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

George Brown College
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Project Coordinator, Work-integrated Learning & Experiential Education
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Timeline
  • January 8, 2021
    Experience start
  • May 1, 2021
    Experience end
Experience
5 projects wanted
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Ontario, Canada
Any
Any industries

Experience scope

Categories
Information technology Data analysis
Skills
communication design competitive analysis analysis
Learner goals and capabilities

*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

Learners

Learners
Diploma
Any level
10 learners
Project
500 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Teams of 3
Expected outcomes and 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 timeline
  • January 8, 2021
    Experience start
  • May 1, 2021
    Experience end

Project Examples

Requirements

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:

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