UPEI Spotlights
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Meet Berry, UPEI Sustainable Design Engineering student and 3M National ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ Fellow.

Meet Ella, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) student.

Meet Amy, Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Global Leadership student.

Sustainable Design Engineering students Ben Keizer, Tung Nguyen, SoumyaDeep Chowdhury, and Luke McCarvill and their TrashTech project centres around developing a reduction-focused domestic waste management product. It aims to conduct waste classification using machine vision, weight sensing, and meaningful data communication to users through a web application, much like Fitbit’s functionality and related smartphone application.

Sustainable Design Engineering student team members Lauren Daigle, Christian D'Entremont, Ben MacEachern, Josh McIsaac, and Owen Stewart worked with Parks Canada to design of a user-friendly display for the electric pedestals at campsites to inform campers of their energy consumption.