The use of electric bikes has been a growing trend in recent years. Surico concludes, from the statistics presented in his Times article on the Popularity of E-Bikes Slowing Down, that…
During my bike tour from Victoria to Montreal, I spent a week at an old family friend's homestead in Elkhorn Manitoba. He'd built a passively solar-heated home featuring an 80-feet-wide…
The University of Victoria, where I did my undergraduate degree offers a unique upper-level technical elective to mechanical engineering students—aircraft design. Aircraft design is a specific branch of mechanical engineering…
Designing the magnetorquer winding device was the practical portion of a required course in “engineering design”. The course taught a new framework for engineering design proposed by Peter Ostafichuk in…
Building a mechatronic sorting device was the practical portion of an upper-level technical elective I took as part of my undergraduate degree. The “mechatronics” course was designed to introduce mechanical…
I decided to take UVic’s “Computer-Aided Design” class as one of my upper-level mechanical engineering undergraduate technical electives. The course covered everything from the mathematics of three-dimensional graphic representation to…
Designing a light booth for manual colour inspection of elevated prints was an assignment I received during my internships at Arius Technology in Vancouver. Engineering undergraduate students at the University…