ACE Project Space - Industry Project Fall 2024
General
- Workforce Development
- 275 learners; individual projects
- 60 hours per learner
- Dates set by teams
- Educators assign learners to projects
- A maximum of 5 team(s) or 5 learner(s) per project.
Preferred companies
- 40 projects wanted
- Canada
- Payment by funder C$1,400.00
- Sole proprietorship, Startup, Family owned, Non profit, Small to medium enterprise
- Any industries
Categories
Skills
Overview
- Learner goals and capabilities
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The ACE Project Space is an interactive workspace where students, entrepreneurs, non-profit organizations and corporations collaborate to bring unique ideas to life. With the guidance of experienced staff and faculty, students of the Business Information Technology, Business Technology Management and Information Security programs work with industry clients to create prototypes, products and services that can be introduced to the market.
ACE Project Space - Industry Project
Demonstration of skills acquired in the student’s respective program of application development, data science, security, and IT Operations
Phases and Activities
Initiation
- Project kickoff and upskilling
- Requirements gathering
- Project Charter
- Proof of concept technical solution
Design
- Infrastructure set up
- Initial development of basic components
- Wireframing
- Determine database structure or data models
- Initial security evaluation
Develop & Test
- UX testing
- Feature development
- Feature testing
- Data labeling
- Model training
- Vulnerability assessment
Solution Launch & Transition
- Technical manual
- User manual
- Code handoff
- Solution presentation
Skills development
- Depending on the program of study a number of potential skills are developed
- Coding a comprehensive business solution based on client requirements
- Creating and training data models for predictive analytics
- Assessing application vulnerabilities and suggesting mitigation
- Creating business documentation outlining the requirements of a technical solution
- Communicating with a client regarding the progress of the technical solution
- Facilitating meetings with clients
- Performing analysis on client needs and designing a technical solution
- Expected outcomes and deliverables
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Project Goal: Work together with a group of peers that may belong to diverse programs to create a technical solution to a client problem following a standard methodology.
Project Examples
Project Examples:
Automating manual workflows to create efficiencies in a business environment
Creating commerce solutions for digital products
Servicing social enterprises to assist in affecting positive change in the community
Performing predictive analytics on business data
Categorizing and cataloging information using machine learning
Questions:
Are your an Indigenous entrepreneur
Does your project have an Indigenous focus
To participate, you may not be an organization that engages in partisan political activities; or a federal, provincial, territorial or municipal government or government agency; or a publicly funded post-secondary institution. By checking this box you acknowledge your company meets this requirement.
To participate, you must not be a member of the House of Commons or the Senate of Canada. By checking this box you confirm you meet this requirement.
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
What is the postal code of your organization?
What is the size of your organization?
Please provide your business number (BN).
If you do not have a 9-digit business number, what is the reason?
Is the leadership of your organization (founding employees/executives/etc.) a member of at least one of the following demographic groups?
To participate, you may not be an organisation that engages in partisan political activities; or a federal, provincial, territorial or municipal government or government agency; or a publicly funded post-secondary institution.
To participate, you must not be a member of the House of Commons or the Senate of Canada. By checking this box you confirm you meet this requirement.