Engineering Alumni Office
Posted: August 29, 2017 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Alumni Spotlight
Jordan Kennie (BsCEE’16; MTME’17), CEO of Stash Energy, considers the $14,000 he spent on tuition for the Master of Technology Management and Entrepreneurship (MTME) program at the University of New Brunswick as an investment that he’ll quickly see returned. Without the program, he feels the probability of successfully launching his tech startup would have been much...
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Posted: August 28, 2017 5:00:00 AM ADT
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A meeting of the Ketchum Medal Winners’ Club was held at Government House in Fredericton on May 16, 2017. The Ketchum Silver Medal is awarded to the student who has the highest standing in the senior year of the Civil Engineering Program at UNB. The winners of the Ketchum Silver Medal meet only once every five years, so the gatherings are well-attended and highly-regarded. The...
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Posted: August 8, 2017 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Alumni Spotlight
One of the most pressing challenges in our world today is building a sustainable agriculture industry that will feed a growing population with nutritious food while not harming the environment with toxic chemicals, soil quality depletion, and over-consumption of water and non-renewable energy. The UN estimates that the world population will grow to 9 billion by 2050. To meet this demand,...
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Posted: August 2, 2017 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research Spotlight
The next generation of online mapping is changing the way we see the world. EarthView3D, developed by Dr. Yun Zhang and his team in the department of geodesy and geomatics engineering, is unlike current mapping technologies, such as Google Maps. It allows users to see the heights of mountains and the depths of valleys in three dimensions. “Using our EarthView3D technology, civil...
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Posted: August 1, 2017 5:00:00 AM ADT
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One of the University of New Brunswick’s leading researchers and one of its most successful alumni have been honoured nationally for their contributions to engineering. Dr. Yun Zhang, a Canada Research Chair and professor of geodesy and geomatics at UNB, and Dr. Marcel LeBrun, a UNB engineering graduate and honorary degree recipient, have been inducted as Fellows of the Canadian Academy...
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