We are thrilled to announce, and share with you, the winner of our ENVIRONMEN-TALE contest. After careful consideration and review of all the fantastic entries, we have selected a tale that best encapsulates what Environmental Engineering means to the applicant through his experience both in a work placement and in the classroom.
Winner: Dylan Love
Year: 3
Program: Environmental Engineering
Winning Entry:
My work experience so far has been amazing. I am on my first co-op term and I could have never imagined the breadth of positions that I would be eligible to work in. I ended up choosing something that closely aligned with my personal passions: the ocean and fish. Through this I was lucky enough to get offered to work at Fisheries and Oceans Canada on the Integrated Planning for Ecosystems team. On this team we are developing salmon ecosystem protection plans with Indigenous organizations and other partners for three major areas in BC and the Yukon. Although I am not filling a typical engineering role, I am seeing the benefits that environmental engineering has given to me. Working on a team of people from varying backgrounds through complex problems daily has truly been an amazing experience. My environmental background has allowed me to help my team in more way than I could have imagined: through research, planning, coding, and technical communications. This position has allowed me to get a bit of the technical side through the programming and AI projects I am helping out on, but has also allowed me to further build on the less technical skills that mean so much in the work place. Although I am excited to return to classes, I am super excited to get back out in the work place next year and test a different position in the amazing field of environmental engineering!
Choosing environmental engineering has been the best choice I have made in my academic career. Being enthused with the outdoors and being dedicated to trying to protect it means I am truly at home in the program. My favourite thing is how cross-cutting everything we are learning is. In one class you can learn topics that deepen your understanding of another in such a meaningful way. Although course content makes this program special, the community is what sets it apart. I have never been lucky enough to work and play with such amazing like-minded people. Although this is for the students, the quality of the professors cannot be understated. I have not had such passionate and caring teachers at university, and on-top of that, they are incredibly knowledgeable in their fields. All of these things combine together to make an amazing program that is continually striving to improve both itself, and the world, each and every day!