An aerospace engineer by trade, Brian Petz has always been a natural problem solver with a knack for finding ways to improve the products, mechanisms, and activities he encounters in his daily life.

Petz worked his way through school in a variety of roles that demonstrate his versatility. He began as a pin monkey at a bowling alley, a grocery stock-boy, and a paint store CSR, mixing paint and color matching for customers. Brian also worked for a number of years as an environmental aide in a hospital, cleaning toilets, mopping floors, serving food, and tending to patient comforts. These experiences helped him develop his passion for growing strong relationships with those he works with.

As he gained more technical experience, Brian Petz found increasingly advanced jobs in the technical field a maintenance and repairman in his college dorm, a technician assembling gas-meter proving equipment, a research assistant at a university, and several internships at a prominent jet engine manufacturer. By the time he had finished school, Brian had accumulated a wealth of technical experience in the fields of mechanical design, turbomachinery, and advanced manufacturing. This experience served him well working as a production engineer, building jet engines, after he graduated.

Brian Petz has had the privilege of teaching engineering principles to over 1200 students, the majority of which are foreign students seeking their education in Canada. In the classroom, Petz is sure to impart his students not only with important engineering concepts but with life lessons and career advice that took him many years to learn, always with the mind to teach others what he wished he had known when he was younger. He is often moved by the heartwarming feedback he receives from those who have enjoyed and benefitted from his lectures.

For Brian, the satisfaction in watching his student's "get it" when they learn a new concept or skill is rivalled only by the joy and excitement of being a father, which has been the most rewarding experience of his life.