St. FX Engineering Department

What a fun afternoon with the Pipets camp! Thank you so much for having me in! 🔨📚⚙️

Posted • Having a fabulous week in Pipets! Today we had Dr Brittany MacDonald-MacAulay from visit to teach us about building design. We designed towers and houses, and tested them to see how well they could stand up to wind. Thank you Brittany!! 🌬🏢

Want to know what’s happening in research? 🌱 A new publication in Waste and Biomass Valorization with Dr. Brittany MacDonald-MacAulay as first author. This work was done in collaboration with Port Hawkesbury Paper. Full article available through Springer Nature.
Take a look!

So exciting to see our class sizes growing in the department. Reminiscing about the first year design project poster fair, as pictured here. So much creativity; I can’t wait to see what this year’s class come up with in collaboration with Service Learning!

A couple of our awesome engineering students and a graduate are shown today at Port Hawkesbury Paper. Left to right, Taylor MacIsaac and Todd Sampson are summer students working at PHP, and Gabriel Cozzi, recent St.FX graduate, is conducting summer research with Dr. Brittany MacDonald-MacAulay and PHP! Brittany and Gabriel were on site today to set up some trials.

Great work everyone!

Throwing it back to November when the Engineering Design and Graphics class visited the Machine Shop and learned about various tools such as the 3D printers from Steve Macdonald, Senior Machinist and Design Specialist. Many of the groups worked further with Steve to create 3D models for their design projects. 🗜️⚙️🔨🪚 Thank you Steve!

What a fun day at Mayfest!

A few more fabulous faces at graduation!! 🎓🎉

A few more lovely students on their big grad day! 🎓

Congratulations!!! A few photos with some of the fabulous graduates yesterday! So proud of you all, I can’t wait to see what you accomplish in the future!

Ps send along an grad photos you’d like to see posted to our page!

Friday night was the Xaverian Farewell Ceremony, Gabriel Cozzi represented Engineering by carrying our academic hood in the ceremony!

Engineers Nova Scotia (ENS) awards presented at last night’s banquet by ENS past President Denise Pothier (also the evening’s guest speaker) and Councillor Leon MacLellan.
Congratulations to Griffin Gamble, Amy MacDonald, Bria Raduy, and Owen Jean! 👏⚙️💡🔧

Your incoming and outgoing StFX Engineering Society and Women in Engineering Society members were announced last night at the 2nd Annual St.FX Engineering Banquet. Thank you to all involved in this past year’s work, so much to be proud of! To the incoming societies, looking forward to a great year to come! Being a part of these societies helps foster community and growth, thank you for taking on these roles.

Check out today’s edition of the Casket! So proud as always!

Engineeeing Advising! This Friday, April 5, in 3041!

Huge congratulations to all of the amazing students who rescued their Iron Rings today, especially our St.FX Alumni. Remember the significance of the ring and may ethics and all of your hard work guide you to a fruitful career.

I am so honoured to have been asked to present rings to 4 fabulous students, it meant the world to me.

It was wonderful to catch up with past students and I look forward to all of the amazing things you’re each going to accomplish.

Thank you for allowing me to share this big day with you all. Enjoy your celebrations and be safe!

Check it out! St.FX Alumni Katie MacLennan!

Wow, thank you so much, Katie, your kind words mean so much 🥲 I’m so proud of all you do and can’t wait to give you your Iron Ring tomorrow! 🎉

Posted • 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟖 𝐢𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝗪𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐲 & we are celebrating amazing StFX Alumnae from around the world.

𝗪𝐞 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐧: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫? “While many women have inspired or supported me through my educational career so far, one that stands out in particular is Dr. Brittany MacDonald-MacAulay. As a professor at StFX, she was one of the first engineers I’ve met and hearing about her industry experience gave me valuable insight into what a career in engineering could look like, particularly as a woman in a male-dominated industry. Since my first year in engineering, she is someone I have looked up to as a role model as I find her passion and skillset inspiring.”

Katie MacLennan, a proud graduate with a Diploma in Engineering from StFX in 2022, hails from Bras d’Or. She’s now in her fourth year pursuing a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at Dalhousie University. Drawn to engineering for its blend of science, innovation, problem-solving, and impactful work, Katie found her passion ignited at StFX. The inclusive environment and personalized guidance from professors there shaped her career path. With Co-Op experience in Power Generation, Technology, and Defense, Katie is set to make waves in her field.

🧠🐝⚙️🥈Today engineering students Joelle Thompson and James Hillaby volunteered along with Dr. MacDonald-MacAulay to present in the Antigonish BrainBee Reverse Science Fair and discuss how engineering can relate to the brain. We chose to discuss prosthetics. We placed second in the reverse science fair - amazing work Joelle and James!
What a fun day! Thank you so much for having us / Dr. Erin Mazerolle and Sherry Neville-MacLean!

Congratulations to the StFX Engineering Society, who recently won the first ever Atlantic Tournament hosted by the Atlantic Council of Engineering Students (ACES). StFX competed against all other Atlantic universities, including some schools that are 16 times its size.

The tournament was a social media-based competition with a series of fun but competitive tasks. “The Engineering Society here at StFX continues to grow and flourish, and winning the Atlantic Tournament shows how dedicated the students in engineering here are and that we can accomplish big things even though we are such a small school compared to the others,” says second year engineering student Selina Blois, who was able to attend the Engineering Leadership Summit—where the award was presented—along with fellow engineering and physics student Kevin Bronson.

“I felt very proud of everyone who participated. We are small, but we can do big things.”

Read the full story: stfx.ca/news/engineering-society-wins-Atlantic-Tournament

Congratulations to the St.FX Engineering Society of winning the first Atlantic Tournament hosted by the Atlantic Council of Engineering Students. This tournament involved a series of tasks that fostered respectful competition and showcased each university’s spirit. The final competition involved creating a mannequin challenge video. I saw you all come together as a team through these competitions, representing the university so strongly.
Thank you for hosting this event and giving students the opportunity to take part in a fun competition at a distance.
I would also like to congratulate all participating universities on what was a great collegial competition. Thank you to Craig Seaboyer for joining us in the final competition, and to Dr. Gerry Marangoni for providing us with his guitar! Finally, thank you to all who voted for these wonderful students to help them succeed!

Photo 1: St.FX society reps Kevin Bronson and Selina Blois holding the Atlantic Tournament trophy at the Engineering Leadership Summit.

Photo 2: Post completion of the mannequin challenge video - video to come in future post.

Photo 3: Kevin and Selina with ACES President and St.FX Alumni Nazli Akpinar, and previous St.FX Society President and St.FX Alumni Sam Hickey. All pictured at the Engineering Leadership Summit which took place over the weekend.

Photo 5: Atlantic Tournament Trophy

So proud of you all!
-Brittany

This was the engineering society’s submission to the Atlantic Council of Engineering Students’ competition where the goal was to show school spirit. They were successful winning this round. Also a huge thank you to Father Stan for joining in and really helping bring that Xaverian spirit to us!

Go X Go!

This past weekend 8 of our stellar students attended the Atlantic Engineering Conference at UNB! Amazing representatives as always, way to go!

Photos from AEC reps, thank you!

Have you ever wanted to learn Morse code? Check out the Morse code trainer the students are using in this photos.
Craig Seaboyer, Manager of the Electronics Workshop at St.FX visited the first year engineering design class to talk about reverse engineering, technology, circuitry, programming, and lots of neat experiences.
Thank you Craig!

The Women in Engineering society is hosting Denise Pothier, P.Eng on Monday for their first event of the term! This event is open to everyone!

Come out to meet Denise and learn about her experiences!

Wear your WiE, XEng, or St.FX clothing!

Photo by Trina Koster Photography; Digital Art by Scott Mooney Illustration; Turtle Island painting by Joel Cameron

Want to help us update our webpage? Take a look at the second photo - we would love to see what you think represent’s engineering or engineering at St.FX. We are looking to replace the current plane photo.

We welcome original, high quality photos (please no copyright issues/ concerns).

Please send potential photos to Brittany - [email protected] by Wednesday September 27th at 1pm.

The department faculty will then meet to consider which will replace the current photo.

Thank you!

What an afternoon! So lucky to have St.FX’s Laurie Reid come into the Thermo-Fluids I lab and provide a very informative OHS overview followed by excellent WHMIS training! These skills are so important and having Laurie’s expertise was wonderful.

Thank you so much to the fantastic Megan Turner ()for coming in to the first year engineering design and graphics course to provide a presentation on Service Learning.

We’be been so lucky to have the opportunity to work with the Service Learning team to provide unique opportunities for our students to be exposed to the engineering experience in their first year of study!

It was so great to meet everyone today at the Academic Day panel event! Thank you for your participation and wonderful questions.

We’ll see you Monday night at the Xaverian Welcome, please come say hi!

-Dr. Katarin Macleod (Chair, left) & Dr. Brittany MacDonald-MacAulay (right)

Meet engineering student Gabriel Cozzi! Gabriel was a summer research student holding an NSERC USRA and working with Dr. Brittany MacDonald-MacAulay. Gabriel’s work focused on the potential for tire-based berms to be utilized in Antigonish to address flood plain related concerns. More specifically Gabriel focused on identifying optimal filler combinations for this work and undertook a comprehensive literature review of flood mitigating measures. The project involved a number of scope changes over the summer but Gabriel persevered and worked diligently toward a scholarly contribution. It is the hope that this work can become a publication in the future.

Awesome work Gabriel!

Note: in these photos there were no materials of concern utilized requiring PPE.

Part 1/2 - On Tuesday, Katarin and Brittany spent the day in Sherbrooke having a blast making slime, doing yoga (learning about balance), conducting an egg drop, making dancing tissue paper figures, etc. Lots of creativity in this group! Thanks so much Saint Mary’s for having us!