Built a clothing website.
| Client | Fiona Jia Fu | |
| Professor(s) | Sean SytsmaSu Cheng Li | |
| Program | Interactive Media Design | |
| Student Team Members | Ethan Deschambault Derick Fuentes Zeel Patel Ronak Patel Claire Sarcia |
Creating a fully functional Word Press website for Fiona Jia Fu, bringing her brand Fiona Selection to life.
Our study shines light on leveraging resources we have in a community by allowing
homeowners that need financial assistance to safely open their door to renters in
need of affordable rent.
| Client | City of Ottawa | |
| Professor(s) | Jed Looker | |
| Program | Interdisciplinary studies in Human-Centred Design | |
| Student Team Members | Emma Taylor Jade Fan Samhita Sinha Lakshya Dabral Mayur Radadiya |
We designed and conducted a mixed-methods study to better understand young adults perceptions towards alternative homes. Our research helped us design a strategic roadmap for the City of Ottawa to implement to improve housing affordability for young adults in the next 10 years. This strategic roadmap is called Project Home Share.
We found a significant knowledge gap, especially in the 26-30 year old age group, regarding awareness of financial subsidies for housing provided by the City of Ottawa. As young adults become mature adults, they become more financially stable and become less reliant on outside supports. This group of mature adults do not realize that they can still participate in these financial subsidies provided by the city, just from a different perspective. As of now, only landlords have the opportunity to apply to the Rent Supplement Program as the city only accommodates whole units to be rented through their programs. As validated in our literature review, affordable housing is a prominent issue. Currently waitlists are increasing, supply simply cannot keep up.
In reaction to these findings we see opportunity in increasing supply by leveraging the resources we have available within a community. Our recommendation includes a service that aims to connect homeowners with people on the Ottawa Social Housing Registry waitlists. Homeowners would follow an onboarding process just like landlords already do in the Rent Supplement Program. The difference is, instead of renting the entire unit out this service would allow homeowners to rent out a spare room and safely co-live with their renter. Homeowners would receive monetary compensation that renters would provide in the form of “rent” which homeowner could use towards their mortgage. Renter will have a safe and affordable place to live.
This service would run through a regulated digital platform that connects two groups that can help each other. Project Home Share will provide renters with safe affordable housing, homeowners will have another source of income providing them with financial relief and the City of Ottawa will have the ability to regulate and apply safety measures through the onboarding process to keep both parties safe. According to our research this service poses a great opportunity as young adults already search for this type of connection through unregulated sites. An example being, renting a private room through facebook marketplace but face many fake listings or scams. Project Home Share is an opportunity for reducing waitlist times as this is yet another source of housing supply that young adults have a positive perception towards.
User Experience Research & Design project focused on understanding obstacles faced in launching or running a tech startup in Ottawa. Our solution aims to build an ecosystem tailored to the needs of young innovators.
| Client | City of Ottawa | |
| Professor(s) | Jed Looker, Lanre Jerry-Ijishakin | |
| Program | Interdisciplinary Studies in Human-Centered Design | |
| Student Team Members | Vidhi Vala; Daryl Lopez; Radhika Mittal; Preshit Rastogi; |
Ottawa stands out as one of the best technology hubs in Canada, and used to be called Silicon Valley North due to its expertise across various tech sectors. Despite boasting a thriving startup ecosystem, recent research indicates a concerning trend of brain drain, with young talent migrating to other major cities in pursuit of opportunities.
To tackle this issue, we conducted interviews with diverse stakeholders and conducted a thorough literature review to understand the factors driving talent migration and identify areas for improvement in Ottawa’s startup ecosystem.
Our primary goal is to enhance Ottawa’s startup infrastructure by empowering young innovators through a centralized web portal ‘Ottawa Kickstarters’ that offers resources required for their entrepreneurial journey. Additionally, we aim to address urban challenges through our community-led ‘SmartCity Initiative’, fostering collaboration among stakeholders by bringing the city and the startups together.
In the short term, we empower young innovators with knowledge and resources to launch successful ventures. In the long term, we align economic development with the startup ecosystem, addressing urban challenges collaboratively. Ultimately, we aspire for our initiative to redefine Ottawa’s identity and elevate its regional brand beyond its historical government-centric focus. By positioning the city as a magnet for young changemakers and innovators, we aim to showcase its potential as a dynamic destination with opportunities for growth and transformation.
| Client | City of Ottawa | |
| Professor(s) | Jed Looker | |
| Program | Interdisciplinary Studies in Human-Centred Design | |
| Student Team Members | Antionette Obiogbolu-Amadiume; Gitta Putri; Pristina Tan; Sourav Kumar; Thejesh Mangamuri. |
Following the slow post-pandemic economic recovery of the downtown core accentuated by hybrid work models, the City is prioritizing revitalizing the downtown core through enhanced young adult participation to boost business revenue, and tourism, improving safety and overall city image.
It consists of a wireless charging system with an autonomous navigating arduino smart car.
| Client | ||
| Professor(s) | Wael IsmaeilKinchit Patel | |
| Program | Electromechanical Engineering Technician | |
| Student Team Members | Reda Boussalwa, Prit Patel, Ronit Patel, Preet Kamal Saini (Leader) |
Our project proposes an wireless charging road with self-driving Arduino car equipped to navigate designated lanes and obstacle detection. Car is charging wirelessely. Car`s battery is not just a single battery unit instead it is a battery holder having AA batteries.
321 Sports Academy supply athletes, coaches, and technical officials with educational programs on social issues related to sports. With usage of education delivery platform, users can gain access to materials and training from global sports community
| Client | Dillon Richardson | |
| Professor(s) | Su Cheng Lee | |
| Program | Interactive Media Design | |
| Student Team Members | Alexander Pham Ashin Shibu Carter Normand Kashyap Vyas Sharvin Thomas |
321 Sports Academy provides athletes, coaches, and technical officials with educational programs on social issues related to sports. Through the usage of an education delivery platform, users can receive training and access materials from the global sports community.
The creator of 321 Sports and 321 Sports Academy is Dillon Richardson. After ten years in the field, he wants to make his website more user-friendly and functional while also providing certificates and badges for the 321 Sports learning platform.
Our team aims to assist Dillon Richardson in improving the blog/news section of his current website and design templates for the certification and badges used in the 321 Sports learning management system. Therefore, his clients want to learn more or subscribe to the services 321 Sports Academy offers. By improving the website, clients can find the necessary information with ease and issue well-designed certificates and badges to their learners.
Bridging the Canadian Experience Gap: Empowering skilled immigrants with their first job opportunity through 6-Month Work-Term Programs in collaboration with the City of Ottawa, their First employer, and Career Services.
| Client | City of Ottawa | |
| Professor(s) | Jed Looker, | |
| Program | ||
| Student Team Members | Aishwarya Mago; Vinas Mavani; Prajakta Amin; Mayank Jain; Celine Ishimwe |
Our study explored the challenges skilled immigrants face in Ottawa’s job market. Through interviews and analysis, we found a significant barrier: employers’ lack of trust due to perceived lack of Canadian experience and education.
To address this, we’ve developed 6-Month Work-Term Programs, with the City of Ottawa, their inaugural employer. These programs provide skilled immigrants with their first job opportunity and access to city career services, fostering trust and bridging the gap in Canadian work experience.
The automated display case lighting system is built into a museum display case. The system will allow for enhanced control when displaying historical artifacts. This will provide an increase in lifespan for the artifacts being displayed.
| Client | Ingenium (Erin Secord) | |
| Professor(s) | Carolyn Lorimer, Jim Catton | |
| Program | Electrical Engineering Technology | |
| Student Team Members | Zachary Franks; Kristopher Kshonze; Jacob Malcolmson; Tyler Ross |
We are students from the Electrical engineering technology program with passions in automation and distributive systems. We have come together with our client Erin Secord from Ingenium to design and create an automated display case lighting system to provide the best possible lighting experience to display an artifact without overexposing it to the harmful damage that light can cause on an object.
Long term light and UV cast upon an object cause long term irreversible damage to whatever they fall upon. This damage is caused by a photochemical reaction. In a museums case, this can cause the loss of display ability for an artifact as it has reached its limit for being exposed the elements. However, museums face the challenge of wanting to limit light for preservation, but still need it to appeal to the public. With a case that has the ability to automatically adapt to light, artifacts will be able to be displayed and enjoyed longer.
Our client from Ingenium wanted a solution to extend the lifespan of object and provide the ability to display artifacts with less of an impact caused by regular display systems. The Automated display case lighting system solves this issue by providing adaptable display lighting. The display case will monitor ambient lighting external and internal to the display case. The system will then calculate and adapt its built in LED lighting system to provide the best possible lighting without overexposing the artifact to photochemical reactions. The lighting system will have additional built in manual control and data storage. The data storage will further allow Ingenium to limit the harm to artifacts. With the extra information, they can see the number of hours the artifact spends at certain light levels, allowing them to move if off display as needed. Finally, the system will be accessible remotely for monitoring and further manual controllability.
Social Procurement and Enterprise Development (SPEnD) is a 3-year initiative led by Algonquin College’s Social Innovation Lab (K. Holmes) in collaboration with Algonquin School of Business (J. Kaur).
| Client | ||
| Professor(s) | Kevin HolmesJaswinder Kaur | |
| Program | Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Centred Design, Business Entreprenuership Management, Financial Services | |
| Student Team Members | Yash Gokhale, Simran Dhanani, Maria Nathalia Silveira, Sharika Sadaf |
The Canadian college sector collectively holds a significant wealth in pools of short-, medium and long-term investment vehicles for operations, capital projects and endowments. Unfortunately, there is a scarcity of detailed information on the size and scope of these holdings at a sectoral level. Our report outlines interim results related to SPEnD‘s Aim #1 – SPEnD will develop, curate and disseminate novel foundational research on the capacity of Canada’s college sector for social procurement and social finance. In particular, it focuses on an initial research question regarding the scale of fiscal capacity for social finance investment collectively across Canada’s college sector. SPEnD interns developed strategies to collect and aggregate data on Canada’s college sector investment holdings in 2022.
Proposal for the reconstruction of Parking Lot 17 (Algonquin College Ottawa campus) with an accurate cost estimate.
| Client | ||
| Professor(s) | Francesco TangorraLaura McHugh | |
| Program | Civil Engineering Technology | |
| Student Team Members | Clayton Hart, Karson Vaillancourt, Bienfait Kongolo-Ngoya, Ioannis Mavrozoumis |
This Project proposes the reconstruction of parking lot 17 at the Algonquin College Ottawa campus. It provides a detailed cost estimate using surveying, AutoCAD, and estimating skills to determine the cost associated with upgrading the parking lot from gravel to a durable and safe paved surface.