Jeff MacKinnon

Jeff MacKinnon

Jeff is a Civil Engineer who gained almost 20 years of industry experience in consulting and project management on a wide variety of Civil & Municipal Engineering projects throughout Atlantic Canada prior to joining the NBCC School of Engineering Technologies in 2018. Jeff studied at Saint Mary’s University and Dalhousie University in Halifax for his Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering. Jeff grew up in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia and has been living in Sackville, New Brunswick next to the windswept Tantramar Marsh for over 10 years along with his wife, April and their three children in their 100+ year-old farmhouse. Jeff teaches from the NBCC Moncton Campus.

Some of Jeff’s favourite courses to teach in NBCC’s Civil & Building Engineering Technology Program include: Environmental Planning, Water Distribution and Treatment Systems, Sanitary and Storm Systems, Soil Mechanics and Physics Fundamentals.

Outside of the classroom, Jeff’s wide variety of hobbies include gardening, beekeeping, cooking, sailing, kayaking, golfing, music and backcountry camping. He is a volunteer Scouter with the 1st Tantramar Venturer Scout Group and serves on the Board of Directors for a local, independent music & contemporary arts festival held annually in Sackville called “Sappyfest”.

Bridge the Ocean project

Bridge the Ocean is a partnership project of the Erasmus+ program, which creates a model of global mobility and cooperation between European and Canadian Colleges.

The partners are four vocational education and training (VET) colleges from Finland, two from Canada and one from the Netherlands and Denmark. In the project, two European and one Canadian study units are planned, which will be piloted with a multinational group during the project.

The project is the first European Erasmus+ VET project that involves partners from outside Europe. The main goals of the Bridge the Ocean partnership project are to increase the number of global mobility of students and experts, teachers, and at the same time promote the development of both professional and international competence and key skills.

The project seeks visibility and interest in the internationalization of VET.

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BIDS

Bridging Inclusion Digitalization & Sustainability
The BIDS project has three main objectives.

Building and strengthening partnerships to support the implementation and development of internationalization strategies.
Supporting the quality of staff and student mobility between two continents
Combining the previous two goals in such a way that we create a model of how the priorities of the Erasmus+ program, inclusion, digitalization, and sustainability, can be realized in the strategies of the VET providers.

The partners are four vocational education and training colleges from Finland, two from Canada, and one from Portugal, the Netherlands and Denmark.

The project will consist of three different modules: a Sustainability module in Nova Scotia Canada, a Digitalization module in the Netherlands, and an Inclusion module in Finland. These modules will be attended by students and staff from participating partner schools, representing a mix of different educational sectors. We believe that this diverse group will not only enhance students’ soft skills but also foster their international competences.

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