School

Current Studies

Studying History

While working on my undergrad in engineering I also took a lot of history courses. So many course that I almost ended up graduating with a BA in addition to my engineering degree. Right now I occasionally take night courses in history at the University of Guelph. This will eventually lead to a BA in history. I find history a very interesting topic for study.

More School?

Maybe. A few options that spring to mind are: an MBA in a technology field, a M.Sc. in an electrical engineering related area, or maybe even a M.Sc. in human-computer interfaces.I can see an attraction and benefit of each of them, however I'll have to see. Right now I think I'd rather concentrate on getting my career started.

Past Studies

Got me an Engineering Degree!

I'm now a proud owner of a B.Sc.(Eng) - aka a Bachelor of Science in Engineering. From 1997-2004, I was a part-time student at the University of Guelph and discovered the joys of trying to work and study at the time same. I will be the first to admit it wasn't easy. Some good thing did come from it: I learned a heck of a lot about differential equatiuons and how crucial time management can be. I also managed to get a minor in Computer Science. It was a good degree.

Neat things I did at university (1997-2004)

While I was doing my undergrad in engineering, I had the opportunity a number of interesting things. Since I was studying part time (and working all throughout my degree) I often had a bit more time on my hands that some of my colleagues.

Participating in the Ontario Engineering Competition was one of the highlights of my engineering degree. In this annual event, I competed against students from other schools in areas such as entreprenurial design, team design and debating. I never won but it was always a lot of fun. It was also a great opporutnity to meet other engineering students from across Ontario.

While in my second year I also had the unique experience of dealing with my university's business development office. Without saying too much, I'll have to admit it taught me a lot about how important (and cut-throat) the area of intellectual property (IP) has become. At the time I was trying to come up with a design to enter in the Ontario Engineering Competition. By shear luck, I cam up with an idea on how to improve the safety of electrcial test equipment which lead up to a patent application. It was a very interesting experience working with the university's business development office and presenting it at a conference. It was also pretty neat to be the first undergraduate student in the history of the university of file a patent.

In my latter years of my degree, I got involved with the IEEE and ended up starting up an IEEE Student Branch at my university. It was fun but also frustrating at the same time. Running a student chapter is a lot of work, and engineering students don't have a lot of spare time. At the very least I did manage to organize some events from students and also go to a couple of conferences. From what I hear, the student branch is now quite active at the University of Guelph.

The other part of university that I really enjoyed was working as a teaching assistant. For four semesters I worked as TA for a second year course in business information systems and Microsoft Office. I think the most interesting experience with TAing was invigilating the final exam for the students in the gym on one day, and then me, myself, writing an exam in that same gym the next day. It was a pretty odd feeling.