. In order to do this research, scientists need help from engineers to design and build ground-based telescopes.
In this episode we sit down with Sarah Gajadhar. Sarah has a background in Electronic Systems engineering an over 20 years of experience working on world class astronomical observatories. In this conversation, Sarah tells us about some of the projects and telescopes that she has worked on in Hawaii and Chile. Sarah also offers advice to young people that are thinking about going to university to studying engineering.