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Kamal Masri’s teaching bring community engagement into the classroom
Feb 3, 2016
Beedie School of Business lecturer Kamal Masri has never been afraid to take chances.More...
Beedie lecturer Kamal Masri awarded Canadian Cancer Society honour
Sep 21, 2015
Beedie School of Business lecturer Kamal Masri has been awarded the Canadian Cancer Society’s Community Champion Award, in recognition of his remarkable fundraising efforts for the Society.More...
BBAs project manage for BC Children’s Hospital
Nov 16, 2012
A group of Beedie School of Business undergraduates have been putting their newfound project management skills to good use by staging a charity fundraising music concert in aid of BC Children’s Hospital. The event, BC Music for BC Kids, will be held on November 17 from 6 – 8.30pm at the Westminster Savings Theatre at SFU’s Surrey campus. It will feature a selection of local music acts from the lower mainland including Tommy Alto, The […]More...
Project managers project positive community change
May 8, 2012
Hands-on experience in project management is now delivered with community impact through social engagement and sustainability at SFU’s Beedie School of Business. And in one case it has meant the advent of recycling robots. In Beedie Professor Blaize Reich’s project management class, undergraduate students were asked to take on a project of any shape or size to develop the project management skills taught in the class. After being split into groups, the students were given […]More...
Project Management Career Speaker event engages high school students
Nov 29, 2011
On November 22, 2011, Wideman Education Foundation (WEF) hosted their third annual Project Management Career Speaker Event to high school students at Simon Fraser University’s Surrey campus. Among the speakers was Rich Brodowski, Project Manager with the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. He described his PM experience that involved providing governance to Bell Canada’s Olympic Program, ONE that involved, voice, data, logistics and business functions for the winter games. Joan Vincent, President of the Wideman Education Foundation, […]More...
Beedie students collect sports equipment for low-income families
Jul 20, 2011
What started as a school assignment has turned into a sporting drive to help families in need. Five SFU Beedie School of Business students in a project management class came up with the idea to hold a sporting drive. The students are Adam Fong, Charles Lui, Emily Shen, Jethro Rocillo and Louis Lam. “So many people are supportive of this,” said organizer Emily Shen.More...