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We want our students to be ready for the
marketplace and, what is better than to
actually create an authentic learning
environment for the students that,
from the first year, take them
through all phases of engineering design.
CEED is a student-run and managed
facility, so it allows student to be able
not only to gain the technical hands-on
learning experiences, but be able to grow
as young leaders. (They'll also) gain soft skills
and management skill to be able to grow
in the community and be able to
contribute meaningfully in the economy.
CEED impacts the students experience by
giving them capability of working in a
safe environment with a very experienced
support staff around them.
It allowed them to complement what they  learned in classrooms. To be able to apply into
real-life issues, and gain access to
cutting-edge technologies to be able to
produce solution and products that the
future needs.
In your courses it's all theory, and CEED bridges that theory to the real world.
In classes your problems are very well defined and you just kind of plug and play
where in the real world you don't know what problems you're gonna get,
you don't know if your clients are gonna change their mind.
By working with CEED or by just being
involved with it you have that hands-on
experience that you need that will help
you to get a job or that will enlighten you
because there is so many thing that you
can do but you just don't know that you
can do it.
All of the prototyping facilities here really give us different aspects as well.
We get to see traditional manufacturing, digital prototyping...
Students are different and the impact always is different. Some students are naturally very interested
in entrepreneurship and they can
actually get a taste of entrepreneurship
from an idea phase all the way to
launching their startups.
CEED gave me the knowledge and the support I needed
to be
able to launch my own not-for-profit and
be able to contribute back to the
community through applying my
engineering knowledge, but also
entrepreneurship to be able to use
technology for social good.
Ultimately you can work on your own
projects these facilities are there for you.
It creates a safe environment for
students to take risks and the cost of
experimentation is much cheaper when
it's sort of mentored and when it's
taken care of by the faculty rather than
doing those mistakes in their jobs as
they get older.
(CEED logo and design spaces.)
(uOttawa Faculty of Engineering)
