engineering

Career Buzz – Julie Lau, Director of Engineering and Business & Operational Excellence at Chemtrade

On this episode we hear from Julie Lau, who is the Director of Engineering and Business & Operational Excellence at Chemtrade, which is an industrial chemical company based in Toronto with operations all over North America and Brazil.  Julie generously joined the career management class that host Mark Franklin teaches at University of Toronto. You’ll also hear [...]

Career Buzz with Steve Petryschuk – the value of career counselling

After a few years working in technical sales, Steve Petryschuk needed help reevaluating his career and deciding on next steps. So he hired a career counsellor and found it was practical, helpful and an investment in his future. He decided to leave his job and join a fast growing startup called Auvik where he’s progressed through roles as a [...]

Engineering in Times of Crisis

In The Thoughtful Technosapien mini-series within Career Buzz, we explore our evolving relationship with technology. And today in particular, we’ll focus on how this plays out within the global coronavirus pandemic, looking at Engineering in Times of Crisis. In this episode, host Mark Franklin, is joined by Jerry Buckwalter, Chief Operating and Strategy Officer at [...]

Forget about retirement! What’s your next adventure? Interview with Marilyn Spink and David Sorenson

Today on the show, at age 66, David Sorenson started his encore career by completing a masters degree in counselling. Now, after career 1 as an ordained chaplain, and career 2 as a counsellor, David shares his journey and transition toward balancing life, work and calling. Hear David Sorensen’s retirement reboot in the 2nd half of today’s [...]

The Thoughtful TechnoSapien with Mark Fox

Look at technology tensions around our cities. Does anyone understand what it’ll take to build a smart city? More than half of the world’s population lives in cities. But, What makes a city livable? How should cities evolve, to become more sustainable, inclusive and just?  New interdisciplinary thinking is required. One person Leading the charge [...]

The Thoughtful TechnoSapien: Future of energy with Alison Cretney of Energy Futures Lab

Welcome to the Thoughtful Technosapien, balancing the technology tensions of our time. In this episode we look at tensions around our energy systems and the future of energy: What role does oil & gas play? What about renewables like, solar, geothermal, wind? How to we balance the environment with the economy?  Alison Cretney is Managing Director [...]

The Thoughtful TechnoSapien: Future of energy with Alison Cretney of Energy Futures Lab

Welcome to the Thoughtful Technosapien, balancing the technology tensions of our time. In this episode we look at tensions around our energy systems and the future of energy: What role does oil & gas play? What about renewables like, solar, geothermal, wind? How to we balance the environment with the economy?  Alison Cretney is [...]

The emerging field & importance of cyber security – Interview with cyber security expert and Xahive co-founder Sem Ponnambalam

With the growing threats to personal and government data security what are we supposed to do to protect against cyber attacks? And with the growing threats come career opportunities: information security was among the top 10 jobs for 2016. Today we are joined by cyber security expert Sem Ponnambalam about some interesting career opportunities. Learn [...]

Preventing bullying, promoting mental wellness, changing the world. Meet Wali Shah

  One of Canada's Top 20 Under 20, Wali Shah is a South Asian speaker & poet. As an artist, he's an advocate for Bullying Prevention and Mental Wellness. Wali helped raise over 1 million dollars for United Way, and is also an ambassador for CrimeStoppers and Bell Let's Talk. Wali’s been featured on MTV, [...]

Meet Luke from STOPGAP

A single step can be a really big issue. Not just for someone who uses a wheelchair. A Toronto engineer who created a simple, user-friendly ramp that's made hundreds of businesses more accessible recently received the Everyday Political Citizen award from civic advocacy group Samara Canada. Luke Anderson — who crashed while mountain biking in [...]

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