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
Smart Technologies for Smart Waste: Sam Dietrich
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Do you pride yourself in how your organize your organics, recycling, and garbage materials for pick-up? Or do you just throw everything together in one bin? Clearly, if materials are organized properly it makes it much easier to process them at the relevant facility.
In this episode we sit down with Sam Dietrich to learn about his career, which has seen him working in robotics and programming. Sam has a background in Industrial Systems engineering, and minors in both Electronics and Software Systems engineering. Sam is the CEO at Prairie Robotics, which uses smart technologies to help clients gather data during the collection of recycling, organics, and garbage materials. This data can then be used to help educate residents on how to organize their recyclables, organics, and garbage for collection. Sam talks about his experience at university, his initial work experiences after graduation, and what led to the creation of Prairie Robotics. Sam also offers advice to young people thinking about a career in engineering.