Career Fairs
Career fairs are organized by the Career Planning Service, often in collaboration with faculty associations and student groups. These events offer students an excellent opportunity to connect with company representatives across various industries.
Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #5 – Foundations of IP and Patent Searching
This workshop will demystify and explain the various form of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets. We will then do some actual patent searching with our librarian April Colosimo using the DERWENT worldwide patent database.
Startup Skills: Part 1 – Financing My Early-Stage Innovation-Driven Venture
In this workshop, you'll learn how VC's typically value an early stage innovation driven venture. To do that we'll go through and give examples on how to forecast sales and how to set pricing, how to forecast expenses and how to figure out the amount of capital needed to finance your business. We'll also explore some of the more common sources of cash from both public institutions and private organisations.
[Online] Info Session - TechAccel Program Summer 2024
The TechAccel Program is one of the McGill Engine’s key co-curricular/experiential learning programs.
Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #6 - Customer Discovery
This workshop will provide an overview of the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model or lean canvas.
Date: Apr. 9th, 2024 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room -FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Startup Skills: Part 2 – Venture Capital Funding
Now that you have a grasp on how much money you need, this workshop will focus on the "deal". You'll learn what is a venture capital fund, its structure and how they operate, and what VCs look for in an early stage innovation driven venture. You'll also learn about the typical elements of a term sheet in connection with equity investments and SAFEs, and caveats when raising money.
Application Deadline: TechAccel Program Summer 2024
The TechAccel Program is one of the McGill Engine’s key co-curricular/experiential learning programs.
Application Deadline: Invention to Impact Training Program Spring 2024
McGill graduate students, do you have promising research results to solve real-world problems? Consider applying as a team to our
Course Outline Template and Guide – ready for PASL
The Course Outline Template and Guide includes a checklist of required items and a template with instructions for creating or revising your course outline. Check it out to see what changes you might need to make in light of PASL.
Using self-reflection to engage students in the assessment of participation
When it comes to class participation, how well do our students know what is expected of them? How can we help students understand that participation can enhance their learning?
Obstacles to promoting student mental health through assessment practices, with Kira Smith
In its inaugural miniseries, the Teach.Learn.Share podcast asked members of our community to weigh in on the connections between assessment, learning, and student well-being. The conversations centred on how to leverage learning-focused assessment practices to potentially improve students’ well-being.
Feedback strategies: Engaging students in dialogue
How can we engage students with feedback and encourage them to take greater responsibility for their learning before, during, and after assignments? The goal of this 4-part webinar series is to address these concerns with feedback strategies that engage students in dialogue. We will present several strategies suited to writing assignments such as essays, research (term) papers, and lab reports.
Assess class participation
In-class participation should be tied to students’ achievement of course learning outcomes. You may want to signal that connection to students and motivate them to participate by assigning a grade. This TL KB article offers strategies for assessing class participation that support students’ learning, are equitable for students, and manageable for you.
Peer assessment and FeedbackFruits
Have you tried using peer assessment in your courses? Peer assessment can help students reflect on their work and learn to provide constructive feedback. This webinar will introduce you to key parameters for designing peer assessment activities and get you started with FeedbackFruits - a tool to manage peer assessment online.
Register here!Assessment for learning to support well-being: Listen in!
To spark much-needed discussions around assessment for learning and its potential to foster healthier learning environments for both students and instructors, we invite you to listen to the Teach.Learn.Share podcast on assessment and well-being where members of the McGill community offer their perspectives on a range of topics.
After you listen, consider these questions intended to help you bring healthy learning environments to the fore in your courses: