The Gina Cody School shows Computer Engineering Technology students what the future of engineering looks like

“Our students were excited and motivated after the visit, and have more self confidence knowing that what they learn in the current CET program is valuable,” said teacher Day Yann Fong.

Dr. Kash Khorasani, Concordia Research Chair, launched the visit with a presentation about the future of technologies. Next, came a visit to Electrical and Computer Engineering Capstone labs, a look at student team projects and a talk by Dmitry Rozhdestvenskiy, the Engineer in Residence. Then followed a tour of the Predictive Cyber-Physical System Security Group with Dr. Walter Lucia.

Finally, the highlight of the visit was a showcase of hands-on, project-based learning opportunities through the work of student associations including designing and building rockets, Baja race cars, Formula racing, concrete canoes and more.

“These student-led projects offer a fun and interactive way to experience the practical, problem-solving aspects of engineering and computer science. Our students truly enjoyed seeing these projects, and interacting with students working on them,” comments Day Yann Fong.

Clearly students were inspired by their visit. “It’s very cool that we got to see some cap projects before they are demo-ed and got to ask questions to students that were in the labs,” said Dylan Moreli. “The field trip to Concordia was amazing. The beginning presentation opened up my eyes to what the future generation of engineering would be doing. All the projects were very interesting. The formula car was the most interesting of them all; the amount of time and effort you can see put on the car was amazing. It really highlighted the amount of drive the students put not only in their class work, but also in their passions,” said another student Cyran Jie Columbres.