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360° VR app. Solar house. Infiniti Engineering Academy. Indigenous tasting menu. According to Children.

Concordia in the news
Posted on June 12, 2017

Concordia in the news features stories of Concordians who appear in the news. Discover alumni, students, faculty and experts who recently made an impact in the media.

Students

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:  

  • Nieman Lab writes about a 360° virtual reality live video broadcasting application created by Concordia software engineering students Olivier Brochu-Dufour (who is quoted), Ihcène Cheriet, Joseph Atallah, Wing Long Chung, Rahul Malik and Roberto Ruffolo-Benavides. The students developed the app for a Capstone graduation project. 
  • The Ordre des architectes du Québec publishes a piece describing the solar house design prepared by a team of Concordia and McGill students entered in the international Solar Decathlon ecological home design competition, next year in Dezhou, China. "Team Mtl" is comprised of more than 50 students from Concordia's faculties of Fine Arts, Engineering and Computer Science, and the John Molson School of Business and McGill's School of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering and Desautels Faculty of Management. 
  • Auto Trader reports that Concordia engineering student Antonio Badea was among the Canadian finalists in the recent "Infiniti Engineering Academy" world model auto engineering competition.
  • Concordia student George Lenser (First Peoples Studies), was featured on the CTV Montreal News following his Indigenous tasting menu last week at Montreal's Écomusée du fier monde.
  • CTVM.info announces that the animation film According to Children, by film animation undergraduate student Daniela Monzon Leotaud, has been selected for competition at the Marché international du film d’animation and the Festival international du film d’animation d’Annecy (France).