received $2M Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) ARTP2 funding for the FIBER initiative.

National Skills Competition before advancing to the 2015 World Skills in São Paulo, Brazil.

as 450 high school students took part in the FIRST Robotics Ontario Division Competition.

Our Humber FAST faculty, Carl Oliver and Dr. Shaun Ghafari (who took one for the team!) are co-chairs of the Humber College United Way Greater Toronto Campaign! Each year, Humber employees are asked to support United Way of Greater Toronto, through regular payroll deductions, one-time donations or by participating in fundraising activities. While the pies are all gone, please consider donating via payroll!

Sponsored by Diamond Schmitt architects, this competition engaged students to imagine the indigenous classroom in Humber’s Cultural Hub at Lakeshore campus. Feedback sessions were conducted with Diamond Schmitt project architects and designers as well as input from Jason Seright and Nahannee Shuitemaker from Humber Indigenous Education and Engagement. We look forward to seeing the winning projects!

to co-deliver the Bachelor of Engineering - Mechatronics degree.

➢Stackable badges for REVIT Levels 1, 2, and 3. Not the credential you need right now? Let us know of what others you’d like to see offered at Humber: ceappliedtech@humber.ca

➢ We are community builders. Last fall, FAST CE offered a 5-day intensive Bootcamp to build capacity of Energy Advisors in short supply across the GTA. Since then, FAST has partnered with the City of Toronto to help increase conservation literacy amongst community and sustainability leaders. Interested in getting involved? Our summer cohorts have filled, but check back next January and apply for one of our winter cohorts.

➢ Did you know…. FAST has partnered with Humber’s Community Outreach & Workforce Development (COWD) team in helping internationally-trained professionals find relevant work through bridging programs in IT, Engineering and Supply Chain Management.

• In 2018:
• 78% of bridging participants found employment in their field within six months of graduation.
• The average starting salary for bridging program grads was $54,000/year with some in the IT field starting with as high as $110, 000.
• 147 businesses hired from our bridging programs, including FedEx, Rogers, ADP, SOTI and DPM Energy.
• “DPM Energy has hired multiple graduates of Humber's Bridging Programs. These graduates have turned into valuable employees. Graduates from Humber rank more highly for us than those without these programs. It is a valuable asset when deciding who to hire for any of our openings.” - Michael Gentile, Senior Team Lead - DPM Energy
• Check out one of our Success Stories from a student perspective.

➢ New this Fall 2019!

Humber partners with Amazon to offer AWS Cloud Foundations course and certification AND Siemens to offer Siemens Mechatronics System Certification Program (SMSCP)-Level 1course and certification
Contact ceappliedtech@humber.ca for registration details.

➢ Visit here to search by Area(s) of Interests and discover all that Humber offers in continuing education across our six Faculties.

We are pleased to announce the addition of Optional Co-op streams in the following programs:

• Building Construction Technician
• Computer and Network Support Technician
• Computer Engineering Technology
• Construction Engineering Technology
• Electrical Engineering Technology – Control Systems
• Electromechanical Engineering Technology
• Electronics Engineering Technology
• Mechanical Engineering Technology
• Sustainable Energy and Building Technology

Starting with the Fall 2019 intake, students will have the option to participate in co-op at various points in their academic program. The co-op work terms will alternate between periods of academic study and are sequenced to best address the needs of industry and demand. Information about the co-op option will be available on program webpages and the Work Placement Services website.

The Skills Canada National Competition (SCNC) is the only national, multi-trade and technology competition for students and apprentices in the country. It included more than 550 competitors in 40 competitions, representing six sectors.

Humber students participated in the following categories:

3D Digital Game Art (Gold)
Student participant: Rushi Patel (by special invitation)
Coach: Cory Avery

Photography
Student participant: Catherine Guarini
Coach: David Scott

Baking (Gold)
Student participant: Stefanie Francavilla
Coach: Sergio Shidomi

Mechatronics (Gold)
Student participants: Mateusz Cwaliniski and Bogdan Malynovskyy
Coach: Neal Mohammed
Assistant Coaches: Anthony Nyman, Mauricio Toigo (Student Mentor/Coach)

The Gold medal winners now pre-qualify to compete in the 45th Worldskills Competition in Russia in August 2019.

Congratulations to all of the winners and participants.

The Skills Ontario Competition is Canada's largest skilled trade and technology competition, which offers a unique opportunity for top students to demonstrate their talents and skills. Over two and a half days, they capture the attention of their educators, family, friends and prospective employers. Winners are awarded with Gold, Silver or Bronze medals, including monetary awards and the opportunity to compete in the Skills Canada National Competition after which they have a chance to move on to World Skills Competition.

Numerous Humber students, from different fields, gave their best in the competitions, and brought home medals.

Congratulations to all competitors and winners for making Humber proud. We can't wait to see what the future holds for all of you!

Automation & Controls
Everest Bezati - Bronze

Electronics
Brendan Woo - Gold
Nicholas Roos - Silver

Heating Systems
Wylie Gallant - Bronze

Horticulture & Landscape Design Team of Two
Patrick Misko & Taylor Schottroff - Bronze

Landscape Design
Thales Leonardo DaSilva - Gold
Raymond Ho - Silver

Mechanical CADD
Keiran O'Neil - Bronze

Mechatronics Team of Two
Hartej Tapia & Marko Gunja - Gold
Sunhail Mohammed & Alex Mosor - Silver

Approximately 30 teams competed in the cross Canada competition, simulcast from the University of Calgary, St. Mary's University (Halifax) and the McMaster Degroote School of Business in Burlington. The team advanced as one of the top five to the National round. Congratulations to Humber's SCMA case team on their achievement.

The team competed against 200 teams from around the world and qualified for the regional case competition that took place simultaneously on February 23-24 in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Chicago, Costa Mesa, Mexico City, Parsippany, and Toronto. Congratulations to Humber's APICS case team for advancing to the regional round.

Bahar Honarpisheh and Sophie Bisnaire have won the Festival of Lights competition for their incredible work on the Radisson Hotel.

"The top student-designed venue was the Radisson Hotel and Suites Fallsview. Students Sophie Bisnaire and Bahar Honarpisheh created an arctic woodland theme featuring a giant polar bear as the focal point. The duo scored a $1,500 bursary in support of their education for their efforts." - Richard Hutton

The two electromechanical engineering grads, who previously won gold in mechatronics at Skills Ontario and Skills Canada, also won Best In Nation for their performance among the other Canadian competitors.

This is the first time Canadian competitors have won a medal at the bi-annual WorldSkills competition. They were the only Canadian team that medaled this year.

Theo and Avery were coached by Neal Mohammed, Anthony Nyman and Mauricio Toigo, and were supported by many others in the Humber community as well as numerous industry partners.

Congratulations to Theo and Avery!

Students participated in a variety of competitions, including culinary, cabinetmaking and mechatronics. Humber did extremely well this year, winning three gold, two silver and two bronze medals.

Congratulations to all our winners:

• Derick Cheaney won gold in the Mechanical CAD competition.
• Spencer Brown won gold in the Cabinetmaking competition.
• Mateusz Cwalinski and Bogdan Malynovskyy won gold in the Mechatronics competition.
• David Anselmo and Zachary Goodman won silver in the Mechatronics competition.
• Divya Manivannan won bronze for the IT Software Solutions for Business competition.
• Andrew Vassallo won bronze for the Automation and Control competition.
• Brie Girdler won silver in the Landscape Design competition.

Last month they stowed their laptops away for a day, heading to Brampton wearing hard hats and safety shoes. The students - Rami Dawood, Alexeis Nicole, Meliza Macapinlac, Victoria MacQuarrie, Amal Shaikh-Deeb, Claire Formosa, Nour Kassab, Alaa Elsawi, Elena Panzica, Natascha Del Prete Silva, Jhutty Rajvir, Lilit Ayrapetyan, Talia Missaghi, Samanta Sébastien, Sharon Murad, Hanan Hmeed and Yi Wu Lin - participated in a Habitat for Humanity build day.

The enthusiastic group worked an eight-hour volunteer shift leveling dirt, installing scaffolding structure and scaffolding flooring and transporting building materials.

Gaya Mohapatra, Kaileigh Wicha, Sukhveer Dhaliwal, Pradip Sharma and Tomas Suliman competed against 15 other teams at the District level after beating a number of other college teams from the Greater Toronto Area.

The Fresh Connection APICS Global Student Challenge is an annual competition between student teams from across the world. Students work together in teams of four to make the best strategic and tactical choices for the value chain to save the virtual company, The Fresh Connection, from financial ruin.

Each team member becomes either Vice President Purchasing, Vice President Operations, Vice President Sales or Vice President Supply Chain. Together they have to make the company profitable again by getting the highest possible return on investment.

“To win the competition, our students used a secret strategy that we teach – we call it collaboration,” says Angelo Crupi, Supply Chain Management program coordinator.

Humber Bachelor of Interior Design student, Tiam Rahmani, has placed in an international student design competition – the only one from a Canadian postsecondary institution to do so.

Rahmani, who is in her fourth year of the program, won third prize in the PAVE Student Design Competition, store design category.

Her task was to create an innovative design for Kroger (a United States grocery chain) and its “Total Health” section of the store.

This marks the ninth time a Humber grad has won this prestigious award. Recipients also receive a $5,000 bursary in their name to support current students at the college.

As the third-place winner, Rahmani took home $1500, got to travel to New York to accept her award at the Planning and Visual Education (PAVE) gala, and has been invited to the Student Program at Retail’s BIG Show, a three-day conference, in New York next month.

Hosted at the Learning Resource Commons, the event drew over 30 attendees and featured professional guest speakers from government, safety standards, health and safety association and consulting.

This exciting conference highlighted the importance of various aspects of Health and Safety within the workplace. It also provided students the opportunity to network with each other as well as with seasoned professionals from industry. Speakers focused on various strategies to prevent workplace injuries including health and safety accreditation, safety standards, Ministry of Labour regulations and the importance of psychological health.

Overall, the conference was informative and contained interesting information from experts within the Health and Safety industry. We extend sincere thanks to the following people who helped to make the conference a success: Carl Oliver—Director of Professional & Continuing Education for the School of Applied Technology, John Sammut—Manager of Strategic Programs, Infrastructure Health and Safety Association (IHSA), Nancy Bestic—Director of Health and Safety, CSA Group, Elizabeth Rankin-Horvath—President of Hale Health and Safety Solutions, and Dr. Gloria Rachamin—Prevention Office at the Ontario Ministry of Labour (MOL).

For more information about the conference, please contact:

Humber students went head-to-head with strong European competitors from Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, and Hungary. The second day of the competition will be challenging as the students will need to build, commission, program and integrate a system with new technology that has never been seen before. We are looking forward to the challenge.

The theme of the event was “know before you fly,” a message supported by Transport Canada, the Model Aeronautics Association of Canada and Unmanned Systems Canada.

The competition consisted of a visual merchandising category and a store design category; it also provided an excellent opportunity for students to obtain real-life retail design experience. Prizes included grants to students and schools, and winning students may even see their designs come to life. This annual competition is geared toward college-level students involved in retail planning, visual merchandising, and branding programs. Judging took place on November 8, 2016 at FRCH Design Worldwide located in Cincinnati, Ohio.

“Kroger is very proud to once again sponsor the 2016 PAVE International Student Design Competition. This year's project submissions reflect a remarkably high degree of engagement and design talent representing a broad diversity of schools and design programs across the globe. We look forward to continuing our connection to the PAVE organization and with participating schools and students in the coming years. Kroger congratulates each of the finalists and extends our appreciation to every student that submitted solutions for this year's competition.” - Ken Pray, Kroger Corporate Director of Store Design

Congratulations to the following PAVE 2016 Student Design Competition Winners:

Visual Merchandising Category 
1st Place - $5,000 – Emma White, Appalachian State University 
2nd Place - $2,500 – Katie Taylor, Appalachian State University 
3rd Place - $1,500 – Rebecca Ballard, Appalachian State University

Store Design Category
1st Place - $5,000 – Elizabeth Hundley, Appalachian State University 
2nd Place - $2,500 – Rui Yang, FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising
3rd Place - $1,500 – Tiam Rahmani, Humber College

School Awards for Students Placing in the Top Three of Each Category
$4,000 Appalachian State University 
$1,000 FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising
$1,000 Humber College

Josh Gadomski, from the same class was a finalist in the same competition. Their were 10 finalists (including the three eventual winners) and 10 honourable mentions beyond that.

This is a great achievement - the Michelin Challenge Design Competition is an established worldwide competition and the competition is always very stiff. We have had students achieve "Honourable Mentions" in the past (Ryan Ebbers in the 2016 competition and Jordie Lewis in the 2011 competition), but this is the first and only time that we have placed in the Michelin Challenge.

To have had two students from a single studio class be considered finalists in a worldwide competition is very special indeed. 

HSF hosted a design competition for outdoor furniture last fall, and received a number of incredible entries.  The winning design was submitted by Kimberlyn Dampitan of the Bachelor of Industrial Design program.  Her concept was to add a playful, retro feeling to the space by creating life-sized Tetris pieces that can be moved into different configurations based on how students want to use the furniture.

Once the design was chosen, HSF commissioned students in the Industrial Woodworking Technician and Cabinet Making program to build the pieces. Over the winter semester, Allen Picanco, Richard Eng, and A.J. Zumpano constructed the pieces using a variety of hand tools and CNC equipment.

The HSF student executives, builders, and designer were able to meet this week to officially unveil the new furniture.

With only one other woman in Shelly's small shop, which is home to several Humber graduates, her gender has never been an issue. “It’s a very team-oriented environment and everyone feels equal in our shop. Humber brings up cabinetmakers that are respectful,” she says. “I would encourage young women in high school to take woodworking and other trades courses. The sooner you figure out doing what you love, the longer you can enjoy doing it.”

Two native seed mixes, as well as the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario standard roadside seed mix, are being tested. Ben Doerksen, a work-study from the Landscape Technician program is assisting with the research. Humber School of Applied Technology instructor Lynn Short is a partner and co-applicant for this project.

Phase I of an outdoor study examining the effect of cover crops (oats, annual ryegrass, and pearl millet) on weed suppression prior to the establishment of native plants is also being completed. A literature review and a list of recommendations for future research will be compiled. The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority is an external partner of Humber College in this research.

This wall will be built by Visual Elements and showcased at Globalshop 2017 in Vegas. There are 8 teams of 4th-year students that will be competing within Humber BID for this project.  

Students were invited to meet Andy Thaemert of NIKE (Senior Creative Director of Global Retail Design) at Visual Elements who gave the students feedback on their preliminary proposals. They were then given a tour of the impressive manufacturing facilities of Visual Elements by Robert Turk, John Simmen and Randy Simmen.

A video conference feedback session was held recently with Andy Thaemert, Randy Simmen and Neal Claassen from So Showcases (PAVE representative) to allow each of the 8 student teams 15 minutes for feedback on their proposals sent to NIKE.

The winning team will be chosen by NIKE and Visual Elements. The scheme will be built in Toronto by Visual Elements to be showcased at Globalshop in Las Vegas on March 2017.

The winning team will have the opportunity to travel to Vegas for Globalshop and for the construction of the proposal for the NIKE wall. Final presentations are tentatively scheduled for Dec.1

At Canada's largest environmental education center, The Kortright Centre, they met to create a Sustainable Design Space. This interdisciplinary project took students outside of the classroom and gave them the experience of working with a client that engaged both their program skills as well as their soft skills. The experience allowed them to have a taste of the real world while still being students in their respective programs.

This campaign happens every year and is a collaboration between Umbra and Target. In 2015, Target showcased 3 designs created by Humber 3rd year industrial designs students; the Flip top Laptop Tray, the Over-the-Door-Laundry-Bag and Over-the-Door-Organizer were displayed in Target stores all the over the US. 

Once again, our students wowed the judges in the 2016 challenge. The four 2016 Humber design winners were: 

• The TRIFOLD Wall Organizer by Adam Sherk and Eric O'Niel
• The CONTOUR Over the Wood Hooks by Anthony Gibson & Veronica Hernandez
• The POSE Wall Mirror Shelf designed by Daniel Puntillo & Leyland Gard
• The BEND Bookend and Desk Organizer designed by Ben Nobels & Elizabeth Muhrbeck

The new range of products had just been launched last week at Target Retail for the 2016 campaign. In addition to the 4 new designs chosen this year, one of the previous design: "FLIPTOP Lap Top Tray" has been selected to continue production for 2016, as seen among the retail display. The designs were chosen between 3 other schools between Canadian and the US. We are very proud that our Humber students have designed 5 of the 10 designs chosen for this year's campaign. 

Interested in purchasing these awesome new products for your return to school? Target now ships to Canada!

Congratulations to our students and happy shopping!  

The Post-Secondary Institutions Strategic Investment Fund (SIF) will help Canadian colleges and universities improve the quality of facilities dedicated to innovation, training, research and environmental sustainability. Colleges were requested to submit projects that met funding criteria and a substantial completion requirement of April 2018. 

We are very excited to announce that the School of Applied technology has applied for the funding of the Centre for Technology and Innovation (North Campus). 

Preliminary planning is underway with the School of Applied Technology, the School of Media Studies and Information Technology and Humber Research to develop a state-of-the-art idea accelerator, with programs focused on sustainable building practices, automated manufacturing and human-centered, technology-enabled solutions. Planning is in progress for the construction of a 70,000-square-foot building that will be located in the area that is currently parking lot 3A, between the LRC and the University of Guelph-Humber building.