EDI

Coffee Break hosted by SAMPE Canada, CKN, CACMSA and CREPEC. In this session, Noah Irvine, Author (Learning to Live: From the Loss of My Parents to Mental Health Advocate) discusses mental health through lived experience. Biography: Noah Irvine's life has been anything but “normal.” When he was five, his mother died by suicide. When he ... Read more

Coffee Break hosted by SAMPE Canada, CKN, CACMSA and CREPEC In this session, Dr. Katherine Deane, Associate Professor, University of East Anglia, Norwich discusses Disability Adjustments – a Research Quality Improvement Tool.   Biography: Dr Katherine Deane is an Associate Professor in the School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich on the eastern ... Read more

Our upcoming D&I Coffee Break session features James Richards, Professor of Employment Relations from the Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. Join us for “Making employment and science careers inclusive for neurodivergent employees.” In this session, James Richards considers what makes for inclusive employment for the science careers of neurodivergent employees. James broadly covers the ... Read more

Our upcoming D&I Coffee Break session features Janice Barton, Professor of Experimental Mechanics and Director of the Industrial Doctorate Centre in Composites Manufacture at the University of Bristol. Join us for a thought-provoking session “Inclusivity, Imposter syndrome and I,” which will focus on female and non-binary people in engineering and drawing on Janice’s lived experience ... Read more

Our upcoming D&I Coffee Break session features Kero Saleib, Program management, EDI specialist and Marketing Communication expert, NGen Canada, on 2SLGBTQIA+ and HIV inclusion in the workplace. Join us for a thought-provoking webinar as we explore an essential question: "Are companies inclusive towards 2SLGBTQIA+ HIV-positive employees?" This session aims to explore the level of inclusion ... Read more

Our next D&I Coffee Break session features Kahina Oudjehani, Leader of Research & Technology and Sustainable Innovation, Airbus Canada, on Breaking Boundaries: Pioneering Environmental Innovation in Aerospace. Kahina will talk about her journey from her early days at Bombardier as an environmental engineer until her nomination at Airbus Canada as a leader in Research & ... Read more

Our next D&I Coffee Break session features Rosemary Pham, Engineering Workforce Strategy Sr. Leader, Boeing Global Services discussing Boeing's 2023 Global Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Report. Learn about Boeing’s goal of making their team more reflective of the communities in which they work, and how their initiatives have helped them make progress with representation and ... Read more

Join us for the next Canadian Composites Corner (CCC) – a roundtable, interactive networking event coming up on Friday, May 12. In this session, Dr. Gobinda Saha will lead a discussion on Diversity through Mentorship: Creating a pathway for inclusive leadership This CCC event series will bring you the community events, opportunities, and EDI topics ... Read more

Our next D&I Coffee Break session features Dr. Rowan Thomson, Canada Research Chair and Professor of Physics at Carleton University, where she is also Associate Dean (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) in the Faculty of Science. In this session, Dr. Thomson will speak on "Actions to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion," followed by a moderated discussion ... Read more

Join us for Canadian Composites Corner's (CCC) roundtable, interactive networking event, brought to you by Dr. Lucy Li, Vice President of Canadian Association for Composite Structures and Materials (CACSMA), coming up on Friday, February 24. The CCC event series will bring you the community events, opportunities, and EDI topics of interest to you – an ... Read more

Join us for our next Diversity & Inclusion Coffee Break, featuring Dr. Sampada Bodkhe, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Polytechnique Montreal, coming up on Friday, January 27, presented by CKN, SAMPE Canada, CACMSA and CREPEC. In this series of virtual coffee breaks, we discuss a variety of subjects related to ... Read more

Join us for our next Diversity & Inclusion Coffee Break, featuring Dr. Marie-Josée Potvin, Senior Systems Engineer/Manager of the Engineer Development Program, Canadian Space Agency, coming up on Friday, October 28, presented by CKN, SAMPE Canada, CACMSA and CREPEC. In this session, Dr. Potvin leads a discussion on EDI in Engineering: Are We There Yet?