New statistics for hockey defensive players. A standalone engineering education department at the University of Manitoba. APEGA launching a survey about foreign credential recognition. These were the most-read stories from the Daily Media Report in early January.
Hockey statistics: Systems design engineering professors and co-directors of the Vision and Image Processing Lab at the University of Waterloo are part of a team that is developing an AI algorithm to automatically pull certain data points from hockey broadcast feeds to evaluate previously underappreciated defensive metrics.
Engineering education: The University of Manitoba is overhauling its faculty of engineering to make way for a standalone department dedicated to engineering education.
Foreign credential recognition: Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) permit holders and internationally trained professionals are invited to fill out a short survey from APEGA’s Foreign Credentials Advisory Committee (FCAC) by January 17, 2025.
