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Automotive & Manufacturing! UX/UI Design, Computer Programming, and Data Analysis Placements

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George Brown College
George Brown College
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Rebecca Tapiero She / Her
Project Coordinator, Work-integrated Learning & Experiential Education
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General
  • Diploma; 4th year, 3rd year, 2nd year
  • 10 learners; teams of 3
  • 500 hours per learner
  • Dates set by experience
  • Learners self-assign
Preferred companies
  • 5 projects wanted
  • Ontario, Canada
  • Academic experience
  • Any
  • Any industries
Categories
General Data analysis Information technology
Skills
communication design competitive analysis analysis
Project timeline
  • January 8, 2021
    Experience start
  • May 1, 2021
    Experience end
Overview
Details

*EMPLOYERS MUST BE ONTARIO-BASED FOR ELIGIBILITY*

Calling all Automotive and Manufacturing Based Companies!!

This program is supported by the Career Ready Fund which is intended to support the automotive sector. Eligible employers will be provided with $3,000 per student/recent alumni hired. In this course, students will engage in an applied project of your choosing to design and produce deliverables of your choosing.

With this funding you can hire several co-op students, apprentices and alumni from any of our specialized programs at the college including:

Computer Programming, Business & Data Analysis

Graphic Design, Website Design, UX/UI

Learner skills
Communication, Design, Competitive analysis, Analysis
Deliverables

Funding

• $3,000 per eligible and completed work placement by an eligible participant (i.e. student, recent grad or apprentice)

• $5,000 per eligible and completed work placement by an eligible participant with one or more disabilities.

• Wage support from all sources (e.g. the employer, Co-op Education Tax Credit and Career Ready Fund’s Auto Stream) cannot exceed 100% of the wages paid to a participant.

Benefits to Employers

• Access a pool of highly skilled and qualified individuals

• Reduce your recruitment and training costs

• Build your company’s reputation as a leader in your sector

• Develop and training your future employees

• Gain fresh ideas and perspectives

The final project deliverable will include:

  1. Final report
Project Examples

Examples that students can design and manufacture include but are not limited to:

  • Usability tests -- George Brown College has state-of-the-art user testing facilities.
  • User Diaries/User Journals
  • Co-design
  • Lo-fidelity prototyping and wireframes
  • Ethics approvals
  • Help build customer journey maps.
  • Report insights from the research
  • Understanding profitability, retention, referrals, and attrition rates for your customers
  • Failure analysis to improve efficiencies
  • Project and process use evaluation
  • Analysis of sales data to determine the relationship between your products' or services' price and volume of sales
  • Identifying patterns in sales or usage based on seasonality
  • Creating a summary of key customer demographic statistics
  • Summarizing results of a customer survey to identify which characteristics are associated with different preferences
  • A redesign of an existing website
  • Creating a design for a brand new site
  • Comparing possible design styles
Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

Funding documents will be required in order for funding to be processed (Provided by George Brown College and Ministry of Education).

Be able to complete a performance evaluation form for students.

Provide a dedicated contact who is available to answer periodic emails or phone calls over the duration of the project to address students' questions.

Be available for a quick phone call with the instructor to initiate your relationship and confirm your scope is an appropriate fit for the course.

This course is supported by the Career Ready Fund which is intended to support the automotive sector. Eligible employers will be provided with $3,000 per student/recent alumni hired.