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May 27, 2025
IDEAWORKS Celebrates Faculty Applied Research Accomplishments through the IDEAWORKS Catalyst Fund
May 27th, 2025 – Mohawk College emerging researchers have made significant strides towards supporting Canadian innovation thanks to funding from the 2024-2025 IDEAWORKS Catalyst Fund (ICF), which has supported 7 researchers across 9 impactful projects. From pioneering wellness programs to improving waste management and advancing...
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October 13, 2021
Mohawk College mHealth & eHealth centre renewed as national Technology Access Centre in Digital Health
October 10, 2021 – Mohawk College’s mHealth & eHealth Development and Innovation Centre (MEDIC) has received a renewal grant of $1.75 million for its nationally recognized Technology Access Centre in Digital Health. Over the next five years, funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)...
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July 30, 2021
Mohawk Applied Research experts share tips on privacy and consent for Digital Health start-ups.
July 30, 2021 – The free white paper helps companies understand how to keep patient data safe and secure. Mohawk College’s mHealth and eHealth Development and Innovation Centre (MEDIC) has released a white paper that will help Canadian digital health start-ups navigate the complex privacy and consent...
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July 16, 2021
Applied Research team releases 2020-2021 Year in Review
July 16, 2021 – IDEAWORKS supported 224 industry & community partners with their R & D challenges. IDEAWORKS has released this year’s IDEAWORK Year in Review, a look back at the academic 2020/2021 year. The IDEAWORKS Year in Review provides an overview on the accomplishments and...
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July 7, 2021
Mohawk, Motsai partner to develop a unique IoT sensor
July 7, 2021 – Mohawk College researcher partners with Motsai to develop prototype of a unique IoT sensor device the size of a postage stamp A new applied research collaboration between a Mohawk College research team and Quebec-based Motsai will help determine if a postage...
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June 10, 2021
Applied research part of economic recovery – In the News
(first published in Perspective magazine, June 2021) Reshaping your company post-COVID: How applied research can help June 10, 2021 – Innovate or fold? The question sounds dramatic but with Canada just past the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, many business owners have started to ask themselves if...
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May 26, 2021
Mohawk research partnership exemplifies benefits for industry – In the News
May 26, 2021 – Richard Hoy, president of specialist tax consultancy Catax Canada, penned an article in Canadian Metalworking highlighting the funding supports available to metalworking companies to drive innovation in manufacturing, through applied research partnerships. A successful partnership between Mohawk’s IDEAWORKS, University of Guelph and CGL Manufacturing in...
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May 14, 2021
Mohawk student animator wins Ubisoft competition
May 14, 2021 – Mohawk 3D Animation student Lavio Ribeiro Fidelis Neto has been announced as a winner of the Ubisoft Toronto Live NEXT Awards, claiming 1st place winner in the Gameplay Animation category. As a result Lavio, will have a paid internship with Ubisoft Toronto. The award...
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May 7, 2021
Mohawk to host additive manufacturing conference for Canadian manufacturers
May 7, 2021 – May’s 3D in Action to help industry explore and adopt 3D Printing. An upcoming virtual conference hosted by Mohawk College is designed to help companies accelerate the usage of Additive Manufacturing and 3D printing for Canadian manufacturers. 3D in Action, organized...
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March 30, 2021
Mohawk researchers to present at international conference on systems engineering
March 30, 2021 – Two Mohawk researchers will be sharing their research with a global audience in April at the Sixteenth International Conference on Systems (ICONS). Dr. Esteve Hassan, Mohawk’s Industrial Research Chair for IIoT Applications and Dr. Bilal Momani, a researcher at Mohawk’s IDEAWORKS and professor at Mohawk’s...
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March 11, 2021
Free satellite images for Ontario producers – IDEAWORKS In the News
March 11, 2021 – Researchers at Mohawk College investigated the potential for open-source images to help improve crop productivity Farms.com recently explored a project by a research team at Mohawk College, investigating the potential to use open-source satellite imaging to monitor crop health. Sentinel-2 mission satellites...
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March 3, 2021
Mohawk converts Alectra Utilities substation into applied research lab – In the News
March 3, 2021 – Patrick McInnis, the technical lead for Mohawk’s Energy and Power Utilities Lab, recently had an article published in Ontario Technologist magazine. In 2018, Mohawk’s Energy and Power Innovation Centre (EPIC) – part of the IDEAWORKS applied research division – acquired the...
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February 22, 2021
Precision Agriculture Case Study from IDEAWORKS
February 22, 2021 – Thanks to the significant amount of data collected from space, public domain satellites are often positioned as useful tools for monitoring crop health. But are they useful enough for farmers to ditch their more expensive drones and UAVs? A new case study from Mohawk...
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