News and Announcements
Congratulations to Owen Buckley and Ryan Sutherland who represented George Brown College at the HRAI Heating System Technician Competition, taking home gold and silver respectively. The competition happened at the Canadian Mechanical and Plumbing Exposition at the Metro Convention Centre on March 24...
More women can continue training at George Brown College for careers in the trades thanks to funding from toolmaker Hilti Canada that supports student scholarships and provides supplies. Hilti has donated $40,000 to the college to support scholarships for participants who complete George Brown’s...
With a combination of compassion, careful planning, and clear communication, three teachers at the Centre for Construction and Engineering Technologies are helping students enjoy learning math. Ruzanna Alikhanyan, Alma Kasneci and Klejda Nuro are a power trio. At the start of the pandemic, they...
We’re launching an exciting new program at the School of Mechanical Engineering Technologies and offering entrance scholarships thanks to a partnership with Toronto Hydro. We collaborated with Toronto Hydro to develop the Electromechanical Engineering Technology - Power and Control program that...
As a professor in the School of Marketing at George Brown College, Dr. Jon Callegher knows how rewarding a career in the skilled trades can be. “But if you’re not watching channels like HGTV, you’re not going to see skilled trade workers much in the media,” says Callegher. “And usually not young...
Seeing the growing number of women on construction sites gives Aymara Toro Young a surge of excitement. Aymara is a project coordinator with Soncin Construction , a company that works on civil infrastructure projects. She’s also a student in the Building Information Modelling (BIM) Management...
Do N95 respirators effectively protect health care workers from COVID-19? Are surgical masks a safe alternative? Amid the pandemic, researchers around the world have been studying the effectiveness of different masks in an effort to answer these questions. Dr. Md. Safiuddin , Professor of...
Plumber Geoff Burke had a great idea to make underground drainage pipe the star of Halloween, by cutting and painting it to create candy chutes for front-porch railings to deliver physically distanced goodies to trick or treaters. Burke, a former George Brown student in the Construction Trades...
Companies have always needed to evolve quickly to stay relevant in an ever-changing market, but just how hard that can be has been magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic. Relieving this pain point is exactly what Research & Innovation at George Brown College aims to do, running an average 100 projects a...
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that resilience and innovation is essential for local business, no matter their size. To help companies tackle these challenges, George Brown College was recently successful in a pair of Mitacs/AGE-WELL applied research project applications, totalling over $100,000...
