Engineering Spotlights

Our Engineering Spotlights feature the amazing students, faculty, and staff of UPEI's Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering. 

Nat MacLeod
| UPEI Viewbook 2027, Graduate Students

Nat MacLeod (Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Design Engineering Class of 2025) will complete a Master of Science degree in 2027

UPEI engineering student Odegua Obehi-Arhebun in the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering building
| UPEI Viewbook 2027

Odegua Obehi-Arhebun is a third-year Bachelor of Sustainable Design Engineering student (Class of 2028)

UPEI Engineering students Emma Ledgerwood and Myah Van't Veld
| Students, Success Story

Myah Van't Veld and Emma Ledgerwood earn first-place award in the Engineering Communications category at the Canadian Engineering Competition.

four engineering students in the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering building
| Students, Success Story

Richard Hetherington and team win gold in the Innovative Design category of the Canadian Engineering Competition.

UPEI engineering students Syed Imran Ali and Syed Daniyal Ali
| Students, Success Story

Teammates and brothers Syed Imran Ali and Syed Daniyal Ali win gold in the Re-Engineering category of the Canadian Engineering Competition.

Sustainable Design Engineering student Jimmy Hulton
| UPEI Viewbook 2026, Students

Meet Jimmy Hulton, fourth-year Bachelor of Sustainable Design Engineering student (Class of 2027).

UPEI engineering student Rosetta Shokunbi
| UPEI Viewbook 2026, Students

Meet Temiloluwa “Rosetta” Shokunbi, UPEI Sustainable Design Engineering student (Class of 2026).

a UPEI student in the sustainable design engineering building
| UPEI Viewbook 2025

Meet Berry, UPEI Sustainable Design Engineering student and 3M National Student Fellow.

close-up of Arduino circuitry
| Students

Sustainable Design Engineering students Ben Keizer, Tung Nguyen, SoumyaDeep Chowdhury, and Luke McCarvill and their TrashTech project centres around developing a reduction-focused domestic waste management product. It aims to conduct waste classification using machine vision, weight sensing, and meaningful data communication to users through a web application, much like Fitbit’s functionality and related smartphone application.

five engineering students working on a project
| Students

Sustainable Design Engineering student team members Lauren Daigle, Christian D'Entremont, Ben MacEachern, Josh McIsaac, and Owen Stewart worked with Parks Canada to design of a user-friendly display for the electric pedestals at campsites to inform campers of their energy consumption.