Derek Schuurman: Industry Experience

I spent several years in industry before sensing a call to teaching. My industry experience includes the following roles:

• Agile Systems Inc. (senior engineer/project manager)
• SRE Controls Ltd. (design engineer)

As a co-op student, I also worked for:

• Electrohome Ltd. in Kitchener, Ontario (Projection Systems Engineering Department)
• Hewlett Packard Canada, Panacom Division, Waterloo, Ontario (Manfacturing Test Engineering Department)
• Canadian Coast Guard, Central Region (Telecom Department)
• IBM Canada Ltd. Toronto Software Lab (ToroLab) and also in the IBM manufacturing plant (Toronto)

Patents

• US 5874818: Method and Apparatus For Sensing Load Current in a Motor Controller
• US 6215681: Bus Bar Heat Sink. See also: CA 2325148 (Canada), EP 1100294 (Europe), JP 2001267479 (Japan)