The SAE Alberta board held its Annual General Meeting with a short technical talk over the lunch hour (11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.) on Tuesday, June 11^th, 2024.

SAE Alberta hosted an in-person meeting on March 7, 2024 for students and industry professionals. We were honoured to host Dr. Jay Zhou for a technical seminar titled “Reliability of Autonomous Vehicles”. The seminar provided an introduction to Reliability Design and Analysis for autonomous vehicles.

The SAE Alberta board held its Annual General Meeting with a short technical talk over the lunch hour (11:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) on Tuesday, June 27, 2023, via a virtual Zoom meeting.

SAE Alberta held a technical meeting on May 8th, 2023 with guest speaker, Jeff Dix, Senior Principal Engineer for Nissan Technical Center North America. Mr. Dix discussed factors that affect vehicle safety and the technologies that can be applied to address these factors.

The City of Edmonton Fleet Services hosted a technical tour of their industry-leading facility the Kathleen Andrews Transit Garage on Friday, March 24th, 2023.  The tour provided an opportunity to learn about the programs and technologies, active and in consideration, supporting Edmonton in paving the way to full electrification of their public transit system.  With 60 electric buses currently in service and a hydrogen bus pilot in the works, Branch Manager Eddie Robar and his Fleet and Facility Services team are committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and providing sustainable transportation alternatives.

SAE Alberta held its first in-person event since 2020. GoElectric Vehicle Corporation (www.goelectricyyc.com) hosted a technical tour of their facility for SAE Alberta on Wednesday, November 16, 2022. The GoElectric team, including Co-Founder David, showcased electric vehicle-related technologies, its facility, and the project the team is working on.

SAE Alberta held the October Technical Meeting over the lunch hour on Thursday, October 13, 2022 via a virtual Zoom meeting.

The SAE Alberta Section’s 2022 Annual General Meeting was on Thursday, June 23, 2022, at 11:45 AM. It was our honour to feature a pre-recorded technical presentation by Vice-Chair Lee Krywitsky on the “Till-E – Electric Rototiller Project.”

On June 8th at 1pm MDT, SAE Alberta hosted a webinar in which we were fortunate to invite John Babineau from the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure of British Columbia. Mr. Babineau discussed the repair effort to restore BC Highway 5 that sustained heavy flood-related damages in late 2021 and had to be shut down.

The SAE Alberta Section held a lunchtime technical session titled “Tales from the Cab: Discovering Innovations in the Trucking Industry” on March 17, 2022. See Media and Uploads page for the recording.