BCIT Civil Eng Student Vlog – Week 6
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RuEpvlHDTQ] Follow third year Civil Engineering student Spencer. Ask your questions or leave your comments for Spencer below.
Spartan Controls makes a $2.5M investment in support of BCIT Students
BCIT has unveiled the newly-named Spartan Controls Centre for Energy Education and Research. Renaming the facility is an expression of the 25 year relationship between BCIT and Spartan Controls, and Spartan Controls’ $2.5M contribution to the BCIT School of Energy. Formerly known as the Centre for Energy Education and Research (CEER), the facility is key to energy … Read more
Gym Culture and Weight Room Attendants
If you checked out the newly renovated fitness center this semester, you would have noticed that, with the new equipment, technology and revamped fitness culture, comes a group of hardy young men and women in blue shirts that are sanitizing, maintaining and caring for the gym environment. I’m one of these ‘weight room attendants’, and … Read more
5 Ways to Save While Attending BCIT
If you’re anything like me, or any other student on the planet, saving money is high on the priority list. But it is hard to be a student and save. So I’ve put together a little list of what I do, if you’d like to take a page from my book. 1. Get a budget … Read more
Carving curiosity—the link between the BCIT house post and its website
An algorithm is a sequence of steps that solves a problem. This is how we understand computing. It’s linear. It answers questions for us. With his unconventional ‘house post’ site, BCIT web developer Alan Etkin has broken some basic rules about what a website should be. He wants it to confuse us, to raise questions. … Read more
BCIT celebrates a night of infinite possibilities
In photo, from left – Distinguished Alumni Award recipients Frank Rizzardo and Suki Sekhon, Faculty and Staff Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Amy Fell, BCIT President Kathy Kinloch, 2017 Honorary Doctorate of Technology recipients Diana Swain and the Honourable David Emerson, Outstanding Student Leadership Award recipient Nadia Dobrianskaia. The British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) held … Read more
Engineers Without Borders – Fair Trade Campus Week
The BCIT Engineers Without Borders Chapter Initiative (EWB) could be seen promoting fair trade around campus last week. I was curious about why some of our engineering students such as Navtej Heir (electrical) and Mike Park (civil) were running around campus in banana suits! So I connected with the EWB’s Fair Trade Lead, Stephanie Mulder to answer … Read more
Microsoft HoloLens—the future of education has arrived at BCIT
Photo: Instructor Rob Kreuger works with a student and the HoloLens. Virtual Reality headsets are not just for gamers. They can be powerful tools for education— and a very cool one has just arrived at BCIT. Thanks to the School of Health Sciences, we now have a Microsoft HoloLens. “This technology really is cutting edge,” says … Read more
BCIT earns acclaim for applied research at international awards
Photo, from left to right: Dr. Michael Chipps, President Northeast Community College, Norfolk, Nebraska; Dr. Kim Dotto, Dean, Applied Research, BCIT; Denise Amyot, Chair of WFCP, President and CEO of Colleges and Institutes. A solar-powered electric vehicle charging station, simulation software that helps prevent leaky condos, and improved authentication of herbal health products: these are … Read more
Welcome to Medical Lab Science: A Student’s Perspective
To get this blog started, I’d like to tell you a bit more about myself and how I got here. But first, a quick look at the present: I’m a month into level 2 of the medical laboratory science program here at BCIT (it is 5 levels – aka semesters – long, including a 10-month … Read more