Will West is a first-year apprentice working in the solar industry with Hakai Energy Solutions. Will was able to qualify for the Ideal Industries 2019 National Championships as the top apprentice from the Canada A Region.
Almost 80% of electrical engineers in Canada have less than 10 years of experience, which may bode well for the future of the industry.
It’s a new year, and a new decade (depending on whether you believe the decade begins with year zero or year 1), but manufacturing safety challenges keep expanding: digital transformation, fewer available workers, globalization, and how to manage safety and security risks among them.
As the spread of COVID-19 rapidly increases around the world, companies are beginning to prepare for the possible impact of the virus on their operations.
The total value of building permits issued by Canadian municipalities increased 4.0% to $9.2 billion in January. Increases were reported in six provinces, led by British Columbia (+52.1% to $2.2 billion).
With their new REEL-X fish tape line, Greenlee aimed to alleviate the aggravation and wasted energy associated with jamming and binding fish tapes when fishing wire and cable.
“It’s definitely the Olympics of our trade,” said Lance Giesbrecht of the Ideal National Championships, “I’m one of the people who live and breathe for that competition. It’s a great thing, they’re bringing life to the trade,” he added…
Today’s data centres need to be fast, dense, scalable, cost effective and energy efficient. The push to handle high data volume and data rates is skyrocketing as Internet traffic inside data centres grows. According to IDC, data creation has doubled every two years since 2005.
From rising construction costs to the shrinking labor force, electrical contractors’ jobs aren’t getting any easier. When you’re already juggling many challenges, keeping up with evolving technologies can feel daunting.
Among nine electrical engineer related jobs, reliability engineer ranks at the top and is $64,500 above the lowest paid job.
Often, code users encounter situations where they find themselves at odds with the rules contained in the CEC, Part I. These situations can occur for designers, consultants, installers, inspectors, manufacturers, students, instructors and standards developers alike, and these situations usually are a result of a misreading, misunderstanding, misapplication or inability to locate the requirement that is needed or that is relevant to their tasks.
Over the past decade, I have taught many classes on networked lighting control systems (NLCs). These classes often start with an academic presentation about a typical NLC’s components, features and benefits.
The average electrical engineer’s salary in Canada is $77,424 per year or $39.70 per hour. Entry level positions start at $41,925 per year. Most experienced workers make up to $130,000 per year.
I once took a class where the professor would explain concepts in two ways. First, he would dive into the mathematics behind the idea, filling the whiteboard with equations and showing how they all related to one another.
Let’s be frank — if you work for a company, then your primary goal is to make money. Period. You may have secondary goals to serve the interests of your customers and employees, and be a good corporate citizen, but your number one priority is strictly return on investment. Profit.
Total investment in building construction edged up 0.5% from November to $15.6 billion in December, with gains in both the residential and non-residential sectors. On a constant dollar basis (2012=100), investment in building construction was largely unchanged at $12.8 billion.
This project is funded [in part] by the Government of Canada.
Ce projet est financé [en partie] par le gouvernement du Canada.
