Education

Engineering, programming, and research methods

Four entries, one of them incomplete and labelled as such. Together they explain where the engineering intuition, the implementation ability, and the research vocabulary each came from.

Programs

Four programs, one trajectory.

Listed in the order they were taken. Each entry says what it contributed to the work being done now, and where it stopped.

University of Ottawa September 2013 - April 2019

Bachelor of Applied Science in Civil Engineering

Specialization in geotechnical and structural engineering.

Outcome
Built the technical base the rest of the work rests on: analysis, mechanics, materials, and the built environment as a system that has to actually stand up. Also supplied the first working definition of rigour — a calculation either closes or it does not.
University of Ottawa One semester, then withdrawn

Statistics coursework

One semester enrolled in the Honours BSc in Statistics, then withdrawn. Further equivalent coursework was completed within the BASc in Civil Engineering.

Outcome
Supplies the statistical grounding the research work runs on: estimation, inference, and the habit of asking what a reported number is an estimate of.

No statistics degree was awarded. This is coursework, not a credential.

Seneca Polytechnic September 2020 - April 2022

Computer Programming Diploma

Software development, programming practice, and computational problem solving.

Outcome
Turned an engineering background into something executable. Everything published on this site downstream of 2022 — the pipelines, the experiment harnesses, the figure generation — exists because of this.
Humber Polytechnic September 2023 - August 2024

Research Analyst (Graduate Certificate)

Applied research methods, statistical analysis, data collection and interpretation, and research ethics.

Outcome
Named and formalized what the independent work had been doing informally: research design, evidence synthesis, ethical handling of data and participants, and the discipline of reporting what a study can and cannot support.

Certification

Training held outside a degree program.

Panel on Research Ethics, Government of Canada 2022

TCPS 2: CORE

Tri-Council Policy Statement, Course on Research Ethics — the standard Canadian training in ethical conduct for research involving humans.