Saskatchewan Polytechnic Magazine - Fall 2016

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‘indian ernie’ A Saskatoon police officer on the power of empathy

simple biology How one program head ended up on film

admirable achiever From Bosnian refugee to successful entrepreneur

calendar grill International exposure for an auto body project

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Dr. Larry Rosia, President and CEO

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We are the connector between applied learning, real problem solving, and you.

news in brief

A roundup of institutional news and updates

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“Indian Ernie” finds

empathy on the streets of Saskatoon

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trouble-shooter

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president’s gala

Zlatan Fazlagic on education, engineering and communication

The 2016 celebration and award ceremony

8 Hunter tura q&a

This design leader believes now is a great time to be alive

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welcome

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possibilities

Michelle Pavloff is changing

the way remote and rural

nurses receive training

askatchewan Polytechnic has tens of thousands of graduates, working in every sector of employment, driving economic growth and contributing significantly to the communities where they live.

Our achievements and accomplishments are strong indicators the right strategic decisions are being made for the institution and the province. The good work of our faculty, staff and students directly contributes to Sask Polytech becoming Canada’s first-choice polytechnic by 2020.

To achieve our vision we are committing to working with employers, students and alumni in new ways. As Saskatchewan’s only polytechnic, we are uniquely positioned to make significant contributions to the province’s economic and social prosperity.

We are expanding our portfolio with new

relationships and training opportunities for the people of Saskatchewan. Last spring we launched a two-day training session on effective negotiations with Karrass Negotiations. We will continue to offer these short courses to meet the needs of employers across Saskatchewan and Western Canada. Other short course topics offered include LEAN training, advanced sales skills, cyber security, leadership, procurement and conflict resolution—with more to come! We are excited to reach more people across the province with our practical programming and training opportunities.

Sask Polytech’s primary goal is to ensure our students and employers continue to be successful in reaching their educational and career goals. I invite you to explore what Sask Polytech has to offer through our website and discover what sets us apart from Canada’s many other fine post-secondary institutions. 

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integrity

Regina electrician Brad Helgason finds success

in quality and balance

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An auto body project is featured in the 2016 BASF Classic Car Calendar

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science

BioSciences Technology program head Blaine Chartrand on film

15 Noteworthy

Work-intergrated learning is an important postsecondary experience

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NEWS IN BRIEF

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits YWCA Trade Journey students

Partnership behind Hannin Creek Educational Facility wins silver medal The Saskatchewan Polytechnic and Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation (SWF) partnership behind Hannin Creek won a silver medal in the IPN-Global Best competition. Sask Polytech and the SWF came together six years ago to renovate and expand Hannin Creek, creating applied learning opportunities for students in a number of programs including forestry, fisheries, wildlife, conservation law, and environmental, civil and water resources engineering technology.

On April 27, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with women from the YWCA Trade Journey program at Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Saskatoon Campus, Alberta Ave. The YWCA Trade Journey is a pre-trades program, taught by Sask Polytech instructors, which helps women prepare for success in their trade of choice. Prime Minister Trudeau spent the afternoon learning about plumbing through hands-on demonstrations by the YWCA Trade Journey students.

For more information go to saskpolytech.ca/magazine/news-in-brief.

Students earn medals at Skills Canada National Competition Four Saskatchewan Polytechnic students earned medals in the Skills Canada National Competition held in Moncton, New Brunswick. Kyla Henry, from Regina, picked up gold in the Graphic Design competition. Daniel Nelson, also from Regina, earned silver in Electrical Installation. Brandon Schatz from Moose Jaw took home silver in Architectural Design and Technology while Nathan Honsberger from Saskatoon earned a bronze medal in Mechanical CADD. A total of 15 Sask Polytech students and apprentices competed in the Skills Canada National Competition.

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New faculty awards presented at 2016 Convocations Convocation is a time to recognize and celebrate the hard work and success of our graduates. However, they couldn’t have reached this important milestone without the support of their instructors.

This year, we celebrated five educators and their commitment to helping our students succeed.

Congratulations to Doug Sinclair, Business Mathematics & Electrical Engineering Technology Math instructor (Moose Jaw); Lance Wall, Bioscience Technology instructor (Saskatoon); Lucie Clark, Chemical Technology instructor (Saskatoon); Sheri McCrystal, Collaborative Bachelor of Science in Nursing instructor (Saskatoon) and Twana White, Practical Nursing instructor (Regina).

2016 Summer camps This summer Saskatchewan Polytechnic offered summer day camps in all four campus cities to over 100 campers. All campers were encouraged to try something new and experience hands-on learning at Sask Polytech. All camps sold out and had great reviews!

Camps included: Girls Exploring Trades & Technology (GETT); Plan. Program. Play. computer camp; Summer Shorts film camp; Mind Over Metal welding camp; and a cooking camp.

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Compassionate Constable Saskatoon’s ‘Indian Ernie’ on lessons learned from a life in law enforcement

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e patrolled Saskatoon’s west end for 26 years, but no one ever called police officer Ernie Louttit “Constable.”

He was always ‘Indian Ernie.’

Louttit, born in Ontario to the Missanabie Cree Band in 1961, says seeing a First Nations police officer in Saskatoon was a novelty when he began his career in 1987—only the third First Nations officer ever to join the Saskatoon Police Service. Louttit says the name is like a badge. “That’s how everybody came to know me.”

Indian Ernie retired from the police service in 2013, but the name stuck, and so did his passion for leadership and policing.

When he left his patrolling career, Louttit considered becoming a police administrator, but he just couldn’t picture himself as a “desk guy.” Instead, he became an author.

Louttit’s first book, Indian Ernie: Perspectives on Policing and Leadership, was published in 2013, and in 2015 he followed up with More Indian Ernie:

Everyone, regardless of their circumstances, has a story.

Insights from the Streets. He’s at work on a third book and he’s become an in-demand and influential speaker, addressing standing-room-only crowds at Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Saskatoon Campus—including students from the Aboriginal Policing Preparation certificate program in the School of Human Services and Community Safety.

Louttit says he became a police officer to catch bad guys, but early in his career he had an encounter that made him reconsider his approach. “I was bringing in one arrest and he just looked so hateful but so beaten,” Louttit says. “I realized I was creating a whole bunch of people

who hated me as a person and hated what I represented as a police officer.”

Instead of lecturing the people he arrested, Louttit began to listen more than he spoke. He learned quickly that empathy had more power to change behaviour than aggression. Louttit says his shift in attitude helped him to build relationships in the community. Even as a retired constable, he’s still approached by people he encountered in the past who remember the respectful way he spoke to them.

When Louttit spoke to people he arrested, he says he hoped to plant a seed—an idea that would linger and spark a new way of thinking. When he addresses aspiring police officers at Sask Polytechnic, he hopes to plant a seed with them, too. “I wanted to get the idea across that everyone, regardless of their circumstances, has a story,” Louttit says. “Empathy and a love of community are the best tools you will have on your duty belt.” For more information go to saskpolytech.ca/magazine/compassionateconstable.  saskpolytech.ca/magazine

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Troubleshooter

Engineer and entrepreneur Zlatan Fazlagic on school, success and solving problems

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latan Fazlagic was six years old when he first made a profit. He picked up his uncle’s guitar on a Bosnian bus and began to strum and sing. The performance earned enough coins from bemused onlookers to afford young Fazlagic a new board game.

Before the first decade of his life was over, he was running a vegetable stand and recruiting his first employees, a group of neighbourhood kids, to collect recycled paper for cash.

Today, the 43-year-old runs Look Agency Inc., a full-service marketing and advertising agency he founded in 2004. He’s also the Chief Marketing Officer for fast-growing jewelry line Hillberg & Berk, which was founded by his wife Rachel Mielke.

Since arriving in Canada as a refugee from war-torn Bosnia

in 1995, Fazlagic has come a long way, thanks to his ability to focus on long-term goals.

“Everything around my life in Canada revolved around getting an education,” he says.

Fazlagic’s Bosnian high school diploma wasn’t recognized in Canada. For a time, he took adult basic education courses while working in a factory and assisting adults with developmental disabilities. One of his teachers saw something special in Fazlagic.

“He told me I was good with math,” says Fazlagic, who subsequently enrolled in the three-year Computer Engineering Technology diploma program at Saskatchewan Polytechnic in Moose Jaw in 1998.

By the end of the program, students were designing computer-operated greenhouses.

“Everything you read in a book, you actually made in the lab,”

Fazlagic says. “I’ve been the most impressed with my experiences there, and I still keep in touch with the instructors.”

Fazlagic went on to earn a degree in electronic systems engineering from the University of Regina, but soon learned he wasn’t cut out for life behind a desk. That’s when he started Look Agency Inc. “People often ask me, ‘How does engineering fit into marketing?’ It has actually been incredibly helpful,” Fazlagic says. “The troubleshooting skills you learn with the circuit board make you a better problem solver.”

Fazlagic, who has been a member of the Computer Engineering Technology Advisory Committee program at the Sask Polytech Moose Jaw campus since 2009, is passionate about communication skills in the technical profession.

“Students in technical fields need to understand they are competing with the world,” Fazlagic says. Aspiring engineers need to develop a good understanding of business communication. “If you cannot speak for yourself, understand what the leadership wants you to achieve and how to do it, you will be the guy stuck in the basement writing code.”

Fazlagic, a father of three, credits his family for his success.

“People often tell me, ‘You came here with nothing and look what you were able to accomplish.’

I don’t feel like I came with nothing—I came with the abilities and work ethic my parents gave me, and that is worth much more than money.” For more information go to saskpolytech.ca/ magazine/troubleshooter. 

Students in technical fields need to understand they are competing with the world.

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President’s GALA 2016 Awards presentation was a highlight. The awards recognize and celebrate the institution’s partnerships with industry, organizations and alumni.

Congratulations to the 2016 award recipients:

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n April 23, the Saskatoon Campus Automotive Service Technician training shops were transformed with chandeliers and champagne, as Saskatchewan Polytechnic hosted its 3rd Annual Saskatchewan Polytechnic President’s Gala.

The sold-out event, presented

by PotashCorp, supports the Aboriginal Student Achievement Plan (ASAP).

Program Partnership Award – Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation Industry Partnership Award – Husky Energy Alumni Partnership – Brad Darbyshire Sask Polytech alumni and multi-Saskatchewan Country Music Award winner Codie Prevost kicked off the night, followed by Saskatchewan singer, songwriter and pianist Jeffery Straker.

Writer, artist and storyteller Carol Daniels, member of the Cree First Nation, captivated the crowd with her personal narrative on Aboriginal culture and heritage.

The President’s Partnership

Students are integral to the Gala. Aboriginal students managed registration and the ASAP pledge drive; two Culinary Arts program students handled meal preparation; and table set-up and service was provided by students in year two of the Hotel and Restaurant Management program. Automotive Service Technician students prepared

the shops and provided valet parking services for guests, and New Media Communications and Media Arts Production programs lent their expertise to A/V presentations. For more information go to saskpolytech.ca/magazine/ presidents-gala.

Sponsors: PotashCorp Graham Group McKercher LLP RBC Westridge Construction Star Phoenix / Leader Post LB Distillers For more information about the Gala, to view photos and find out more about the award recipients, visit saskpolytech.ca/employers/ gala/index.aspx

inspiring ideas

H Q&A with Hunter Tura Design firm CEO sees creative and influential future for young designers 8

unter Tura is president and CEO of Bruce Mau Design, a firm whose client roster includes Coca-Cola, Prada and AT&T. In April 2016, Tura spoke to an audience of 300 Saskatchewan Polytechnic students and instructors, as well as high school design students, about the future of design. The Saskatoon event was broadcast to all campuses as part of the #SaskPolytechTalks series.

Tura’s ideas will resonate with anyone who takes a hands-on approach to creating the future.

SPM: What led you to the design field?

HT: I studied to be a historian and found I was hardly professor material. I trained to be an architect and come from a family involved in building trades, so design was a way to combine creativity and art with real-world concerns.

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SPM: What do designers have to look forward to?

HT: Well, it’s such an amazing time to be alive! New fields will emerge that were completely untapped in the previous century: permanent settlements on the moon and Mars, space tourism, robotics that replace entire models of industrial production, and significant societal and cultural changes.

Being a designer is like being a fiction writer. We present fictions using our imagination, and then do the work to make them come true.

SPM: What do you think of Saskatoon?

HT: In New York, the mythology is that it’s such a creative place because people come from all over the world to drive that engine.

In Saskatoon, the creative energy of a thriving local community exists because people decided to stay. It’s exciting to see a different model than what I’ve been used to.

SPM: Any advice for future designers?

HT: Check your ego at the door.

We need to get past the 20th century model of thinking that the designer is a singular artist and if they compromise that vision they are a corporate sellout.

We need to be nimble in how we think and listen to others, to be able to admit we don’t know the answers and propose how to figure them out. Design is no longer a sequestered discipline.

We can have great influence over social and political conditions. For more information go to saskpolytech.ca/magazine/ hunter-tura. 

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Remote Possibilities Registered nurse Michelle Pavloff is finding ways to improve rural health care in Saskatchewan

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t was the middle of the night, and Michelle Pavloff was one of the only nurses on duty in a tiny rural hospital in Biggar, Saskatchewan. She was providing emergency nursing care to a baby struggling with a respiratory virus.

The baby would soon be whisked to a larger urban medical facility, but at that moment, it was up to Pavloff.

That night in 2009 affirmed Pavloff’s determination to devote her career to advocating for rural health care and the registered nurses who deliver it. Approximately 2,300 registered nurses, or RNs, work in rural and remote Saskatchewan—about 20 per cent of all RNs in the province.

“Rural nurses are so resilient, resourceful and smart,” Pavloff says, noting that a rural nurse must be able to assume responsibility for whatever arises, from addressing the needs of an acute cardiac patient or a labouring mother to dealing with a furnace breakdown.

Since 2010, Pavloff has been a full-time Saskatchewan Polytechnic instructor in the Saskatchewan Collaborative Bachelor of Science in Nursing program, helping to advance the training she once gained as a Saskatchewan Polytechnic School of Nursing student.

She holds a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Saskatchewan, where she’s currently pursuing a PhD. Pavloff’s academic career is shaped by the hands-on skills she gained at Sask Polytechnic. She’s focused on remote and rural health care, which she believes can and must be improved.

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“When I was working in Biggar, I realized there’s such a discrepancy between urban and rural nursing,” Pavloff says. “We had little access to resources, didn’t have the code team [a specially trained medical team that provides cardiac life support]—we were it.”

In spring 2016, Pavloff met with Greg Ottenbreit, Saskatchewan’s Minister of Rural and Remote Health. They discussed how Pavloff’s work could lead to provincial policy changes that would meet industry needs and keep RNs in regions where they are needed most.

Pavloff is exploring innovative ways of making continuing education accessible through simulation training involving online programs, standardized patient actors or mannequins. “Currently there is little accessible continuing education for rural nurses to maintain their competency in mental health care,” Pavloff says.

According to Pavloff, most nurses learn by doing. “Experiential learning helps nurses improve their knowledge, competence and confidence,” Pavloff says. She has made it her personal goal to have the program available to all rural and remote nurses across Saskatchewan in the next five years.

A month after Pavloff’s 2009 night shift in Biggar, the family brought their healthy baby in for a visit. “They said ‘That’s the nurse who saved your life,’ and it hit me,” she says. “The impact you can make is so significant.” For more information go to saskpolytech. ca/magazine/remote-possibilities. 

Experiential learning helps nurses improve their knowledge, competence and confidence.

innovative training

School of nursing gets ready to celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2017 2017 marks a major milestone for the Saskatchewan Polytechnic School of Nursing, a leader in nursing education for registered nurses, registered psychiatric nurses, registered nurse/nurse practitioners and licensed practical nurses since 1967. The School of Nursing will mark the occasion by establishing a 50th Anniversary Trust Fund for nursing students. It will also present campus tours, keynote speakers and banquet events in Saskatoon and Regina.

Are you a graduate?

Reconnect and help to reconnect others by going to saskpolytech.ca/alumni. Interested volunteers can email nursing.50th@saskpolytech.ca or call 306-775-7822.

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career success Now I measure success by quality, happiness and balance. leadership and integrity in their business practices. What does that award mean to you?

BH: I am very fortunate to have a great team of people who share my beliefs about what is important. Not only do we want to provide our customers with quality workmanship, we want to build lasting relationships and be a company they can trust.

SPM: What do you wish you’d known when you were younger?

BH: When I was younger, I was in a hurry to grow my company as big as I could as fast as I could.

Building quality relationships with customers, working with a team that I trust and being proud of the work that we do have become much more important goals. I now measure success by quality, happiness and balance.

SPM: Tell us about working on the Brandt Centre Score Clock.

WORKing With INTEGRITY Regina electrician and Saskatchewan Polytechnic alumnus Brad Helgason on his high-voltage vocation

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SPM: How do you spend your time when you’re not at work?

n 2001, Brad Helgason graduated from Saskatchewan Polytechnic Moose Jaw Campus with an Electrician Certificate. At 39, he’s the owner of electrician services company Electrical Solutions Inc., which started out of his garage 13 years ago.

In 2015, his company helped to install the 99,00-kg (22,000-lb) Brandt Centre Score Clock and video system.

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BH: We provided a design build for the electrical work, routed cables from the catwalk to within the clock and provided network wiring from the catwalk fibre optics port to the clock.

The Brandt Centre is a big part of our city’s athletic and entertainment culture—it was a lot of fun to be involved with such a unique and high-profile job.

SPM: Why did you decide to become an electrician?

BH: I have always loved playing with electricity. When I was a kid, I wired my train set and lights to come on when my alarm clock went off.

SPM: How has your education shaped your career?

BH: Sask Polytech gave me

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the knowledge and hands-on experience to be successful in my career. Now that I’m an employer, I see the value of the work experience/apprenticeship programs even more.

SPM: Electrical Solutions received Better Business Bureau Torch Awards for Ethics in 2012 and 2016, an honour given to companies that demonstrate

BH: It’s all about family for me.

When I’m not at work, I am spending time with my wife Heather and my kids, Mya who is 13 and Reid who is 10. We love being outdoors in the yard or at the lake, biking and just being together as a family. For more information go to saskpolytech. ca/magazine/working-with-integrity. 

a rare honour

By the numbers: restoring a classic vehicle

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Weeks of skill training students required to complete the restoration.

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Timeless truck From garage project to calendar model

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tudents from Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s Saskatoon Auto Body Technician and Automotive Service Technician certificate programs recently restored a 1955 Mercury M100 truck exterior to its former glory. The truck was selected as the October vintage automobile for the popular 2016 BASF Classic Car Calendar.

The selection is an honour and a tribute to the

students’ hard work. As for the Mercury, its owner is finishing the interior and wiring, and then he plans to drive it around town. “The students may well see it on the streets,” says Scott Kucharyshen, program head of the Auto Body Technician program. “It’s going to be a lasting memory.” For more information go to saskpolytech.ca/magazine/timeless-truck. 

Years the calendar has been produced by BASF, a company that supplies automotive refinishing products.

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Certificate students and level-one apprentices, ages 18 to 30, working on the restoration.

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Placement of the restored truck in the Draggins Rod and Custom Car Show.

We’re building a Legacy.

K+S Potash Canada has seen tremendous growth since work on the Legacy Project began near Bethune, SK. There has been incredible progress both on-site and off-site, and we are excited to carry this momentum forward. We are looking forward to a long future operating and investing in the province of Saskatchewan.

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a growing field

Simplifying Science In the classroom and on the screen, program head Blaine Chartrand demystifies agricultural biotechnology

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bout seven minutes into the short 2016 film License to Farm, Blaine Chartrand appears on screen. One of several agricultural biotechnology experts in the documentary, his role is to explain modern plant breeding techniques in simple terms.

License to Farm was made by canola-grower industry group SaskCanola, with additional funding from the provincial and federal governments. The film attempts to dispel misconceptions about modern farming

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practices, specifically, consumer confusion about the safety of genetically modified food crops.

“It’s all about trying to explain science in a way that people can understand,” says Chartrand, who has been the program head of BioScience Technology at Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Saskatoon Campus since 2011 and an instructor in the program since 2000.

Chartrand, who completed the Biological Sciences program at Sask Polytech in the 1980s, began his career as a cancer

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It’s all about trying to explain science in a way that people can understand.

medical researcher. His interest in tissue and cell culture drew him to the agricultural biotechnology sector, and in 1990 he become a researcher for Saskatchewan Wheat Pool.

The coursework he oversees at Sask Polytech today includes tissue culture, molecular biology and instrumentation—courses that didn’t exist when Chartrand was a student. “We’re responding to industry demands and adapting to keep up with technology changes,” he says.

BioSciences Technology students are trained in synthetic biology, an emerging scientific field that blends principles of engineering and biology. They create bacteria that can perform specific actions, such as turning blue in the presence of arsenic.

Chartrand says projects like these are more practical now than when he was a student.

“It used to be very difficult and expensive to create a gene,” he says. “Now you can order one for a tenth of what it would have cost in the past.”

Students also learn work skills. They set research goals, project manage and create reports and proposals. Chartrand says these skills will be invaluable in the students’ careers in the agricultural biotechnology sector, which he knows from experience is varied and exciting.

“It’s a very integrative approach.

There’s been such a big growth in our capabilities.” For more information go to saskpolytech.ca/ magazine/simplifying-science. 

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work-integrated learning

An important post-secondary experience

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anada’s Business/Higher Education Roundtable (BHER) is making work-integrated learning a fundamental part of the Canadian post-secondary experience. As a new organization, the BHER is aiming to strengthen partnerships among post-secondary institutions and private-sector employers.

For Saskatchewan Polytechnic, finding new ways to support and grow employer partnerships is a large part of how the institution plans on achieving its goals and vision.

“Sask Polytech is proud to be a part of the Business/Higher Education Roundtable. We know the value of work-integrated learning and employer connections, for our students,

industry and the province. We are passionate about advancing new ways for employers to partner with post-secondary educational institutions,” says Dr. Larry Rosia, president and CEO and a BHER member. “We leverage employer relationships to give students the best education and hands-on work experience possible. We are excited to share our expertise and applied research experience at the roundtable.”

Launched in 2015, BHER is a partner initiative of the Business Council of Canada and represents a select group of Canada’s largest companies and leading post-secondary institutions. BHER works to support young Canadians as they transition from education to the workplace, strengthen

research collaboration between industry and institutions, and help Canadian employers as they adapt to the economy of the future. Governor General David Johnston serves as the BHER’s Honorary Patron.

Sask Polytech looks forward to continuing to share best practices, working with employers and advocating for the work-integrated learning opportunities in post-secondary across Canada. As a BHER member, Sask

Polytech actively encourages the growth and development of work-integrated learning programs moving beyond traditional co-ops and internships.

Some programs being developed include capstone projects, hackathons, industry challenges, mentorship programs and boot camps. For more information on BHER visit: www.bher.ca and for more information on this story go to saskpolytech.ca/magazine/ noteworthy.

SCHOOL OF NURSING 50t h Anniversary 1967-2017

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You are invited to attend the Saskatchewan Polytechnic School of Nursing’s 50th Anniversary Celebrations in 2017. You will not want to miss these once in a lifetime activities.

• April 21, 2017 • April 28 and 29, 2017 • May 12 and 13, 2017 Prince Albert Campus Regina Campus Saskatoon Campus Complete the alumni registration form at saskpolytech.ca/alumni so you don’t miss any news and join our Facebook group at facebook.com/ groups/nursing50th.

SCHOOL OF NURSING Please email us at nursing.50th@saskpolytech.ca or call 306-775-7822.

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We need your help reconnecting with students from each graduating year.

Help us by staying in touch with your fellow classmates.

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