Carleton University Experiential Learning Fund Recipients

2025-26

Emily Jones Joanisse (Sprott School of Business). Project: Mission Bambini social Impact consulting: Experiential learning onsite with the Sprott Social Impact Hub client in Milan
Hyounjeong Yoo (School of Linguistics and Language Studies). Project: Contraflow pedagogies: Reimagining Korean language learning through critical cultural engagement.
Zach Colbert (Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism). Project: Equitable access to experiential fieldwork: ARCH 5115 graduate studio abroad in Norway and the Arctic.
Sarah Gelbard (Department of Sociology and Anthropology). Project: Social action project.
Steven Pong (School of Industrial Design). Project: Exhibitions as an alternative to in-class presentations in Industrial Design courses.
Mehdi Eshaghi (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering). Project: Integrating micro-labs into ECOR 1034: Reusable demonstration kits and instructor manual.
Duncan McCue (School of Journalism and Communication). Project: Reporting in Indigenous communities.
Trina Cooper-Bolam (The Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture). Project: Reimagining Ottawa’s domestic design heritage.
Isaac Odoom (Department of Political Science). Project: Africa in diplomacy: Diplomatic engagement project and AU Summit simulation.
Doris Buss (Department of Law and Legal Studies). Project: Law in the everyday life of parks and green spaces in the nation’s capital.
Chiara Del Gaudio (School of Industrial Design). Project: Designing stories: Co-designing interactive artifacts to foster belonging and community identity.
Liam O’Brien (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering). Project: Hands-on classroom demonstrations of green building design.

2024-25

Peter Andrée & Gabriel Maracle (Department of Political Science). Project: Experiential learning in Indigenous environmental politics.
Manjeet Birk (Feminist Institute of Social Transformation). Project: Critical race stories through virtual reality film.
Hima Dhulipati (Department of Electronics). Project: Practical operational workbenches for experiential reinforcement in power electronics and electric machines (POWER labs).
Nana aba Duncan (School of Journalism and Communication). Project: Inclusive reporting in practice: Dialogue-driven journalism with La Converse.
Juan Jiménez Garcia (School of Industrial Design ). Project: Materializing ambiguity: Experiential prototyping for critical engagement.
Andrew Harris & Karen Taylor (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering). Project: Developing new laboratories to train the next generation of biomedical engineers.
Peggy Hartwick (School of Linguistics and Language Studies) & Amanda Montague (Department of History). Project: Promoting success across campus: Developing a toolkit for the effective integration of experiential learning opportunities with a digital storytelling framework.
Robert Helal (Sprott School of Business). Project: Sprott strategy bootcamp 2.0: Building critical thinking from day one.
Lisa Moffitt & Jerry Hacker (Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism). Project: Building 22 – regenerative materials depot.
Amanda Montague (Department of History). Project: Understanding social isolation in Digital Humanities profesionalization.
Martha Mullally (Department of Biology) & Ali Arya (School of Information Technology). Project: Evaluation of immersive virtual reality tool to facilitate visualization in STEM undergraduate education.
James Opp (Department of History). Project: Public history group practicum: Queer history, photographs, and community archives.
Elliott Skierszkan, Richard Amos (Department of Earth Sciences) & Cole Van De Ven (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering). Project: Making the invisible visible: Experiential learning about groundwater resources.
Rachelle Vessey (School of Linguistics and Language Studies). Project: Discourse and employability.
Nicolas Carrier (Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice). Project: Limiting the harms of incarceration.

2023-24

Rose Gomar (Department of Systems and Computer Engineering). Project: Evaluating a new development board and designing new experiential learning activities for the System on Chip course.
Steven Pong (School of Industrial Design). Project: Physical computing lab: advancing prototyping, simulation, and project development in the School of Industrial Design
Sarah Gelbard (Department of Sociology and Anthropology). Project: Community engagement co-design.
Onita Basu (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering). Project: Lessons and learning with Northern, small community water operators and high school students in Yukon.
Lyndsey Hoh Copeland (School for Studies in Art and Culture – Music). Project: Workshop in music archiving and museum curation and tour of the Canadian Museum of History’s music and sound exhibits with museum curator Dr. Judith Klassen.
Lisa Menard (Department of Psychology). Project: FUSION program integration framework.
Kyle Biggar (Institute of Biochemistry). Project: Enhancing student experience: merging case-based learning with expert insights across biochemical disciplines.
Aboubakar Sanogo and Kester Dyer (School for Studies in Art and Culture – Film Studies). Project: Annual Carleton University TIFF trip.
Martha Attridge Bufton (MacOdrum Library). Project: Developing an immersive WWII role-playing game.
Lyndsey Copeland (School for Studies in Art and Culture – Music). Project: An Indonesian gamelan rehearsal and purchasing of musical instruments (Kalimbas).
Jennifer Drake (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering). Project: Interactive simulations – a water distribution challenge.
James Colraine and Prashant Washmare (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering). Project: Developing a series of virtual reality labs.
Randall Germain (Department of Political Science), and Martin Geiger (Department of Political Science and Institute of European, Russian, and Euroasian Studies). Project: Creating a database of internship opportunities for students.
Dalal Hanna (Department of Biology). Project: Developing a field-based learning opportunity.
Robert Helal (Sprott School of Business). Project: Sprott Strategy Bootcamp.
Katie Lucas (Institute for Environmental and Interdisciplinary Science). Project: Expanding the Carleton Undergraduate Journal of Science to the entire Faculty of Science and developing online learning modules.
Azar Masoumi (Department of Sociology and Anthropology). Project: Creating a workshop facilitated by Montreal-based activist, educator and artist Andi Vicente to help students use arts-based methods to navigate difficult topics in their course Race and Ethnicity.
Leighann Neilson, Rebecca Renfroe, Robert Helal, Deborah Casselman-Jones, Emma Smith and Nadine Consigny (Sprott School of Business). Project: A social enterprise, Sprott Shares, which provides students with free clothing and household items.
Alex Pettit (Institute of Biochemistry), and Mihaela Flueraru (Department of Biology). Project: Redeveloping a practical biochemistry course from traditional teaching labs to a semester-long Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE).
Bora Pulatsu (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering). Project: Creating a virtual reality environment using field data collected from earthquake-struck residential buildings in Turkey.
Marc Rioux, School of Public Policy and Administration. Project: Sending students to the 2024 edition of the Model International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) event in Montreal, exposing them to high-level diplomatic and technical discussions.
Brian Strong (School of Linguistics and Language Studies). Project: Enhancing the practicum in Teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) with new professional development opportunities (guest speakers, workshops, networking events, etc.).
Sujit Sur (Sprott School of Business). Project: Creating a community-based project connecting International Business students with ZanaAfrica, a social enterprise to create impactful, transformative solutions to problems faced by adolescent girls in Kenya.
Janice Tibbetts (School of Journalism and Communication). Project: Creating a group multimedia project for upper-year journalism students that examines the impact of the Supreme Court’s 1999 Gladue decision around Indigenous rights.
Elena Zabolotnii (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering). Project: Introducing Civil and Environmental Engineering students to the technique of aerial stereophoto interpretation and terrain analysis in 3D at different scales.
Susan Philips (School of Public Policy and Administration). Project: The collaborative fieldwork – Carleton’s students and the Wits students in Johannesburg.
Mehdi Eshaghi (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering). Project: Incorporating in-class experiments and visual demonstrations in four undergraduate engineering courses.
Duncan McCue (School of Journalism and Communication). Project: Developing the Reporting in Indigenous Communities (RIIC) course.

2022-23

Alex Kelly (Department of Cognitive Science). Project: Updating third-year cognitive science labs to include more in-depth, cutting-edge methods for improved skills development for students looking to work in AI, automation, and data science.
Andrew Harris (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering). Project: Introducing an engineering design project into an interdisciplinary third-year course that invites students to design, develop, manufacture, and test microfluidic devices for biomedical applications.
Anna Hoefnagels (School for Studies in Arts and Culture – Music). Project: Collaborating with the Native North American Traveling College in Akwesasne and Carleton’s Centre for Indigenous Support and Community Engagement to organize a traditional Haudenosaunee Social in her fourth-year MUSI/INDG course.
Bora Pulatsu (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering). Project: Enhancing a graduate-level course with a project assignment that includes building, testing, and analyzing a small-scale, load-bearing, unreinforced masonry (URM) structure that students will build in Carleton’s Structures Laboratory.
Christian Viau’s (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering). Project: graduate students will be stepping into the shoes of force protection engineers by participating in field experiences, interactive simulations, and hands-on activities in a state-of-the-art blast research laboratory.
Juan Jiménez Garcia (School of Industrial Design). Project: Bringing play, creativity, and Lego into the classroom for his third-year students to explore human-centred and experience design.
Julie Garlen, Alexandra Arraiz-Matute, Rebecca Friend, and Mayurika Chakravorty (The Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies – Childhood and Youth Studies). Project: (Re)connecting with partners for student projects and placements, enhancing opportunities for students to showcase their work (e.g., children’s books), and boosting program-level conversations around experiential learning.
Matthew Pearson (School of Journalism and Communication). Project: Taking fourth-year students into the (simulated) field to get hands-on experience with trauma-informed journalism with the help of professional actors.
Siobhan Angus (School of Journalism and Communication). Developing a series of field experiences at art galleries around Ottawa to enrich her third-year students’ understanding of visual culture (theory, analysis, research) and the work that goes into curating exhibitions.
Tonya Davidson (Department of Sociology and Anthropology). Project: Connecting third-year students with curators and educational programmers at a variety of Ottawa museums as part of exploring urban sociology through museum-based learning.
Onita Basu (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering). Project: Water Co-Learning: Facilitating knowledge sharing between Carleton engineering students with northern, small Community and Indigenous operators
Martin Holcik (Department of Health Sciences). Project: Development of student placements and practicums for new MSc in Clinical Trials and Regulatory Affairs program
Yiqiang Zhao (School of Mathematics and Statistics). Project: Developing computational and simulation modules for enhancing the experiential learning of students.
Martha Attridge Bufton (MacOdrum Library). Project: Creating historical artifacts in the Book Arts Lab: Expanding experiential learning in FYSM 1405C: The long civil rights movement.
April Fong (School of Journalism and Communication). Project: Business reporting field experience in Toronto, Canada’s business and finance capital.
Melissa Frankel (Department of Philosophy). Project: Children’s Literature and Philosophy.
Mako Hirotani (School of Linguistics and Language Studies). Project: Are you ready? Enhancing experiential learning experiences in the Psycholinguistics and Communication Disorders Concentration.
Karen Sewell and Brenda Morris (School of Social Work). Project: Embedding clinical simulation in Social Work Education

2021-22

Manjeet Birk (Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies). Project: Integrating arts-based experiential learning opportunities in her course, CRST 4001/WGST 5901E: Anti-racist Pedagogies to Promote Racialized and Indigenous Student Wellness.
Amedeo D’Angiulli and Matthew Holahan (Department of Neuroscience). Project: Acquiring wireless mobile EEG (electroencephalogram) equipment that will be designated for Neuroscience student lab work and applied research projects.
Jennifer Gilbert, Beth Hughes, Al Blunt, Petra Watzlawik-li, Rachelle Thibodeau and Susan Burhoe (Centre for Initiatives in Education). Project: Establishing an annual student conference for students in the Enriched Support Program (ESP).
Sean Landsman (Institute of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Science), Grégory Bulté and Steven Cooke (Department of Biology). Project: Enhancing field-based research experiences for their students with the purchase of radio telemetry equipment that allows students to manually track tagged animals and record associated environmental data.
Katie Lucas and Sean Landsman (Institute of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Science). Project: Establishing a student-led, peer-edited Carleton Undergraduate Student Journal of Science that will allow students the opportunity to develop essential skills in science communication, knowledge translation, and data analysis.
Fateme Rajabiyazdi, Hoda Khalil and James Green (Department of Systems and Computer Engineering). Project: Expand research project opportunities for upper-year students.
Allan Thompson (School of Journalism and Communication). Project: JOUR 4502: Investigating Journalism: Journalism and Conflict students will hear from reporters with extensive conflict reporting experience before travelling to an actual military base to participate in a simulated war game.
Andrew Webb and Diane A. Isabelle (Sprott School of Business). Project: Taking the highly successful Sprott Student Consulting (SSCG) international.
Ian Wereley (Department of History). Project: Creating a digital “choose your own adventure”-style field trip of the Canadian Science and Technology Museum.
Alan Steele, Michael Feuerherm and Shulabh Gupta (Department of Electronics). Project: Expanding experiential learning in undergraduate student labs in the Department of Electronics with new surface-mount technology equipment and training.
Dean Laplonge (Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs). Project: Addressing gender-based violence risks in global private sector business operations: Providing students in GINS 4090F the opportunity to work with Singapore-based Factive Consulting to create user-friendly tools that real businesses can use to help them manage gender-based violence risks linked to their operations.
Sujit Sur (Sprott School of Business). Project: Integrating the FUSION curriculum into BUSI 3103: Organizational Theory and Design to enhance the course’s experiential learning design that includes a flipped classroom, case analysis, gamification and reflection.
Laura Pickell and AnilKishor Gollapudi (Department of Health Sciences). Project: Integrating an applied research component into HLTH 2004: Microbiology & Virology that will be submitted to Tiny Earth, a global network of 10,000 students/year from 27 countries.
Stéphanie (Stéfy) McKnight (School of Journalism and Communication). Project: Preparing fourth-year Bachelor of Media Production and Design students for future employment with the introduction of the course MPAD 4000: Capstone Projects.
Katie Graham, Vicky McArthur and Stéfy McKnight (School of Journalism and Communication). Project: Using the format of the “Create-a-thon” to address the need for out-of-classroom learning and growth for students in Media Production and Design.
Kathleen Moss (Department of Sociology and Anthropology). Project: Developing a new Sociology course that offers students the opportunity to present an interactive, Ontario Curriculum-aligned sociology lecture to a high school social science class.
Anna Hoefnagels and Geraldine King (School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies), Macho Commonda, Eva Keeshi and Benny Michaud (Centre for Indigenous Initiatives), and Anita Tenasco, Director of Education for the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation. Project: Develop a new course, INDG 4015: Land as a Relation.
Gréegory Bulté, Sean Landsman, Vivian Nguyen and Steven Cooke (Department of Biology). Project: Training the next generation of scientists through hands-on field biology training.
Janice Schroeder, Nadia Bozak, Jody Mason, David Stymeist, Sarah Pelletier and Judy Katz (Department of English Language and Literature), and Larry Thompson (MacOdrum Library). Project: Developing an integrated experiential learning initiative for students in the Department of English Language and Literature.
Hollis Moore (Department of Law and Legal Studies). Project: Exploring best practices to develop experiential learning activities including field experiences and case-based learning for students in LAWS 5903W: Everyday Experiences of the Law – An Ethnographic Lens.

2019-20

Andrew Wallace (Department of English Language and Literature), and Patti Harper (MacOdrum Library). Project: Experiential learning in the Book Arts Lab: student and faculty training.
Ashley Thompson (Department of Neuroscience). Project: Neuroscience honours workshop – Poster Day.
Bernadette Campbell (Department of Psychology). Project: Introducing an experiential learning component to a graduate course on program evaluation.
Deborah Conners (Department of Sociology and Anthropology). Project: Working toward a violence-free society in Nepal.
Grégory Bulté (Department of Biology). Project: Research-based field course in wildlife biology.
Jane Stinson (Institute of Political Economy). Project: Laying the foundations for a scaffolded approach to experiential learning and reflective practice in work and labour.
John Walsh (Department of History). Project: Group practicum: applied history in the public sphere.
Katie Graham (School of Journalism and Communication). Project: The multiple narratives of the NAC.
Lois Frankel (School of Industrial Design). Project: Enhancing sensory design learning in the School of Industrial Design.
Mayurika Chakravorty (Department of English Language and Literature and Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies). Project: Children’s knowledges, cultures, and representations.
Peter Coffman (School for Studies in Art and Culture). Project: The virtual museum of architecture in Ottawa.
Shane Hawkins (The College of the Humanities). Project: EMC2: Early modern commentaries on Catullus.
Deborah Conners (Department of Sociology and Anthropology). Project: Developing a new international study course – SOCI 3210/3220: Working Toward a Violence-free Society in Nepal.
Melissa Frankel (Department of Philosophy). Project: Developing a new fourth-year seminar on the philosophy of education.
Julie C. Garlen (Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies). Project: Developing two new courses: Experiential Learning in Childhood, and Youth Studies.
Dominique Marshall (Department of History). Project: Connecting students in the History of Humanitarian Aid course with an Ottawa-based international humanitarian organization.
Mathew Sorley, Cheryl Harasymchuk and Anne Bowker (Department of Psychology). Project: Developing experiential learning modules that can be integrated into any first-year seminar in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Matthew Sorley and Danay Novoa (Department of Psychology). Project: Developing and piloting a series of experiential learning modules for the tutorial sections of Introduction to Psychology course.
Julia Wallace (Department of Physics). Project: Introducing a new experiential learning component to the third-year Modern Physics course.