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Sustainable practitioner updates: Hospitality

December 5, 2008

Here’s Katie Ellwood’s round-up of how hospitality is working towards sustainable practioners: Implementing sustainable practice both operationally and in the curriculum undoubtedly poses challenges for any school or department within the Polytechnic. The School of Hospitality is addressing their particular set of challenges head-on, and can boast significant progress in many areas. Hands-on hospitality training, […]

Update from our friends at SHAC

December 4, 2008

Here’s an update from SHAC: (more detail and lots of pictures in pdf). The goal of sustainable housing for all New Zealanders got a step closer this week. Ten teams of students and professionals released their first peak at designs for a variety of sustainable homes. The Sustainable Habitat Challenge teams will begin their projects […]

Every graduate – internal branding

December 1, 2008

Dear Colleague, Did you know: – 2005-2014 is United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development? – that UNESCO and SANZ (among others) recognise Otago Polytechnic as leading the world in Education for Sustainability? ITPNZ recognised this with the Excellence in Education for a Global Role Award 2008. – we are committed to education where […]

eLivingCampus Presentations

November 26, 2008

As you know, our software engineering classes are developing the information systems that will power the LivingCampus. Last week the groups gave their final presentations to their clients – Paula and Michelle. I was really impressed how the realisation that the LivingCampus is “more than a garden” came through in the students’ work. Their systems […]

Sustainability at the showcase – Windmill management system

November 25, 2008

At the IT Industry Showcase (part of Otago Polytechnic’s Excite), David Dyer and Owen Miler showed off their capstone project. They developed an integrated system for monitoring and managing the clients’ innovative power generating windmill. As the client’s are not yet at the field-test stage of the actual windmill, the group’s project was to help […]