my name is Brent Bustard I'm a second-year electronics engineering
technology student at NBCC St. John and I'm taking the communication stream and
we're currently finishing up our senior project which is an arcade game cabinet
for the crane mountain landfill before coming into the program I worked in
social work quite a bit so I've worked a lot with people but I've always had a
passion for electronics so a lot of home hobbyist type things and I would really
like to work with people on some of those passion projects so kind of
combining those two worlds into some kind of project management or project
work would be really interesting and electronics is just there's
much that you can do with it and nowadays with the maker culture and all
of the online resources there's no limit to what you can do at home and
a lot of that actually translates into what you can do at work now as well
well I'm from originally from Nicaragua that's in Central American and
my name is Gustavo Adolfo Ocampo it's a long name my senior project because
I'm in the second year we had to present a senior project and it's based on a
solar tracking systems this solar tracking systems use a photo sensor to
track the sun with an algorithm and program loading into the Arduino so you
can follow the Sun with this photo sensor so we can use actually the the
amount of energy that we're gonna collect and use it for the domestic used
like lighting a light or connecting anything fans or your camera
for example my name is Rejean Barriault I teach in the electronics engineering
technology program at NBCC one thing we
strive to do is to get into these partnerships that allow our students to
experience more than just the classroom in the lab go out then and apply what
they've learned we also have over the past few years helped to mentor high
schools in the sumo robot competition so this year Simon's High were hosting it so
we helped by providing some equipment some help with coding and also some
referees the graduates are the electronics engineering technology
program working in many diverse fields and diverse areas of employment some of
the larger areas that have been hiring graduates from this program include
Point Lapreau the radiation and calibration shops are
mostly graduates from this program that calibrate the radiation sensors also the
security systems at Point Lapreau I know that there's a lot of emerging
technology for instance the Life Guards the police force the fire force and the
ambulances like that they're all moving to a digital system whereas before it
was analog so with our course especially we do a lot of digital because it's the
future pretty much so that's a massive job prospect that's opening up right in
front of us at the moment a really big thing that's gonna happen over the next
10 to 20 years is automation of Industry so a lot of the jobs a lot
of the skilled labor jobs are going to be offset by technician jobs to manage
more automation system as opposed to doing the labor hands-on it'll be
more of a maintenance and calibration and programming type role year 2 of
electronics engineering technology provides further training in one of
three possible pathways communication systems biomedical industrial controls
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