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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.
Shannon Tymosko

Shannon Tymosko

Career Profiles

Electrical Apprentice

I am a second-year Electrical Apprentice with the IBEW Local 105
Chelsea Dyck

Chelsea Dyck

Career Profiles

Journeyman Electrician

Steve Copeland au travail

Steve Copeland

Career Profiles

Power Distribution Supervisor

Steve Copeland is a Power Distribution Supervisor for Diavik Diamond Mines Inc.
Colourful insulating wires

Introduction to Current Electricity

Backgrounders

Learn about current electricity and why it should be handled safely

Vivienne  Jaehn-Kreibaum sur une pente de ski

Vivienne Jaehn-Kreibaum

Career Profiles

Electrical Engineer

Vivienne Jaehn-Kreibaum is an Electrical Engineer for Facebook.
Roger Bragg à l'extérieur avec un VTT

Roger Bragg

Career Profiles

Construction Electrician

Roger Bragg is a Construction Electrician, practicing in Newfoundland.
Thermal images of people and objects

Thermopower and the Body Heat-Powered Flashlight

STEM Explained

Can your body be a source of electricity generation? Maybe, if you understand heat transfer. Explore this concept through a 2013 invention by a Canadian teen.

Telegraph key used in Metcalfe, Ontario telegraph office (Ingenium)

Telegraph Key

Interactives

The telegraph works by transmitting signals through an electrical circuit. Learn more and print your own telegraph key using this 3d model of a real artefact.

Drop tower ride

How is Lenz's Law Used in Drop Tower Rides?

STEM Explained

How do magnetic fields help you get down safely from the top of a drop tower ride? Learn how electromagnetic induction works at the amusement park.

Man being struck by lightning

Do Amps or Volts Kill You?

STEM Explained

This resource explains electricity basics - volts, amps, currents, resistance, and why it is dangerous to touch electrical outlets with wet hands.