Vision and Objectives for SITE Emil M. Petriu SITE / 24 October 2008

Vision and Objectives for SITE

Emil M. Petriu

SITE / 24 October 2008

SITE mission is an integral part of the Faculty of Engineering mission to “provide its graduates with top quality education in engineering and computer science, preparing them to practice their professions competently to meet the ever-changing needs of society, and to continue learning their discipline, allowing them to move into other related fields including business, law and medicine. Excellence and diversity in research are essential to our mission and build on our strong collaboration with industry and government research laboratories. The Faculty encourages a spirit of entrepreneurship amongst its students and personnel. The Faculty strives to provide a learning environment that promotes excellence and innovation, ethical practice and responsibility towards society. The Faculty is committed to a culture built on respect of the individual and fair treatment for all.”


SITE vision is an integral part of the Faculty of Engineering vision “to uniquely position the faculty as a leader in innovation and excellence in engineering and computer science through education, research and scholarship in a professional framework reflecting our social responsibility. …….The faculty will continue to support the individual research initiatives of its professors, but will promote a strong focus on inter-disciplinary research in high-interest and impact areas as perceived by governments and industry as follows:

• e-Society • Bio and health engineering • Critical infrastructure design and survivability • Sustainable energy and environmental technologies

………………….. The faculty benefits from a strong presence and reputation in information technology (IT) and is firmly committed to continuing cutting edge research in this field. Given the now pervasive nature of IT, its position in the faculty’s vision is now that of a fundamental “enabler”. The faculty therefore strives to use its IT and related engineering capabilities to catalyze developments and advancements in other disciplines through collaboration and team efforts.


SITE Director’s Role

The SITE Director should work within the framework of the Faculty of Engineering, providing leadership, formulating specific goals, carrying on management duties, listening to stakeholders, communicating the sense of purpose and passion, and working together with the colleagues to implement the SITE mission and vision.


# Undergraduate Students

# Graduate Students

#TAs

BASE BUDGET($$$)

Prof. TeachingEffort

Prof. ResearchProductivity

Research Funding ($$$)

# Support Staff


Teaching, Learning, Programs

Continue improving the quality and student-workload of our programs in order to make them more responsive to our students needs. => meeting CEAB, CIPS, and OGS accreditation requirements

Continue improving the professor-workload in order to increase the quality and productivity of their teaching and research.


>>> Teaching, Learning, Programs


Telecommunications (POT style) IT-Telecommunications

1985 1990 1995 1997 2002 2008

Electrical & Electronics Engineering Computer Science Computer Engineering Software Engineering

SIT

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PROBLEM: Reach and maintain a critical mass for our undergraduate and graduate enrolments that would allow to dampen the effects of enrolment variations



Telecommunications (POT style) IT-Telecommunications

1985 1990 1995 1997 2002 2008

Electrical & Electronics Engineering Computer Science Computer Engineering Software Engineering

SIT

E

PROBLEM: Reach and maintain a critical mass for our undergraduate and graduate enrolments that would allow to dampen the effects of enrolment variations =>

SOLUTION: Increase the visibility and support to the existing SITE programs + develop new interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate programs and options as well as other initiatives dealing with business & management, entrepreneurship, law, arts (e.g. undergraduate program in "emergent technology and culture" ), …

Games c- GamesFaculty of Arts

Arts e- ArtsFaculty of Arts

Faculty of Health Sciences , Faculty of Medicine Healthcare e- Healthcare

Business e- BusinessSchool of Business


Increase the visibility and identity (branding) of the main academic components of SITE:

Computer Science

Electrical Engineering

Computer Engineering

Software Engineering



Existing interdisciplinary graduate programs:

• Bioinformatics - (M.Sc./M.C.I.) • Biomedical Engineering (M.A.Sc.) • e-Business (Certificate)• e-Business Technologies (M.Sc., M.E.B.T.) • e-Commerce (Certificate) • Engineering Management (M. Eng.) • Information Technology Project Management (Certificate)• Internet Technologies (Certificate) • Modelling and Animation for Computer Games Technology (Certificate )• Systems Science –Certificate (M.Sc., M.Sys.Sc.)




Develop cost-effective (max_impact & min_cost) new undergraduate programs and options by “market-oriented” (appealing to the job aspirations of our potential students) “repackaging” existent course offerings and a minimal number of additional new courses:

Biomedical Electrical/Computer Engineering (… Pre-Med) Biomedical Software Engineering (… Pre-Med)

“Green energy option” in Electrical Engineering

Major in Computer Science + Minor in Law / Biology / Psychology / Arts / …

………………

Bilingual Mandate

Providing support for maintaining and increasing the level of bilingualism of our undergraduate programs.

Continue the efforts to forge long-term privileged relations with the French schools in Ontario and Québec and especially with those in Ottawa, Eastern Ontario (e.g. École secondaire de Casselman ) and the Outaouais.


Research and Innovation

The SITE Director should support visionary research that explores new science applications and technologies for the future & encourage a climate of entrepreneurship for marketing and technology transfer of research results and knowledge-related activities.


Students, Professors, Support Staff, Alumni

It is SITE Director’s responsibility to promote a working environment that allows all personnel and students to thrive for excellence.


>>> Students, Professors, Support Staff, Alumni

Students

Being first of all an academic unit SITE should continue placing the students at the core of its educational mission.

Students should be encouraged to develop leadership, team-work, competitiveness, entrepreneurship and business skills, interdisciplinary interests including non technical fields, and soft skills through extracurricular activities (e.g. Undergraduate Computer Science Student Association, Engineering Students Society , IEEE Student Branch, ARISE)



Professors • Maintain a positive working environment for all the professors providing opportunities and support for personal development and encouraging the young professors to develop into outstanding world-class researchers.

• It is essential to continue improving the professor-workload in order to increase the quality and productivity of their teaching and research.



Support Staff

The support staff plays an essential role in the delivery of the academic and research programs in SITE.

SITE will continue encouraging and recognizing initiatives made by the support staff for the improvement of the academic services, cyber-infrastructure, teaching and research laboratories.



Alumni

Strengthen the connections with our alumni who are essential to the reputation, as well as to the fundraising. They are role-models and provide professional networking to our undergraduate and graduate students (e.g. Joseph Noor, Protus, and Jim Pinard, PIKA, give a lecture on entrepreneurship to the CEG4910/4911 Project Design Class every year).


Public Relations

• Promote SITE to the industrial, research, government, and public at large communities … including our own University.

• Reactivation of the SITE Advisory Board.

• Continue support for the existent SITE Promotion Ambassadors and SITE Distinguished Lectures initiatives.

• Actively pursue local visibility by the publication of our success stories in the local media.


Merci !Thank You !


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Vision and Objectives for SITE Emil M. Petriu SITE / 24 October 2008