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Now, thanks to a federal investment of $200,000 from Prairies Economic Development Canada ( PrairiesCan), the M2PI workshop will be able to move to a sustainable model. “Employers get solutions to problems which require a technical skillset and students gain valuable work-integrated learning experiences which they can use to strengthen their job-application materials,” says Bauer, who also serves as co-director industry for PIMS, overseeing the M2PI workshop. These solutions can include launching new product lines or generating improvements in existing markets.Īt the same time, the fellows receive formal classroom and informal on-the-job training that prepares them to transfer their skills to a non-academic setting. Once enrolled, students and industry partners are brought together to form teams and engage in work-integrated learning projects to develop solutions to problems required by the industry partner for business expansion. Graduate and postdoctoral students from across British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Washington state can apply to join the program. The M2PI workshop has been hosted annually by the Pacific Institutes of Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) since 2020. Kristine Bauer, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in the Faculty of Science. “The beauty of the Math to Power Industry workshop is that it equally benefits the M2PI fellows (students and postdocs in the mathematical sciences who are enrolled in the program) and our employer-partners,” says Dr. It’s a match made in heaven, and the Math to Power Industry workshop (M2PI) is the perfect matchmaker. An energy company has run into a problem that requires a strong technical skillset in the mathematical sciences to solve and the solution is needed for business expansion.Ī graduate-level math and statistics student at the University of Calgary is looking to pursue a non-academic career in the industry and is looking for a way to get in.