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MOMENTUM
MOHAWK COLLEGE COMMUNITY MAGAZINE FALL 2016
MEET
SARAH HARVIE
CONNECTING WITH THE
COMMUNITY AT 541
EATERY AND EXCHANGE
NOT YOUR
BUILDING A COLLEGE WITH PARENTS'
PROSPERITY A HEART COLLEGE
$72 MILLION IN MAKING THE GRADE BY 10 AMAZING PLACES
INVESTMENTS MAKING A DIFFERENCE WHERE STUDENTS
COMING SOON WITH FOOD4KIDS LEARN BY DOING
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SHARE YOUR
MOHAWK
MEMORIES
Mohawk has an amazing story
to tell for our 50th anniversary.
Share your memories at
mohawkcollege.ca/50
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CONTENTS
FALL 2016
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ABOUT MOHAWK
3 8
From the
Editor
4 Year in Review
Highlights
6 Simulation-
based learning
LEARNING LABS
16
AND SPACES
7 Mechatronics
Automation
and Robotics
Lab MOHAWK PROFILES
8 Additive
Manufacturing
10 Gerald
Marshall 13 City School
Resource Centre for
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Centre Transportation Coming
Steam Lab Soon
mHealth
& eHealth
Development
and Innovation
11 Dynamic
Simulation Lab 22 Sniper Skin
Centre Media
Production Lab 25 Food4Kids
9 Centre for
Professional
Practice
12 Multi-Sensory
Lab 30 Year in Review
Highlights
Imaging Lab
ABOUT MOHAWK: Mohawk College educates and serves 30,000 students at three campuses and two City School locations in Hamilton, Ontario.
Mohawk has ranked number one among all colleges in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area in student satisfaction for six consecutive years and
number one for graduate satisfaction the past four years. Mohawk has also been named one of Canada’s greenest employers for three years in a row
and is among the top 20 colleges in Canada for applied research activity. VISIT: www.mohawkcollege.ca or www.mohawknewsdesk.ca to learn more.
COVER: Image of Sarah Harvie photographed by Jessica Tuck, Mohawk Graduate 2014. Location: 541 Eatery and Exchange, Barton Street, Hamilton
MOMENTUM 1
INDIGENOUS So now, we bring our
HOOP minds together as one.
Éhtho niiohtónha’k ne onkwa’nikón:ra.
DANCE
GATHERING PLACE
The Hoop Dance at Mohawk is a celebration of First Nations, Métis and Inuit culture.
It features an open-air pavilion, fire circle and water garden. This living sculpture
serves as a meeting area, cultural learning space and a site for the transmission of
traditional Indigenous Knowledge, community gatherings or quiet meditation.
As an outdoor classroom, this space is available to the community, free of charge, for
a variety of activities. Whether users hold strategic planning sessions, team building
retreats, sunrise ceremonies or other peaceful and respectful gatherings, we encour-
age you to consider using the Hoop Dance gathering space.
Indigenous Education
and Student Services
T: 905-575-1212, ext. 3428
E: hoopdance@mohawkcollege.ca
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a.
FROM THE EDITOR
Tour guide is my favourite unofficial
duty as President of Mohawk College.
I never pass up the opportunity to show off the
talents and expertise of our remarkable students,
faculty and staff. Without fail, they always make a
great first impression on our guests.
I also get to take visitors on tours of our living
labs. Learning by doing is the hallmark of a
Mohawk education. We’ve created labs that
simulate the real world and challenge our
students to put into practice everything they’re
learning in class.
Whether I’m with community, business or
political leaders, our tours end with the same
comment – “I had no idea you were doing all of
this at Mohawk College.”
We’re taking you on the same cross-campus
tour of 10 living labs in our inaugural edition of
Momentum. You’ll meet the students, faculty
and Mohawk partners who get to spend time in
our world-class labs.
We’ll also preview $72 million of investments
planned for Mohawk, introduce you to a member
of our City School at Mohawk team and meet
with a local community builder and entrepreneur
who are putting our students to work.
I hope you enjoy the tour and get a chance to
drop by and visit us in person.
Regards,
Ron McKerlie
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YEAR IN REVIEW
HIGHLIGHTS
1 Award-winning author and Order of
Canada recipient Lawrence Hill speaks 2
with Daniel Coleman at Mohawk’s
Welcoming Communities Interact
Conference 2 MPP Ted McMeekin with
Dean Piero Cherubini and President
Ron McKerlie announcing provincial
funding for apprenticeship training
3 City School’s founding donor Dr.
Doug Barber with Councillor Matthew
Green and MPP Ted McMeekin at the
official opening of City School at the
Eva Rothwell Resource Centre 4 Dean
3
of Students Rachel Matthews receives
AODA 10th anniversary Champion
Award from Mayor Fred Eisenberger
5 MP Filomena Tassi announces the
largest ever Government of Canada
infrastructure investment in support
of Mohawk’s $54.25 million renewal of
technology labs and classrooms 6 The
David Braley Athletic and Recreation 6
Centre wins the 2015 People’s Choice
Award in Urban Design and Architecture
7 President Ron McKerlie thanks the
City of Hamilton and Hamilton Public
Library’s Circuit 4.0 at the opening
4
of Mohawk’s second City School
at the Central Library in downtown
Hamilton 8 Justin Trudeau makes a
campaign stop at Mohawk College
9 Premier Kathleen Wynne thanks the
Spirit Vision Drummers and Dancers
for their performance at the opening
of Mohawk’s Hoop Dance outdoor
Indigenous Gathering Place 10 MPP
Eleanor McMahon with Premier Wynne
at the Hoop Dance opening 11 VP
Wayne Poirier with Linda Marshall
at the 10th annual Gerald Marshall
Benefit 12 The Hon. David Onley, 28th
12 13
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, at the
official launch of Mohawk’s accessible
journalism project 13 MPP Ted
McMeekin accepts a bundle of arrows
from Mohawk’s Elder in Residence Elize
Hartley and student Gregory Phillips
during Government of Ontario funding
announcement 14 Minister of Agriculture,
Food and Rural Affairs Jeff Leal (centre)
announces Greenbelt Local Food
Investment Fund grant to have more
locally grown food served in Mohawk’s
cafeterias.
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MOHAWK AIMS
TO LEAD IN
SIMULATION-BASED
LEARNING
WITH PAUL ARMSTRONG
Vice President Academic, Mohawk College
There have been two constants and one major
change at Mohawk since I was a student in our
Radiological Technology and Medical Ultrasound
programs back in the mid-1980s.
Our students continue to learn from exceptional
faculty who bring a world of experience and a
passion for teaching into their classrooms. I was
fortunate to learn from professors who were great
educators and mentors.
Our students also continue to get unique and
invaluable opportunities for real-world experiential
learning through co-op work terms, clinical and
field placements. My clinical placements with
the Hamilton General Hospital and McMaster
University Medical Centre were among the
highlights of my Mohawk education. I got the
opportunity to apply the theory I had learned from
my professors. Our students are not the only ones who benefit.
The biggest change from when I was a student is Our college partners who play a key role in
the state-of-the-art technology, equipment and transforming students into future-ready graduates
simulators that are now available in labs at all benefit as well. Mohawk students are now even
three of our campuses. better prepared when they arrive for their co-ops
and placements. They can make immediate, value-
When I was a student, we learned on old imaging
added contributions because they already know
equipment that had been donated by hospitals
what to do and what to expect. They are familiar
and clinics. I picked up some of that surplus
with the equipment, the technology and the
equipment myself when I started teaching in the
situations they will face on the job.
program a few years after graduation.
Mohawk has long been a leader in experiential
Today, our students use equipment and technology
learning. We were the first college in Canada to
that’s as good as, and in some cases better than,
offer co-op work terms in the early 1970s.
what they will use on their co-ops, clinical and field
placements. They also develop their critical thinking Today, we have set our sights on also becoming
and problem-solving skills on simulators that did leaders in simulation-based learning. As you will
not exist back when I was a student. Simulations see from the 10 labs profiled here, Mohawk is well
give our students safe places to learn through trial on our way.
and error and to reflect on their mistakes.
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“I DIDN’T KNOW
WAS
HERE!”
Our roundup of the top 10 labs you
have to see to believe at Mohawk.
1 MECHATRONICS AUTOMATION
AND ROBOTICS LAB
Fennell Campus
More than 250 students train on $1.7 million worth of leading-
edge equipment from Siemens and FANUC, including robots and
programmable logic controllers. Students learn how to design, run
and repair computer-controlled electromechanical systems.
WANT TO LEARN MORE? SEE BRUCE’S STORY ON PAGE 27
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2 ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
RESOURCE CENTRE
Fennell Campus
Mohawk was the first college in Ontario and the third in Canada to open an additive
manufacturing lab. Students, faculty and staff work with college partners to turn digital
images into plastic and metal prototypes and parts on a pair of industrial 3-D printers.
WANT TO LEARN MORE? SEE CHRIS’S STORY ON PAGE 29
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mHEALTH & eHEALTH DEVELOPMENT AND
INNOVATION CENTRE (MEDIC)
Fennell Campus
A team of 30 students, faculty Technology Access Centre to WANT TO LEARN MORE?
and staff work on dozens of help small and medium-size SEE MOHAMED’S STORY
projects with private, public companies design, build, test ON PAGE 21
and non-profit sector partners and implement digital health
from across Canada and around technologies and receive
the world. MEDIC is also home customized training.
to Ontario’s first Digital Health
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CENTRE FOR PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Institute for Applied Health Sciences at McMaster University
Thousands of students put on scrubs each week and hone their clinical skills with simulators, high fidelity
manikins and staff playing patients and family members. The centre includes a simulated home, hospital
and long-term care facility.
WANT TO LEARN MORE? SEE VISHAL’S STORY ON PAGE 26
IMAGING LAB
5 Institute for Applied
Health Sciences at
McMaster University
More than 650 students develop
their clinical skills on a suite of fully
functioning equipment including
ultrasound, mammography and
radiography units and a computed
tomography scanner. The lab
is set up to simulate a hospital
to prepare students for their
clinical placements.
WANT TO LEARN MORE?
SEE JENNIFER’S STORY ON
PAGE 23
9GERALD
6 MARSHALL
CENTRE FOR
TRANSPORTATION
Stoney Creek Campus
Named in honour of the late
Gerald Marshall, founder of
Hamilton’s Marshall Truck and
Trailer, the centre trains more
than 350 apprentices annually.
Apprentices use $4 million of
state-of-the-art equipment to
train for careers as truck and
trailer technicians, mechanics,
automotive mechanical installers
and servicers.
WANT TO LEARN MORE?
SEE BOB’S STORY ON PAGE 24
STEAM LAB
Stoney Creek Campus
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Students in Mohawk’s Power
Engineering program get a
hands-on education learning
how to run a 150 PSIG and
150 BHP boiler. Students take
apart and reassemble turbines,
compressors and pumps.
They also work with auxiliary
equipment, including water
treatment and a condensate
return system with feed water
pumps and a steam trap system.
WANT TO LEARN MORE?
SEE LEN’S STORY ON PAGE 19
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DYNAMIC SIMULATION LAB
Fennell Campus
Similar to the lab used by the Community Justice programs.
Ontario Police College, the Thirty-six surveillance cameras
Mohawk lab develops the record everything students say
judgment and problem-solving and do during their scenarios.
skills of more than 800 students
from Advanced Police Studies, WANT TO LEARN MORE?
Advanced Security Management, SEE FRED’S STORY
Police Foundations, Protection ON PAGE 18
Security Investigation and
MEDIA
PRODUCTION
LAB
Fennell Campus
Featuring two studios and
HD production equipment,
Broadcasting students get hands-
on training both in front and
behind the camera. Students work
on newscasts, talk shows and game
shows. Students also cover more
than 100 events a year, including
Mohawk and McMaster varsity
games and Cable 14 coverage of
the Hamilton Bulldogs.
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WANT TO LEARN MORE?
SEE FELECIA’S STORY
ON PAGE 15
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MULTI-SENSORY LAB
Fennell Campus
The first of its kind at an Ontario college, Mohawk’s lab is open to members of the
community. Human Services students also tour the lab to get an orientation to multi-
sensory environments and observe clients using the space to explore and relax.
WANT TO LEARN MORE? SEE LUKE’S STORY ON PAGE 14
TUESDAY NIGHT MUSIC SCHOOL
Is playing an instrument on your bucket list?
Start lessons today! All ages!
Mohawk College Music faculty and students run the • Program runs for 12 weeks. 11 half-hour
Tuesday Night Music School. This program welcomes private lessons and recital during week 12
a variety of participants ranging from children – five
years of age or older to teenagers and adults for • Tuesdays between 4pm – 6pm at Fennell
private music lessons. Under the supervision of our campus of Mohawk College.
faculty, senior Applied Music students teach private
music lessons on the following instruments: voice, • Next intake January 2017 – Limited spots available.
bass, guitar, piano, drum set, brass and wind
instruments and theory of music. Lessons are
$100 for the semester.
Emilee-Mae Feely
E: emilee-mae.feely@mohawkcollege.ca
mohawkcollege.ca/musicschool
12 MOHAWK MAGAZINECONNECTING MOHAWK
WITH OUR CITY
WITH MOHAWK COMMUNITY MOBILIZER
SARAH HARVIE
"We launched City School last fall to make a
Mohawk education accessible to even more
people in Hamilton. We offer tuition-free college
credit courses and workshops at the Eva Rothwell
Resource Centre in the city’s north end and at the
Central Library in downtown Hamilton.
There was a young woman our City School team
would run into all the time when we were out in the
community. When I introduced myself and asked if she
was interested in learning more about City School, I
never got much of a response. One morning I was at
my usual table at 541 Eatery and Exchange in North
Hamilton. It’s a great place to connect with people
over a cup of coffee. The young woman finally worked
up the courage to pull up a chair, sit down next to me
and say ‘OK, so you do classes. How do I get started?’
She’s now registered in our employment workshops
and our College 101 course.
I was talking with another woman who wanted to
take our workshops but had no one to look after
her kids. Our team put our heads together and I
got to break the good news. City School now offers
free on-site child-minding thanks to students in
Mohawk’s Early Childhood Education program.
City School is meant to be a base camp on the
journey to post-secondary education. Seeing
people like these two women gain the self-
confidence and get the opportunity to pursue their
dreams of going to college is far and away the best
part of the job.
I also get to work with a remarkable team who are
absolutely passionate about connecting Mohawk
with our community. No other college in Ontario
is doing what we’re doing here in Hamilton so it’s
amazing to be part of something special.”
13(From left) Gizmo,
Lab Technologist Kaela Millar,
Luke Millar and his mom Heather
relax in the first lab of its kind at an
Ontario college.
"IT’S OUR SON’S HAPPY PLACE."
MULTI- “We’d be here every day, all day
if we could. Our son Luke has
technologist Kaela Millar does
a fantastic job of picking up on
SENSORY autism and developmental delays.
He was no longer eligible for most
Luke’s verbal cues and helps him
settle down. Kaela’s not related
LAB
programs and services when he to us but she’s like family. Luke’s
turned 18 years old. So it’s been a explored every inch of the lab
challenge to find suitable places which is a good sign. It shows
for Luke. We’d been going to an he’s comfortable there. Luke is
out-of-town multi-sensory room calm and relaxed after our weekly
that we had to share with other sessions at Mohawk and we all
families. A caseworker suggested get a good sleep for one night
we check out the multi-sensory lab a week. The lab puts a smile on
at Mohawk. It’s our son’s happy Luke’s face and that puts a smile
place. Luke loves going there. We on our faces too.”
get the room to ourselves. Lab
– Proud Parent Heather Millar
14 MOMENTUM"SUICIDE AMONG ABORIGINAL YOUTH IN OUR
COMMUNITY IS A STORY THAT NEEDS TO BE TOLD."
“Nine people who I grew up with on Six Nations of Media Communications program are working on
the Grand River have committed suicide in the last the crew. We’re taking on this giant project thanks
11 years. I’ve experienced more suicidal death than to the technical and production experience we’ve
natural loss. Suicide among Aboriginal youth in our gained from working in the TV studio. We’ve written,
community is a story that needs to be told so I wrote hosted and produced game shows, talk shows and
a script for a documentary. Twenty four productions news shows. I want to tell stories that make you think
were pitched to our professors and 11 were chosen and make a difference and Mohawk’s given me the
for this year's Independent Production class. Six of confidence to do that.”
my classmates from our Broadcasting Television and
– Student Felecia White
MEDIA PRODUCTION STUDIOS
15COMING
$72 million worth of investments
are planned to give Mohawk
students more spaces and better
SOON
places to learn. Here’s what to
look for over the next two years on
campus and in the community.
JOYCE CENTRE FOR
PARTNERSHIP &
INNOVATION
Set to open in 2018, the Joyce Centre
for Partnership & Innovation is the
cornerstone of a record-setting $54.25
million renewal of technology labs
and classrooms. The five-level centre
is also a showcase in environmental
sustainability as the region’s first net-
zero energy institutional building. The
Government of Canada’s $20 million
investment in the centre is the single
largest federal infrastructure funding
in Mohawk’s 50-year history. Once
construction and renovations are
complete, enrolment in technology
programs will grow from 3,500 to
4,500 students and applied research
activity will increase by 50 per cent.
INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED
HEALTH SCIENCES
More than $3 million in renovations will
transform the campus into a one-of-a-
kind simulated hospital and long-term
care centre. Students from Mohawk’s
Nursing, Practical Nursing, Medical
Radiation Sciences, Personal Support
Worker and Pharmacy Technician
programs will learn together in cross-
disciplinary teams, mirroring how they’ll
work during their clinical placements
and throughout their careers.DC VILLAGE AT THE
LIVING CITY CAMPUS
Mohawk is building a first-in-Canada
demonstration house at the Kortright
Centre for Conservation in Vaughan.
The home is part of a $9.2 million
applied research project that will
put DC (direct current) microgrids to
the test. The project, which received
the largest FedDev Ontario grant in
Mohawk’s history, will have students
and faculty remotely monitoring the
home’s energy efficiency and will be
the home of North America's only DC
microgrid.
CITY SCHOOL
City School will hit the road and roll
out a fully equipped mobile classroom
in the summer of 2017. It’s part of $1.6
million investment by the Government
of Ontario in Mohawk’s City School
initiative. The mobile will bring
tuition-free college credit courses
and workshops into neighbourhoods
throughout Hamilton, making a
Mohawk education more accessible to
more people than ever before.
STONEY CREEK CAMPUS
The newest addition to Ontario's
largest trainer of apprentices is a
12,000 square foot building now
under construction across from
the Gerald Marshall Centre for
Transportation. Half of the $3 million
building is dedicated to a shop
where apprentices from across the
campus will work together on large
scale community projects. The centre
will also include classrooms and
programmable control labs.
17"I STILL GO HOME WITH SOME
PRETTY GOOD BRUISES."
“The flight or fight response students do fight instead of what each student did well
doesn’t apply to most of our freeze. That’s why Use of Force and what could’ve been done
students. When they go through instructors run the scenarios. differently. Most students can’t
their first judgmental scenario We’re trained to identify pre- remember what they said or did
in our Dynamic Simulation Lab, attack cues and anticipate how during their first time through a
most students freeze up. They’re students may respond. We’re scenario. Not every scenario ends
overwhelmed by everything that’s able to react to students who in an arrest. Just like real police
happening all at once. All the escalate to a fight response. work, we put heavy emphasis
concepts they’re learning in class While I block kicks, deflect on problem-solving, dispute
are swirling through their heads. punches and I wear a protective resolution and mediation. You
They’re applying critical thinking suit, I still go home with some can’t teach judgment. It comes
skills at light speed. They’re pretty good bruises. We always with experience and that’s what
under acute stress. They’re do a debrief after each scenario we’re giving our students with
dealing with auditory exclusion in front of their classmates, this lab.”
and tunnel vision. Some of our watching video and reviewing
– Professor Fred Armitage
DYNAMIC SIMULATION LAB
18 MOMENTUM"WHILE OUR BOILER SEEMS LIKE A TEAPOT TO ME,
IT’S A GREAT TEACHING TOOL FOR OUR STUDENTS."
STEAM “To really understand how a
boiler works, you need to hear,
challenge the students to figure
out what’s wrong and fix it. This
LAB
see, smell and touch it. I worked is a safe, controlled environment
in the industry for 40 years and where time isn’t money. Students
maintained a pair of boilers that can take the time to develop their
were 10 storeys tall. While our 150 analytical skills. They draw water
horsepower boiler seems like a samples, run tests and measure
teapot to me, it’s a great teaching results. They learn how to analyze
tool for our students. It’s also multiple inputs, get to root causes
allowed us to get our program and diagnose a fault. Our lab
accredited by the Technical offers something you can’t get
Standards & Safety Authority. The from textbook. This is where our
boiler can be a little intimidating students get to play on a big
at first to some students when piece of equipment and apply
we fire it up and alarms start the theory of power engineering
going off. Once our students get through hands-on learning.”
familiar with the boiler, I’ll close
valves and tinker with it. I’ll then – Professor Len McPhail
19MULTI-SENSORY LAB
STIMULATE
THE SENSES.
Recreational, therapeutic, educational.
Based on person-centered approaches, the
Multi-Sensory Lab offers pathways to connect
with others by focusing on an individual’s
strengths, abilities and talents and using
these as motivation to bring about change.
Annual Membership is available for clients
with intellectual disabilities and provides the
following benefits:
• Facilitated sensory sessions by a trained
Multi-Sensory specialist
• Baseline sensory assessment
• Ongoing session feedback/review
• Session length is 45 minutes
T: 905-575-1212 ext 3836
E: kaela.millar@mohawkcollege.ca
mohawkcollege.ca/community/
mohawk-colleges-multi-sensory-lab. "THE BEST PARTS OF MY JOB ARE THE PEOPLE I WORK
WITH AND THE PROBLEMS WE SOLVE. COLLABORATION
IS NOT OPTIONAL AT MEDIC."
“I was 15 years old when my MEDIC and was hired on after We’re also working with Save the
parents and younger brother graduation. The best parts of Children to install a patient registry
came to Hamilton as refugees my job are the people I work in Myanmar in South Asia that
from Sudan. It wasn’t easy to with and the problems we solve. will coordinate care for as many
uproot our family. English wasn’t Collaboration is not optional at as 100,000 people living with HIV,
our first language and we quickly MEDIC. There’s always someone to tuberculosis and malaria. We work
learned about the value of talk with when you run up against on important projects every day
perseverance. After graduating a software design or development and that gives all of us a great
from Barton Secondary, I did challenge. We also get to see the sense of pride.”
freelance work creating websites immediate impact of our work. I’m
and then applied to Mohawk’s part of a team that’s building an – Junior Software Architect
Software Development program. immunization system for Tanzania Mohamed Ibrahim
I completed three co-ops at that will help reduce child mortality.
mHEALTH & eHEALTH DEVELOPMENT
AND INNOVATION CENTRE (MEDIC)
21ENTREPRENEURS GET AN ASSIST FROM MOHAWK WITH SNIPER SKIN CO-FOUNDER APRIL WRIGHT “My husband Lee invented a time and money- saving tape replacement for hockey and lacrosse sticks and baseball bats. We were proud to win last year’s Lion’s Lair competition for emerging entrepreneurs. The Innovation Factory, which runs Lion’s Lair with the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce, introduced us to Joe Duda at Mohawk. Joe manages The Agency at the McKeil School of Business. The Agency puts teams of students to work on advertising, marketing and public relations campaigns for start-ups and non-profits. We were fortunate to be taken on as a client. We love Mohawk. The students have turned in agency-quality work that exceeds our expectations. We’ve since hired students and recent graduates to help us with branding, messaging and videos. The Agency’s been an invaluable resource for us. We get access to students who are being mentored by industry professionals like Joe. The students have brought lots of energy and enthusiasm to Sniper Skin. In return, students get a master class in entrepreneurship and learn how passion, hard work and integrity can build a successful business. Lee and I also have more than 20 years experience working for major corporations that we’re sharing with students. It’s been a great partnership for all of us and we've grown together.” 22 MOMENTUM
"I’M A HANDS-ON LEARNER AND WE GOT
TO START SCANNING RIGHT FROM WEEK
ONE IN OUR PROGRAM."
IMAGING “If we didn’t have the Imaging
Lab at Mohawk, I don’t know
like wheelchairs, stretchers and
oxygen tanks. Learning in a
LAB
how I would’ve been prepared simulated hospital environment
for my clinical placement at the has been invaluable. It’s given
Juravinski Hospital. I’m a hands- me the confidence to work with
on learner and we got to start patients on my placement. You
scanning and using probes right don’t want to be fumbling around
from week one in our program. and figuring out how to use the
We spent hundreds of hours equipment. Instead, I can focus on
practicing on our classmates, my patients, deliver quality care
doing real scans on real people and do a better job of spotting
in real time. We also got to use pathologies that need follow-up.”
standard hospital equipment,
– Student Jennifer Head
23"NOT ONLY IS OUR SHOP SPOTLESS. WITH ALL THE
SPACE AND NATURAL LIGHT, IT’S A TAJ MAHAL."
“We keep our shop spotless. wrench or tripping over something to be technicians and their most
When apprentices first walk on the floor. Not only is our shop important tool is a laptop. They’re
through our bay doors, they’re spotless. With all the space and fixing electronic and mechanical
amazed and impressed at how natural light, it’s a Taj Mahal. problems now and technology’s
clean everything is. They ask me That’s good for apprentices who’ll advancing so fast. When I was a
who we hire to clean the shop. I tell spend 720 hours over three terms journeyman, I got in trouble for
them they do the cleaning at the at Mohawk. This shop is a far cry spending too much time on the
end of every day. A clean workshop from many of the places I worked job sharing my knowledge with
is a productive workshop. at throughout my career. When apprentices. Now I get paid to
There’s a place for everything I started out more than 30 years do that full time with hundreds of
and everything is in its place. No ago, we were grease monkeys. apprentices every year.”
one’s wasting time trying to find a Today, we’re training apprentices
– Professor Bob Cook
GERALD MARSHALL CENTRE
FOR TRANSPORTATION
24 MOMENTUMMAKING THE GRADE BY
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
WITH FOOD4KIDS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
LENA BASSFORD
Food4Kids provides packages of healthy food
for at-risk children between the ages of four
and 14 years who have limited or no access to
food. Food4Kids provides weekend food for
1,335 children during the school year and we
deliver food to the homes of 500 children during
the summer.
I got a call from Christine DiCarlo three years
ago. Christine’s a professor in Mohawk’s
Financial Services program. Every year, second-
year students take on a class project where they
develop their prospecting skills and make a
difference in the community.
Christine asked if her students could raise money
for Food4Kids. I said absolutely and when can we
get started? We’ve been working with Christine
and her colleague Mary Iannazzo ever since.
Mohawk’s long been known as a first-rate post-
secondary institution. It’s also a college with a
heart. Students in Mohawk’s Financial Services
program have raised more than $75,000 for
Food4Kids. They’ve provided 200 children in our
community with healthy food over each weekend
for an entire year.
Students have also raised enough money for
us to launch eight school-based weekend food
programs here in Hamilton. The enthusiasm and
passion of Mohawk students to help the children
we serve has been a real inspiration. A number of
students have continued to volunteer with us after
they graduated from Mohawk.
Giving back to the community is one of the most
important lessons students can learn. Two hundred
children aren’t going to bed hungry because of
students in Mohawk’s Financial Services program.
They’re making a real difference.
25"THE KEY TO BUILDING A GREAT SIMULATION IS TO
START WITH WHAT STUDENTS NEED TO LEARN."
“I went to school for computer students don’t know it’s you and most rewarding part of this job
science and nursing so this is the you’re not giving them hints with is watching our students evolve.
ideal job. The key to building a your facial expressions or body We’re with them from their first
great simulation is to start with language. My favourite patient to simulation to their last. On their
what students need to learn. play is the apathetic son. Students final simulation, you can tell that
We never put students into expect us to be hysterical or they’ve understood everything
simulations where they’ve yet to overcome with grief. They they were taught and pulled
study the concepts we’re asking don’t know how to respond to everything together. You know
them to apply. We have dozens of someone who seems indifferent. they’re going to do something
scenarios that have our students The most valuable learning for great for patients and families.”
interacting with programmable students comes from watching
manikins and staff playing the video of their simulations, with – Nurse Technologist
part of patients. Being the voice their professors giving group Vishal (Gaytish)
of a manikin is easier because the and one-on-one feedback. The Pathareddy Appanah
CENTRE FOR PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
26 MOMENTUM"OUR STUDENTS CAN EARN A GLOBALLY RECOGNIZED
CREDENTIAL AND A COLLEGE DIPLOMA THAT WILL
OPEN UP A WORLD OF CAREER OPPORTUNITIES."
“I was with a team of faculty and focus first on the whole mechatronics
administrators from Mohawk who spent system and then learn about each of the
a month this summer studying at the specific individual technologies. We’re
Siemens Technical Academy in Germany. starting to revise our curriculum to match
We were joined by faculty from colleges the Siemens methodology. Mohawk
and universities from around the world. now has two Siemens-certified faculty in
Everyone’s welcome kit included a Siemens engineering. This allows students in our lab
watch so the expectation for punctuality to have access to the company’s learning
and time on task was set from day one. resources, software and applications.
Some of Siemens top instructors taught They’ll be well prepared if they choose
us their Systems Approach to teaching to write Siemens’ certification tests. By
mechatronics. The traditional bottom-up passing the tests after completing our
approach teaches students about electrical, program, Mohawk graduates earn a
mechanical and computer technologies globally recognized credential and a
and then shows how these three fields college diploma that will open up a world
come together to create complete of career opportunities.”
mechatronics systems. The top-down
Systems Approach instead has students – Professor Bruce Johnston
MECHATRONICS AUTOMATION
AND ROBOTICS LAB
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28 MOMENTUMLead engineering
mentor Brendan Simons
(left) and lead teacher
mentor Chris Pinto
with Bishop Ryan’s
robotics team.
"THEY SHOWED OUR STUDENTS CUTTING-EDGE
TECHNOLOGIES AND OFFERED TO 3D PRINT
OUR DESIGN."
“Students on Bishop Ryan's off our opponents’ offences. print our design for an intake
Celt-X-5406 Robotics Team We got in touch with Mohawk's roller using nylon SLS. This unique
design and build 120-pound Additive Manufacturing Resource part performed amazingly well,
robots to compete against teams Centre after seeing them at the allowing our students to win the
from around the world. This Hamilton Maker Faire. They Pittsburgh regional and reach the
year we needed our robots to showed our students cutting- divisional semi-finals at the World
cross defences, score goals, and edge additive manufacturing Championships.”
climb a tower all while fending technologies and offered to 3D
– Brendan Simons and Chris Pinto
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
RESOURCE CENTRE
291 3 YEAR IN REVIEW HIGHLIGHTS 1 Mohawk celebrates partnership with CANMET Materials Resource Centre 2 Mohawk names the Digital Print Learning Centre in honour of college champion Hugh 2 Cameron 3 Ontario Minister of Advanced Education and Skills Development Deb Matthews (centre) announces the province’s $1.6 million investment in City School 4 Norma Bonner (left) and Katrina McFadden (right) from ArcelorMittal Dofasco with Amanda McManus (centre), winner of the Ontario College Co-op Student of the Year award. 5 McKeil School of Business delivers toys to every student at St. Ann elementary in North 6 8 Hamilton 6 Mohawk Distinguished Fellows Peter Vicano, Richard Brennan, Ann McLaughlin and Winnie Doyle with President Ron McKerlie 7 Blair and Kathy McKeil with President Ron McKerlie at the 2nd annual Partnership Dinner 8 President Ron McKerlie, MPP Ted McMeekin, Mayor Fred 7 Eisenberger and MSA President Luke Baylis at Mohawk College Transit Terminal groundbreaking 9 More than 6,000 future-ready Mohawk graduates walked across the stage during Convocation ceremonies in 2015-16 10 Mo the 10 11 Hawk with the Hamilton Police Service at the annual Special Olympics day hosted at Mohawk 11 Green thumbs at City School’s afterschool Sprouts program at the Eva Rothwell Resource Centre. 12 Mohawk’s pwc Vision to Reality award-nominated MEDIC team. 30 MOMENTUM
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31MOHAWK COLLEGE ENTERPRISE (MCE)
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Mohawk College Enterprise provides customized
training and workshops on-site and off-site with being part of the recent
experienced trainers. We work with you to meet Business Writing Skills
your specific training needs that are relevant to workshop offered
your workplace and assist you in maximizing your through MCE. This
investment in people. workshop provided
MCE provides training and consulting in the following areas: insight into how one
might identify typical
LEADERSHIP errors and oversights
• Future Ready Leadership Programs for: as well how to
• Emerging leaders • Executives communicate with others
• Experienced • Water Operators in a clear and concise
leaders manner.”
• Developing Customer Service Standards (Managers) – Nick Anastasopoulos,
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32 MOMENTUMMohawk proudly recognizes This year’s recipients are: (in order from left to right)
Health Sciences Recipient: Justin Fyfe, Community
the professional achievements Services Recipient: Steven Lennon, Mohawk
and community contributions College Employee Recipient: Sue Vattay, Affinity
Recipient: Gary Crowell, Creative Arts & Design
of exceptional graduates with Recipient: Annette Hamm, Technology Recipient:
Bill Chisholm, Business Recipient: Bruce Pearson,
Alumni of Distinction awards. Entrepreneur Recipient: Rachel Devine.
Since introducing the awards in 1996, Mohawk
has inducted 113 graduates into the Alumni
of Distinction and each recipient has a student
bursary established in their name by the Mohawk
Alumni Association.
Read more about our award recipients at
mohawkcollege.ca/alumniofdistinction
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