Georgina Hackett, who completed her MASc degree in August, won first prize for best student poster at the Oceans '98 conference held in Nice, France in late September. The poster, entitled 'A Portable Simulation Facility for the Design of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles,' describes a computer-generated graphical animation of an undersea vehicle, its environment, and an instrument panel. The facility is intended to help designers of these vehicles visualize results and more easily understand the behaviour of proposed designs. The work was completed for Hackett's thesis and was supervised by Prof. Meyer Nahon in the department of mechanical engineering. There were 14 other student posters displayed at the conference, from countries such as the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Australia, and Armenia.
Dr. Michel P. Janisse, director of
co-operative education programs, recently presented a paper co-authored
with Dr. Geraldine Van Gyn (physical education) at the Asia Pacific Conference
on Co-operative Education in Hong Kong. The paper outlined the complex role
of the co-operative education professional who supplements the role of the
faculty; described the partnership among employers, faculty, and the co-op
coordinator; and discussed the co-ordinator's role in providing services
not only to the student, but also to the employer and the academic unit.
Janisse has also written a paper, "Co-operative Education: Helping
to do Business in China," that will appear in the November 1998 issue
of the Canada China Business Forum.