OUR FACULTY ADVISOR: MARTIN HABEKOST

Dear RyeTAGA student chapter,

This year’s competition for the Kipphan Cup is very different than previous years. Due to the global pandemic there will be no conference to travel to, no fellow students from other universities to meet, and no presentations from leading researchers in industry and academia.

Nevertheless, your combined efforts resulted in a fantastic looking online publication. Countless hours went into this publication, especially figuring out how to get web publishing software to do what you wanted it to do. The dedicated team made this publication possible. The marketing and social media efforts in the current situation also showed that RyeTAGA is active and doing well.

Hopefully in 2022 the RyeTAGA student chapter will be able to travel to the annual technical conference of TAGA and present their student journal to all conference participants.

I enjoyed working with you in the last two semesters and hope that some of you continue to be part of the RyeTAGA team.

Martin Habekost, Dr. rer. nat.
RyeTAGA Faculty Advisor

OUR PRESIDENT: AFRAH IDREES

Dear TAGA,

The RyeTAGA student chapter experience of 2020-2021 has truly been like no other. Working under the restraints of a global pandemic, we were faced with decisions to make regarding the presentation of our usually printed and uniquely bound book. Being a part of the team last year, I witnessed first hand just how much thought goes into the physical production aspect, but this was not completely lost this year.

Though this year’s publication takes on a digital, ePublication format, much consideration and problem solving was necessary to navigate the intricacies of software on the web. As a collective, RyeTAGA was able to make use of a multitude of programs, including PressBooks, iBooks, and Adobe After Effects for animation. These were tools that we never would have considered using in the past, but have elevated our journal and spun it in unique ways.

Being the President this year was an honour, as weekly Zoom meetings between the team were always a place of dedication and good spirit. It was a pleasure to watch the directors adapt to the circumstances that we were placed in, and I truly believe that this journal is exemplary of RyeTAGA’s ability to rise up to innovation in the face of a challenge. With sincere pride, the Ryerson University Student Chapter presents to you our first ever digital publication.

Afrah Idrees
President, RyeTAGA