Outreach

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic TISED has continued its outreach efforts, and hosted a series of virtual events, with students, researchers and the community. Hosting these events online, increased accessibility, with recordings of the talks available on TISED’s YouTube channel following the event. TISEDTalks - Invited Speakers Series

Last year TISED launched a new outreach initiative, called TISEDTalks. TISEDTalks feature both Canadian and international researchers on relevant topics of sustainability in urban planning, architecture, and engineering; attendance is open to all members of our community, professors, students and public, alike. The goal of TISEDTalks is to provide a forum where TISED members can meet other researchers as well as present their work, all in hopes of fostering potential cross disciplinary collaborations while engaging the broader McGill student and research community and highlighting the cutting edge work done by our members in the area of sustainability.

TISED held two virtual TISEDTalks in the previous academic year and plans to host four seminars during the 2021-2022 academic calendar.

Prof. Sarah Dorner (Polytechnique Montréal), Associate Prof. Dominic Frigon (McGill University) and Associate Prof. Robert Delatolla (University of Ottawa) “COVID-19 Surveillance in Wastewater”, February 2021 (hosted in partnership with The Brace Water Centre). Watch Now

Prof. Eric Massanet, Professor and Mellichamp Chair in Sustainability Science for Emerging Technologies, University of California, Santa Barbara. “Decarbonizing the Cement and Concrete Cycle”, April 2021. Watch Now

The Annual Symposium focuses on the relevance of sustainable engineering and design to people’s lives. Each year TISED and lnstitut de l’Énergie Trottier (IET) at Polytechnique Montréal take turns hosting this event, which historically has taken place in the spring. This year the symposium was exceptionally moved to the fall, due to logistical challenges.

On September 16, 2020, TISED in partnership with IET, hosted the 7th annual Trottier Symposium on Sustainable Engineering, Energy, and Design. For the first time, we hosted the event virtually, making this Symposium our lowest carbon footprint event and most accessible symposium to date.

The 7th Symposium, titled “Lessons from a Pandemic: Solutions for addressing the Climate Change Crisis” featured two prominent speakers Dr. Naomi Oreskes and Dr. Michael E. Mann. The presentations were followed by a Q&A period, moderated by Dr. Bruce Lourie, President of the Ivey Foundation with questions submitted live by the audience via Twitter and email. The symposium can be viewed in its entirety on YouTube.

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