Ibiomed Instructional Assistant Intern

**Regular/Temporary**
- Temporary

**Job Title**
- iBioMed Instructional Assistant Intern (IBEHS 1P10) - 2025/26

**Job ID**
- 67123

**Location**
- Central Campus

**Open Date**
- 01/28/2025

**Job Type**
- Student

**Close Date**
- 02/11/2025

**Employee Group**
- Interim

**Favorite Job**

**Department**
- ENG-IBEHS Biomed Eng&Hlth Sci

**Contract Duration**
- 8.1 Months

**Hours per Week**
- 35

**Posting Details**

**Start Date: August 25**th**, 2025**

**End Date April 24**th**, 2026**

**Schedule**

35 hours/week

**Education Level**

Undergraduate Student

**Career Level**

Co-op

**Hourly Rate**

$31.48

The Integrated Biomedical Engineering & Health Sciences Program (iBioMed) is seeking to hire **1** enthusiastic and highly engaged Instructional Assistant Intern (IAI) for IBEHS 1P10.

The successful incumbent will assist the instructor in collecting and synthesizing Graduate Attribute materials and relevant data for the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) process.

**PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING COMPETENCIES**:
**Communication**:

- Communicating technical / non-technical information to an audience with varying levels of comprehension
- Delivering effective and high-quality slide presentations to audiences varying in size and composition
- Communicating effectively with diverse populations and people occupying different functional roles
- Handling difficult situations with tact and diplomacy
- Ensuring all written and verbal communications are appropriate to a professional workplace

**Relationship Development and Management**:

- Effective leadership through mentoring of first year students and supervision of teaching assistants
- Effectively work in a dynamic team environment while facilitating and promoting team work of others
- Creating and maintaining professional relationships with a diverse group including first year students, teaching assistants, professors, professional engineers and staff

**Self-management**:

- Develop essential skills in time management, organization, prioritizing tasks, following through on deliverables

**REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Collaborating with course instructors to develop and finalize course materials pertaining to lecture, lab, tutorials and design projects
- Validate design projects through prototyping and the development of validation tools and equipment
- Instruct first year students through weekly tutorials and labs using both lectures and interactive group work
- Guide student groups through open-ended problems by providing appropriate feedback that takes them from problem identification and concept generation to a final working prototype
- Coordinate assignment-related and project-related tasks, including test invigilation, organization students into groups, and developing sample solutions
- Lead a large team of teaching assistants by scheduling regular meetings, providing regular training on the use of appropriate software, assigning tasks, and coordinating grading duties
- Facilitate the organization of the online course-management-system’s course content, which includes distribution of course materials and inputting of online grades
- Stay current with new technologies and materials that pertain to the course and, where appropriate, suggest how they can be implemented towards continuously improving the course moving forward
- Maintain confidentiality of information

**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Currently registered in a Bachelor’s degree program in Engineering from McMaster University, or equivalent
- Successful completion of IBEHS 1P10 (Health Solutions Design Projects I), or ENGINEER 1P13 (Integrated Cornerstone Design Projects in Engineering) or equivalent.
- Minimum cumulative GPA of 7.0; significant experience could be considered in place of this requirement
- Previous experience in **Autodesk Inventor** (or similar CAD software) and **Python** (or similar programming language) outside of IBEHS 1P10, or ENGINEER 1P13 is considered an asset
- Demonstrated interest in the biomedical field is desirable

**ADDITIONAL DETAILS**:

- LENGTH OF CO-OP WORK TERM: 8-months, beginning August 25th, 2025
- WAGE: $31.48/hr, 35 hours per week
- NUMBER OF POSITIONS: 1

**How To Apply**

**Employment Equity Statement**

McMaster University is located on the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee and Mississauga Nations and within the lands protected by the “Dish With One Spoon” wampum agreement.

The diversity of our workforce is at the core of our innovation and creativity and strengthens our research and teaching excellence. In keeping with its Statement on Building an Inclusive Community with a Shared Purpose, McMaster University strives to embody the values of respect, collaboration and diversity, and has a strong commitment to employment equity.

Job applicants requiring accommodation to participate in the hiring process should contact:

- Human Resources Service Centre at 905-525-9140 ext. 222-HR (22247), or
- Faculty of Heal