Applying Innovation Course -Working with External Companies

• Fall 2010
  • Town of Newmarket – Water Tower Infrastructure Sharing Program
  • Del Equipment Trucks – Operations Innovation Project
  • Hatch Associates – An Investigation into Reducing the Energy Costs for a New Build 200MW Nickel Smelter in Halmahera, Indonesia
  • Hatch Associates – Way Forward for Sustainability of Mining Business in Developing Nations
• Winter 2012
  • Samco Machinery and Solar – Development of Global Growth Strategies
  • Infonaut – Development of Business and Product Strategy for a Hospital Sterilization Tracking System
  • Clear Blue Technologies – Development of Business and Product Strategy for Solar Street Lights
  • Bordin Racer – Development of a Business and Product Strategy for an Anti-pollution Door Strip
• Winter 2013
  • Butterfly Energetics – Assessed the Major Government Policy Regulating the Renewable Energy Market
  • Samco Machinery- Development of a Programme Management Office (PMO)
  • Good Robot – Development of a Business Direction for a Home Monitoring System for Senior Citizens
  • Fleetmetrica – Assessing the Efficacy of a Metrics-based Transport Vehicle fleet Safety Solution
  • Solarship – Aircraft Manufacture Start up – Implement ISO 9000 Certification Readiness Capability
• Fall 2014
  • Messier-Buggati-Dowty – Build to Spec Process Optimization
  • Pratt & Whitney Canada – Effective and Optimized Technology Portfolio Management
  • Hatch Associates – Improving the Business Development Information Infrastructure
  • Triumph Group – A Quantitative, Feature-based, Risk Management Approach for New Product Development
  • Siemens – Improving the Quality Management Culture
• Winter 2016
  • Siemens – Optimizing the Supply Chain for the Building Technologies Division
  • Messier-Dowty-Bugatti – Identification and Communication of Risks at the Product Development Phase: 17 Steps Innovation Approach
  • Celestica – Strategic Management and Design Considerations for the Factory of the Future
  • Triumph – Improving the Manufacturing Cycle time in the Production of Jet Engine Shafts
  • Relish – Developing a Business Transformation and Directional Plan Strategy

• Winter 2017
  • Samco Machinery – Implementing a Performance Measurement System
  • Siemens – Carbon Tax Project and Preparing for Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD)
  • Fibos – Determining Market Potential and Strategy for Fiber-Optic Sensors.
  • Safran (Messier Dowty-Bugatti) – Developing a Supplier Management Simulation
  • Crystal Fountains – Analysis and evaluation of the investment measures and innovation performance
  • Triumph – Improving Shop Floor Control and Labor Reporting

• Winter 2018
  • Bombardier Aerospace 1 – Improving Inventory Optimization in the Q400 aircraft programme (obsolescence, order policy, forecasting)
  • Bombardier Aerospace 2 – Improving Methods engineering- Aircraft Modifications design / build Process
  • Pratt & Whitney – Fostering employee engagement in Innovation – solve the problem of poor response rate in submission of innovative ideas
  • Samco Machinery – Reduce throughput time by eliminating the papers/unnecessary process steps between M6 (Design Verification) and M7 (Release to Production Control).
  • Fibos – Developing a Marketing Approach to enter into the turbine industry in power and aerospace sectors
  • Crystal Fountains –Developing a formalized innovation management process

• Fall 2019
  • Samco Machinery- Leveraging Samco Machinery’s Core Competencies
  • Crystal Fountains – review and develop strategies to alleviate current lags in its new product development process
  • Schneider Electric – Micro Grid Brand Recognition Project
  • Proxima – Startup in the creation of an escape room – starship simulator
  • JMR Plastics – Feasibility analysis of plastic pallet business

• Fall 2015-Full Semester
  • Supply Chain Management in Chemical Processes – Hazardous Waste
  • JIT/Lean in Supply Chain Management
  • Operational Management of Renewable Energy Systems
  • ERP Systems in Electronics and ERP in Operations Oil and Gas Industry (Exploration, Drilling, Fracturing, Production, Transportation, Refining, Marketing)
  • Process Improvements in the Automotive Industry – Plant Layout
  • Maintenance Management in the Oil and Gas Industry

• Spring 2016 – 10 Day Version
  • Lean Aerospace-Lean Manufacturing in the Aerospace Industry
  • Knowledge based Engineering in Conceptual Design
  • Residential Solar System Maintenance and Disposal Operations
  • Artificial Intelligence Applications in Automotive Manufacturing Operations

• Fall 2016 – Full Semester
  • Operations Management in Nuclear
  • Approach to planning and Scheduling in Supply Chain Management
  • Aerospace Manufacturing Ops– Boeing 787 Dreamliner
  • Operations in Food Manufacturing  (FMCG) Best Practices
  • Outsourcing Management
  • Renewables (Hydro, Wind, Solar)

• Spring 2017 – 10 Day Version
  • Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) maintenance operations and materials management2) Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing
  • Artificial Intelligence applied to Automated Manufacturing Operations
  • Applications of ‘Machine Learning’ and general mathematical methods in Logistics management:
  • Operational Strategies in Oil and Gas:
  • Visual Information Control in Era of Big Data – Using Traffic System Method

• Fall 2017 – Full Semester
  • Operations Strategy In The Food and Beverage Industry: Steam Whistle Brewing
  • Best Practices of Management of Nuclear Waste
  • Factory Automation and Robotics – State of the Art
  • Operational Management of the Oil Sands
  • Automated Machine Learning in various sectors
  • Comparison of Financial Operations dealing with Loans in Canada

• Spring 2018 – 10 Day Version
  • Air Force One – Managing transit operations for the President of the United States
  • Blockchain in Supply Chain- when Two Chains Combine
  • Crowd Sourcing and the Last Mile
  • Managing Urban Infrastructure Construction Development
  • Compare Logistics management between China V USA

• Fall 2018 – 100% Online
  • Mass Customization in Health Beauty and Fashion Ops
  • Process Design Across Various Industries -Automation, Lean Operations, and Maintenance Management in Automotive Industry
  • Operations in Hydroelectric Energy.
  • CAD and CAM system affects production and manufacturing processes across various industries –
  • Consumer Packaged Good(CPG) companies – the top 3 OM best practices
  • Airport Operations Management
  • Role of Project Management in OM (applying AI in Aerospace and Automotive)

• Summer  2019
  • The Transformation of Chinese Industry based on Industrial 4.0
  • Government Regulatory Impact on Operations & Production Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry
  • Data Science in the Aviation Industry

• Winter 2020
  • The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Supply Chain Management
  • AI Digital Twins- “living” simulation model designed to mirror some physical system in the real world (i.e. an airport, manufacturing plant, etc.)
  • Alibaba-The Chinese Leading Disruptive Change

APS1203 –Engineering Teaching and Learning for Prospective Professors.

This courses was run once as a substitute teacher and consistent of the following content

Course Overview – This course is designed for people with an interest in furthering their understanding of curriculum, teaching and learning, and in particular within the context of the engineering education. Basic concepts in curriculum, teaching and learning, and current research in the field of engineering education will be introduced and discussed. By the end of the course, students should have an understanding of the important models, ideas, and literature that currently inform the practice of teaching in engineering and science at the university level. Using this knowledge, all participants will create a portfolio that showcases elements of course design. Several in-class activities will support the development of this portfolio.

This course also includes a microteaching component, in which students will have the opportunity to develop and teach a short lesson to classmates. Through this, we will explore the mechanics of good teaching, common patterns in teaching and the benefits of reflection and peer assessment in teaching. APS1203 sessions have a significant emphasis on collaboration, teamwork and discussion, so please be prepared to participate!

MIE459 Course Description:

This course examines how engineers as managers can create more effective organizations. We focus on the following areas for improving organizational effectiveness:

• The role of Management in Organizational Design
• Organizational Design and Business Strategy
• Alternative organizational structures, such as functional, divisional, geographic, matrix, and horizontal structures
• Techniques for managing an organization’s dependencies on its external (resource) environment
• Manufacturing and Service Organizations
• Managing Technology in organizations
• Conflict, power, and politics within an organization
• The role of innovation, managing change and organizational learning.

This courses was built on past research and hands on strategic management practice in variety of organizations.

• Winter 2014
  • The Keys to NFL’s Organizational Success
  • Online Shopping – Amazon, eBay
  • Video-subscription Services
  • The Emergence of Global Airline Alliances (GALs) – Rise of Star Alliance
  • Role of Women in an Organization and How it has Changed over the Past 100 Years
  • Military Organization of the NAVY Seals
  • How Elon Musk Sets up his Organizations
  • Upper Management Leadership Styles – Impact on Organizational Design
  • Recruitment Industry
  • Clothing Industry
  • How Organizational Design in

• Winter 2016
  •  Western Work Culture China
  • Apples Success
  • IPhone.
  • Target Canada.
  • Work Culture
  • Startups Demystified
  • Googles Alphabet
  • Uber Ride to Top
  • Enron
  • Impact Labor Costs
  • Rome Military – Secrets of Organizational Success
  • Aviation Safety Culture
  • Ghengis Khan Leadership Style
  • Leadership in Sports
  • E-Commerce China
  • Team Charter Petrobas Corrupt
  • Google Docs Impact
  • USA Veterans

• Winter 2017                                                                                                                                          
  • Solar Energy
  • Mongol empire expansion and organization (12th and 13th century)
  • McDonalds Organizational Approach
  • Acquisition Analysis
  • Canada Post Operations (past, present, Future)
  • Prison-Industrial complex (private prisons in the US)
  • Gambinbo Crime Family
  • Bombardier Problems With C Series
  • Have big banks become “too big to fail”?
  • Walmart Organizational Approach
  • Uber’s organizational structural
  • Impact Brexit on GM
  • AirBnB Disruptive Innovation
  • Dictatorships (Hitler and Pinochet)
  • Zara (Past Present Future) – the worlds biggest fashion retailer
  • 16- Samsung Electronics

• Winter 2018                                                                                                                                          
  • Indigo: How well does the corporate Culture Support its Success
  • An Analysis of Uber’s Organizational Structure and Culture
  • Amazon: Gold Standard Culture for Innovation
  • Analyzing Amazon’s Organizational Structure
  • TESLA Evolving from The Dealership Model
  • FedEx Operational Design Characteristics
  • Integrating Banks into The Digital Age (Focusing on RBC Bank)
  • FedEx Operational Success factors
  • Rise of a Typical Chinese Manufacturing Tycoon
  • Google Critical Success Factors
  • E-Commerce in China
  • The East India Company (EIC)
  • Starbucks Organizational Design Approach
  • Pepsi Beverages Canada
  • Valve – Successes, Failures & Impacts of Digital Gaming
  • Domino’s Pizza Success Analysis
  • Restricting for Global Success: Huawei’s OD Strategy
  • Holacracy: Fad or Future