uOttawa Virtual Campus Tour

Hi! My name is Kassie and I’ve just finished my second year of mechanical engineering here at the University of Ottawa. I’m the lucky one who gets to show you guys around the engineering buildings today. First of all, it’s important to know that there are two buildings: Colonel By and SITE.

Here we are at the front steps of C-B-Y, so let’s go in and take a look around. This building is the older of the two engineering buildings, but don’t let it fool you. It is still state-of-the-art. In here, you will find the departments of Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, as well as Biomedical Mechanical Engineering. You will also find a student lounge, the engineering students’ society, known as ESS … and finally, all of our fascinating labs.

So now we’re in the structures labs for civil engineers. As we can see, they’re performing an experiment as we speak. All that shaking made me thirsty. Let’s go to the chemical engineering labs and see what they’re cooking up.

Let’s take a look around … Zach don’t touch that! Are you nuts?? Nuts … wait … nuts, bolts … dissection lab. So obviously we are in the dissection lab. Here they disassemble all sorts of mechanical components. Now lets go over to SITE and watch them assemble all sorts of mechanical gadgets.

Here we are at the School of Information Technology and Engineering, also known as SITE. It houses the departments of Electrical, Software and Computer Engineering, as well as Computer Science. This building was named the second-most architecturally significant building in all of Canada for 2002. It also has one of the world’s largest inhabited solar panels. In this building, you will find many auditoriums and study areas.

As we can see, the students have a quiet environment to study and have wireless Internet access. All right, we should get going.

Of course, being an engineering building, SITE has its fair share of super-wicked labs like a robotics labs. In fact, let’s go there right now.

So here we have a bunch of small robots that actually work as one to accomplish different tasks. This one acts as the eyes, this one the ears, and this one actually has a motion sensor on it. Together they can go on recognition missions to look for survivors or detect intruders in a building.

All right, I think I lost them. Those pesky robots don’t give up! So here we are in one of the many computer labs in SITE. Students have access to these computers along with Internet access, and a portion of the network’s memory so they can save files to their account and access them throughout the world with the proper program.

Well, this concludes our visit of the engineering buildings. As you can see engineering at the University of Ottawa is innovating and exciting! Now that you have seen everything that we have to offer, why don’t you come on out and visit the campus in person!