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Unit D: Electrical Principles and Technologies

Heat pipe in a laptop

Heat and Space Missions

Backgrounders

Learn about how people control heat in spacecraft such as the ISS and Orion.

portrait de Sarah Elliott-Le Dreff

Sarah Elliott-Le Dreff (she/her)

Career Profiles

Senior Manager, Project Controls

I lead a team that provides cost, schedule, risk, and reporting services to the Darlington New Nuclear Project, which will build Canada's first grid scale Small Modular Reactor.
portrait de Sarah Eaton

Sarah Jane Eaton

Career Profiles

Director

I lead a team that is responsible for licensing small modular reactors.
Portrait de Evaline Warmels

Evaline Warmels

Career Profiles

Mechatronic Engineer

I design, build, and test devices that use electricity to do something that a human couldn't do on their own.
Evaline Warmels with lunar rover in background.

Evaline Warmels (Video)

Career Profiles

Mechatronical Engineer

As an electrical engineer at Canadensys, I help build robots (lunar landers) that will explore the surface of the moon.
Green leaf inside

Green Energy

Backgrounders

An overview of environmentally-friendly ways to generate electricity and power

Julie Thrasher au travail dans la salle de commande

Julie Thrasher

Career Profiles

Shift Manager (Nuclear Power)

I’m responsible for the safe and effective operation of a four unit nuclear power plant.
Lisa Jones

Lisa Jones

Career Profiles

Manager of Strategic Initiatives

I lead initiatives to improve leadership as well as the overall effectiveness of the organization.
Kasia Carisse devant un panneau de commandes

Kasia Carisse

Career Profiles

Control Room Supervisor (Nuclear Power)

I supervise the main control room at Pickering Nuclear Generating Station.
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Karissa Palinka (she/her)

Career Profiles

Technical Engineer

Karissa is working to reduce our carbon footprint through the use of Small Modular Reactors.
Stephen Edison

Stephen Edison

Career Profiles

Energy Transition Advisor

I use science and engineering to find solutions in support of energy transition and lower carbon. 
Peter Grootelaar

Peter Grootelaar

Engineer, Kitimat Operations Superintendent

Shannon Tymosko

Shannon Tymosko

Career Profiles

Electrical Apprentice

I am a second-year Electrical Apprentice with the IBEW Local 105
Karen Thomas au site de construction Hebron GBS site à Bull Arm, T.N.-L.

Karen Thomas

Structural Engineer (Module Integration Manager)

Coiled copper wire

Why Wires?

STEM Explained

Learn about how wires are produced and used.