Posted on Tuesday, April 8th, 2014
Algonquin College Mechanical Engineering Technology students (Jason Pell, Andrei Potapov, Micheal Hii, Neil Fevrier, Kitiphong Norasith, Scott Hall and Ali Khalladi), overseen by Prof. Sandra Brancatelli, joined the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Read more >
Posted on Thursday, March 27th, 2014
“What would happen if the whole world came together for one week every year to focus on what’s new and important in health and medicine?”
Algonquin College is about to find out when it hosts TEDMED Live 2014. TEDMED is conference held once a year created by the founders of Ted talks. Read more >
Posted on Tuesday, March 25th, 2014
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In Spring 2014, an interdisciplinary group of students from Algonquin College, Ottawa, will train local birth attendants in newborn resuscitation and work with children and youth on a health and wellness project in the Bunda District, Tanzania. The students will deliver part of the training using an augmented reality application they built themselves with NGRAIN© Augmented Reality. To learn more, visit www.facebook.com/breathoflife2014 or follow the team on Twitter: @BreathOfLife14
Posted on Monday, March 24th, 2014
It’s near the end of March.
Whew!… March is one month that always seems to move fast! This is the month where, in additional to our usual tasks, we start planning the summer projects.
It’s too bad that outsiders don’t get a chance to see the behind-the-scenes work we do for the summer projects. It involves a significant amount of ‘intra-preneurship.’ Read more >
Posted on Monday, February 3rd, 2014
A client’s collaborative research project focused on bringing accessible clothing to the disabled was recently featured on CBC Ottawa. This project was conducted in collaboration with the Health and Wellness Research Centre (Office of Applied Research and Innovation) and supported through funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Learn more about this inspiring and exciting project here.
Posted on Friday, December 13th, 2013
Measured by almost any metrics (and we measure a lot) 2013 has been a banner year for the Health and Wellness Research Centre. But what is not captured in our metrics is perhaps the most important, and that is nuance. Nuance is described by the Oxford dictionary as a “shade of meaning” and there is an awful lot of that in what we do. While I can report Read more >
Posted on Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
Congratulations to all the winners of the Applied Research Day 11.2 student showcase on Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013! All of the projects were wonderful, making it difficult to choose the top three! Read more >
Posted on Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013
Posted on Tuesday, November 26th, 2013
Algonquin Student Project Takes Top Award at Polytechnics Canada 2013 Student Applied Research Showcase“Algonquin College is extremely proud of the entire Applied Research team and would like to congratulate them on this great result,” says Dr. Kent MacDonald, President, Algonquin College.
Posted on Sunday, November 24th, 2013
Congratulations to Dmitry Klishch, winner of the 2013 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference student poster competition! Read the article.