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Industry Collaboration

BCIT distinguishes itself through applied education and integration with industry. The RPAS Hub helps sustain this role through ongoing collaboration between learners, teachers, researchers, and industry.

BCIT & Industry Initiatives
close-up of drone controller screen showing thermal image

Protecting cold-water salmon refuges

Pacific Salmon Foundation / BCSRIF / MITACS Accelerate
Faraway overhead shot of human figure on the shore of a river with mountains and forest in the background. The figure has a red square around it and reads Person 0.89.

Search and rescue: Real-time image detection

Spexi / InDro Robotics
Four men in yellow vests setting up a drone on the road in a forested area

Assessing forest health

Mitacs Accelerate / Stinson Aerial Services
Drone with first aid kit on blue sky

Disaster Day first response

Burnaby emergency-responders
A school of red salmon swimming in an outdoor stream

Mapping salmon-spawning habitat

UAviation / Green Value Strategies in Development Fund
Aerial photogrammetric map of BCIT Burnaby campus

Modeling campus for engineering study

Stantec Engineering
Thermal 3D image of building

Modeling building thermal efficiency

Fortis BC / BC Housing Research Centre / InDro Robotics / Aerometrix
Site models of CERCA thumbnail

Site selection for new campus building

Thinkspace Architecture

Industry Partners

Corporate logo for Aerometrix
Indro robotics logo black and orange text on white background.

logo for uaviation