The 7th Annual Presentation Idol wrapped up this week, crowning Navtej Heir from Electrical Engineering as judges’ choice first place winner for the second year in a row. The event offered a fascinating field of topics to audience members who filled the Great Hall, ranging from robot design to building automation analytics. Navtej took home … Read more
Hey everyone, I hope everyone has had a good spring break, and an easy, stress-free two weeks since school has started again. Although these past two weeks may have been less stressful – hopefully, anyway, I know that exam week and the weeks leading up to it were probably the most stressful that you and … Read more
The sole remaining Canadian team competing for the 20-million dollar Google Lunar XPRIZE has been eliminated. The Canadian team—Team Plan B, which worked out of the BCIT Applied Research facility—was one of 16 shortlisted teams vying for the prize. The decade-long contest, now in its final months, challenges privately funded teams to build and launch … Read more
While many BCIT School of Business students relaxed over Spring Break, a group of BCIT Marketing Association Students were in New Orleans competing against top Universities at the American Marketing Association International Collegiate Conference (#amaicc). They were accompanied by Faculty Advisor, Tracey Renzullo. The BCITMA accomplished so much at the AMA conference this year and won … Read more
For Immediate Release, Ministry of Advanced Education, 2017AVED0034-000891 The British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) will be home to a new Health Sciences Centre for Advanced Simulation (HSCAS) that will educate and train future health care professionals to meet the growing demands of British Columbian families. The Ministry of Advanced Education is providing $66.6 million and BCIT … Read more
Wiivv Wearables, a BC-based company, has just launched a second Kickstarter campaign for a very unique custom-made 3D sandal. The footwear incorporates a design they developed with the help of BCIT researcher Silvia Raschke, BCIT Make+ Project Leader. These aren’t like sandals you’ve seen before. Each sandal is a unique foot orthotic constructed from pictures you take … Read more
Imagine being drenched by a fire hose when you are trying to figure out which restaurant you should go out for dinner. That steady stream from the fire hose is in this case data coming from a multitude of foodie websites. That flow of data, Big Data, coming at you is useful if you can … Read more
BC Shipping News has given over space usually reserved for senior executives to a BCIT student. The April 2017 issue features a deck cadet from Nautical Sciences Diploma Program. Meet Rhianna Henderson, a 23-year-old cadet in her third year of a four-year Nautical Sciences Program at the BCIT Marine Campus. Given BCIT’s strong reputation for producing … Read more
Congratulations to Chrisaona Srey for receiving The University Women’s Club of Vancouver Bursary! Chrisaona is a fulltime BCIT student in the Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Program (AME). Even though she has a long way to go before graduation, she already has big ambitions for her future career. Being a female in a predominately male industry, she intends … Read more
BCIT is proud to partner with one of the Telecom industry’s finest to introduce the Mitel Telephony Lab. Mitel is the world’s fastest-growing global cloud communications provider, serving over 100 countries around the world, and empowering over 2 billion connections every single day. Mitel’s donations to the BCIT School of Energy enabled the program to create the Mitel … Read more