Industrial Design students observe, touch and learn how products are made inside local factories so they can apply this knowledge during school work and beyond. Rotoplast: Group 1 visited the Rotational Moulding company in Farnham to see how thermoplastic products are produced. The students saw what can or cannot be moulded using this technology.  Group...

Participating 1st, 2nd and 3rd year Industrial Design students assembled together in Conrod’s to compete in three distinct design categories. Industrial designers (Alumni) were invited to judge the student projects in the following categories: 1. Cardboard Seating: Design a portable, easy to assemble (under 5 minutes) seat for outdoor festivals. It must have an area...

The Tekphy Conference was held at Université de Montréal in Laval. All of our 3rd year students in Physical Rehabilitation were able to attend a one day conference on the use of technology in rehabilitation. This included presentations on the current use of telemedicine in rehabilitating patients who had undergone a total knee replacement, to the use of...

The Social Service Department invited Kaitlynn Kavanagh Rice to speak on the topic of Poverty in Canada. Her family was the subject in the NFB documentary NO PLACE CALLED HOME depicting the hardships of the working poor in Canada. Kaitlynn Kavanagh Rice did an excellent presentation on the effects of poverty on families in Canada. She introduced a model which encompasses...

The visit at the Musée des Soeurs Hospitalières helped students assess the reality of Quebec women’s lives. Students  were divided into 2 sub-groups each accompanied with a guide who lectured them for a full hour. . Many students were surprised to see the lives of cloistered nuns in the 19th century (they visited their parloir, their refectoire and their...

The Boston/Cambridge Trip was the concluding event to a set of extra- and intra-curricular activities involving more than 70 students that have taken place this year with S.P.A.C.E. and in the Science Program. The student projects were organized around the “Trans—” theme, which in the case of this group was “Translating Science”, many of which...

Spain’s Cultural Institutions compliments the activities of History Course 330-325-DW, Class Abroad: Spain (Winter 2015), which was designed to take students from the classroom to the field to apply learned knowledge in History and Classics. Students participated in an engaged learning environment. Students travelled, visited, observed, presented, and discussed, and in these ways, furthered their...

The group attended the 2015 Milan International Exposition: Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life. More than 140 countries are participating by showing the best of their technologies about food and its production sustainability. Students got to see the incredible diversity of architecture and design of the individual countries’ pavilions and their solutions to providing food...

The main objectives of the project were to foster knowledge, experience, and understanding amongst Dawson Environmental Studies Profile, North South Studies, and Profesional Photography students with respect to Cree and Northern Quebec culture. The trip was designed to investigate the impacts of Hydro-Quebec’s James Bay Project and the subsequent diversion of the Rupert River. In...

This years’ edition of the Deans’ Choice Awards (DCA) 2015 hosted a packed house in the 3C Cafeteria area. The Deans’ Andréa Cole,Donald Walker and Diane Gauvin, had made their choices based on pre-established criteria and their own preferences. The graduating recipient group was Illustration and Design,a very large Graduating Group which made the choice...