Data Analysis Research Assistant

The project necessitates proficiency in computer programming and skills for qualitative data analysis, interpretation, and visualizing findings. A background in coding is essential, as is the ability to categorize qualitative data for applying statistical methods, particularly with non-numeric attributes. Proficiency in engaging with qualitative data to extract meaningful insights, identify trends, and discover correlations is a critical requirement. The project's culmination will be a paper underpinned by supporting visualizations and statistical evidence.

Level- UP - MacEwan- Tutorial videos for Datasets application -4

We would like students to help us with creating content that is aligned with our vision, mission, and sector. We will ensure the student has a clear understanding of what these elements are for our organization. The aim of this project is to create promotional videos and tutorials for a group of web-based educational tools. We need a team of students to capture, edit and create promotional videos and tutorials for those educational tools. The project is composed of two new phases. Phase 3: Capture, edit and create promotional videos, in addition to some tutorial videos Phase 4: Capture, edit and create tutorial videos for the applications. We will provide guidance to all students.

Level- UP - MacEwan- Tutorial videos for Datasets application -3

We would like students to help us with creating content that is aligned with our vision, mission, and sector. We will ensure the student has a clear understanding of what these elements are for our organization. The aim of this project is to create promotional videos and tutorials for a group of web-based educational tools. We need a team of students to capture, edit and create promotional videos and tutorials for those educational tools. The project is composed of two new phases. Phase 3: Capture, edit and create promotional videos, in addition to some tutorial videos Phase 4: Capture, edit and create tutorial videos for the applications. We will provide guidance to all students.

A Framework for Developing and Assessing Programming Skills using H5P and Moodle Phase #2

Assessing student’s knowledge and skills for programming is often limited to their knowledge of the language and coding ability. Development tools are often an overlooked aspect of programming. Some attempt have been made to add content to courses but it is often difficult to assess student skills through traditional means. Combining H5P content with Moodle offers an interactive way for students to learn, practice, and instructors to assess skills as opposed to assess knowledge. The goal of this project is to design and develop a framework for H5P content for learning and developing skills using tools such as: Vim, Make, and Gdb.

Level UP CDA Updating MacEwanLife Resources Phase #2

Review and update existing ML resources including documents, videos and links. We are hopeful to continue the creation of competency badges that students worked on this summer. There are an additional four competencies to create for MacEwanLife. We are also creating certificates for a number of other events and would love the student to take this on, as well.

Level UP: Earth Common Journal - Volume 10 phase 2

Earth Common Journal is creating, developing, and publishing its Volume 9, Issue 1 - "Influence" (2023). Earth Common Journal ( ECJ ) is an international undergraduate peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum where students communicate a diversity of ideas and information on issues concerning conservation, sustainability, and climate adaptation. ECJ is published by the MacEwan University Bachelor of Communication Studies program. It is published annually each fall, with its inaugural issue released in 2011. The journal accepts articles from all disciplines, and includes research projects that are empirical, qualitative, creative, and interdisciplinary in content and approach. It also accepts articles from students internationally, to provide global perspectives and discussions on conservation, sustainability, and climate adaptation. Students in the disciplines of communication, journalism, editing, media, public relations, and writing are being sought to create this issue.

Student Connect Event

The student connect event will bring together students and community stakeholders to support the unhoused population in Edmonton. There are 2 main parts of the project, the first is that the student will consult with inner city organizations to understand how students at MacEwan University (across various faculties) can contribute their skills to assist in addressing the housing crisis. The second part of this project involves collaborating with students, professors and stakeholders at MacEwan University who are interested in these supports and services.

Optimization methods for agriculture insurance

This project is an application of mathematical modelling and optimization to a livestock insurance problem. The goal is to analyze various scenarios from a farmer’s perspective and to minimize the loss. The main idea is to design and implement in Python a numerical simulation, including various scenarios in terms of the farm size and insurance premiums.  

A Scoping Review on the Knowledge Gaps in the Current Literature Critical Race Theory and Anti-Black Racism Framework in Social Work Education, Research, and Practice - Winter 2024

This proposed research is a scoping review. This type of methodology seeks to undertake a comprehensive search of the breadth and scope of all available literature pertaining to the research topic and question. The main purpose of conducting a scoping study is to identify gaps in existing literature, to summarize and synthesize research findings from existing literature. The data will be amassed from published peer-reviewed academic publications in English from 2000 to 2022 through key word searches such as ‘social work and critical race theory  and education ,’ and ‘social work and anti-Black racism  and research’  in order to extract relevant data. Some of the electronic databases that would be used are  EBSCO and ProQuest.  The abstract of articles will be reviewed to ensure they meet the  keyword  search criteria. Those that are not a good fit will be eliminated at this stage. This process will be followed by an extensive review of the articles’ content  to complete the final selection of eligible articles. This will be followed by the charting of emergent themes.  The scoping review will be concluded with a written report of the findings.

Level UP: Earth Common Journal - Volume 10 Student Editors

Earth Common Journal is creating, developing, and publishing its Volume 9, Issue 1 - "Influence" (2023). Earth Common Journal ( ECJ ) is an international undergraduate peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum where students communicate a diversity of ideas and information on issues concerning conservation, sustainability, and climate adaptation. ECJ is published by the MacEwan University Bachelor of Communication Studies program. It is published annually each fall, with its inaugural issue released in 2011. The journal accepts articles from all disciplines, and includes research projects that are empirical, qualitative, creative, and interdisciplinary in content and approach. It also accepts articles from students internationally, to provide global perspectives and discussions on conservation, sustainability, and climate adaptation. Students in the disciplines of communication, journalism, editing, media, public relations, and writing are being sought to create this issue.

Level UP: Earth Common Journal - Volume 10

Earth Common Journal is creating, developing, and publishing its Volume 9, Issue 1 - "Influence" (2023). Earth Common Journal ( ECJ ) is an international undergraduate peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum where students communicate a diversity of ideas and information on issues concerning conservation, sustainability, and climate adaptation. ECJ is published by the MacEwan University Bachelor of Communication Studies program. It is published annually each fall, with its inaugural issue released in 2011. The journal accepts articles from all disciplines, and includes research projects that are empirical, qualitative, creative, and interdisciplinary in content and approach. It also accepts articles from students internationally, to provide global perspectives and discussions on conservation, sustainability, and climate adaptation. Students in the disciplines of communication, journalism, editing, media, public relations, and writing are being sought to create this issue.

Chemistry Laboratory Redesign and Testing

The main goal for the project is to redesign and test the introductory chemistry laboratories at MacEwan University- Department of Physical Sciences. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: - Analyzing the current structure and content of the introductory chemistry laboratories. - Designing a new curriculum and laboratory layout that enhances the learning experience for students. - Testing the new curriculum and laboratory layout with a focus group of students and faculty. - Making adjustments based on feedback and finalizing the redesigned laboratories.

Assisting Research for a Project Developing Inclusive Gender Based Violence Prevention Education

The student will engage with the Principal Investigator on a project to reduce gender-based violence, particularly for 2SLGBTQ+, Black, Indigenous, People of Colour (BIPOC), and disabled youth, through educational initiatives. The project examines and develops both sexuality education and gender-based violence prevention as the foremost methods of preventing gender-based violence.

Preserving Edmonton’s 2SLGBTQ+ History

This student project will work with team members to support the organization and digitization of important 2SLGBTQ+ community records and archival documents as part of the Edmonton Queer History Project. This may include work locating records in the City of Edmonton Archives, Province of Alberta Archives, and other sources. 

Essay Marking Database

This project involves the creation of an essay marking database in Microsoft Excel or some other comparable and accessible software program. The purpose of this database is to facilitate providing comments for students written work. The database will be populated with common essay comments (ie. you need to proofread carefully, or you need to provide a deeper level of analysis with regards to your thesis) so that the instructor only needs to type a corresponding keystroke for the desired comments to be populated in a Microsoft Word file. This database will also need to be updatable so that instructors can add comments which will be useful for their marking in the future.

Exploring Light and Shadows with Elm Tree Theatre

Elm Tree Theatre is seeking to expand the way we work with very young / early years audiences by developing a theatrical experience that explores dimensions of light and shadow. We need to explore some potential large and small scale light and shadow opportunities (using objects, coloured light, large and small screens, and children as shadow-makers). This project seeks to develop a range of offerings for children to test so that we can learn more about what resonates for them, and how they respond and make meaning with the materials we offer. This very early exploration work is essential before seeking to develop a production.

A Framework for Developing and Assessing Programming Skills using H5P and Moodle

Assessing student’s knowledge and skills for programming is often limited to their knowledge of the language and coding ability. Development tools are often an overlooked aspect of programming. Some attempt have been made to add content to courses but it is often difficult to assess student skills through traditional means. Combining H5P content with Moodle offers an interactive way for students to learn, practice, and instructors to assess skills as opposed to assess knowledge. The goal of this project is to design and develop a framework for H5P content for learning and developing skills using tools such as: Vim, Make, and Gdb.

Level UP- MacEwan: Data sets creation - Winter 2024

We would like students to help us with creating content that is aligned with our vision, mission, and sector. We will ensure the student has a clear understanding of what these elements are for our organization. The project is a project that is developing a web-based application to generate synthetic datasets for students. The application is to create datasets either based on tools actual data provided by the user, or the user can create their own customized data sets. The application creates a unique dataset for each studentinstructor, allows the isntructor to create queries, and then marks the students' submissions. The project is composed of three phases. Phase 1: Creation of synthetic datasets. Phase 2: Develop a customization process for creating the datasets. Phase 3: Developing a dataset test bank. Phase 4: Creating a query builder for the instructor. Phase 5: Develop a process to mark the student's answers to the query. We will provide guidance to all students.

Community Engaged Learning Project Leadership for Delivery Quality.

First-year BECCS students created informative and engaging brochures on various child development topics, aiming to benefit community partners, children, and families. The project's structure and goals were designed for undergraduate students to collaborate closely with community partners specialized in early childhood education and family support. They produced brochures addressing various child development issues, providing valuable information to parents, caregivers, educators, and others involved in child upbringing and welfare. This project will involve a team of students ensuring the quality of each brochure delivered to the community organizations. 

Zebrafish pharmacology and behavioural neuroscience phase 2

This project will involve examination of pharmacological compounds on the behaviorual response of zebrafish. Compounds will be applied both acutely and repeatedly to examine a potential differential impact. Students will be involved in the experiment, data collection, analysis, and the drafting of the results.

Integrals for Hopf algebras

In the pure algebraix setting, it is known that there exists a non-unital Hopf algebra which does not admit an integral. The project we are proposing is to extend this example to the case of Hopf C*-algebra. The main difficulty is to deal with the setting of norm topology.

Reach for the Stars

 Student-led networking event for industry professionals and students in the Dept of Communication. The event is designed to foster student success, engagement and retention. This has been a successful annual event that started last year. It led to further mentoring sessions and connections for potential field place. The members of the student organizing team also ended getting a job after graduation. 

MacEwan Storywalk

The MacEwan Storywalk project aims to create an engaging, interactive walking experience combining storytelling elements and engaging in enriching activities (e.g., visiting the library makerspace). Students will design interconnected narratives highlighting important parts of a StoryWalk that will be installed on the MacEwan University campus (between buildings 7,6 and 5). The project will enhance the storytelling experience, making it educational and engaging for participants.

SoB - Teaching Assistant for Principles of Accounting course- Winter 2024

The main goal of this project is to assist faculty members who are teaching Principles of Accounting at MacEwan University in creating examples, developing model answers to questions and supporting the study of other students. This includes connecting with faculty members to get guidance and then helping other students in understanding some topics.

Collection and Programs Assistant

This position will support one of the MAG’s public programs and help with research and administration of the campus art collection  · Supporting the set-up, facilitation, and clean-up of Art Buffet on Wednesdays from 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. · Supporting the art collection in the following ways: Research on artists in the art collection Support artwork inventory details, condition reporting of artwork, digitization of files

Design Anthropology Community Engaged Research – Pedagogy Intern

In January 2024, students from MacEwan’s 4 year applied anthropology class will embark on the final stage of community engaged research with our community partner, the John L. Haar Library. Amber Shergill is a fourth-year student with expertise in ethnographic research methods, community engaged research, and field studies. 

Student Statistical Consultant Program

The Student Statistical Consultant Program aims to provide practical hands-on experience to the students by engaging them in real-world consulting projects. This program serves as a bridge between theoretical knowledge gained in the classroom and applying statistical methodologies to address practical problems raised by clients. Student consultants will work on a variety of projects, collaborating with internal/external clients to deliver actionable insights.

Research Assistant on Climate Responsibility, Care and Contemporary Art

This research focuses on the work of contemporary and media artists engaging climate change and equity through speculation or by action-led initiatives. The project also mobilizes hope as a powerful stimulus for rethinking relationality, community-building and multi-species survival on Earth in the face of the climate crisis. The project explores what hope means individually and collectively; the differences between the “I” and the “Other.” This research poses the following questions: How do contemporary artists and thinkers engage with pressing contemporary issues like climate change? What is the inherent difference between what artists produce versus tech developers or scientists and why does this difference matter? What imaginaries do artists invite us to inhabit through their work? What do contemporary artists hope for?

Franklin’s ground squirrel research

Franklin’s ground squirrel is a mammal species in Alberta that is likely in decline. The student will complete data analysis on audio recordings from Autonomous Recorder Units in central Alberta to determine if this species can be detected in new regions in the province. The student will also assist with preparations for the upcoming 2024 field season focusing on detecting this species throughout the province.

Unplugging Potential: Exploring the Factors Impeding Electric Vehicle Adoption Across the Canadian Provinces

Over 80% of global energy consumption comes from fossil fuels, and the transportation sector is the biggest consumer. More than 25% of Canada's greenhouse gas emissions originate from transporting goods and people. Consequently, achieving a substantial decline in greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector is imperative for meeting national and provincial climate reduction targets. Electric vehicles possess the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions substantially. Nevertheless, the adoption of electric vehicles in Canada has been comparatively lower compared to most other developed nations, like Norway, Iceland, the Netherlands, and the United States. In this context, the research aims to achieve the following objectives: Identify the challenges impeding the widespread adoption of electric vehicles in Canada, drawing insights from experiences in other countries.  Conduct a comparative analysis of the government policies to promote electric vehicle adoption across different provinces in Canada and their effectiveness.