Engineering Conversations
Engineering Conversations has one simple goal... to promote engineering. By having conversations with engineers about their backgrounds and careers, we will showcase a wide variety of industries and explore the types of jobs that engineers perform when they finish university.
These conversations may help young people understand what it is that engineers do in their day to day work. As young people learn about these types of careers, they may be inspired to become and engineer and help make the world a better place.
Engineering Conversations is hosted by David deMontigny, an engineering professor at the University of Regina.
The University of Regina is situated on Treaty 4 lands with a presence in Treaty 6. These are the territories of the nêhiyawak (nay-hi-yuh-wuk, Cree), Anihšināpēk (uh-nish-i-naa-payk, Saulteaux), Dakota, Lakota, Nakoda, and the homeland of the Métis/Michif Nation. Today, these lands continue to be the shared territory of many people from near and far. They are an important part of our past, and an even more important part of our future.
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Engineering Conversations
A Civil Engineering Journey and ACEC: Nancy Inglis
Have you ever noticed how much we rely on the infrastructure that we have in our cities and rural areas? We all drive on roads, cross bridges, use water, and spend time in public buildings. Civil engineers play a major role in helping to design and build the infrastructure we need to support the quality of life we have become accustomed to in today’s society.
In this episode we sit down with Nancy Inglis, who has close to thirty years of experience working as a civil engineer in a variety of roles. She has been involved in transportation, roadway, and water projects, including several multi-discipline complex mega-projects. Nancy is currently a Divisional Manager at Associated Engineering. In this conversation she talks to us about her career, her volunteer work with the Association of Consulting Engineering Companies (ACEC), and she offers advice to young people thinking about engineering as a career.