Henk Wevers

Henk Wevers - Emeritus Professor 1996

Co-founder of the Clinical Mechanics Group, now the Human Mobility Research Centre.

Co-Inventor of a wheelchair restraint system for securement of wheelchairs in vans and buses. This system is licensed to Q'STRAINT by Queen's University and is sold worldwide.

Recent academic activities: Co-supervisor with Dr. Dumas, Professor Mechanical and Materials Engineering, on a senior project for fourth year students designing and manufacturing an electric drive mechanism to animate the large steam engine in the Pump House Steam Museum at Kingston.

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Member of the City of Kingston Appeals Committee (February 3 - November 30, 2015)

Researches engineering history and Kingston's industrial history in particular, see "Papers and monographs".

Retired in 2014 after sixteen years of volunteering at the Pump House Steam Museum. Information about the museum, formerly the Kingston Water Works, can be found at http://magicofsteam.wordpress.com where there are several interesting historic and contemporary photos about the water works, as well as papers and stories describing the history of this mid-1800 company and later public utility.

Project Manager for the restoration of the historic steam launch Phoebe with a team of volunteers from 1998 - 2003.

In 2002, designed and built the Gordon C. Leitch Discovery Centre at the Pump House Steam Museum with a group of volunteers. The Discovery Centre fulfilled an important role in educating grade 1-6 students in engineering principles as contained in the Ontario Curriculum for Science and Technology. The hands-on experiments were updated with other educational materials in 2012.

Retired in 2014 after 9 years as a volunteer at the Boys and Girls Club Kingston teaching science and technology to children from nine to twelve years of age. Hands-on projects such as birdhouses, tool boxes, kaleidoscopes, fast-spinning tops, race cars and launchers, motivate the children. While the science is basic the hands-on work provides each child with a long lasting object of great pride. The projects might motivate the developing child to consider science and technology as fascinating areas of our civil society. See http://bgsctechclub.wordpress.com/

Designed and authored a website on the history of the Aragon Road, a forced road dating from the late 1800's. The documentation was released online in 2014 and the site aims to make this a designated road of cultural value under the Ontario Heritage Act. The website can be accessed at http://aragonroadhistroy.wordpress.com