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RE/ACTION Applied Research Showcase – Call for Judges

The Office of Applied Research & Innovation is seeking volunteer judges for the applied research showcase competition on April 13th, 2018.

Every year, student teams work on applied projects in which they apply knowledge and skills acquired through their field of study. The majority of these projects are presented in April each year at the applied research showcase: “RE/ACTION. This year’s projects fall into a number of categories:

Science, Engineering and Construction;
Arts, Design, Business and Management; and
Information Technologies, Mobile and Web Design.

Judges evaluate selected student team’s results, based on novelty/creativity, technical competence, impact, the strength of client-team interactions and communication and presentation skills.

This event provides an excellent opportunity for entrepreneurs and industry leaders to network with Algonquin’s capable and motivated academic community of students and faculty.

Those interested in participating as judges, or who have more questions about this opportunity, can contact:

Danielle Evong
Office of Applied Research and Innovation, Algonquin College
evongd@algonquincollege.com
613-727-4723 ext. 5213

Winners of Applied Research Day (August 2017)

Dancing Data Visualization

1st Place Winning Project

A data visualization tool built to create seamless data animations at the click of a button. This tool allows large data sets to showcase relationships that are often lost in multi-dimensional forms. We call these animations ‘Dancing Data’.

Presenters: Edmer Buen; Shannon Wilson; Geemakun Storey; Weikai Li
Project Facilitator: Adesh Shah
Project Manager: Theodore Mirtchev
Industry Partner: Global Advantage Consulting

Big Data for Small Places

2nd Place Winning Project

BD4SP is a project that’s at its core is to supply small business and small places with the right tools to make better decisions in order to create growth. At the center piece of this project, we focused on Frontenac County, which struggled to make sense of all the information it had to pin point: where they should invest their money? Where are the healthy hamlets? What are the social demographic issues that affect those factors? And many more. This project is meant to give visual representation, make sense of the data that’s being supplied and help Frontenac make more calculated predictions in the its future.

Presenters: Robert Taracha; Anton Antonenko
Project Facilitator: Adesh Shah
Project Manager: Theodore Mirtchev
Industry Partner: Big Data for Small Places

Masterpeice VR/Exchange Integration

3rd Place Winning Project

MasterpieceVR is the world’s first collaborative 3D painting, sculpting and modelling program for virtual reality. Create works of art, colourful characters, and objects with ease. Connect with people anywhere in the world and create together in real time, teach an art class, or share your creation.

Presenters: Kari Ball; Mitchum Drury; Morgan Morrell-Frewn; Alex Papineau; Arin Poray; Devin Shepherd
Professor: Greg Beaton
Industry Partner: Brinx Inc.

Winners of Applied Research Day (April 2017)

Introduction to Arduino

1st Place Winning Project

This project’s goal is to create interactive Arduino labs for students in the library and to create an information technician program at Algonquin College. These labs are aimed at early users, with a range from simple labs for children to more interesting labs for others.

Presenters: Andrew Moon; Enias Gengezha; Yitagusu Shiferaw
Principal Investigator: Cynthia Ough-Underwood

Static Load Testing Cell

2nd Place Winning Project

This static load testing cell is designed and built on the basis of functionality, accuracy, and ease of operation in order to allow the client to accurately test their products to ensure they meet the required standards and specifications.

Presenters: Andrew McDonald; Casey Foley; Angus Wilson; Nathanael Slow; Flint Gleeson
Principal Investigator: Sandra Brancatelli
Industry Partner: HealthCraft Products

Expense Tracking App

3rd Place Winning Project

The goal of this project is to create a mobile application designed for tracking travel expenses for business trips. The application encompasses the pre-approval, expense tracking and claims submission processes.

Presenters: Ryan Doiron; Sercan Kum; Anton Antonenko; Hjalmar Ayestas Leclair; Matthew Saab; Caleb Lalonde-Sauvé
Principal Investigator: Gerald Hurdle
Industry Partner: Canadian Commercial Corporation

New Student Researcher Position

WordPress Developer
Paid Co-op / Student Researcher Position
4 – 8 months with potential for permanent placement at firm
$15 per hour / 20hrs – 37.5 hours per week

Gnowit is seeking a WordPress developer to design, develop and maintain a WordPress plugin to cleanly integrate several of Gnowit’s information aggregation and analytics products into WordPress powered web sites.

Responsibilities

Develop custom and interactive WordPress Plugins using proven technologies and best practices
Collaborate closely with designers, developers, product managers and the marketing teams to effectively productive the Gnowit plugin on the WordPress app store and other trade publications
Optimize the WordPress plugins for speed and conversion
Troubleshoot bugs and fix them in a timely and non-disruptive manner

Requirements

1+ years of WordPress Experience
2+ years of HTML, CSS, JS, PHP and MySQL experience
(Bonus) Expertise with modifying and managing themes and plugins
Understanding of WordPress code
Thirst to learn new things and to constantly improve your work
Problem Solver mentality – whether load times are slow or the plugins are conflicting, you won’t stop until things are running smoothly
Understanding of cross-platform and cross-browser issues

Please contact Dr. Shahzad Khan (shahzad@gnowit.com) with your resume and a brief description of relevant experiences to set up an interview.

Winners of Applied Research Day (December 2016)

SmartMoms

1st Place Winning Project

SmartMoms is a mobile application for iOS and Android that pairs with Fitbit to track weight gain, calorie intake, quality of sleep, physical activity, and heart rate of expecting mothers. With a main focus on health, it helps women make healthy choices through each stage of their pregnancy.

Presenters: Matt Young; Mannat Luthra; McKenzie McGilchrist; Vlad Tonkonogov
Industry Partner: University of Ottawa

Immunity Warriors

2nd Place Winning Project

Immunity Warriors is a motion comic book that uses Madefire to transform a traditional comic book into an exciting interactive experience. With an action packed storyline, Immunity Warriors educates children on their immune system, battling viruses, and the importance of vaccinations.

Presenters: Kari Ball; Stephanie Paiement; Dom Richichi and Jason Eduardo Mata
Principal Investigator: Kevin Holmes
Industry Partner: Ottawa Hospital mHealth Research Team

Mobile Innovation Ecosystem Map App

3rd Place Winning Project

A complex large-format map of Canada’s Innovation Ecosystem was reimagined for a smartphone app.Bureaucrats and Trade Commissioners need to tell Canada’s innovation stories in the field, often without a lot of space. The team has taken their user-tested redesign into a coded prototype.

Presenters: Kayla Bowmaster and Edmer Buen
Principal Investigator: Stefan Dickerson
Industry Partner: Global Advantage

Ottawa Business Journal Highlights Algonquin Applied Research Day

Algonquin’s Applied Research Day a ‘win-win’ for Students, Industry

For Algonquin College students, applied research means solving real-world problems for actual businesses. That research – and its diversity – was on display at the school’s Applied Research Day on Aug. 19.

“We emphasize developing soft skills, understanding the expectations of a professional environment and since we do serve a lot of small startup-size companies, often there’s opportunities to continue on with the companies or, if they do a particularly good job, to get recognition.”

Read the full article and interview with Alex Yang.

Winners of Applied Research Day!

Masterpiece VR

1st Place Winning Project

Masterpiece VR is a Virtual Reality application used to create stunning 3D art, including sculptures,paintings, and even whole scenes. This is all achieved through a combination of PhD level mathematics,cutting-edge technology and professional grade software/UI design.

Partner: Brinx Software
Team: Nicolas Blier; James Hargrove; Gabrian Boileau and Morgan Morrell-Frewen

SmartMoms Canada

2nd Place Winning Project

SmartMoms is a mobile technology-based program designed to help women adhere to the gestational weight gain (GWG) guidelines, improve maternal-fetal health and attenuate the intergenerational cycle of obesity (fewer big babies, less post-partum weight retention and subsequent obesity in mom). The developed system consists of two mobile applications (Android and iOS), a web application and a backend server. Feedback that considers participant’s data gathered from Wi-Fi enabled accessories (FitBit physical activity tracker and an electronic weight scale) and provides personalized recommendations.The SmartMoms intervention also includes regular delivery of health information to women regarding their weekly GWG, physical activity and nutritional goals via the application.

Partners: School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa
Team: Matthew Boyd; Dylan Griffiths; Kari Ball; Vlad Tonkogonov; McKenzie McGilchrist; Matt Young and Justin Bennett

Robotic Mower (GreenCare)

3rd Place Winning Project

The product provides an autonomous lawn cut. It does the job and comes back to its docking station.

Principal Investigator: Hooman Abdi
Team: Pietro Pucci; Mustafa Al Rubai; Bradley Domjan and Victor Silva Lago; Zachary Ouellet

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.

Read the article here.

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RE/ACTION Applied Research Showcase – Call for Judges