Earth and Space Exploration: An EngSci’s Adventures in the Canadian Space Industry

How did an immigrant kid from Hong Kong go from Star Trek and an article in National Geographic to the lectures and labs of EngSci to the adventure that is Canada’s space industry, working on missions from low Earth orbit to the surface of Mars?

What were the highs and lows (the apogees and perigees), and what lessons did he learn? And what’s this science fiction thing?

Speaker bio:

Eric Choi (EngSci Aero 9T5) is the Vice President of Business Development at Mission Control Space Services.

Over the course of his career, he has held positions of increasing technical and managerial responsibility in both the aviation and space sectors, the latter including work on QEYSSat (Quantum Encryption and Science Satellite), the Meteorology (MET) payload on the Phoenix Mars Lander, the Canadarm2 on the International Space Station, the RADARSAT-1 Earth-observation satellite, and the MOPITT (Measurements of Pollution on the Troposphere) instrument.

He holds a B.A.Sc in Engineering Science (Aerospace), an M.A.Sc from the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) and an MBA from York University, and he an alumnus of the International Space University. He is also an award-winning science fiction writer.