Airport stormwatch. Student Awards. Vote Note. NaNa's apps.

Current students at Concordia do outstanding academic work and get involved in community projects that improve our quality of life. See what they've been up to:  

• Former and current Concordia industrial engineering students are featured in an article in the Montreal Gazette and the Gazette's e-paper about their Capstone Engineering Design Project to improve airport contingency plans during winter storms. The students, working from a set of observations recorded at Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport during a severe winter storm in 2012, designed a model for contingency planning that yielded a 60 per cent drop in potential flight delays and cancellations. The article notes that the project won the students an honourable mention and an A+ assignment score. Five of the six students are pictured: Shereen Ali, Dana Fruchter, Chyntia Sari, Anita Sarkissian and Alexa Ramia. The sixth student was Qasim Rehman. Among those quoted in the article is Nadia Bhuiyan, a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and the Capstone Course Co-ordinator. The Gazette article is reprised by My Informs.
• Applied Arts Mag publishes an article listing candidates for its 2015 Student Awards and mentions that Yoshino Aoki, a Concordia student, won a Student Award or her animation in 2014. The article includes a screen capture from one of Aoki's animated films.
• The Canadian Press posts a story it first ran last week about a new smartphone application developed by Concordia journalism student Matthew Heuman to help young voters sort out election-related information. The tool, designed to combat voter apathy, notably among younger Canadians, uses GPS technology to identify a given voter's riding district and to provide relevant riding information.
• In her latest contribution to the lifestyle blog NaNa Toulouse, communication student Emmanuelle Côté lists her five favourite new smartphone applications.

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