A unique tilting solar carport has been installed on the south side of SAIT’s Green Building Technologies (GBT) Lab and Demonstration Centre. Covering six stalls, the carport combines solar panels on its roof with solar tracking technology. By tilting to follow the sun — the panels are designed to tilt...
SAIT’s new Vice President, External Relations Heather Magotiaux is a strong supporter of higher education — she was Vice-President of Advancement at the University of Saskatchewan for 12 years and at St. Francis Xavier University for two years. Most recently, she served as CEO of the Saskatchewan...
SAIT has joined forces with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in a novel research project that combines the unique capabilities of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs — commonly known as drones) with the methane detecting capabilities of NASA’s Open Path Laser Spectrometer (OPLS). Originally...
Technological breakthroughs are spawning spin-off breakthroughs at a dizzying rate, re-configuring our basic assumptions around core values like education, employment, privacy, social norms and even mortal limitations.
POWERFUL AND INCREASINGLY PREVALENT, CNC MACHINES CONTINUE THE EVOLUTION OF MACHINING A century ago, metal working was advanced technology. This fall, two labs will open in the Thomas Riley Building to house SAIT’s CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machines, thanks to a US$1-million donation from the Gene...
What does it take to preserve an entire year of man-made memories underground for the next 100 years? When SAIT instructor Greg Ball was first asked to design SAIT’s 2016 time capsule, he didn’t know the answer. After 10 years in the industry, the environmental designer had conceived lamp posts,...
f you can imagine a living, breathing, learning space where top culinary graduates flex their enterprising muscles in Calgary’s downtown core, you are seeing SAIT’s newest campus, The Tastemarket. When completed, the Tastemarket by SAIT will be the centre for the new Culinary Entrepreneurship post...
CHALLENGE: THERE’S BUILDING A BETTER MOUSETRAP. AND THEN THERE’S AVOIDING THE SANDTRAP. Two years ago, Calgary’s Derek Rucki and fellow young entrepreneur Stefan Radeta launched TLink, an ultralightweight GPS golf watch and pedometer that gives golfers precise yardage information for more than...
Living Efficient Daily (LED) isn’t just a smart slogan dreamed up by the proprietors of Calgary’s trailblazing Virtuoso Electric – these are words they live by. Driven by their passion for sustainable energy, Gursh Bal (PELP ’12) and Kai Fahrion (AELP ’15) never tire of spreading...
New lab gives entrepreneurs access to essential services CHALLENGE: FOR ENTREPRENEURS, THE ROAD FROM PLANNING TO PRODUCTION IS RARELY SMOOTH. You’ve had your “a-ha!” moment. You’ve done your share of research. But what about building and testing a prototype? Protecting your intellectual property?...
