To ensure students are exposed to in-demand computing and data analytics technologies and help them expand their professional networks, MSc CDA features paid internships, industry funded projects, and industry-based instructors and mentors.
Students from our recent MSc CDA cohorts secured a variety of exciting internships working with Fortune 500s, SMEs, governments, and not-for-profits.
Past cohorts completed internships at organizations such as Statistics Canada, IBM Canada, Deloitte Canada, Canada Revenue Agency, Emera, Equitable Life of Canada, RBC Capital Markets, and Equisoft.
Industry funded applied projects provide an excellent opportunity for students to hone their skills as both full stack developers and data analysts. Projects address a major data analytics problem identified by industry partners, emphasizing project management, and applying the skills and knowledge gained through MSc CDA coursework.
Read about the Saint Mary’s Retail Robot project – featuring MSc CDA students Abhishek Vijayakumar Latha and Francis Kuzhippallil
This year, our students are working with start-ups, research organizations, and not-for-profits such as Wellnify.ai, Artinus, InsightWell, the Sobey School of Business, and Women’s Centres Connect.
These paid technical projects include industry funding and support from Mitacs, Canada’s innovation connector that helps match organizations with top-tier researchers and talent to successfully deliver innovation projects.
Key industry partners and many of our highly successful alumni remain closely connected to the program and help give back, sharing their experience and expertise through workshops, group / one-one tutorials, and professional mentorship.
Funding for various industry projects emanates from a variety of national and regional agencies:
Funding Source
Sample Projects
Mitacs is a national, not-for-profit organization that builds partnerships to support industrial research. All funding includes generous industry contributions.
Generalized framework for Prescriptive Machine Learning using IoT data streams.
Development of machine learning and artificial intelligence toolbox to monitor data center risks and performance.
Students build their professional networks and gain invaluable experience working on real industry challenges through hackathons and design competitions. MSc CDA regularly sends teams to local and national competitions – with outstanding results.
Teams from MSc CDA finished first in multiple Nova Scotia Open Data Hackathons, sponsored by Microsoft, IBM, Socrata, and the Province of Nova Scotia.
MSc CDA finished as the top Canadian team and third overall in the prestigious International Business Analytics (IBA) Challenge. MSc CDA has sponsored teams in industry and government events alike: