College Roles in Assisting Industry with Commercialization The Fleming Model

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College Roles in Assisting Industry with
Commercialization The Fleming Model

• Nov. 04, 2004
• ACPPI Workshop/Conference
• Seneca _at_ York
• Toronto ON
• Peter Spasov, Fleming College

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Highlights

• Environment Background
• Applied Projects
• ATHAR spawned from CFI/OIT
• MMO
• CITO

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About Fleming College

• Peterborough campus includes St. Josephs, a long
  term care facility
• Lindsay campus is School of Natural Resources and
  Environmental Studies

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Peterborough

• Between Ottawa and Toronto
• Elderly population
• Gateway to Cottage Country
• Used to be the Electric City
• MNR, DNA Cluster Project, GPAEDC,
  Siemens/Milltronics
• The Petes

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Applied Projects

• A Problem-Based Learning Approach
• Final Semester course for 3-yr
• Computer Programmer Analyst
• Automation Engineering Technology
• Computer Engineering Technology
• Computer Securities and Investigations

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Applied Projects

• Project Sponsor
• Provides real-world problems to form basis of a
  project
• External or Internal Project Sponsors

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Applied Projects

• Curriculum
• Student team under guidance of faculty mentor
• Interdisciplinary skills throughout curriculum

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Applied Projects

• Process
• Establish projects - coordinator
• Plan projects course
• Execute projects semester
• Technology Showcase show off and party

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ATHAR

• Applied Technologies for Healthy Aging and
  Research
• Infrastructure funding from CFI/OIT

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ATHAR

• Develop and test
• Automation systems to assist activities in daily
  living
• Positional tracking, distress monitoring and
  other data of people and assets
• Fixed and mobile data and documentation
  management

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ATHAR

• Used Applied Projects to
• Stage some infrastructure
• Investigate proof of concepts
• Assist researchers

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MMO

• Materials and Manufacturing Ontario
• Connections program for undergraduates
• Participation in Partnerships
• Strategic discussions

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CITO

• Communications and Information Technology Ontario
• Monitor developments (e.g. Ad hoc wireless
  networks)
• Special sessions and showcases
• Networking

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CITO

• Ubiquitous Location Tracking (ULT) Project
• Develop prototype software and tag
• Partner with Wimcare
• Use 2 graduates plus some applied projects
  students

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CITO

• Role in U of T / Wimcare proposal in
  Context-aware networking
• Wimcare proceeding with commercialization
• ULT resulting in Intellectual Property

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Conclusion and Thank You

• Thank you
• QA