2025-06-03 Bowhead Presentation

SAE Alberta Section held a technical presentation on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025. Bowhead Corporation highlighted their new carbon composite wheelchair design. The seminar recording is available on our Media and Uploads page.

2025-05-21 Manchester Centre Tour

SAE Alberta Section held a facility tour on Wednesday, May 21, 2025 from 6 PM to 8 PM. The City of Calgary hosted the tour at their facility located at their Manchester Centre Building R (see Events page for details). The facility tour showcased the vehicle design and fleet maintenance initiatives by the City of Calgary.

2024 AGM

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 11th, 2024.

March 2024 Talk

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.

AGM 2023

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.

May 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.

March Event – Edmonton Bus Fleet Tour

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.