Innovation, Scholarship & You
WALTER GARRISON
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Innovative Projects at MHC
Boyer’s Model of Scholarship
Applied Research and Innovation def’ns
PD Sessions
Funding Opportunities
Your Innovation
Two Innovation Projects at MHC
1. Solar Thermal and PV
2. 3D Print and Laser Scanning Lab
• These are not the only ones…
Solar Thermal and PV at MHC
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Purpose
Funders/Partners
Website Link
NSERC Partnership Workshop Grant (MHC’s
first NSERC award)
Solar Thermal and PV at MHC
• Purpose: Create a teaching lab to demonstrate
capabilities of solar technologies in the
Medicine Hat region
• Integrated into apprenticeship programming
• Plumbing, electrical
Funders/Partners
• Alberta Association of Colleges and Technical
Institutes
• MHC College Advancement
• Local companies Terralta, Quickway
• MHC Trades instructors
MHC Solar Website
Solar thermal
http://solarprojectmhc.weebly.com/solarthermal-real-time-data.html
Solar PV
https://enlighten.enphaseenergy.com/pv/public
_systems/uK6R105265
https://community.enphaseenergy.com/enphas
e_energy_community/topics/array_of_the_wee
k_marcus_cambell_terralta_inc
MHC NSERC Partnership Workshop
• In September 2013 MHC hosted a workshop
involving a number of PSIs in Canada who are
currently operate solar research and
education programs
• MHC’s first NSERC Award
• Camosun, NAIT, Red River College, St.
Lawrence, Nova Scotia Community College
other participants
• Collaboration with Lakeland re: Solar PV data
3D Print and Laser Scanning Lab
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Purpose
Funders/Partners
Website Link
Industry Engagement
Integration into Curriculum
MHC Community Outreach
Purpose
• Acquire advanced manufacturing equipment
to bring 3D printing and scanning capabilities
to the southeast Alberta region
• The primary audience for these capabilities
small and medium-sized enterprise (SME)
community
• Emphasis
facilitating growth of
Southeast Alberta’s Unmanned Vehicle
Systems (UVS) cluster
Funders/Partners
Website Link
https://www.mhc.ab.ca/AboutMHC/Research/3
DPrinter.aspx
Industry Engagement
• Local, provincial, and out-of-province
companies have engaged with the lab
• Print and scanning jobs for health sciences,
UVS, machining, agriculture, engineering,
entertainment sectors
• Completed over 20 print jobs for external
clients
Curriculum Integration
MHC Community Outreach
• Students have printed 3d models as part of
CADD program
• Trades print jobs –automotive, plumbing
• CADD and Vis Comm Students involved in
applied research with the printer and scanner
• Prototypes for Athletic Department -Rattlers
Steve Penzes
Steven Penzes
3D Fabrication Technician
Medicine Hat College
Lab T152
Phone 403.525.2657
SPenzes@mhc.ab.ca
Mon to Thurs 8:30 to 1:00 pm
https://kuehn.sketchfab.me/
Boyer’s Model of Scholarship
Boyer (1997) Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities of the
professoriate. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
4 types of scholarship
1. Discovery
2. Integration
3. Application
4. Teaching
• Integration
– Interpret use of knowledge across disciplines
• Collaborating with colleagues to design and deliver a
core course
• Coxal bone in Sketchfab in Anatomy
• Application
– Aid society and professions in addressing
problems
• Serving industry as an external consultant
– Student Capstone/applied research projects
• Teaching*
– Study teaching models and practices to achieve
optimal learning
• Developing and testing instructional materials
• Coxal bone in Sketchfab
What are best practices that you are incorporating in
your teaching/curriculum delivery?
Innovation and Applied Research
Innovation
1. Webster online: A new idea, method or device.
2. Peter Drucker: Change that creates a new dimension of performance.
3. Joseph Schumpeter: The introduction of new goods, new methods of production,
the opening of new markets, the conquest of new sources of supply and the carrying out
of a new organization of any industry.
Applied Research
1. Association of Canadian Community Colleges 2011: Applied Research has the
potential to introduce new products or processes which can increase productivity,
preserve or create jobs, contribute to the growth of a company, thus supporting
community and regional development.
2. Government of Canada: Work undertaken to advance scientific knowledge with a
specific practical application in view. This type of research advances the current
understanding of scientific principles, methodologies or relations.
3. OECD 2012: Applied research is original investigation undertaken in order to
acquire new knowledge. It is, however, directed primarily towards a specific
practical aim or objective.
External Applied Research
Internal Innovation
External Applied Research
May involve…
An idea
Proposal writing and application
Lit review
External funding agencies
Industry engagement
Student mentoring
Internal Innovation
May involve…
A process, technique, technology used in
design and delivery of curriculum
Students and MHC community are
beneficiaries
Internal PD Sessions on Research,
Teaching and Learning
• Outline funding opportunities
• Highlight best practices currently occurring at
MHC and at other institutions
OIS Speakers Series
Thursday, March 27
• Carole Doucet-Love (SAIT) – Proposal Writing:
A Primer
Wednesday, April 30
• Liz Richard (GPRC) – How to Promote and
Sustain Scholarship and Collaborations
External Funding Opportunities
Federal
 NSERC – College and Community Innovation –
Innovation Enhancement (CCI-IE) Grant
 Applied Research and Development (ARD) Grant
 SSHRC – “Imagining Canada’s Future” Grants
 http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/societysociete/communitycommunite/Future_Challenge_Areasdomaines_des_defis_de_demain-eng.aspx#5
 Collaborations with industry, other PSIs
 Special sessions on these programs for those interested
Internal Grants at MHC
• Internal application form (being updated)
• Assessed by MHC Innovation and Scholarship
Committee
• Intended as seed money
• Have a defined pilot project
• Not intended to fund extensive research
• “Trial balloons”
Your Internal Grant Application
Feasibility
Don’t bite off more than you can chew
Project Management principles
You need to be able to manage…
Scope of
Your Project
Communications
Time
People
Costs
Quality
Procurement
Risk
(Some) Questions to Ask
Have you defined your project clearly?
Does this research fit within MHC mandate
and priorities?
Who is advocating for this
research/innovation? Who benefits?
Do you have the capacity to take this project
on?
What is required for you to successfully
achieve your project goals?
Ethics Review
• Research involving humans at MHC
• Application available to MHC faculty
• Assessed by Ethics Review Committee for
approval
• Contact Walter directly for the form
• More forms to be put on MHC website
Collecting a repository of innovation
activities at MHC
Please email me your…
• Current teaching/delivery practices you have
implemented that are innovative in nature
• Your ideas for future research projects
Thank You
Walter Garrison
Manager, Innovation and Scholarship
Medicine Hat College
Office F1033
Phone 403.502.8996
Cell 403.866.0343
WGarrison@mhc.ab.ca