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CSA Standards Group Academic Challenge 2018

January 14, 2018 by Joe Boyd Leave a Comment

Engaging Students in the World of Standards CSA Group is committed to engaging students and young professionals, the future leaders of our society, in the world of standards development. Standards have an enormous impact on safety, the environment and are vital to the global competitiveness of industry. The Academic Challenge connects students across multiple areas of study […]

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They toured, presented, collaborated, and had fun …

November 29, 2017 by Joe Boyd Leave a Comment

Six Yamagata University researchers plus five Yamagata research students visited BCIT during the week of Nov 20-24. This visit was a result of an MOU signed last year to promote exchange among faculty, students about their research projects. On Monday, Nov 20 the Japanese delegation toured the Annacis Island Campus where the Japanese students tried […]

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Saving lives by bashing concrete blocks together

November 29, 2017 by Sandra Jette Leave a Comment

Blog post by student researcher: Heidi Fedorak, School of Energy Ever wonder why a place like San Francisco can go through a major earthquake with less severe destruction than a similar seismic event happening in other parts of the world? This summer, I had a chance to help BCIT on a theory that may play a […]

Filed Under: environment, innovation, research, research funding, student Tagged With: ARLO, soe, student blog, submitnews

Creating an app to measure the strength of concrete blocks

November 29, 2017 by Sandra Jette Leave a Comment

Blog post by student researcher: Miles Adamson,  School of Computing and Academic Studies  The non-destructive acoustic resonance testing project – NDART for short — that I am working on aims to create a smartphone app which can measure the strength of concrete blocks from the sound they make. The standard method of insuring the quality […]

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OASIS Snow Sliding Mitigation

November 24, 2017 by Joe Boyd Leave a Comment

The BCIT Energy OASIS Project has been a major success in allowing BCIT to generate energy through environmentally sustainable methods. However due to the Lower Mainland’s unforeseeable weather patterns, the solar panels accumulated large amounts of snow last winter, creating a snow sliding hazard to the public. Joe Newton and Ernie Janzen, from BCIT’s MAKE+ applied research team are […]

Filed Under: clean energy, collaboration, faculty, innovation Tagged With: MAKE+, OASIS, SMART

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