{"id":91884,"date":"2024-04-01T13:44:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T17:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=91884"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:54:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:54:22","slug":"opinion-shahryar-rahnamayan-discusses-canadas-looming-engineering-skills-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/04\/opinion-shahryar-rahnamayan-discusses-canadas-looming-engineering-skills-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: Shahryar Rahnamayan discusses Canada&#8217;s looming engineering skills gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of Engineering and Chair of the Yousef Haj-Ahmad Department of Engineering Shahryar Rahnamayan wrote a piece recently published in the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespec.com\/opinion\/contributors\/the-critical-infrastructure-of-modern-life-depends-on-engineers\/article_7d9c3f4c-3734-5f40-ad28-bc01b1cc5b0c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hamilton Spectator<\/a><\/em> about the need for Canada to act quickly in response to a looming skills gap in all engineering fields.<\/p>\n<p>He writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Roads and bridges. Power generation and water distribution. Food processing and microprocessing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We don\u2019t often stop to think about it, but so much of the critical infrastructure of modern life depends on the work of engineers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>March is National Engineering Month in Canada, so there\u2019s no better time to highlight the impact engineers have on our everyday lives.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>These creative, innovative, analytical thinkers are responsible for designing buildings that can withstand earthquakes, protecting the environment from pollutants and maintaining complex telecommunications systems, among many other things.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>They\u2019re also tackling some of the most complex challenges our world faces today, including adapting to a rapidly changing climate and harnessing the power of artificial intelligence for societal good.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespec.com\/opinion\/contributors\/the-critical-infrastructure-of-modern-life-depends-on-engineers\/article_7d9c3f4c-3734-5f40-ad28-bc01b1cc5b0c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Hamilton Spectator <\/em>website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of Engineering and Chair of the Yousef Haj-Ahmad Department of Engineering Shahryar Rahnamayan wrote a piece recently published in the Hamilton Spectator about the need for Canada to act quickly in response to a looming skills gap in all engineering fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,41],"tags":[11225,5610,13146,10132,11217],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91886,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91884\/revisions\/91886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}