Life at SAIT
Carina has been teaching in the Geomatics Engineering Technology program for almost 15 years. She has also taught courses in Environmental Technology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Architectural Technology, and Civil Engineering Technology.
She is the Geomatics Student Club faculty advisor and serves on the SAIT Faculty Association (SAFA) Executive as the School of Construction representative. She previously served on SAIT’s Academic Council as the Division 1 Faculty Representative.
She loves teaching students the most because of the excitement of seeing them succeed in learning something new, especially when they have their “aha” moments when something complicated starts to make sense.
Education
Carina has a Bachelor of Science, Master of Science in Geomatics Engineering, as well as a Certificate for Emerging Leaders from the University of Calgary.
Currently, she is working on a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering. Her passion is in microwave imaging and has worked in the high Arctic using microwave scatterometers as well as satellite imagery.
Her Ph.D. is looking at improving breast cancer imagery using microwave images. She is currently the graduate student representative on the International Biomedical Engineering Society’s Education Committee where she is helping find solutions to creating open educational resources for children to learn about biomedical engineering.
Professional accomplishments
Carina is an award-winning student and instructor.
Carina has been nominated 13 times for the Saitsa Teaching Excellence Award, which she was awarded in 2021.
She also received the SAIT Brand Original Award for her collaboration work in 2016 and the International Women’s Day Catalyst Award in 2020.
In her Master’s degree, she received Alberta’s Person’s Case Scholarship, the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) Graduate Student Scholarship, and the Alberta Land Surveyors Association's (ALSA) Graduate Student Scholarship, among others.
In her Ph.D., she has received two leadership awards from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Southern Alberta Society, and the Biomedical Engineering Department’s Academic Scholarship.
Learn more about Carina on her website carinabutterworth.com and YouTube channel.
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SAIT is located on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Îyârhe Nakoda of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney.
We are situated in an area the Blackfoot tribes traditionally called Moh’kinsstis, where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. We now call it the city of Calgary, which is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta.