This seminar series invites leading industry experts to give an insight into what they believe are the biggest challenges facing the sector, and what the future might hold. All MIAE members are invited to attend, from undergraduate to faculty, to hear about the future and hopefully provide inspiration for the leaders of the next generation to solve some of the Grand Challenges facing Aerospace.
Past Seminars
Pratt & Whitney Canada (26 Sept. 2024)
JEAN THOMASSIN, Executive Director of New Product and Service Introduction, on the challenges and excitement of developing a prototype hybrid electric propulsion system.
MDA (29 Feb. 2024)
GIOVANNI D'ALIESIO, Director of Business Development at MDA, on the storied past of the company and its ambitions in the future to upscale the production of satellites.
MiMi Aung (20 Nov. 2023)
MIMI AUNG, formerly the lead engineer of the "Ingenuity" Mars Helicopter at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and currently leading Amazon's Kuiper Project, on how her team overcame numerous obstacles to design the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight in another planet's atmosphere.
Airbus Canada (23 Feb. 2023)
ROB DEWAR, Senior VIce-President, A220 Customer Satisfaction and McGill alumnus, on how Airbus Canada is helping to chart the future of aviation with the A220.
Bombardier Aviation (27 Oct. 2022)
BENOIT BREAULT, Director of Research and Technology, on the future of aerospace design at Bombardier.
