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?...
Success stories from six SAIT alumni-led businesses are front and centre in the Institute’s first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). The free elearning course, Business Start-Up: Turn Your Entrepreneurship Dreams into Reality, offers four weeks of valuable content for budding entrepreneurs, while...
‘Smart glass’ application offers SAIT glazier apprentice students a transparent advantage CHALLENGE: The construction industry, like countless other facets of our daily lives is “rolling up” to virtual reality. Blueprints are no longer tucked away in tubes for a meeting next week. In today’s...
Challenge Ice boats are perfect recreational vehicles for those who like speed. But when someone wants to set an ice boat world speed record, the vehicles design needs to become less “box car” and more “formula one.” Solution Build off a decades’ worth of experience, modify...
The inherent cool factor of being a SAIT researcher goes way up when reverse engineering and 3D printing a replica of the infamous Daft Punk helmet becomes an item on your to-do list. “I’ve wanted to make this helmet for over 15 years,” says SAIT researcher Jim Nikkel, who graduated...
How do you grab the interest of a classroom full of students who like working with their hands, then keep that interest throughout a whole course based largely on theory and research? Tap into their passion and use it as a tool to educate, says SAIT School of Transportation instructor, Wade Anderson....
SAIT researchers took the top award for Innovation in Agricultural Science at the 2015 ASTech Awards this weekend. Glen Kathler, applied research chair of the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Application Development Lab (RADLab) at SAIT, was recognized for his team’s work on a four-year,...
It’s 14 feet long, eight feet wide, six inches thick, and weighs 3,400 pounds. It’s called a rig mat and, in spite of its size, it’s very difficult to track. GEM Services, based in Calgary, rents rig mats to energy companies in the remote reaches of Western Canada. These sturdy wooden...
