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University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada, R3T 2N2
The Department of Engineering Education supports departments and programs in the Price Faculty of Engineering by delivering the core professional practice courses in the curriculum and its partners with departments to pursue opportunities for interdisciplinary and interdepartmental efforts including micro-credentials. The Department houses the Engineers-in-Residence program, which brings industry perspectives and knowledge into courses, extra-curricular activities, and research and development. The Department of Engineering Education advances research in the discipline of engineering education, exploring engineering epistemologies, engineering culture and identity, engineering knowledge and competencies, and the scholarship of teaching and learning in engineering.
The Graduate Specialization in Engineering Education (GSEE) is an M.Sc. and PhD option in the Department of Biosystems Engineering with integral contributions and support from the Department of Engineering Education. It is open to students with diverse backgrounds and experiences who wish to pursue graduate studies in the discipline of engineering education.
The Price Excellence in Engineering Leadership (excEL) Program is a FREE co-curricular program for undergraduate engineering students that aims to provide you with the tools and skills needed to excel as an engineering leader of the future.
We administer the UM Innovative Design for Engineering Applications program, which brings together the requirements and expertise of the local industry with the innovative potential of engineering students.
Engineers-in-Residence are one way the Price Faculty of Engineering fosters educational collaboration with the engineering practice community. Engineers-in-Residence are individuals with proven track records in their respective industry sector and who bring the expertise of the practice community directly to students, enhancing the undergraduate educational experience.
Students benefit from the distinct contributions of EIRs, who communicate and demonstrate the practice community’s needs and expectations relative to knowledge, skills, and values of graduating engineers. EIRs can enhance the curriculum with current practice-based expertise, approaches, bodies of knowledge, and skills for ongoing curriculum innovation and relevance. This can occur in a variety of contexts including of teaching and mentoring students, capstone design advising, advising extracurricular student design teams, and building research and co-op employment connections between the Faculty and the engineering practice community. In teaching, EIRs are most often involved in teaching specialized senior-level technical electives.
While EIRs’ activities support all graduate attributes, they are particularly well-positioned to help develop:
The Price Faculty of Engineering offers opportunities for your company and your employees to participate in courses and programs led by our engineers-in-residence. These are offered to industry participants as non-credit courses delivered concurrently as technical electives with senior undergraduate students.
The Applied Aerospace Instrumentation course will provide you with a practical understanding of the role that measurement plays in today’s technologically advanced world. Though geared towards aerospace test system instrumentation (with a particular focus on the gas turbine engine industry), this course is of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about the design, implementation and analysis of the measurement chain. The goal of this course is to introduce you to the design and deployment of measurement systems and all elements of the measurement chain – from sensors, to signal conditioning, to data display. Through practical, industry-based projects, you will gain an understanding of how to apply a measurement system design methodology and how to measure system accuracy. Participation is via a per-seat fee. For details, contact engineer-in-residence Kathryn Atamanchuk.
In the Operational Excellence course, participants methodically apply operational excellence and engineering principles and theory to address real industry problems. The emphasis is on the data and fact-based engineering method of problem solving. The course is grounded in the Plan-Do-Study-Act system, covering the seven-step problem solving method (Problem Definition, Examine the Current Situation, Root Cause Analysis, Action Planning and Testing, Study the Results, Standardize the changes and Draw Conclusions), applied statistical concepts (Lean Six Sigma Management), and the fundamentals of teamwork, team dynamics and change management applied to current engineering problems. Participation is via a multi-year funding agreement between the University and your organization, by which you can then send two employees per year to the course and have student teams work on your internal operational excellence challenges. For details, contact engineer-in-residence Vern Campbell.
The Tetra Tech CAD Technology Centre (E2-210 EITC) and the Digital Fabrication Laboratory (FABlab) (E2-220 EITC) are complementary design spaces that allow students to develop a hands-on understanding of how to conceptualize, design, prototype, and communicate design ideas.
The CAD and FAB Labs are used in formal course instruction while also supporting open access time for students in upper year design courses and design competition teams.
In the CAD Lab, students use state of the art CAD and other design tools to develop and design engineering solutions to engineering problems in a variety of disciplines and applications. The facility is comprised of a 40-seat computer (teaching) lab, with a multitude of design and analysis software applications available for use, including:
In the FABLab, students use a mix of industrial and open source fabrication tools with an emphasis on digital fabrication technologies to prototype and develop designs. The facility is composed of a wide range of fabrication equipment with a custom designed room that features active ventilation and workflow management to allow students to come and go and develop their designs. Some of the fabrication equipment students have access to include:
Department of Engineering Education
Price Faculty of Engineering
SP-341 Stanley Pauley Engineering Building
97 Dafoe Road
University of Manitoba (Fort Garry campus)
Winnipeg MB, R3T 5V6
