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
Air Quality and Environmental Engineering: Kevin McCullum
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Environmental engineering is a broad field that includes air, water, and soil engineering. Among those areas, air quality has broad impacts on the environment since it is not always localized. For example, forest fires can affect the air quality for people and wildlife that are thousands of kilometers away.
In this episode we sit down with Kevin McCullum to learn about his career as an environmental engineer. Kevin has worked in both private industry and government sectors for 30 years, gaining a wealth of experience. During his career he has worked on a number of engineering projects related to air, water, and soil, but he has a true passion for air quality projects. Kevin is the Principal Engineer and Owner at KRM Environmental Consulting. His firm provides a variety of engineering services for air, water, and soil quality monitoring, and they offer services in data analytics and environmental reporting. In this conversation, Kevin shares his journey in engineering and talks about some of the projects he worked on. He also offers advice to young people thinking about a career in engineering.