SES Talk Posters – CAHRD May 5 SA rev3Winnipeg’s largest Indigenous employment agency will
be on campus to discuss employment supports and
services, as well as their career fast-track program,
which matches job-ready Indigenous candidates with top
Winnipeg employers.
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Attention Civil and Construction Management Students,
Have some of you recently secured a co-op position that requires completion of the ACI Level 1 Concrete Field Testing Technician course?
Please sign up as soon as possible, as space is limited.
The course will run in the CARSI Lab from May 1st to May 4th, 2017.
The cost is $420.00 CDN payable now or on the first day the class. Registration Forms are available in the Civil Co-op office (Room A1-28).
In a previous post, we talked about how Aerodynamics decide the shape of the car body. Since that shape is essential, the other components are system are designed from there.
Shell has specific rules on the car weight, length, width and height. None of the parts can be on the outside of the car, at all.
(Shell Eco-marathon 2016 Global Rules)
The frame, brakes, electrical, and steering must fit inside the car body (the pod), while allowing space for the driver. Their combined weight must add up to no more than the weight maximum of the rules. This includes a minimum driver weight of 140 kg. Since less weight mean less energy, all teams want their driver very close to that number. It’s another tough challenge, but knowing what percent of the weight the driver will take up allows us to consider the other components weights with respect to it.
The driver also has to be able to see! That’s not so easy to adjust for. Keeping the streamlined shape while adding in the cars various systems makes it a tight fit inside. The driver can’t sit up straight, they must be reclined, conforming to the width and height of the rules.
There’s no door to get in or out. Prototype teams design the pod to split in half along the horizontal. It’s the best method for fabricating and eliminating cracks along the side of the body (which can aversely affect aerodynamics.)
Here’s a visual of how the driver and components are organized in prototype cars:
École Polytechnique, Montréal
The first rule about aerodynamics is it’s a sub-field of fluid dynamics.
And we talk about it; a lot.
In the prototype class aerodynamics are the rule. The entire body of the car is made with the aim to decrease air resistance. We want the air to go right over our driver’s head, down the tail of the car and behind it (where our opponents will be)
The outline of the car body is based on a classic ‘tear-drop’ shape; the most aerodynamic shape for anything slower than the speed of sound. We use that shape to tell the air where to go.
Telling the air where to go
The air should flow easily around the car. The upper streams should meet the lower streams at the tail to smoothly glide away.
Here’s the first draft of our Team’s car:
The shape is similar to a passenger airplane, or the perimeter shape of an airplane wing; and a bit like a shark without fins (sharks can keep their fins)
So Streamy!
That’s the short and fun explanation of why that body shape is chosen. Next post we’ll be sharing more about the Electric Prototype class and its design constraints. Check back soon and often!
It’s an annual design competition that pits contestants from schools around the world to fabricate the most energy efficient vehicles possible. Our team will represent your college in the North America’s Division, which takes place in Detroit in 2018
Our team is a group of Mechanical Engineering Technology students who love machines! So we’ve started a blog to share our experience of designing an electric car with you.
We’ll be posting regular updates on our progress, challenges and all of the new things we learn while working on this project.
Check back soon and often to see what we’ve been up to!
The GIS Project Presentations are scheduled for Thursday, April 28th, 2016 from 9:00am-11:50am in A4-06 Lecture Theatre, 4th floor of A Building at the Notre Dame Campus.
The Geographic Information Systems faculty at Red River College is currently organizing the presentation of the GIS term 2 practicum projects to be held at Red River College, Notre Dame Campus. The Advanced Diploma GIS Technology students together with a partner in industry, academics, or government have been working on a 160 hour GIS project from January 4 – April 22, 2016. The students have designed, implemented, and executed a GIS project free of charge for their project partner during that period to gain experience and hone their GIS skills.
The GIS Project Presentations is the completion of the term 2 GIS practicum projects. Each student will provide a 15 minute presentation on their project together with a poster. Partners and anyone interested are encouraged to attend. If you have other parties that may be interested in attending, please feel free to forward this e-mail on to them.
Please RSVP me by noon on Monday, April 25th at rhamelin@rrc.ca to indicate if you wish to attend and how many will be attending. Free parking will be provided for those in attendance, so please provide me with the number of parking spots and numbers attending. I have included a map of the Lecture Theater that we will be using for the presentations. For those in attendance, refreshments and snacks will be provided.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any additional questions.
Thank you,
Roger Hamelin
Instructor, Civil Engineering Technology
Red River College
2055 Notre Dame Avenue, Room A2-32
Winnipeg, MB, R3H 0J9
Phone: (204) 632-2983
Fax: (204) 633-6075
E-Mail: rhamelin@rrc.ca
The 16th Annual Holiday Harvest came to an end on Friday, December 11, 2016.
We had a record breaking year with the donations, thanks to the time and commitment from all students and staff members. (Clap! Clap! Clap!) Your influence and support makes a tremendous difference. As students, you’ve gained more than just a chance of winning a free breakfast. You just helped to build a sense of responsibility to help your community, and you worked together for a collective cause. You should be proud of your amazing accomplishment!
As mentioned previously, the academic classes who bring in the most donated goods are awarded with a delicious breakfast, along with the chair and dean.
This year, the winning classes are:
First Year – C4
Second Year – Municipal
Third Year – ***CMD***
Fourth Year – CMD
***CMD Third Year Students earned a breakfast because of their ingenious strategy. They managed to collect over $1200.00 in donations.
A SPECIAL THANK YOU goes out to:
• All of the students who so generously donated hamper items
• Robin for calling the Salvation Army for the Holiday Harvest families,
• Louise for collecting and tabulating the donations,
• Cody, Dylan, Denis, Margaret, Val, Louise, Patricia and NIcky for organizing the food hamper donations,
• Louise and Patricia for purchasing last minute perishables and missing gifts,
• Margaret and Carrol for letting us use their office space to store gifts and food items during the first half of December,
• Denis and Dylan for delivering the baskets to the families on Wednesday, December 16, 2015. The hampers were well received, and the families showed great appreciation.
Denis and Dylan were also sent off with warm hugs and best wishes, and the families asked them to pass on their gratitude to everyone involved in this act of kindness.
THANK YOU ALL FOR ANOTHER GENEROUS YEAR OF DONATING TO THOSE THAT ARE LESS FORTUNATE.
Here’s wishing each and every one of you a Merry Christmas and all the best in the New Year!
“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”
– Maya Angelou
The Annual School of Construction and Engineering Technologies’ Employer Appreciation Evening was held on Tuesday, November 17th, 2015 in the Voyageur Cafeteria at Red River College to acknowledge those employers that hired our co-op education students during the summer of 2015.
The evening was a smash success with over 150 in attendance. Nancy Wheatley, Dean of the School of Construction and Engineering Technologies was the Master of Ceremonies. Our President, Paul Vogt, gave an opening speech, our V.P. Academics & Research, Christine Crowe, presented the draws prizes and posed for pictures with the winners. Our Director – Development, Patti Johannesson, was also present along with Elizabeth Glaseman – Alumni Relations Manager.
All attendees enjoyed a Roast Beef Buffet and complimentary bar. To further display the College’s thank and appreciation, 19 special prizes were drawn and handed out to lucky employers. Draw prizes included a Rival Stainless Steel Roaster Oven, 30L Wet/Dry Shopvac, $100 Cabela’s Gift Card, Coleman Perfectflow Instastart Grill Stove, and Kitchenaid 10-Pc Stainless Steel Cookware Set, to name a few. All attendees also received a gorgeous Red River Ceramic coffee mug.
The excitement that the employers showed in sharing in the celebration of another successful year of the Co-operative Education Program was strongly evident. All look forward to continuing their relationship with the college and hiring more of our students in 2016. We hope to see you all again next year!
A special thanks goes out to the following coordinators who helped organize this event:
Cabinetry and Woodworking Technology (CWT)
Don Young
Electrical Engineering Technology (EET)
Hojat Norouzi
Greenspace Horticulture (GH)
Ruth Rob
Civil Engineering Technology (CET)
Denis Loiselle, Dylan Yanchynski, Patricia Oleksiew (CET)
As we know, we live, work and learn in a very global society and to truly be successful today, students need to develop and/or enhance their intercultural competencies. Our current and future students need to be able to interact effectively and appropriately with people from diverse cultural backgrounds and have the ability to recognize, acknowledge, respect and incorporate an understanding of world views and their impact on relationships.
Aligned with these principles, Diversity and Intercultural Services offers two programs I would like to highlight:
A one-on-one partnership between a Canadian-raised student (local mentor) and an immigrant/international student (global mentor).
Benefits:
To obtain additional information or to sign up for the IMP please visit: www.rrc.ca/imp – please note the sign up deadline for this term is September 17, 2015!
A great opportunity to promote diversity, challenge stereotypes and help build a socially involved and responsible campus, workplace and society!
Benefits:
To obtain additional information or to sign up please visit: www.rrc.ca/soyb
GIVE. GAIN. GROW. BE A MENTOR
RRC Polytech campuses are located on the lands of Anishinaabe, Ininiwak, Anishininew, Dakota, and Dené, and the National Homeland of the Red River Métis.
We recognize and honour Treaty 3 Territory Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, the source of Winnipeg’s clean drinking water. In addition, we acknowledge Treaty Territories which provide us with access to electricity we use in both our personal and professional lives.