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
Enhanced Oil Recovery and Rare Earth Elements: Petro Nakutnyy
Do you ever wonder where or how technology is developed? Commercial technology requires a great deal of research, prototyping, and testing to refine it to the point where it is both effective and economically viable. Engineers from all disciplines are involved in research and development projects that help drive the development of new technologies.
In this episode we sit down with Petro Nakutnyy to learn about his career as a research engineer. Petro has a background in Petroleum Systems engineering and has been working at the Saskatchewan Research Council for the past seventeen years in a variety of engineering roles. He is currently the Director of Commissioning in the Rare Earth Elements Division. In this conversation he talks about his previous experience working on enhanced oil recovery projects, and he discusses his current work on rare earth elements. Petro also offers some advice for young people who are thinking about studying engineering.