Imagine the first time you walked into your first year general chemistry class. Imagine the 400 blank faces you saw as you looked up the Marion Auditorium, the 400 blank faces staring back at you, the daunting feeling you had in the pit of your stomach as you walked up the stairs and sat in the back of …
This is my first issue as an editor and first of all I would like to thank Janika Ouimette for giving me the wonderful opportunity to be the Editor in Chief of The Iron Otis. Engineering to me is just not a degree, it is a passion. I really wanted to make my engineering degree a great memory of my …
Lost with life, but not with the schedule Burdened with tests and assignments Yet, motivated with dreams and ambitions That is an Engineering Student Building the designs on Solidworks, Dealing with the bugs in codeblocks, Analyzing the binary operations, Learning the mechanisms of acid and base reactions, That is an Engineering Student Living on pizza … Continue reading
Editor’s Note: Liam Morrow is the president for Engineering Student Societies Council of Ontario for session 2014-2015. It is a great thing to have him to write an article on leadership for us. I hope you find it helpful. In an interview with Dan Schawbel, Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group, listed his top three leadership principles. Listening; to … Continue reading
It’s like a crossword puzzle with numbers. The number above or to the left of each “word” indicates the sum of its “letters”. The numbers 1 through 9 can only be used once in a word. Continue reading
Eric Edwards 4th Year Biomedical Mechanical It was a long, cold and dreary evening. The only sounds to be heard over the wind were the snow being shoveled into the forms to build the 12ft Mayan Temple and the Engineering Hymn. As the hours went by and the other faculties left, the engineering spirit seemed … Continue reading
Chris Malliaros, 3rd year Civil The Baltimore Ravens held off a second half charge to defeat the San Francisco 49ers 34-29 to win Super Bowl XLVII. This was the Ravens’ second Super Bowl victory in its franchise history, their first since 2001. The nation’s biggest sporting event was interrupted for more than half an hour … Continue reading
Jérémie Gaudreau 3rd year Mechanical A peculiar thing occurs when left-brained, rational people are confronted to the idea of space exploration. A decidedly right-brained, passionate quasi-knee-jerk reaction is triggered in support of the cause, so adamantly promulgated by major scientific authorities globally. A time comes where this conflict is discovered by the left side of … Continue reading
WE’RE BACK! The Little Paper that Could After an almost one year hiatus The Iron Otis is back and better than ever! I’m Shona MacIntyre, one of the two Editors in Chief of this fine paper. We took over the paper in September with big dreams of hard hitting engineering journalism and a new age … Continue reading
Great Northern Concrete Toboggan competition Michael Eagar Team Members: Katy Bosma, Julie Bosse, Sian Bunio, Jason Bysice, Veronica Carpani, Stephane Charbonneau, Jerome Choi, Adam Desjardins, Michael Eagar, Danielle Fielding, Jeremie Maillet-Leblanc, Danielle Mielke, Eric Mielke, Brian Perry, Sarah Piotrkowski, Emily Procher, Aleisha Rocheleau, Jay Rose, Josh Simonet, Kim Truong-Trieu Donning sombreros and maracas, the uOttawa … Continue reading
Engineering Students’ Society: What do they do anyway? Shona MacIntyre and Michèle Crossman If you’ve ever gone into the Grad Lounge (CBY A04) used the microwave in front of it, you’ve definitely walked by the Engineering Students’ Society office. Now you might say, so what? They don’t do anything for me anyways; but I’m here … Continue reading
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