The Canadian Multicultural Inventors Museum Podcast promotes innovative thinking in young people by telling the story of innovators from diverse backgrounds.

In our second episode, we will be talking about electrical engineer and telecommunications specialist Veena Rawat. She was also the first woman to earn a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Queen's University. 

This episode was written by Rathees Uthayakuma. Presented by Andrea de Camelo and Alvin Young. The music is from The Radio Droids. Sound and editing by Pedro Cordero.

Thank you for listening to our podcast. CMIM will continue to release new podcasts on Canadian inventors and innovators so stay tuned!

Information Sources used:

Government of Canada. (2017, July 20). What is spectrum? https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/069.nsf/eng/00076.html

The Governor General of Canada. (n.d.). Mrs. Veena Rawat. https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/146-15404

Rawat, Veena. (2010, October 7). Who is Veena Rawat? Federal Communications Commission. https://www.fcc.gov/news-events/blog/2010/10/07/who-veena-rawat

Rawat, Veena. (2019, June 18). University of Ottawa - Convocation ceremony speech - June 18, 2019. uOttawa. https://www.uottawa.ca/president/bio/rawat-veena

Zuschlag, Anna. (2017, September 22). Veena Rawat. The Canadian Encyclopedia. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/veena-rawat

Sound FXs taken from freesound.org:

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https://freesound.org/people/trip_sound/sounds/190476/ (cc atribution) 

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CMIM Podcast Team:

Savio Lopes Jr., Francis Jeffers, Alex Sitarski, Alexandra Ratchis, Alvin Young, Andrea de Camelo, Anne-Marie Hall, Krupa Prajapati, Mark Higginbottom, Pedro Cordero, Rathees Uthayakumar, and Samata Sawant.