In mid-March SAIT was suddenly, like everyone else across the globe, blindsided by COVID-19. The SAIT community rushed to the frontlines, showing the resilience, dedication and talents of the alumni, employees and students who care about their communities and their neighbours. The four stories below...
From September 1940 through April 1945, the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (as SAIT was known before 1960) was taken over as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and renamed the No. 2 Wireless School. Thousands of pilots and crew members from Commonwealth and Allied countries...
Since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020 , stay-at-home orders worldwide have given millions of people first-hand experience in social isolation — something people with young-onset dementia often face on a daily basis. Although YouQuest is staying in touch with its community on line,...
As we fight this deadly human virus, in part by turning to the digital world in droves, our exposure to a cyber virus is rapidly increasing, threatening to expand the existing cyber risk gap. The coronavirus is transforming our world at every turn, with a record number of people learning and working...
LET’S BE PERFECTLY CLEAR. The world’s transformation to a digital culture is not an evolutionary process. It’s a full-blown metamorphosis. It’s been in motion for some time now, gathering momentum and changing the way we work, the way we learn, the way we live. Although people have set this...
It wasn’t a typical day at SAIT — at least, not for about 30 Mechanical Engineering Technology students. They weren’t expecting to be greeted by a Juno Award-winning country singer during their Product Development class, but there he was: big black cowboy hat, jean jacket and all — Paul Brandt....
Working in SAIT’s one-of-a-kind Distributed Control System (DCS) lab in the Spartan Centre for Instrumentation Excellence, the students used the same industrial computers and cabinets that drive real-life processing plants. Industrial automation is universal in how it measures, computes and controls...
The voices of our fellow alumni impacted by the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-1920 are forever silent. We can only imagine how it felt for staff and students at the fledgling Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (as SAIT was known from 1916 until 1960) to have their buildings seized by the Calgary...
For the first time in SAIT’s 104-year history, convocation ceremonies were not held in person this spring, but that did not stop us from celebrating and welcoming 3,210 new members to our alumni family. Almost 2,000 students, instructors, friends and family members tuned into YouTube to partake in the live-streamed,...
Finding the positive in a global pandemic isn’t easy — especially if you’ve lost your job and postponed your wedding. But for Cathy McDonald, a bad situation revealed what we take for granted and the power of gratitude and resiliency. “We can choose to focus on the dark or focus on the light....
