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Portrait de Evaline Warmels

Evaline Warmels

Mechatronic Engineer

I design, build, and test devices that use electricity to do something that a human couldn't do on their own.
Airport terminal with airplane

Up, Up and Away: Careers in Flight

Students will learn about the wide variety of jobs related to the aviation industry.

Cars driving through thick smog

How Vehicles Pollute the Air

Learn how vehicles affect air quality, including their contribution to smog.

fuel cell car header

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles

Learn about vehicles that use hydrogen for fuel.

Aircraft wing, pictured from the aircraft in flight

Testing Aircraft Wings

Students will explore how wing design affects lift using a testing device similar to a wind tunnel.

Evaline Warmels with lunar rover in background.

Evaline Warmels (Video)

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

Earth Month: Green Energy

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

XB-35

Strange Shapes in the Sky: Stealth and Flying Wings

Learn about how and why engineers designed and built some very unique aircraft.

Four forces acting on an aircraft

Four Forces of Flight

Learn about the four forces of flight.

Four Harvard training aircraft

How Planes Fly

Learn about what gets planes up in the air, what keeps them up there, and what brings them down again.

C-band radar

Making Waves with Radar

Learn about how the radar works, the history and its many real life applications.

Hot air balloons at dawn

Lighter Than Air Vehicles

Learn about history and workings of lighter than air vehicles.

B-58 Hustler in flight

Testing for Aviation Safety

Learn about some of the ways that aircraft and spacecraft are tested.

Otto Lilienthal's flying machine

A History of How Humans Learned to Fly

Learn how aviation pioneers from the world learned how to make humans fly!

Test tubes with colourful liquids

Evidence of Chemical Change

Learn how to tell if a chemical reaction has taken place.