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AERIUM AnalyticsCompany

An animal’s response can become part of an engineering design.

Challenge Can a bird-shaped drone help reduce airport wildlife hazards?

• Drone operations
• Wildlife monitoring and interpretation
• Spatial data and mapping

Alberta Boot CompanyCompany

A boot begins as pieces of material, but it has to work as a three-dimensional object.

Challenge How do material and shape choices change the way a boot performs?

• Bootmaking and pattern work
• Quality and traceability

AvmaxCompany

A maintenance decision needs evidence, not a guess.

Challenge How do you decide whether an aircraft part is safe to keep using?

• Aircraft maintenance
• Avionics and electronics
• Quality and traceability

BotanecoCompany

Useful ingredients are hidden inside an ordinary seed.

Challenge How can one seed become several useful ingredients?

• Ingredient and formulation science
• Laboratory analysis
• Process engineering

Broken Pencil StudiosCompany

A useful animation helps an audience follow relationships that a camera cannot easily show.

Challenge How can a moving picture explain a process you cannot see?

• Storyboarding and illustration
• Animation
• Creative production coordination

BURNCOCompany

Concrete has to work when it is placed and after it has hardened.

Challenge How do you make a concrete batch suitable for the job it has to do?

• Materials research and testing
• Quality and traceability
• Dispatch and logistics coordination

Calgary Italian BakeryCompany

Waste can reveal a process problem before a new machine is needed.

Challenge Where does a bakery lose food before it reaches the customer?

• Commercial baking
• Quality and traceability
• Process engineering

CarbonovaCompany

Carbon atoms can become part of a different material.

Challenge How can carbon-containing gases become useful solid materials?

• Process engineering
• Materials research and testing
• Laboratory analysis

CBL Bakeries / CinnarollCompany

A familiar product becomes a different problem when it has to be repeated at scale.

Challenge How can thousands of pastries come out consistently?

• Commercial baking
• Quality and traceability
• Ingredient and formulation science

ClearBakk — ALSYS groupCompany

A compact system still needs the right sequence, connections and access for maintenance.

Challenge How can you fit a water-treatment process into a modular unit?

• Process engineering
• Mechanical design and prototyping
• Instrumentation and controls

CongebecCompany

Cold storage is an ongoing heat-management problem, not a one-time act of cooling.

Challenge How do you keep food cold while moving it through a busy warehouse?

• Warehouse and inventory operations
• Refrigeration and air-conditioning mechanic
• Dispatch and logistics coordination

CPKCCompany

A railway moves through space, but its plan also has to work through time.

Challenge How can trains share a rail network without getting in each other’s way?

• Rail traffic control
• Railway conductor work
• Software and data systems

E3 LithiumCompany

Developing a route from Alberta brine to battery-grade lithium carbonate.

Challenge How do you separate something valuable from a complex liquid?

• Process engineering
• Process and plant operations
• Laboratory analysis and quality control · at another employer

EFW RadiologyCompany

An echo can carry information about something we cannot see directly.

Challenge How can an echo help make a picture of something inside the body?

• Diagnostic medical sonographer
• Medical office and booking support

Eguana TechnologiesCompany

Storing energy changes when it can be used.

Challenge How can stored electricity help when supply and demand happen at different times?

• Power-electronics design
• Instrument development and testing
• Software and data systems

ENMAXCompany

The heat leaving one machine can become an input to another.

Challenge Why use the heat left over from making electricity to make more electricity?

• Process and plant operations
• Instrumentation and controls
• Mechanical design and prototyping

EntuitiveCompany

The space below a building can be just as important as the rooms inside it.

Challenge How can you support a library above a moving train?

• Structural engineering
• Civil and construction technology
• Construction coordination

Exergy SolutionsCompany

A part can be made in more than one way.

Challenge When should you print a metal part instead of machining it?

• Mechanical design and prototyping
• Machining and dimensional inspection
• Quality and traceability

FFA Consultants in Acoustics and Noise ControlCompany

A room can make communication easier—or make people work harder to hear.

Challenge Why is speech clear in one room and hard to understand in another?

• Acoustical consulting
• Instrumentation and controls

Fluid Energy (Dorf Ketal)Company

Two acid formulations can have similar purposes yet behave differently in use.

Challenge How can changing an acid formulation change how it performs?

• Materials research and testing
• Laboratory analysis
• Process engineering

ForemostCompany

A heavy machine needs the ground to support it.

Challenge How can a heavy vehicle travel over soft ground without sinking?

• Mechanical design and prototyping
• Metal fabrication and welding
• Industrial machinery assembly and maintenance

FTG Aerospace Calgary (formerly FLYHT)Company

An aircraft can carry measurements as well as passengers.

Challenge How can passenger aircraft help us understand the atmosphere?

• Avionics and electronics
• Software and data systems
• Weather-data interpretation

GeologicAICompany

The same rock can be measured in several different ways.

Challenge What can a rock scan tell us that our eyes cannot?

• Geoscience and interpretation
• Instrument development and testing
• Software and data systems

GHGSatCompany

Measuring methane emissions from space, and from aircraft.

Challenge How can you find an invisible gas from space?

• Atmospheric science and remote sensing
• Satellite and instrument engineering
• Software and data
• Business development and partnerships

Global Power TechnologiesCompany

Some remote equipment needs electricity where a power line is not available.

Challenge How can a temperature difference produce electricity without a spinning turbine?

• Mechanical design and prototyping
• Instrumentation and controls
• Manufacturing and quality work

Hifi EngineeringCompany

A fibre can be a measuring system along an asset, not just a cable between two devices.

Challenge How can a long fibre help locate a disturbance along a pipeline?

• Instrumentation and controls
• Software and data systems
• Mechanical design and prototyping

ICE WesternCompany

Fresh air can enter a building while some outgoing heat is recovered.

Challenge How can a building bring fresh air in without losing all its heat?

• Mechanical design and prototyping
• Refrigeration and air-conditioning mechanic
• Instrumentation and controls

Integrated SustainabilityCompany

A treatment idea has to keep working when real water and operating conditions change.

Challenge Why does a water-treatment system need more than a successful laboratory test?

• Process engineering
• Water-treatment operations
• Instrumentation and controls

ISL EngineeringCompany

A route has to work for people and for the ground and water beneath it.

Challenge How can a road cross a creek without ignoring the landscape?

• Civil and construction technology
• Spatial data and mapping
• Environmental field assessment

Joe Media GroupCompany

A scene can be assembled from images recorded at different moments.

Challenge How can light and editing make separate shots feel like one scene?

• Camera and image capture
• Film and video editing
• Colour finishing

Livestock Water RecyclingCompany

Waste contains materials that can be separated and used again.

Challenge Can we recover useful water and nutrients from manure?

• Process engineering
• Laboratory analysis
• Instrumentation and controls

MOBILTEXCompany

Protecting buried metal and knowing that the protection is working are two different jobs.

Challenge How can electrical measurements show whether buried steel is protected from corrosion?

• Instrumentation and controls
• Software and data systems
• Technical application support

NanalysisCompany

A chemical sample can produce a pattern we can interpret.

Challenge How can magnets help identify what is in a sample?

• Instrument development and testing
• Scientific applications
• Software and data systems

NanoTessCompany

A material can change a process, but showing that requires a fair comparison.

Challenge How would you test whether a material changes a chemical process?

• Materials research and testing
• Laboratory analysis
• Quality and traceability

Northern RNACompany

Knowing what to make is different from making it consistently.

Challenge How do you make biological material consistently from batch to batch?

• Bioprocess development
• Laboratory analysis
• Quality and traceability

O2 Planning and DesignCompany

A park can be part of a city’s water system.

Challenge How can a park help clean stormwater before it reaches a river?

• Landscape design
• Spatial data and mapping
• Environmental field assessment

OPIsystems (OPI)Company

Stored grain can look quiet while biological activity is changing inside the bin.

Challenge How can you spot a grain bin starting to spoil before the damage is visible?

• Instrumentation and controls
• Software and data systems
• Technical application support

Phil & Sebastian Coffee RoastersCompany

Consistency depends on checking what happened, not just repeating a recipe.

Challenge How can measurements help make a roast repeatable?

• Roast production
• Instrument development and testing
• Quality and traceability

RJC EngineersCompany

The layers around a room have several jobs, and they must work together.

Challenge How can a building keep heat in while managing moisture?

• Building-science investigation
• Civil and construction technology
• Quality and traceability

Standen’s (IMT)Company

A spring has to move under a load and still be ready for the next one.

Challenge Why can a steel spring bend repeatedly without staying bent?

• Mechanical design and prototyping
• Manufacturing and quality work
• Quality and traceability

Summit Lithium TechnologiesCompany

A useful separation must work again and again.

Challenge How can a material repeatedly capture lithium and then release it?

• Materials research and testing
• Process engineering
• Instrumentation and controls

Tangent Design EngineeringCompany

A working laboratory process still needs a design for the field.

Challenge Why does a process that works in a lab need a new design at larger scale?

• Process engineering
• Instrumentation and controls
• Industrial machinery assembly and maintenance

Trace AssociatesCompany

A sample answers a question about a place, a depth and a moment in time.

Challenge What evidence tells you which contaminated soil needs treatment?

• Environmental field assessment
• Laboratory analysis
• Water-resource planning

VEERUMCompany

A digital view is useful only if it represents the place reliably.

Challenge How do you know a digital model matches the real site?

• Spatial data and mapping
• Software and data systems
• Quality and traceability

WaterSMART — a Hazen companyCompany

A useful water plan asks what might change, not just how much water is available today.

Challenge How do you plan water supplies for a city that keeps changing?

• Water-resource planning
• Environmental field assessment
• Planning communication and engagement

Wilder InstituteCharity

Conservation research and animal care, working together for wildlife.

Challenge Can helping individual owls help a population recover?

• Conservation research and population ecology
• Animal care and welfare
• Veterinary care for wildlife