Raylene Mitchell — IBET Momentum Fellow

Raylene Mitchell is an IBET Momentum Fellow and a PhD student in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering.  Under the supervision of Professor David Sinton (MIE) and Michael Ross (ElecE 0T8), the Industrial Research Chair in Northern Energy Innovation at Yukon University, she is researching energy storage solutions in Indigenous communities. Raylene sat down with Dean Yip to discuss growing up in Makkovik, N.L., her unconventional path to engineering and why she believes Indigenous people are engineers at their core. Podcast transcripts can be downloaded at: uofteng.ca/podcast