Industrial Design Archives | Carleton Newsroom

August 8, 2024

Dream Gig: Industrial Design Grad Finds Her Flow at Outdoor Gear Company

Like many kids growing up in Ottawa, Olivia Pucci was drawn to water. The city's geography is defined by two rivers and a canal, all of which are sprinkled with places for aquatic play.

September 1, 2023

Carleton Student Designs Award-Winning Computer Mouse for Hand Tremors

A Carleton University student has won a prestigious award for his design of a computer mouse for people with hand tremors.

December 6, 2021

Carleton’s Aimee DeCruyenaere ‘Bakes’ it to the Finals of The Great Canadian Baking Show

Bakers, time’s up! That’s a phrase familiar to fourth-year Industrial Design student Aimee DeCruyenaere, who made it through to the finals of The Great Canadian Baking Show, which aired Sunday evening on CBC TV and... More

July 21, 2021

Carleton Industrial Design Grads Win Top Prize in Accessible Design Competition

A pair of recent graduates from Carleton University’s Industrial Design program have won one of the top prizes in this year’s Innovative Designs for Accessibility (IDeA) student competition. Mandy Hui and Liana Meere, who finished... More

January 28, 2021

Innovative Course Uses Collaborative Methods to Support Rural Village in Tanzania

For the past six years, Carleton’s Sprott School of Business and Faculty of Engineering and Design participated in a multidisciplinary initiative—Buckets to Rainbarrels—where students from different departments travel to Longido, a rural village in Tanzania,... More

November 30, 2020

Carleton Offers Specialized Mental Health Counselling Services for Graduate, Indigenous and Racialized Students

Manal Haji Egeh was working as a counsellor with Somali youth and families when she spotted a job posting for a new racialized counsellor at Carleton University. “I immediately thought, wow, this is so important... More

November 3, 2020

Carleton and Bruyère Researchers Receive Grant to Help Long-Term Care Homes Protect Themselves from COVID

Carleton researcher Chantal Trudel—and a multi-institutional team made up of Susan Braedley, Amy Hsu, Dennis Kao, Frank Knoefel, Sophie Orosz, Heidi Sveistrup, and Bruce Wallace—received nearly $40,000 from the Foundation for Health Environments Research in... More

October 13, 2020

Carleton Industrial Design Students Win National Competition for Zero-Emission Car

A Carleton University Industrial Design student team won the national Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association (APMA) Project Arrow competition, designing a zero-emission concept car using tools such as virtual reality and online communication platforms. The students... More

June 22, 2020

Grad Stories 2020: School of Industrial Design Hosts Online Exhibition for 2020 Graduates

The School of Industrial Design hosted their 42nd Annual Graduation Exhibition – first-ever online – to commemorate all the students who completed their capstone research project this year. When the three-day in-person show at Carleton’s... More

October 15, 2018

Karim Rashid Exhibition Opens at Ottawa Art Gallery

Karim Rashid, Carleton University’s well-known industrial design graduate, has returned to his roots for the first large-scale Canadian presentation of his work at the Ottawa Art Gallery. The show, Karim Rashid: Cultural Shaping, runs until... More

October 2, 2018

Carleton Designers Win IDeA Awards

When Alicia Stewart, who graduated last spring from Carleton University's Industrial Design program, was tasked with working at BEING Studio to create a comprehensive design for her thesis project, she never expected to develop such... More

June 27, 2018

Hemp House

Throughout human history, hemp – the non-psychotropic strain of the plant cannabis sativa – has been many things. The crop can be eaten or used to make clothing, body lotion, oils, plastic, paper - even... More