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Finance Learning Initiative

The initiative began with four central units (Financial Services, Supply Management Services, Staff & Student Payments and Administrative Information Systems) coming together to provide funding and support. These units freed up operational funds to hire program coordinators and offered their staff members to develop and deliver training. The success of the initiative resulted in expanding … Continue reading "Finance Learning Initiative"

April 16, 2006


UWin Wireless Project

Stakeholders from across the campus were part of the project committee and assisted with the decision-making process throughout the project. The testing performed by our users during the pilot project revealed to the project committee the need for a more robust and more secure infrastructure with portability between access points.   The infrastructure employed for … Continue reading "UWin Wireless Project"

April 16, 2006


Improving Productivity and Controlling Costs through MRO Inventory Management

From the beginning of this project, the development and implementation teams included procurement and contracts expertise from the Materials Management department, maintenance and operations expertise from the Campus Infrastructure department, and process and program expertise from the University’s systems contracted MRO supplier. This cross-functional team ensured that all points of view were represented, allowing many … Continue reading "Improving Productivity and Controlling Costs through MRO Inventory Management"

April 16, 2006


The Wireless Campus

All of the staff in Computing Services was involved in the process leading up to the decision to implement this system, and in the implementation itself. Other members of the community were kept informed of progress, and were eager to have the system, but were not involved in the project until it was implemented. However, … Continue reading "The Wireless Campus"

April 16, 2006


University specific online WHMIS Course for training university staff, students and visitors

The development of the program was a collaboration between the Office of Risk Management (ORM), the Centre for e-Learning, and the Centre for Mediated Teaching and Learning of the Teaching and Learning Support Service (TLSS). ORM developed the technical content and Centre for e-Learning developed the WebCT learning and programming framework, as well as the … Continue reading "University specific online WHMIS Course for training university staff, students and visitors"

April 16, 2006


UBC Renew: The University of British Columbia’s Buildgin Renovation Program to Meet Current and Future Academic Needs and Mitigate Deferred Maintenance

The collaboration with the academics in the whole process from programming to completion within the restriction of existing buildings to address 5 categories of renewal for each building: – Academic Improvement – Capital Renewal (Bldg systems upgrades to extend building life and renew the capital asset) – Code and safety upgrades (access, fire safety) – … Continue reading "UBC Renew: The University of British Columbia’s Buildgin Renovation Program to Meet Current and Future Academic Needs and Mitigate Deferred Maintenance"

April 16, 2006


Residence Wireless Network (ResNet)

ResNet was a big project that involved a number of people from several different departments. There was a project team from the department of Computing and Communications (C & C) that worked on planning the network, network design, programming the online Device Authorization Tool, and overseeing the whole project from beginning to end. The C … Continue reading "Residence Wireless Network (ResNet)"

April 16, 2005


Archimède: Une solution canadienne pour le dépôt institutionnel

ARCHIMÈDE is a team effort involving many specialists from the Laval University Library. The project’s success is dependent on the collaborative efforts of these individuals as well as those of the “Open Source” community, and the use of applications and frameworks developed through community cooperation. In order to realize our project, we used the following … Continue reading "Archimède: Une solution canadienne pour le dépôt institutionnel"

April 16, 2005


The Pro-Active Management of Air Quality

The results of each survey since 1992 were communicated to both the Operating and Planning departments in the Physical Resources service. An initial Task Force was commissioned which drew from both Operating and Planning groups with the purpose of improving air quality related comfort in the classroom. This Task Force was charged with the objective … Continue reading "The Pro-Active Management of Air Quality"

April 16, 2005


Implementing VOIP at Concordia University

An ongoing consultative process took place with the community throughout the planning, implementation and feedback stages. DP phone coordinators, who act as liaison between IITS and their respective departments, were assigned. Before the project got underway, JJTS reps met with the coordinators to obtain feedback about various features and phones. These same coordinators were given … Continue reading "Implementing VOIP at Concordia University"

April 16, 2004


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